London’s Pocket Parks: Princess Alice Garden, EC1

This is a very well-hidden garden in Smithfield that I have walked past many times without noticing it was there, even though it’s really obvious in hindsight as it’s easy to see from the outside.It sits just inside the boundary of Barts Hospital, nestled between the boundary and St Bartholomew the Less church, and while some the space may have been a former graveyard for the church, most of it wasn’t. While today, the boundary around the hospital in this part is marked by a fi