London’s Pocket Parks: Distaff Lane Garden, EC4

Shortly before the pandemic locked us all in our homes, the City of London gained a lovely new pocket park very close to St Paul’s Cathedral, and if you’ve not seen it yet, that could be because it’s on a side street that hardly anyone walks down.The park replaced another park, for cars, that sat next to the 1950s-era office block, Scandinavian House, and used to have a plot of unappealing grass on the top as an excuse for a public park.
Between 2015-18, the old office was demo