London’s Pocket Parks: Holly Grove Shrubbery, SE15

This is a long strip of parkland that runs along a road close to Peckham Rye Station which was created by the local council nearly 130 years ago.The houses in this part of Peckham developed as middle-class housing in the early 19th century, and the road layout was established by the 1860s, with Holly Grove — at the time South Grove — lined with houses on the south side, but was still empty land on the north.
The arrival of the railway in 1867 saw an increase in housing development in