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Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park

Park in the London Borough of Southwark, England

Field	Value
photo	Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park - geograph.org.uk - 492856.jpg
photo_caption	Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, July 2007.
name	Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park
type	Public
location	Lambeth Road, London, SE1
coords
map	United Kingdom London Southwark
map_width	240
map_caption	Location within Southwark

Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park is a public park in Kennington, South London. Maintained by the London Borough of Southwark, it is bounded by Lambeth Road, Kennington Road, St George's Road and Brook Drive.{{cite web

History

The park was opened in 1934 after the land was gifted to the 'splendid struggling mothers of Southwark' by Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere. The park was named in remembrance of Rothermere's mother, Geraldine Mary Harmsworth.

The park received its first Green Flag Award in 2012. The award was renewed in 2013.{{Cite web |access-date=6 February 2014

Sports facilities

The park's sports facilities include five-a-side football pitches, and netball, basketball and tennis courts.

Memorials

On 9 May 1999 a Soviet War Memorial was unveiled by the Secretary of State for Defence George Robertson, and the Russian ambassador Yuri Fokine. The date of the unveiling was significant as 9 May is marked as Victory Day in Russia. Since its inauguration the memorial has been the site of commemorations of Victory Day, Holocaust Memorial Day and Remembrance Sunday.

Also in May 1999 the Dalai Lama opened a Tibetan Peace Garden, commissioned by the Tibet Foundation, in the park. The garden features a bronze cast of the Kalachakra Mandala, contemporary western sculpture, and a pillar inscribed with a message from the Dalai Lama in English, Tibetan, Hindi and Chinese.

On 30 October 2004, two Araucaria araucana ('monkey puzzle') trees were planted near the park's eastern gates in memory of two Chileans who were forcibly 'disappeared' in 1974 following a military coup in Chile. The plantings were part of the Chilean Human Rights International Project's 'Ecomemoria' campaign.

References

. (15 March 2011). ["Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park and Vauxhall Park to lose Park Rangers"](http://southeasteleven.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/geraldine-mary-harmsworth-park-and.html). *Lurking about SE11*.
(1955). "Bethlem Hospital (Imperial War Museum)". [[English Heritage]] ([[British History Online]]).
Society for Cooperation in Russian and Soviet Studies. "Soviet War Memorial".
Tibet Foundation. "Art and Culture: Tibetan Peace Garden".
(10 November 2004). "Pinochet’s victims remembered in SE1 park". London SE1.co.uk.

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