Bonnington Square Community Gardens
The Bonnington Square are a small park in the London district of Vauxhall . They were laid out on a piece of rubble where seven houses were bombed during World War II . The city administration created a children's playground here in the 1970s, but it was increasingly deteriorating. The site was therefore in the 1980s by the residents of the occupied houses of Bonnington Squares taken and planted. When the Inner London Education Authority planned to build a school here, the residents founded a support association ( Bonnington Square Garden Association ). You could lease the site. With a grant of £ 20,000 from the Greater London Council , they set up a park in 1994 designed by Dan Pearson and Jimmy Frazer. Filmmaker Evan English installed a cast-iron waterwheel from around 1860 from a nearby disused marble workshop. The garden is called Bonnington Square Pleasure Garden , which is to remind of the nearby former Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens . The planting looks almost tropical thanks to the use of New Zealand flax , bamboo and bananas as well as numerous climbing plants.
The garden is maintained by the residents. The adjacent Langley Lane and the houses there are also green ( Paradise Project ). Not far is the Harleyford Road Community Garden , which was laid out in the 1980s. Both gardens are open to the public during the day. They also attend the Open Garden Squares Weekend .
See also
literature
- Dan Pearson, Spirit: Garden Inspiration. London, Murray & Sorrell FUEL 2009, 94-97.
- Elspeth Thomas, The London Gardener, guide and sourcebook, London, Frances Lincoln 2004, 16, 157.
- Abigail Willis: The London Garden Book AZ. London, Metro 2012, 28-31.