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fromianVisits
1 month ago

London'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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fromwww.bbc.com
3 months ago

Statue of professional female gardener unveiled

A statue of Fanny Wilkinson, the UK's first professional female landscape gardener, has been unveiled in Wandsworth, London.
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