Tag Archives: London Square

Austerity, Car Parks and Concrete

Posted on 06/03/2021 by The Gardens Trust

I looked last week at the fate of London’s  squares during wartime, and one might have thought that things couldn’t get much worse.  Unfortunately, as in many other areas of post-war life they did.  There was no quick recovery and … Continue reading →

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The Square at War

Posted on 27/02/2021 by The Gardens Trust

This post is another in my series about London squares and will look at what happened to them during  the war.  They were dug up for allotments and bomb shelters, used as bases for barrage balloons and most famously had … Continue reading →

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Flowers and a Duke open the gates…

Posted on 12/12/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Over the past few months we’ve examined the story of the London square, and the last post revealed the beginning of both a slow decline in status and tentative attempts to open them to the public.   Today’s post is … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Cities

Posted on 05/12/2020 by The Gardens Trust

We saw last week that although new squares continued to be built in the middle of the 19thc the design was sometimes adapted and modified, and there was sometimes criticism of both the layout itself and increasingly of the planting. … Continue reading →

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Fair and Square

Posted on 28/11/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Over the last couple of months I’ve done a series of posts about the history of the London square.  We looked at the origins of the square as an architectural form  in the 17thc, then  the development of planting in … Continue reading →

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