Par-La-Ville Gardens, Hamilton

Par-La-Ville Gardens is a lovely piece of tranquility in Hamilton the capitol of Bermuda.. I always enter it from Queen Street. To the right of the entrance is the Perot Post Office and Par-La-Ville House where the famous Perot lived. He actually planned the park. It's now home to the Bermuda Library and the Bermuda Historical Society Museum. I must admit I haven't visited it yet.
 To the left of the entrance is  the popular Lemon Tree Cafe. When I first visited Bermuda with my mum, we always used to lunch there. They had an outside area which was more or less in the Gardens.

The park was renamed Queen Elizabeth Park in 2012 in commemoration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, but for me, it will always be Par-La-Ville Gardens.

 Here's No. 224 in the Yankee linen series. When I visit again in May I shall have to see if this view still exists!

Here's No. 104 in the Yankee Store & Bermuda Drug Co linen series.

And below, some photos taken in June 2013.

Here's a photo from June 2012 of the Perot Post Office. I must remember that it much more convenient than the main post office when buying the stamps for my postcards!

To the left you'll see the entrance to Par-La-Ville.

And here's a closer one I've found from 2002.

I've just found out that for a while this was the the Little Green Shop, run by the Tucker sisters, Ethel and Kate who painted a series of lovely postcards that they would have sold in the shop (and which I am collecting). They actually opened the earliest souvenir and gift shop in Bermuda also in Queen Street, but moved in 1915 to what is now the Perot Post Office.

The Little Green Shop remained open until 22nd February 1958 when the sisters  decided it was time to wind up the business, and the building reverted  to it's earlier status as the Perot Post Office.

Below are some photos taken in 2007 of Par-La-Ville.