2-699-496 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Tropical Gardens, Battersea Park', (c1878). The park, on the south bank of the River Thames in London, was built on marshland reclaimed from the river, and opened in 1858. 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]