
Victoria Park, East London
Rudy is an almost daily visitor to the brilliant Victoria Park, everyday is different. No wonder it’s been voted best park 2012, 2014 and 2015 A beautiful park with fascinating beginnings and history Victoria Park’s reputation as the ‘People’s Park’ grew as it became a centre for political meetings and rallies of all stripes, perhaps exceeding in importance the more well-known Hyde Park in this regard. The park occupies the interface between Tower Hamlets — sunk in poverty in the 19th century and with a strong tradition of socialist and revolutionary agitation — and Hackney, more genteel, but heir to a centuries-old legacy of religious dissent and non-conformism that led to its own...
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