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
Local people (King's Cross)
Local people fought and won against office development and created The Calthorpe Project, community gardens, play space and under fives' area.
Olympic Way
Wembley Stadium, then known as the Empire Stadium, was opened in 1923. Anyone arriving at Wembley Park station to visit the Stadium had to first cross a road and some railway lines, and then negoti...
Commonwealth Walkway Trust
Established in 2012 with a donation made by the Jubilee Walkway Trust. The Trust’s charitable mission is to create walkways in towns and cities around the world to preserve and protect the physical...
Group, Education, Gardens / Agriculture, History, Sport / Games
Joseph Beck
Saving Clissold Park have some lovely old photos of this man but they have eschewed the normal form of potted biography and instead have provided 13 bullets points: Chairman of the Clissold Par...
Royal Hospital Chelsea
A retirement and nursing home for British soldiers who are unfit for further duty due to injury or old age. They are popularly known as ‘Chelsea Pensioners’. Founded by King Charles II in 1682 and...
Building, Armed Forces, Gardens / Agriculture, Social Welfare
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Will Hay
SW16, The Chase, 45
Will Hay, 1888 - 1949, comic actor and astronomer, lived here, 1927 - 1934. English Heritage
Panorama
The world's longest-running current affairs television programme. Produced by the BBC, it was hosted originally by Richard Dimbleby. It also airs worldwide through BBC World News on digital service...
Ebenezer Cobb Morley
Born Hull and moved to Barnes in 1858. Keen rower and footballer and for both sports he founded, played and officiated in clubs in the Barnes and Mortlake area. He proposed the founding of the Foo...
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