Shuttleworth Park

Volunteers from Trees For Bermondsey are working to improve this park with additional hedges and planting. They recently discovered that it was one of Ada’s original designs.

In 1937 the Shuttleworth chocolate factory was burnt down in a fire and needed to be rebuilt. Together with the women workers, Ada drew up plans for a park with trees, a children’s playground, a bathing-pool and a professional gardener.

After the war everything Ada wanted was built. Sadly she had died in 1942 without having seen the result, but her spirit lives on in the Trees For Bermondsey volunteers!