London’s Pocket Parks: Trinity Gardens, E14

This is a modern pocket park just north of Canary Wharf that was only briefly turned from fields into homes before returning to grass as a public park.This part of London was still pretty empty in the early 1800s and was just starting to show some new housing developments in the 1820s
As a corner plot next to two busy roads, it developed mainly as warehouses facing onto the East India Dock Road, and behind them, a school and a small row of houses facing onto Upper North Street. There was also th