Museum Gardens

One wonders how this place could be so lovely just next to a Tube station. Fresh flowers. Nice ambly path. Enough benches. A lovely place to eat lunch, and sit in an English garden waiting for the sun. Or even after the sun has come.
Plus, it’s across the road from where I work. Lucky me.

Lovely garden next to the V&A museum of childhood. Take a picnic and enjoy your lunch before entering the museum. It’s attractively landscaped with numerous flower beds. There is a pretty water fountain by the station side entrance well worth looking at.

This tiny bit of parkland gets its name from the adjacent Museum of Childhood, but is also right outside one of the exits from Bethnal Green tube, and is a very welcome bit of green if you’ve just come from underground.
The plants are well looked after (good to see the community service put to good use) and the park gets pretty busy in summer. The main attraction, however, is the incredibly tame squirrel population that hang around hoping for handouts — anyone pausing on the path will be seen as a potential benefactor, and they will happily take things from your hand if you give them half a chance.