HYDE PARE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3200, 30 September 1881, Page 3

HYDE PARE.

A noteworthy circumstance in connection with Hyde Park in olden times is the fact that the road running t_o_gh. it, or alonp the side of it, was the first road ever lighted up with lamps. William 111. went to live at Kensington, a .pretty village far away in the fields, and large numbers of aristocracy also settled there. There were a good many people with money in their pockets, therefore, to be met with passing to and fro between London and Kensington across the park, and the highway gentry soon began to observe this. Robberies became frequent, and the king ordered the road to be lighted by three hundred lamps ; and the effect is described as something " very grand and inconceivably magnificent." Some time before the beginning Of last century the middle of Hyde Park began to acquire an interest of a charaoter almost rivalling that which pertained to its north-east corner, where, as we Jut?* intlmat-d, criminals ot onvy kind mvo hi mmy »long day braughfe te mmwn> pi iritfvf t Mn *P& w#fr wl^wcw

began to be the resort of duellists, and many a combatant has fallen in death here. — Leisuro Hour.