Waterlow Park

(N19) Part of which was given to the public by Sir Sydney Waterlow. In these grounds stood the famous Lauderdale House, built about 1650, that was long ago the residence of the Viceroy of Scotland under Charles II, the Duke of Lauderdale. To Lauderdale House the King brought the merry-hearted Nell Gwynne, and it was here that she is said to have forced her royal lover to acknowledge himself to be the father of her boy, the future Duke of St. Albans, by threatening to drop the child out of the window if he refused to do so (Skirts of the Great City, Mrs. A. G. Bell, p. 32)