London’s Pocket Parks: Whitfield Gardens, W1

This pocket park next to Tottenham Court Road, which is more park in name and plaza in reality, is a busy home for pigeons and cycle delivery drivers waiting for their next customer. It wasn’t always such, as it’s a former graveyard which gained an unexpected extension following the diligent attention of WWII bombs.Before all that, though, this part of London developed from fields into homes fairly quickly in the second half of the 18th century and was pretty much as we recognise it