London’s Pocket Parks: Radnor Street Gardens, EC1

This is a pocket park near Old Street that started off as gardens, became a car park, and is once again gardens.It showed up as allotments in the 1700s, as the area around it developed, but was itself developed into terraced housing by the mid-1800s, with Ironmonger Street running through the middle.
Although minimally affected by WWII, the area was cleared in the 1950s to sweep away the terraced houses for the Pleydell Estate, and the site was used as a car park between the 1960s-70s. It was in