Haggerston Park

It was carved out of an area of derelict housing, a tile manufacturer, and the former Shoreditch Gasworks, which had been hit by a V-2 rocket in 1944 and badly damaged.

[1] Today, it occupies 6 hectares (15 acres)[2] Haggerston Park contains a small but luxuriant nature reserve and a number of football pitches.

In the 1980s the park was extended to the south to include a Hackney City Farm, on the site of a former brewery, a children's playground and playing fields.

The long-term lease handed to Bridge Academy for the Astroturf was highly unpopular, and in 2007 the Council built a temporary school in parkland known as the Audrey Street Depot.

For the following 7 years the council claimed it did not have the funds to make good on the return to parkland, and then in February 2016 it announced it was building a much larger Academy school in the same spot.