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Bonnington Square in Vauxhall is an amazing oasis to stumble across near to the high-rise towers of Vauxhall and area. It can be reached via a passageway through a house from Harleyford Road Community Garden and on the other side you reach a square of houses built in the 1870s in order to house railway workers. By the late 1970s, Bonnington Square was compulsorily purchased for the Inner London Education Authority, which intended to demolish it in order to build a new school. A Turkish shopkeeper in one of the buildings managed to prevent the demolition through legal means during the period in which all the houses' occupants were departing, and shortly afterward squatters began moving into the vacated buildings. It has a secret garden at the centre, leafy overgrown corners, vines climbing up the house fronts and both tropical and native trees planted in every available space. More about the place can be seen at https://livinglondonhistory.com/the-fascinating-story-of-vauxhalls-secret-jungle-neighbourhood/ The writer of this post says that he has found one of his new secret spots in London and I agree.

Bonnington Square in Vauxhall is an amazing oasis to stumble across near to the high-rise towers of Vauxhall and area. It can be reached via a passageway through a house from Harleyford Road Community Garden and on the other side you reach a square of houses built in the 1870s in order to house railway workers. By the late 1970s, Bonnington Square was compulsorily purchased for the Inner London Education Authority, which intended to demolish it in order to build a new school. A Turkish shopkeeper in one of the buildings managed to prevent the demolition through legal means during the period in which all the houses' occupants were departing, and shortly afterward squatters began moving into the vacated buildings. It has a secret garden at the centre, leafy overgrown corners, vines climbing up the house fronts and both tropical and native trees planted in every available space. More about the place can be seen at https://livinglondonhistory.com/the-fascinating-story-of-vauxhalls-secret-jungle-neighbourhood/ The writer of this post says that he has found one of his new secret spots in London and I agree.

Bonnington Square in Vauxhall is an amazing oasis to stumble across near to the high-rise towers of Vauxhall and area. It can be reached via a passageway through a house from Harleyford Road Community Garden and on the other side you reach a square of houses built in the 1870s in order to house railway workers. By the late 1970s, Bonnington Square was compulsorily purchased for the Inner London Education Authority, which intended to demolish it in order to build a new school. A Turkish shopkeeper in one of the buildings managed to prevent the demolition through legal means during the period in which all the houses' occupants were departing, and shortly afterward squatters began moving into the vacated buildings. It has a secret garden at the centre, leafy overgrown corners, vines climbing up the house fronts and both tropical and native trees planted in every available space. More about the place can be seen at https://livinglondonhistory.com/the-fascinating-story-of-vauxhalls-secret-jungle-neighbourhood/ The writer of this post says that he has found one of his new secret spots in London and I agree.

Bonnington Square in Vauxhall is an amazing oasis to stumble across near to the high-rise towers of Vauxhall and area. It can be reached via a passageway through a house from Harleyford Road Community Garden and on the other side you reach a square of houses built in the 1870s in order to house railway workers. By the late 1970s, Bonnington Square was compulsorily purchased for the Inner London Education Authority, which intended to demolish it in order to build a new school. A Turkish shopkeeper in one of the buildings managed to prevent the demolition through legal means during the period in which all the houses' occupants were departing, and shortly afterward squatters began moving into the vacated buildings. It has a secret garden at the centre, leafy overgrown corners, vines climbing up the house fronts and both tropical and native trees planted in every available space. More about the place can be seen at https://livinglondonhistory.com/the-fascinating-story-of-vauxhalls-secret-jungle-neighbourhood/ The writer of this post says that he has found one of his new secret spots in London and I agree.

This garden is open to the public but normally used by the local residents. It is obviously well cared for. It is near the junction of Harleyford Road and Durham Street.

Tall, its slenderness accentuated by the canted corners. Built 1970-72 (skyscrapernews.com).

Bonnington Square is a remarkably secluded spot in the triangle formed by Harleyford Road and South Lambeth Road. The houses were originally built for railway workers in the 1870s (the former Nine Elms Depot being nearby). They were eventually compulsorily purchased by the Greater London Council in the 1970s and subsequently sold to residents by Lambeth Council in the late 1990s.

Bonnington Square in Vauxhall, with its amazing planting.

This is the information board at the entrance to the Pleasure Garden in Bonnington Square. See https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6998015