The Gallery is delightfully housed in the 18th Century Water House, a substantial Georgian dwelling and Morris family home from 1848 to 1856, and set in Lloyd Park in Walthamstow.The Gallery, which was opened by Prime Minister Clement Attlee in 1950, is the only public Gallery devoted to Englands bestknown and most versatile designer.The grounds of the William Morris Gallery, now attractively laid out as Lloyd Park, were once the extensive gardens of Water House, and include the original moated watergarden where Morris and his brothers and sisters played as youngsters. To commemorate the 1996 Centenary of Morris’s death, trees featured in his poem Tapestry Trees have been specially planted to form a treetrail in the Park.

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