Coloured postcard of a path lined with flower beds in the Royal Victoria Gardens, Woolwich. Ink: [address in Plumstead] Arrived home last night Expecting to hear from you don't forget Hope you are keeping well E.J.S. (address in Eastbourne supplied). The Royal Victoria Gardens, Woolwich, had originally been created by the Pavilion Hotel as the Royal Pavilion Pleasure Gardens, a tea garden; the hotel began to fail in the 1880s and the site as acquired by the London County Council, re-landscaped, and opened as a municipal park in 1890. The site suffered heavy bombing during the Second World War and was thoroughly redesigned after