London’s Pocket Parks: Prince’s Gardens, SW7

This is a large garden square near South Kensington’s museums but hidden away behind rows of houses so only the locals know about it.
Prince’s Gardens (the apostrophe varies) was laid out by the property developer, Sir Charles James Freake between 1858075, who was actually an untrained English architect and yet is also responsible for many famous 19th-century façades in London.
He famously only allowed straight chimneys in his buildings after he learned about soot wart —