Event    From 2/6/2004  To 2/6/2004

Battersea Park re-opened, 2004

Categories: Gardens / Agriculture

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Battersea Park was re-opened to the public after extensive restoration.

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Battersea Park re-opened, 2004

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Battersea Park bandstand

Battersea Park was re-opened to the public by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT...

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National Gardens Scheme

National Gardens Scheme

Opens (mainly private) gardens to the public to raise money for charity. Grew out of a need to provide finances for retired district nurses.

Group, Benefactor, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial
Thomas Fairchild

Thomas Fairchild

Text transcribed of the information board (which itself credits the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography): Thomas Fairchild was born in May 1667. In 1690 he established himself as a nurseryman ...

Person, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial
Christine M. Cohen

Christine M. Cohen

Chair of the Hampstead Heath Management Committee in 1998.

Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Henry Joshua (Jos) Brown

Henry Joshua (Jos) Brown

President of the Rotary Club of Enfield and local horticulturist.

Person, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial

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High Tide - 1928

High Tide - 1928

SE10, High Bridge Wharf, Trinity Hospital

The 75 ft of wall which collapsed may actually have been in Millbank which is not only a long way away but is on the other side of the ri...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
George Lillie Craik

George Lillie Craik

Born Kennoway, Fife. Literary scholar and writer. Created professor of English literature and history at Queen’s College, Belfast in 1849. Buried at Holywood, near Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Person, Education, History, Literature, Ireland, Scotland

1 memorial
Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh

Communist revolutionary and founder of modern Vietnam. Left Vietnam in 1911 and worked on ships as a kitchen helper. In New York he was a baker at the Parker House Hotel. In 1913 he arrived in Lond...

Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Vietnam

1 memorial