Queen's Park, london, its history and pictures

Queen's Park, london, queens park, london parks

Queens Park is situated between Kensal Rise, Brondesbury and Kilburn

	Queens Park at the turn of the century	Queens Park at the turn of the century
Queens Park	Queens Park	The Cafe
The Zoo	Christmas Trees collection point	Queens Park in January 2003
Queens Park in January 2003	Queens Park in January 2003	Queens Park in January 2003

Royal Agricultral Society Showground

In 1879 The Royal Agricultral Society chose Willesden as the site of its annual show. A 100 acre site was designated at Kilburn, and on 30th of June the show was opened. Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales attended to view a working diary, agricultral machinery and a wide rane of farm animals.

The show ran for a week, in extremely bad weather. Although it attracted 185000 visitors, it made a loss of £15000. It was decided to set up a permanent venue for the show, and the Society chose a place in Twyford.

A part of the Kilburn site (30 acres) became Queen's Park.

Queen's Park is managed by the Corporation of London.

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