Peter Ackroyd's London

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Deckchair with text
Hyde Park
London, September 2006

“There was a grove in Kensington Gardens
devoted to the rooks; it contained some
seven hundred trees forming a piece of
wild nature, a matter of delight and
astonishment to those who walked among
them and listened to the endless cawing
that blotted out the city's noise.”
From “London: The Biography” by Peter Ackroyd,
page 417. In the book the author sadly concludes:
“But the trees were torn down in 1880.
The rooks have never returned.”