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Railway east of Vanbrugh Hill bridge
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 30 Oct 2011
0.05 miles
2
Memorial to the Greenwich Royal Hospital Pensioners
The memorial, and the mass grave to which it refers, are in the East Greenwich Pleasaunce. http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=5305648
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 14 Feb 2009
0.07 miles
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East Greenwich Pleasaunce: children's playground
The building at the far side of the playground is the East Greenwich Play Centre. For other photos of this park, see http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=5305648
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 14 Feb 2009
0.07 miles
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War graves in East Greenwich Pleasaunce
East Greenwich Pleasaunce is one of the more unusual parks in south east London. It opened as a park in 1857 but in 1875 the remains of some 3,000 sailors and officers were removed from their previous burial ground at the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, due to the construction of a railway tunnel. The west plot has seamen and the east plot has officers according to naval etiquette. In 1926 the Admiralty sold the Pleasaunce to the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, keeping the right for further burials. Railings were removed and the Pleasaunce was landscaped as a park. Today it is the unusual combination of a graveyard and a park. As can be seen here, the typical war graves can also be seen amongst the more traditional tombstones.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 7 Apr 2011
0.08 miles
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Memorial tablet near the entrance to East Greenwich Pleasaunce
East Greenwich Pleasaunce is one of the more unusual parks in south east London. It opened as a park in 1857 but in 1875 the remains of some 3,000 sailors and officers were removed from their previous burial ground at the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, due to the construction of a railway tunnel. The west plot has seamen and the east plot has officers according to naval etiquette. In 1926 the Admiralty sold the Pleasaunce to the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, keeping the right for further burials. Railings were removed and the Pleasaunce was landscaped as a park. Today it is the unusual combination of a graveyard and a park. This view is near the entrance where the tablet relays the details of the burials.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 7 Apr 2011
0.09 miles
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Memorial tablet in East Greenwich Pleasaunce
East Greenwich Pleasaunce is one of the more unusual parks in south east London. It opened as a park in 1857 but in 1875 the remains of some 3,000 sailors and officers were removed from their previous burial ground at the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, due to the construction of a railway tunnel. The west plot has seamen and the east plot has officers according to naval etiquette. In 1926 the Admiralty sold the Pleasaunce to the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, keeping the right for further burials. Railings were removed and the Pleasaunce was landscaped as a park. Today it is the unusual combination of a graveyard and a park. This tablet is on the western wall, close to the entrance.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 7 Apr 2011
0.09 miles
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Turf Zone "Pleasaunce"
At East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Greenwich.
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 25 Dec 2022
0.09 miles
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East Greenwich Pleasaunce
East Greenwich Pleasaunce is one of the more unusual parks in south east London. It opened as a park in 1857 but in 1875 the remains of some 3,000 sailors and officers were removed from their previous burial ground at the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, due to the construction of a railway tunnel. The west plot has seamen and the east plot has officers according to naval etiquette. In 1926 the Admiralty sold the Pleasaunce to the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, keeping the right for further burials. Railings were removed and the Pleasaunce was landscaped as a park. Today it is the unusual combination of a graveyard and a park.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 7 Apr 2011
0.09 miles
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Table Tennis in East Greenwich Pleasaunce
Four young people playing table tennis on this outdoor table in a park. One of them has left their bicycle by a tree.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 9 Jul 2011
0.09 miles
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View within East Greenwich Pleasaunce
East Greenwich Pleasaunce is one of the more unusual parks in south east London. It opened as a park in 1857 but in 1875 the remains of some 3,000 sailors and officers were removed from their previous burial ground at the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, due to the construction of a railway tunnel. The west plot has seamen and the east plot has officers according to naval etiquette. In 1926 the Admiralty sold the Pleasaunce to the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, keeping the right for further burials. Railings were removed and the Pleasaunce was landscaped as a park. Today it is the unusual combination of a graveyard and a park. This view is looking from the seamen's graves towards the officers' ones. The difference in size of headstones can be seen.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 7 Apr 2011
0.09 miles