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Near Marble Arch is Speaker's Corner, a sunday forum for soap-box orators. They expound their views about religion, politics and any other topic. It is very interesting to go there and enjoy a little theatre. Leave a Comment Directions: Speaker's Corner is located near Marble Arch at the northeast corner of Hyde Park. Tube: Marble Arch
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At Hyde Park corner, people still gather today at what is known as Speakers Corner, but happily for a less macabre reason. On Sunday afternoons speakers and hecklers assemble to debate a variety of topics. Leave a Comment Directions: Marble Arch tube
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 Speaker's Corner by J.I.MLeave a Comment Directions: Marble Arch tube
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Grew up in the "Flower Power" the love generation of the 60/70th's - Hyde Park - especially Hyde Park speakers Corner was very important and of great influence for the next generations of the previous century. Leave a Comment
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Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park
The space is especially reserved for anyone with anything to say and that's why it's great place to spend a Sunday afternoon. If there's great speakers it's really entertaining. Speakers seem to be most oratorical on Sunday afternoons. Leave a Comment Directions: Hyde Park
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I think that Marble Arch is beautiful and once you see this, you know that you have 'arrived' in The West End.
Marble Arch was built by John Nash, him of Brighton Pavilion fame in 1828.
It is at the western end of Oxford street in Hyde Park by Speakers corner. The Arch was actually built as the main entrance gate into Buckingham Palace, but when the palace was extended in 1858. The Arch was moved to where it stands now at Hyde Park corner.
Marble Arch actually replaced Cumberland Gate as a new entrance to Hyde Park at the top of Park Lane, complementing the Ionic Arch by Decimus Burton at Hyde Park Corner.
The road layout around Marble Arch has been changed very many times, at one time it had been on the axis for a road to the North from London and a through road from Colchester to the West country by the Romans. It of course has had to be changed due to increasing traffic in 1908 and 1961 which left Marble Arch as an island.
There is actually a more macabre history to Marble Arch.
For 600 years, this was called the 'Tyburn' road, which was famed for it's Gallows. Prisoners were brought from Highgate prison and hung in front of crowds of adults and children who treated this as a day out!, ugh!, not my idea of a day out I can assure you.
People who had comitted murder or who had committed suicide were laid to rest in unhallowed ground here too. There is a plaque mentioning this fact in the grounds of Hyde Park. Directions: Marble Arch tube
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On the 19th of August, a VT meeting was arranged to welcome travellers from Croatia.
I was in a very good, optimistic mood this fine day. It was my first time on foot around Marble Arch, and vaguely aware of the fact that executions once used to take place here, I decided to investigate a bit.
Of all people, I ran into an American, Jack, who was also aware of this history. He decided to help me out, as I stirred & aroused his 'suppressed' curiousities as well!!
There is a road in the middle called Tyburn Place, also a board mentioning this gruesome past, stating the actual site is around the intersection of Edgware Road & Bayswater Road. We could not see any particular 'spot', so we exchanged email addrs & Jack left me to 'discover' the past..
No actual site is marked as the 'point', but I have a feeling it was where the trees are... Leave a Comment Directions: Marble Arch tube
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 Marble Arch by J.I.MLeave a Comment Directions: Marble Arch tube
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 Marble Arch, you know you're
in the West End! by Elodie_Caroline
I think that Marble Arch is beautiful, and once you see this, you know that you have 'arrived' in The West End.
Marble Arch was built by John Nash, him of the Brighton Pavilion fame in 1828.
It is at the western end of Oxford street in Hyde Park by Speakers corner. The Arch was actually built as the main entrance gate into Buckingham Palace, but when the palace was extended in 1858. The Arch was moved to where it stands now at Hyde Park corner.
Marble Arch actually replaced Cumberland Gate as a new entrance to Hyde Park at the top of Park Lane, complementing the Ionic Arch by Decimus Burton at Hyde Park Corner.
The road layout around Marble Arch has been changed very many times, at one time it had been on the axis for a road to the North from London and a through road from Colchester to the West country by the Romans. It of course has had to be changed due to increasing traffic in 1908 and 1961 which left Marble Arch as an island.
There is actually a more macabre history to Marble Arch.
For 600 years, this was called the 'Tyburn' road, which was famed for it's Gallows. Prisoners were brought from Highgate prison and hung in front of crowds of adults and children who treated this as a day out!, ugh!, not my idea of a day out I can assure you.
People who had committed murder or who had committed suicide were laid to rest in unhallowed ground here too. There is a plaque mentioning this fact in the grounds of Hyde Park. Directions: Marble Arch tube
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