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  • Member's Photo: Rosa Davies

    Member's Photo: Rosa Davies

  • Member's Photo: Rosa Davies

    Member's Photo: Rosa Davies

  • Arrival of Spring (taken by FHPKG member Anne Greenstock)

    Arrival of Spring (taken by FHPKG member Anne Greenstock)

  • Blossom on bare branches

    Blossom on bare branches

  • Blossom cloud

    Blossom cloud

  • Magnolia cloak

    Magnolia cloak

The Serpentine has been frequently frozen over so strongly in the past that in the winter of 1814 a fair was held on the ice; and in 1825 a Mr. Hunt for a wager drove a coach and four horses across the Serpentine during a severe frost.

History of the Serpentine from Old and New London by Edward Walford 1878

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