HISTORICAL GARDENS 



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Most of the other patches of green in the City are 

 disused burial-grounds, and are considered in a chapter 

 by themselves. Beyond the City, on the east, in the Mile 

 End Road, is the quiet old Trinity Hospital. It stands 

 on the north of that wide road, which might be made 

 one of the most beautiful entrances to the City. The 



Trinity Almshouses, Mile End Road 



simple good taste of these delightful old almshouses is 

 a great contrast to some of the surroundings. They 

 were probably designed by John Evelyn, with the assist- 

 ance of Wren. His father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, 

 founded and built very similar almshouses at Deptford, 

 long since swept away. Of these Evelyn writes, " It 

 was a good and charitable work and gift, but would have 

 been better bestowed on the poor of that parish than on 

 seamen's widows, the Trinity Company being very rich, 



