London’s Pocket Parks: Bird in Bush Park, SE15

This triangular plot of a park can be found just off the Old Kent Road, and is the result of housing clearance in the 1970s.
This part of London was developed in the middle of the 19th century from farms owned by the Hill family and was for a while known as Peckham New Town, although that name has long since faded from use. That incidentally is why there’s a Peckham Hill street – it’s named after the former owners of the land. It’s said that Bird in Bush Road, which the p