Kensington Gardens
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Kensington Gardens, once part of the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are now among the Royal Parks of London and largely open to the public. The gardens are shared by the City of Westminster and
View across The Long Water to Kensington Palace
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Playground (erected on the site of the existing Peter Pan children's playground) is inspired by Peter Pan.
Peter Pan statue
Italian Gardens
J. M. Barrie
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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet was a British novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote
Kensington Gardens
…In his 1722 poem Kensington Garden, Thomas Tickell depicted the area as inhabited by fairies. The park is the setting of J. M. Barrie's book Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, a prelude to the character's famous adventures in Neverland. Both the book and the character are honoured with…
Portrait by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1892
Barrie in 1892
Some of Barrie's novels
Peter Pan statue (1912) by Sir George Frampton in Kensington Gardens, London