The Serpentine Bridge divides Queen Caroline’s lake and her park into Hyde Park to the east (in which the barracks are situated) and Kensington Gardens to the west, ending in Kensington Palace with its Orangerie and its lovely sunken garden. To the north the lake ends in the Italian Gardens, created in the 1860s by …
Serpentine Bridge
The Serpentine
Leaving yesterday’s swans behind I headed into the tunnel under the lovely sandstone bridge over the Serpentine, emerging on the other side beside the most enormous willow tree many of whose branches have dropped down in the lake. Just above, on the corner of the bridge is the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in the old ‘Magazine’, …