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  • Member's Photo: Rosa Davies

    Member's Photo: Rosa Davies

  • Member's Photo: Rosa Davies

    Member's Photo: Rosa Davies

  • Arrival of Spring (taken by FHPKG member Anne Greenstock)

    Arrival of Spring (taken by FHPKG member Anne Greenstock)

  • Blossom on bare branches

    Blossom on bare branches

  • Blossom cloud

    Blossom cloud

  • Magnolia cloak

    Magnolia cloak

The name “Rotten Row” is actually a corruption of the French “Route de Roi” or King’s Road. King William III installed 300 oil lamps along it at the end of the 17th century, making it the first artificially lit highway in
the country.

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