Tucked away in a corner of Southwark is a small public garden known as Red Cross Gardens. Created in Victorian times on the site of a burnt down paper factory, designed as a space for local children to play in the sunshine.
There is another more chilling history to the site that dates back hundreds of years and that is as a paupers grave where it is believed most of those buried here were prostitutes.
Today it continues to be small community garden but perhaps with a doomed future as the London Bridge development and new tower blocks spring up all around it.
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