Hyde Park's first public concerts take root.

A royal hunting ground seized by Henry VIII in 1536, Hyde Park spent two centuries evolving into London's cultural heartland.
Hyde Park has hosted public gatherings and musical performances since the early 19th century. George IV opened the park to wider public use, and by the 1820s it had become a natural amphitheatre for London's cultural life. The park's 350 acres, originally seized by Henry VIII in 1536 as a hunting ground, would spend the next two centuries evolving into one of the world's great urban green spaces.













