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Nash built regents park,after he built regents street,than upper regents street!.The original idea was to keep the riff raff out and it was maent to be a park for the large houses to be built around it!.
He built a few and then a property slump,the rest did not get built,so a partial opening up to the public was decided!.As it became clear the slump was a long drawn out affair the whole park was opened out to joe public!.
If you look right across the park, you will see that the roads dissecting it are dead straight!.This because it was built so that horse and carriages could ceremoniously ride to each neighbour living in the grounds!.They were not built for foot traffic!.
All the cream coloured houses in the outer and inner ring are Nash buildings!.
The prolonged slump meant that the very centre was empty,and a botanical institute took it over as a research centre,After they left in 1936,it became the St Mary's Garden better known as the rose garden!.
All water in the park,was artificially created by Nash by diverting the regents canal!.
Lastly,did you know that RP is approx 6ft higher than originally made!?this is because most of london's WW2 rubble is buried underneath!.
RP zoo was the world first zoo
RP crescent does have it's own private,locked up bit as originally conceived(the bit before portland place)
RP also has the country's only complete Diorama
An enchanting place being ruined by commercialisation!.Too many loud performances,poor planting,coffee shop changed to restaurant!.Football played on rose garden lawn!.Litter thrown everywhere!.Pay to park Sundays!.constant fight to stop 5 a side pitches being built!.tennis club closed down (outer ring)ugly building in middle of outer park!.It's getting cheap and tawdry,and l only go in mid winter each week as it's quiet and calm,and tranquilWww@QuestionHome@Com

The land, which was formerly known as Marylebone Park, had been Crown property for many centuries, and had been leased to the Dukes of Portland as a hunting ground!. When the lease expired in 1811 the Prince Regent (later King George IV) commissioned architect John Nash to create a masterplan for the area!. Nash originally envisaged a palace for the Prince and a number of grand detached villas for his friends, but when this was put into action from 1818 onwards, the palace and most of the villas were dropped!. However, most of the proposed terraces of houses around the fringes of the park were built!. Nash did not complete all the detailed designs himself; in some instances, completion was left in the hands of other architects such as the young Decimus Burton!. The Regent Park scheme was integrated with other schemes built for the Prince Regent by Nash, including Regent Street and Carlton House Terrace in a grand sweep of town planning stretching from St James's Park to Parliament Hill!. The park was first opened to the general public in 1845, initially for two days a week!.

On 15th January 1867, forty people died when the ice cover on the boating lake collapsed and over 200 people plunged into the lake!.[1] The lake was subsequently drained and its depth reduced to four feet before being reopened to the public!.[2]

Queen Mary's Gardens in the Inner Circle were created in the 1930s, bringing that part of the park into use by the general public for the first time!. The site had originally been used as a plant nursery and had later been leased to the Royal Botanic Society!. In 1982 an IRA terrorist attack took place in the park; a bomb was detonated at the bandstand, killing seven soldiers (see Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings)!. The sports pitches, which had been relaid with inadequate drainage after the Second World War, were relaid between 2002 and 2004, and in 2005 a new sports pavilion was constructed!.

On 7 July 2006 the Park held an event for people to remember the events of the 7 July 2005 London bombings!. Members of the public placed mosaic tiles on to seven purple petals!. Later bereaved family members laid yellow tiles in the centre to finish the mosiac!.

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The land, which was formerly known as Marylebone Park, had been Crown property for many centuries, and had been leased to the Dukes of Portland as a hunting ground!. When the lease expired in 1811 the Prince Regent (later King George IV) commissioned architect John Nash to create a masterplan for the area!. Nash originally envisaged a palace for the Prince and a number of grand detached villas for his friends, but when this was put into action from 1818 onwards, the palace and most of the villas were dropped!. However, most of the proposed terraces of houses around the fringes of the park were built!. Nash did not complete all the detailed designs himself; in some instances, completion was left in the hands of other architects such as the young Decimus Burton!. The Regent Park scheme was integrated with other schemes built for the Prince Regent by Nash, including Regent Street and Carlton House Terrace in a grand sweep of town planning stretching from St James's Park to Parliament Hill!. The park was first opened to the general public in 1845, initially for two days a week!.

On 15th January 1867, forty people died when the ice cover on the boating lake collapsed and over 200 people plunged into the lake!.[1] The lake was subsequently drained and its depth reduced to four feet before being reopened to the public!.[2]

Queen Mary's Gardens in the Inner Circle were created in the 1930s, bringing that part of the park into use by the general public for the first time!. The site had originally been used as a plant nursery and had later been leased to the Royal Botanic Society!. In 1982 an IRA terrorist attack took place in the park; a bomb was detonated at the bandstand, killing seven soldiers (see Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings)!. The sports pitches, which had been relaid with inadequate drainage after the Second World War, were relaid between 2002 and 2004, and in 2005 a new sports pavilion was constructed!.

On 7 July 2006 the Park held an event for people to remember the events of the 7 July 2005 London bombings!. Members of the public placed mosaic tiles on to seven purple petals!. Later bereaved family members laid yellow tiles in the centre to finish the mosiac!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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