This summertime poster of Bushy Park dates from The poster was designed to highlight the large number of green open spaces which were in the city and allowed Londoners to escape from the busy city life. Many of these open spaces had previously been grounds of large houses and royal parks. Some of these areas were specially created to accommodate the population as London expanded. David Wilson was a landscape artist and flower painter in water-colours as well as a cartoonist and caricaturist.
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These trees reached their zenith in the Victorian period and people, including members of the Royal family, would descend on the park on the Sunday nearest to the 11 th of May when the blossom was said to be at its greatest. Thousands attended, records show that one Chestnut Sunday in over tickets were collected at Hampton Court railway station alone. Over the time it was so popular that even bus companies would organise special excursions.
Although it World War I suspended any formal organisation to see the chestnuts, advertising went overboard once peace had returned. The Transport for London museum has a number of evocative posters made during the hey day of the custom — the s showing people picnicking, promenading and playing amongst the trees. The coming of World War II and the use of the park as a military headquarters curtailed Chestnut Sunday and it slowly disappeared.
However it was not completely forgotten for a revival was coming. In Colin and Mu Pain, Hampton Wick residents came across details of the custom doing research about the suburb. The year was a good one for a revival being the Silver Jubilee of the Queen and so together with the Hampton Wick Association a one off celebration again on the Sunday closest to the 11 th of May was planned.
From this it grew and grew. That initial revival has developed and developed that it has become a festival.
I visited in to be greeted by thousands of people lining the avenue to see a parade which went from Teddington Gate to the Diana Fountain. The procession was the usual mix of vintage cars, marching bands and cavaliers…but no Morris…except from Morris Minor that is.
A nice distraction although the smell of the vehicles did rather overpower the natural beauty of the avenue.
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