London’s Pocket Parks: Thornhill Bridge Community Gardens, N1

This is a small park next to the Regents Canal in Barnsbury, that was created as a result of changes to the rules about walking along the canal.
The pocket park itself was created during the construction of the housing mews next to the canal in 1981 replacing an old warehouse building next to the canal and a small row of houses facing the main road.The pocket park sits right where three terraced houses used to be and was included as a public park as a condition of the planning approval for the r