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.
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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
John Hearn
Conservationist. Born in Wapping hospital and known as Ernie. A printer until retirement. He moved to the Waterloo area in the 1960s and found there was a lack of open spaces for walking his dog. T...
1 memorial
Abney Park Cemetery Company
Set up to run the Abney Park cemetery in Stoke Newington (see Abney House and Park), this company also ran the Chingford Mount cemetery. It went into administration in the 1970s.
1 memorial
River Effra
At the Brockwell Lido plaque there is an information board which begins by explaining the function of stink pipes: "What is a stink pipe? The lofty green pipe behind you is a Victorian stink pipe, ...
17 memorials
Battersea Park re-opened, 2004
Battersea Park was re-opened to the public after extensive restoration.
1 memorial
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Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus
Procurator (or financial officer) of the province of Britain from 61 to about 65 AD. By his action the province was pacified without vindictive reprisals after the destruction of London during the ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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