London’s Pocket Parks: Argyle Square, WC1

This is a municipal garden square that offers a calm quiet patch of greenery just a few moments from King’s Cross station.The area was first developed into housing following the collapse of the Royal Panarmonion Gardens, a local pleasure garden that was famous for a human-powered monorail. The pleasure gardens included a theatre and the railway, and despite positive reviews when it opened in 1830, it closed just two years later and the land was sold off.
The area was quickly redeveloped in