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1 week agoLondon's Pocket Parks: Meath Gardens, E2
Finally, the MPGA raised enough money to buy the cemetery, but to force a sale, they gifted the money to the London County Council, which could enforce a compulsory purchase order in 1891. It took the MPGA's landscape gardener, Fanny Wilkinson, assisted by 30 unemployed men a year to convert the burial ground into a public park, and it finally opened on Friday 20th July 1894.
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