Thank You Queen Victoria
June 3rd, 2007
We're finally getting some decent weather. If you happen to live in East London, you should count yourself lucky - not only because of the groovy atmosphere, but because Tower Hamlets is doing a great job of maintaining the local parks .
Victoria Park is the jewel of the borough. London's first public park, it opened in 1825 after a petition of 30,000 signatures was presented to Queen Victoria by a local MP. At the time, the park was seen as the Regent's Park of the east and even had its own Speakers' Corner. It still has a lake and a variety of trees - horse chestnuts, cherries, hawthorns, Kentucky coffee trees and oaks.
And it's still a great place to spend lazy weekend afternoons playing footie, throwing Frisbees, reading the paper or just plainly getting merry with your mates.
