Green Park Gallery

Diamond Jubilee Procession DD97_00473

Queen Victoria'??s Diamond Jubilee Procession, Green Park Arch, London, 22 June 1897. York & Son silver gelatin DOP (developing out paper) print. A public holiday was declared to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria'??s accession. Crowds lined a six mile processional route through London, with various vantage points occupied by paying and opportunistic watchers. Victoria wrote in her diary: "??The cheering was quite deafening and every face seemed to be filled with joy."??

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Fireworks And Music

A firework display in London's Green Park to celebrate the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession, 27th April 1749. King George II commissioned Handel to compose the 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' for this occasion. Buckingham Palace is visible on the left. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Outside the Ritz, 1920 by Cecil King

Looking Eastwards in Piccadilly - an evening scene by Green Park by Cecil King. The Ritz Hotel can be seen on the right, the Berkeley Hotel on the left. The caption mentions Devonshire House which, 'lies away, aloof and dark, behind its protecting wall and its wrought iron gates. This familiar structure is, also! doomed to destruction very shortly if the projected "improvements' there are carried out by the new proprietors." Date: 1920

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans