Open Garden Squares weekend 2017
A couple of Saturday’s ago (17 June 2017) I spent a great day with some friends wandering around the gardens and squares of Southwark and the City as part of the Open Garden Squares weekend. A trip kindly organised by my friend Emily. I visited five, very different, gardens in total and the gallery shows a photo from each of them. It was a very hot and sunny day so afterwards we cooled off with a drink on a boat on the Thames. This was followed by a very good Italian meal in Soho.
Red Cross Garden (Octavia Hill’s model dwellings) 
Crossbones Memorial Garden 
Southwark Cathedral churchyard 
Nomura International (No.1 Angel Lane) 
Cleary Garden
More photos here.
More about the extraordinary story of the old burial ground of Crossbones here.
Wikipedia entry on the Victorian social reformer Octavia Hill is here.