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, 
