London’s Pocket Parks: Virginia Gardens, E2

This small, neglected pocket park can be found just around the corner from the famous Columbia Road Flower Market in Tower Hamlets.Unsurprisingly, this particular plot of green was once housing, and in fact, it was some of the earliest housing to be laid out in this part of London when the area was first being developed.
The rest of the fields were fully developed by the 1830s, with rows of tightly packed terraced housing. The area swiftly became famous for its poor conditions, lack of sanitatio