London’s Pocket Parks: Vauxhall Park, SW8

This is a park to the south of Vauxhall station created in the 1880s following campaigns that people living in the increasingly dirty city should have access to public parks.The area was still mostly undeveloped until the 1800s, but by the 1820s, the first block of houses had appeared in the middle of where the park is today. The houses had very large, I mean, really very large back gardens, which probably helped prevent too much dense housing from being built in the area, whereas much of the ar