Brown Hart Gardens
A nice little central London curio for you all this week. Brown Hart Gardens was once a splendid little Mayfair garden for the working classes in Brown street and Hart Street but in 1902 green space didn't seem such a great use of space and an ornate electricity sub station was build upon the site. Now we've all seen some pretty ugly substations in our time, luckily this isn't one of them. Designed by a certain C. Stanley Peach it's a baroque (almost) folly in Portland Stone. There are a pavilion and steps at each end and the idea was that the space above the substation be used as an Italianate style patio.
Sadly this was closed by London Electricity in 1980 but has since re-opened. Lucky old you!
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