Hyde Park, Its History and RomanceAlec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)
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Hyde Park, Its History and Romance
Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)
Hyde Park (London, England); London (England) -- Social life and customs
The Rev. Guy Rogers.
Mr. C. T. Studd, the noted cricketer, one of the famous “Cambridge
Seven” who volunteered for mission work in China.
The Rev. Russell Wakefield, St. Mary’s, Bryanston Square.
The Rev. S. A. Selwyn, Hampstead.
Colonel MᶜGregor.
Mr. Beresford Pate, the architect.
The Rev. H. S. Woolcombe, Oxford House.
The music in the Park is excellent, as may be seen by the list for
Sunday evenings in June 1907.
GREEN PARK. HYDE PARK.
(6 to 8 p.m.) (7.30 to 9.30 p.m.)
June 9th 2nd Life Guards 1st Life Guards.
June 16th Irish Guards Coldstream Guards.
June 23rd Scots Guards 2nd Life Guards.
June 30th 1st Life Guards Scots Guards.
Passing reference was made to Apsley House, which faces the band-stand,
in an earlier chapter. It is one of many magnificent mansions fringing
the Park, but is unique in its historic interest. I am fortunate in
enjoying the friendship of an able historian of our own day, who was
a constant visitor at Apsley House in the days of the late Duke of
Wellington, and he sends me the following notes concerning the building
and its associations:
“The house is built partly upon a site where an apple-woman kept a
stall. Her name was Allen. King George II. one day recognised her
husband as having been present at the battle of Dettingen, and granted
him the site, whereupon he built a small house. Along that side of
Piccadilly there were several roadside public-houses, particularly
beyond Park Lane (Tyburn Lane), where the rough holiday makers
pic-nicked, especially during the celebration of May Fair at the back.
Allen’s son about 1780 sold the ground where the fruit stall stood (the
stall is shown in a print dated 1766) to Lord Chancellor Apsley (Lord
Bathurst), who had a house built by the brothers Adam for himself.
“From a fund voted by Parliament for Wellington, Apsley House was
bought in 1828, but it is the private property of the Duke, and is not
held as a national trust settled upon the title, as Strathfieldsaye
is,—in virtue of his tenure of which, the Duke of Wellington annually
presents the Sovereign with a flag on the anniversary of the battle
of Waterloo. The house was re-fronted and much altered in 1828 by Sir
Geoffrey Wyatville, the picture gallery on the first floor (and the
rooms under) having been added for the purpose of housing the splendid
collection of heirloom pictures, captured from Joseph Bonaparte on the
field of Vittoria, and subsequently given by Ferdinand VII. to the
great Duke.
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