The Hoxton Trust Community Garden Located on the corner of Tyssen Street and Hoxton Street in the centre of Hoxton is the Community Garden. A beautiful public recreational area filled with a variety of plants and flowers.
The garden was laid out in the early 1980s, funded by Hackney Council, and it was opened in 1983 by David Bellamy.
It contains the C19th cupola from the Hackney Union Workhouse that was incorporated as part of Hackney Hospital in Homerton, which was demolished when the new Homerton Hospital was built in the 1980s.
A brass plaque in the garden commemorates five local young men who died in 1991. Paul Dunne was stabbed in Hoxton Street and four friends, Zeppo Blake, Jeffroy Ellison, Jason Welch and Brian Gerbaldi, were killed in a car crash on their way back from his funeral: 'They should be here so much alive, Let's not forget the Hoxton Five'.
The garden is laid out on a number of levels on hummocky terrain, with a variety of flower beds and shrubs, with paths and seating within the lawns. A brick structure houses a colourful notice board which gives information about the community garden. It is bounded by new decorative railings on a brick parapet wall with the garden's name in iron letters above the main entrance gates, which are surmounted by a roof providing a small shelter.
The garden is maintained by volunteers and students under the supervision of the Hoxton Trust's NVQ Training Manager as part of its Horticultural Training Programme