Albion Square

Description

Albion Square celebrated its centenary in 1999 by winning first prize in the Small Publicly Maintained Garden section of the London Garden Squares Competition. The gardens were restored by the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association in 1899 and are now cared for and owned by Hackney Council. It is a public, elegantly railed square surrounded by a satisfying and complete picturesque Italianate composition of 1846-9, built by Islip Odell.