London’s Pocket Parks: The White House Garden, SE1

Just behind the Southbank centre is a large public garden in full view of the crowds, that hardly anyone knows is actually open to the public.It’s not that the owners go to a lot of effort to make it welcoming, with no seating, lots of locked gates and warning notices that it’s private — but yes, it’s also open to the public. This is the Whitehouse Garden, and it was created as a pocket park as part of the conversion of the Downstream Building of the Shell Centre offices