Shopping and a wander in the Park

Needed to do food shopping today. but wanted to walk.. so headed of into town

First stop coffee at an independent deli and coffee shop.. Excellent and they sell Horsham Gingerbread (which is more like flapjack consistently than 'biscuit' and is very addictive - where I'm concerned.  I am told there used to be a cheese shop in Horsham about 15 years ago, and the Museum found an original recipe for Gingerbread.  They gave the recipe to the lady owner of the (then) cheese shop and she started producing the gingerbread.  In Regency times, there were about 18 makers of the gingerbread..

This is St Marks Spire.. the church itself no longer exists.. and was demolished when office buildings were erected.

St Mark's Spire 

The Spire is 46 metres (141 feet) high. 

It was erected in 1870 as a memorial to Mary 

the only daughter of Canon A.H. Bridges. 

This was an addition to St. Mark's Church 

of the parish of Horsham, built in 1840. 

The Church was declared redundant in 1988. 

A new Church was built in North Heath Lane 

as a replacement by the Sun Alliance Group 

to serve the local community and this new 

St. Mark's Church was dedicated in 1990.

and a wander through the Nature Garden in the Park

A visitor was feeding the fowl bread!.. Interestingly the Mallards weren't the least bit interested.. but the (mostly) black-headed gulls were fighting over it.

On the walls of the underpass..

A lonely teddy in a Beds and Mattress shop..

Just a few of some of the buildings above the shops

A suggestion of spring..

and then shopping... that's it for the day.