London’s Pocket Parks: St George’s Garden, SE1

This is a very new and very small pocket park squeezed into an empty triangle of a space left when a block of flats was built here in the late 1990s.The corner plot next to St George’s Circus roundabout was once home to several different buildings, including the Royal Eye Hospital, a couple of pubs, and the very large Surrey Theatre.
The theatre closed in 1934, and the site was cleared for redevelopment, but WWII got in the way, and even then, the area was badly damaged by bombing. Post-wa