Park life then and now: Victoria Park, London

For 40 years, since the establishment of the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England in 1983, Historic England has been protecting the country’s parks and gardens – with the Register now comprising more than 1,700 sites. To celebrate this milestone, images of a number of historic park postcards from the Nigel Temple Collection have been released to the public, including this image (above left) of the Baroness Burdett Coutts Drinking Fountain in Victoria Park. To highlight how our historic parks and gardens have evolved over the years (or, in some cases, remained remarkably the same), Historic England is asking people to add their own image to the collecti