Spring Gardens

Spring Gardens is a dead-end street at the south east extreme of St. James's, London, England, that crosses the east end of The Mall between Admiralty Arch and Trafalgar Square.

These featured a decorative fountain in the time of Elizabeth I that was set in motion by passers-by treading on hidden machinery, knowingly or unknowingly.

The Whig playwright and poet Susanna Centlivre (c.1669 – 1723), who has been described as "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century", spent the end of her life here, and wrote her most famous work A Bold Stroke for a Wife at her home at the corner of Buckingham Court, Spring Gardens, in 1718.

[1] The 19th-century architect Decimus Burton bought a plot at Spring Gardens, where he constructed Nos.

[2] The headquarters of the Metropolitan Board of Works, which had moved from the London Guildhall, was based at Spring Gardens, as was the London County Council, until it moved to County Hall.