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Postman's Park is a public garden in central London, a short distance north of St Paul's Cathedral. Bordered by Little Britain, Aldersgate Street, St. Martin's Le Grand, King Edward Street, and the site of the former headquarters of the General Post Office (GPO), it is one of the largest open spaces in the City of London. [n 1]
A cool and tranquilgarden set back from the busy City streets with a pathway weaving through the garden from east to west. Take a seat on one of the many benches that surrounds the seasonal...
The Everyday Heroes of Postman's Park. The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice in Postman's Park, London, contains fifty-four memorial tablets commemorating sixty-two individuals, men, women and children, each of whom lost their life while attempting to save another.
Oct 10, 2023 · Postman’s Park is one of those few gardens you can find dotted around the old City of London. Just north of St. Paul’s Cathedral, it’s more than just a pretty place to grab a bench and scoff a Pret during your lunch break.
The Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice is a public monument in Postman's Park in the City of London, commemorating ordinary people who died saving the lives of others and who might otherwise have been forgotten.
Postman’s Park stands on the site of a previous church and it is one of the largest hidden gardens located in the City of London. It opened in 1880 and it quickly became a popular leisure place to go for the post office workers. On their breaks they would sit in the park, thus the park soon becoming known as “Postman’s Park.”
Oct 20, 2020 · Practically in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral lies Postman’s Park. From the street it looks like your fairly standard bit of inner city greenery. However, tucked away inside is one of London’s most unusual but tragic memorials: the Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice.
On the 30th July 1900, this idea was eventually realised with the unveiling of his Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice, situated in Postman’s Park in the City of London. Try the Everyday Heroes Apllication to explore the memorial
Mar 19, 2012 · Postman's Park, a small slice of greenery in the middle of the City of London—heart of the British capital's financial district—is home to one of the most unusual and...
Aug 30, 2018 · On 30th August 2018. In Gardens, Memorials, Stained Glass, Wartime. Postman’s Park was once the churchyard to the adjacent church, St Botolph Aldersgate, but between 1858 and 1860 it was cleared of human remains and re-landscaped as a public space.
