King Edward VII Memorial Park
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King Edward VII Memorial Park
Image: © Colin D Brooking Taken: 19 Feb 2013
An avenue of flowering trees leads up to a cenotaph memorial to King Edward VII on a raised terrace. Opened by his son King George V with Queen Mary in 1922, after this landscape was laid out on the site of wharves, houses and Shadwell Fish Market (the latter an initiative of the City of London Corporation) an area given to the Memorial Committee by the Corporation for this purpose.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.509705
Longitude
-0.048571