3 July 2007
Lady Mayoress visits West Ham Park
On Thursday 28 June, the Lady Mayoress of the City of London,
Lesley Stuttard, visited West Ham Park accompanied by Sheriff
Richard Regan, his wife Anne Regan, and Theresa Lewis.
West Ham Park is a 77 acre park in the London Borough of Newham.
It has been owned and managed by the City of London since 1874
making the Park its oldest open space.
Here they were introduced to the Superintendent of West Ham
Park, James McCulloch. He escorted them through the terrace garden
to the Rose Garden where the Lady Mayoress planted a Davidia
Involucrata, more commonly known as a Handkerchief Tree, to
commemorate the visit.
The visit continued with a performance of a scene from A
Midsummer Nights Dream by year six children from Selwyn
Primary School. After the performance, the Mayoress met the
children, Aziza Patel, Rokiyah Ibrahim, Sunraj Bolina and Joshua
Reeves, who will be performing the play from 10-12 of July in the
park.
The visit concluded with an informal tour of the nursery,
birthplace of most of the bedding plants that grace the Park and
decorate the City’s many gardens, where the Mayoress was presented
with a bouquet of blooms from the nursery.
Ends
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Square Mile, the financial and commercial heart of Britain, and is
committed to maintaining and enhancing the status of the business
City as the world's leading international financial and business
centre through its policies and services. Its responsibilities also
extend far beyond the City boundaries and include management of the
Barbican Centre, Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey, 10,000
acres of open space including Hampstead Heath and Epping Forest,
three wholesale food markets, as well as acting as the London Port
Health Authority.