Around Tredegar Square, Bow
I set off across the Mile End Park, a former, and current, pleasure garden, to look for Tredegar Square.
Red Roses in Greenwich Park
Today I am remembering people who are now in the shadows of my life with the red roses in Greenwich Park.
Paeonies in Greenwich Park
Paeonia Lactiflora ‘Bowl of Beauty’.
Michèle Meilland in Greenwich Park
Francis Meilland introduced this wonderful, stunning pink rose in 1945. ‘They look like porcelain’, was one description I read. The rose was bred from ‘Joanna Hill’ and ‘Peace’.
The Flannel Bush in Greenwich Park
Fremontodendron ‘California Glory’, or the Flannel Bush, all the way from California.
Bradshaw’s Hand Book to London, the Cloudesley Estate (no.62)
Richard Cloudesley was a man of standing and substance who lived in Islington, where he died in 1518. His will directed that income from his land should be used for charitable purposes. The land was ‘Stony Fields’, or the Fourteen Acres, and his … Continued
