Victoria Park, London: Health and History in the ‘People’s Park’
We have chosen London’s Victoria Park as the first place for the ‘pop up tent’ to make a pitch – a place created in the 1840s with a conscious aim to improve the health of the inhabitants of the East End and as a direct response to cholera and other communicative diseases. Then, fresh air and green habitat was seen as a soothing tonic for the city and its inhabitants, hence the idea of the parks as ‘lungs of the city.’
Victoria Park proposal 1841, Image by Merchbow~commonswiki on Wikimedia Commons
We invite you to respond to the questions below about your own park experiences. By sending a reply, you are consenting to your answers being used by the project team for publications and other outputs.
Your answers to the following series of short questions, as a visitor of Victoria Park, will be used to inform a historical study on the evolution of the park as a place of wellbeing.
The information will be stored on a university drive and may be accessed by staff members directly involved in the project.
Your information data will be stored for no longer than 10 years. If you wish for your information to be deleted sooner, please contact Karen Jones at K.R.Jones@kent.ac.uk.