Malet Street Gardens

Malet Street Gardens serves as a quiet, sunken contrast to the bustling academic institutions that surround it. You are standing where the private back gardens of Gower Street townhouses once existed, long before they were incorporated into the University of London in the mid-twentieth century. The ground level here is noticeably lower than the surrounding street, a depression likely created centuries ago when builders excavated the high-quality brickearth found beneath this specific spot for local construction projects.