Hyde Park
About Hyde Park
Hyde Park is a 350-acre (140-hectare), historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London. A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, past Buckingham Palace to St James's Park. Hyde Park is divided by the Serpentine and the Long Water lakes.
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The most famous surgeon of fistulas in the 18th century was Martin van Butchell. He was most famous because he enjoyed riding around Hyde Park on a white pony which he often painted purple. He had a really long beard and he always carried a large white bone around with him.
from 549: No Such Thing As A Beaver Walking Backwards, 2024-09-19 at 00:21:30 · read transcript
Other times Hyde Park came up
Went from Marble Arch to Bayswater. It was very popular. Lots of people used it. People lived nearby. Because there were lots of really, really posh houses around there. Anyone who lived there had to cross over the line to get to Hyde Park. They were just walking across. They had to get past the tram line. People would just smash it up. The tram lines were raised, weren't they?
457: No Such Thing As An Acoustic Tram, 2022-12-16 · listen
The largest one we had in that era was in 1814. I came across this by accident. It was all any newspapers reporting on that day in 1814, and it was in Hyde Park on the Serpentine Lake. It was to celebrate the peace in the Napoleonic Wars. so the peace treaty with Napoleon and the end of that fighting. To celebrate that, apparently, they staged a huge naval battle.
No Such Thing As An Unenjoyable Bowel Movement, 2015-05-08 · listen
They date right back to classical times but the largest one we had in that era was in 1814 and I came across this by accident it was all any newspapers reporting on that day in 1814 and it was in Hyde Park on the Serpentine Lake and it was to follow it was to celebrate the peace in the Napoleonic Wars so the peace treaty with Napoleon and the end of that fighting and to celebrate that apparently they stage a huge naval.
60: No Such Thing As An Unenjoyable Bowel Movement, 2015-05-08 · listen
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