Manages 8 major Royal Parks covering 5,000 acres: Bushy Park (with the Longford River), The Green Park, Greenwich Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Regent's Park (and Primrose Hill), Richmond Park and St James's Park. That’s the official list - note the “the’s” on Green and Regent’s. Would make a good trivia question.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
The Royal Parks
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Buck Hill bastion
This is really an information board rather than a plaque and has a number of ...
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - entrance
Building designed by: Joseph Paxton First large scale prefabricated glass and...
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - NE
British Isles & Empire exhibitors: 7381 Foreign exhibitors: 6556 Number o...
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - NW
700 tons of wrought iron 3800 tons of cast iron 24 miles of wooden guttering ...
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - SE
Project funded by: public subscription Cost of building and fittings: £200,00...
Other Subjects
Old Velho / First Jewish cemetery
From London Gardens Online : "The Sephardi Velho (Old) Cemetery opened in 1657, the first Jewish cemetery to be established with Oliver Cromwell's approval. The land was formerly part of a garden a...
2 memorials
Clissold Park and House
Built as Paradise House, or Newington Park House, in the late 1700s for Jonathan Hoare. William Crawshay (1764 – 1834) bought it in 1811. He objected to his daughter's choice of a husband so it was...
2 memorials
New River Path Canonbury gardens - opening
From London Gardens Online: "The water that runs through New River Walk is actually formed by ponds landscaped to resemble the former river. It had first been planted as a garden by the New River C...
1 memorial
1 memorial
David Ashmore
At the time of his death Ashmore was a landscape architect involved in the creation of Burgess Park, living at Lordship Lane, SE22, single, aged 20-30. See Geoffrey Mills for details. Andrew Behan...
1 memorial
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5 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Shepherd's Well
One of the two sources of the Tyburn river, the other being in the grounds of Belsize Manor (now the area called Belsize Park). The picture shows the well in 1820. In 1878 Edward Walford wrote " ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Leonide Massine
Born Moscow. Ballet dancer and choreographer. Principle choreographer of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. Appeared in films The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffman (1952). Died in Cologne.
1 memorial
Sun Fire Office
Founded in London, now the oldest existing insurance company in the world.
1 memorial
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