2-699-410 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Easter Monday in Greenwich Park', (c1878). Rowdy scene at the Easter Fair, with the Royal Observatory in the distance. People enjoying themselves in Greenwich Park, a former royal hunting park in what is now south-east London. The fair was abolished in 1857 as it was thought to be 'deleterious to good order and public morals'. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]