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AGM: Speaker Loyd Grossman CBE

Wednesday 11th April, 6.30pm for 7.00pm

The AGM for the Friends of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens will be held at Queen Alexandra’s House, by kind permission of Chariman Adrian Harvey and Principle Anet Brown.

A reception will follow Business and Presentations. It would be helpful with our catering arrangements if members give notification of their intention to attend.

Speaker: Lord Grossman CBE, Charman of The Royal Parks and Presentations from representatives of both Parks.

Members Only
Wednesday 11th April. Doors open 6.30pm for 7.00pm.
Queen Alexandra’s House, Bremner Road, Kensington Gore, SW7 2QT

The Serpentine has been frequently frozen over so strongly in the past that in the winter of 1814 a fair was held on the ice; and in 1825 a Mr. Hunt for a wager drove a coach and four horses across the Serpentine during a severe frost.

History of the Serpentine from Old and New London by Edward Walford 1878

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