London’s Pocket Parks: Thessaly Road Oasis, SW8

This is a former bomb site near Nine Elms that was opened as a public park, then closed, and will soon be redeveloped back into a public park again.This whole area was once rows of Victorian terraced housing, but WWII did extensive damage to it, and it was redeveloped with post-war blocks of flats. At the same time, several roads were realigned, including Thessaly Road, one that this pocket park now sits next to. The park appears to have been opened soon after the rebuilding of the area was comp