Grove Hall Park

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Grove Hall Park is a 1.19 ha public park in Bow in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London. It includes play areas, a ball games area, and a small walled memorial garden.^[1]

Bow is a large district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. It was a suburb of the metropolitan area of London until 1965 when it was reformed and expanded. It spans in a crescent-like shape northeast to southwest from the Mace Street to Bow Common and west-east from Mile End and Bethnal Green to Stratford with it district centre being Roman Road Market. It is primarily a built-up and mostly residential, and 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east of Charing Cross.

Tower Hamlets is located in East London and covers much of the traditional East End.

East London is a popularly and informally defined part of London, capital of the United Kingdom, lying east of the ancient City and north of the River Thames.

Grove Hall Park was opened as a public park in 1909 following its purchase by the local authority in an auction in 1906. Previously the land had been in the possession of the Byas family, who had established Grove Hall Private Lunatic Asylum on the plot in 1820. This establishment primarily catered for ex-servicemen and was featured in Charles Dickens' novel Nicholas Nickleby (1839).^[2] In 1878 it was the largest asylum in London with capacity for 443 inmates.^[3]

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.

Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens's third novel.

In 1930 the park was extended with land that had served as the garden for the St Catherine's Convent, Bow.^[2] The former convent Church of Our Lady and St Catherine of Siena, which opened in 1870, survives in Bow Road, but the Dominican convent itself moved to Stone, Staffordshire, in 1926.^[4]

Saint Catherine of Siena, a laywoman associated with the Dominican Order, was a Scholastic philosopher, and theologian who had a great influence on the Catholic Church. She is declared a saint and a doctor of the Church.

Dominican Order Roman Catholic religious order

The Order of Preachers, also known as the Dominican Order, is a mendicant Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Dominic of Caleruega in France, approved by Pope Honorius III via the Papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally carry the letters OP after their names, standing for Ordinis Praedicatorum, meaning of the Order of Preachers. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, active sisters, and affiliated lay or secular Dominicans.

Stone is a market town and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, 7 miles (11 km) north of Stafford and 7 miles (11 km) south of Stoke-on-Trent. It was an urban district council and a rural district council before becoming part of the Borough of Stafford in 1974.

External resources

Photographs of Grove Hall Park in summer. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
A description of Grove Hall in 1898, when it was still a lunatic asylum. Retrieved 4 July 2014.

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References

↑ Tower Hamlets Council. AZ of Parks. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
1 2 "Site Details: Grove Hall Park". London Gardens on-line. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
↑ "Lost Hospitals of London" . Retrieved 21 May 2014.
↑ Taking Stock. Catholic Churches of England and Wales. Retrieved 4 July 2014.

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[1] Tower Hamlets Council. AZ of Parks. Retrieved 4 July 2014.

[London_Gardens-2] 1 2 "Site Details: Grove Hall Park". London Gardens on-line. Retrieved 21 May 2014.

[3] "Lost Hospitals of London" . Retrieved 21 May 2014.

[4] Taking Stock. Catholic Churches of England and Wales. Retrieved 4 July 2014.