6 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
two sets of figures, of course the acreage must be borne 
in mind, and the great expense of police in the Royal 
Parks, amounting to ^8782 for Hyde Park alone, must 
be deducted before any fair comparison can be made, 
even when results are not considered. 
1907-8. 
1906-7. 
Acres. 
Wages 
and 
Salaries. 
Police, 
Park- 
keepers. 
New 
Works 
and 
Altera¬ 
tions. 
Mainte¬ 
nance. 
Total. 
Total. 
rreenwich 
f Hyde Park \ 
£ 
£ 
£ 
£ 
£ 
£ 
t. G 
1 
185 
225 
1,090 
175 
3’737 
5.319 
4-554 
2. 
, St. James’s V 
1 Orapn Por]/ 1 
509 ^ 
724 
12,153 
4,965 
50,886 
69,269 
48,835 
3 - * 
1 
^ VJf I Cell I ex I K. J 
Kensington Gardens 
f Regent’s Park ) 
274 
138 
1 .590 
50 
5.831 
7,730 
7,804 
4 '1 
and . 
[ Primrose Hill j 
\7*\ 
290 
2,171 
3 °° 
u, 4 i 7 
14,542 
13,329 
Taken from the Estimates for 1907-8. 
Acres. 
Net 
Aggregate 
Capital 
Expenditure. 
Average 
Cost of 
Maintenance. 
Number 
of Staff. 
Battersea. 
199 
£ 
21,042 
£ 
10,897 
92 
Brockwell ..... 
127^ 
114,322 
4,493 
34 
Dulwich ..... 
72 
45,510 
3,330 
28 
Finsbury ..... 
ii 5 
137-934 
7,649 
52 
Victoria. 
217 
38,430 
12,099 
107 
Waterlow. 
26 
11,178 
2,658 
24 
Taken from L.C.C. Handbook No. 1009, 1906. 
London has always been a city of gardens, and 
although much boast is made of the newly-acquired 
open spaces, a wail for those destroyed would have equal 
justification. It is very terrible that everything in life 
