London’s Pocket Parks: Arnold Estate, SE1

This is a small park in Bermondsey that used to be the site of a Victorian music hall, the Star of Bermondsey, and an adjacent pub-hotel.
The area was heavily built up with terraced housing, but facing onto the main road, at the time Neckinger Road, but today an extension of Abbey Street, was a large pub and hotel, the Star and Garter Hotel built in the 1830s.
A few decades later, the building next to it was redeveloped into the Star Music Hall, and that opened in October 1867, right in the midd