2005
TQ3583 : Victoria Park, facing Old Ford Road
taken 19 years ago, near to Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, England
Victoria Park, facing Old Ford Road
'In 1839, William Farr, the famed sanitary reformer said that: "A park in the East End would diminish the annual deaths by several thousands, and add several years to the lives of the entire population."
Good, fresh air was the answer then, and it would also stop the unwelcome cockneys coming up West to take the air in Regents and Hyde Park.'
From A Pictorial History of Victoria Park
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