Plan Your Visit

Postman’s Park

Opening times
8am to 7pm or dusk, whichever is earlier. Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

020 7374 4127

King Edward Street, London, EC1A 7BT

A cool and tranquil garden set back from the busy City streets with a pathway weaving through the garden from east to west. Take a seat on one of the many benches that surrounds the seasonal bedding display which features as a centrepiece to the garden.

This scenic park acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby old General Post Office. It is home to the famous Watts memorial, built in 1900 by Victorian painter and philanthropist GF Watts (1817-1904). The memorial contains fifty-four memorial tablets commemorating sixty-two individuals, men, women and children, each of whom lost their life while attempting to save another.

Postman's Park featured in 2004 in film 'Closer' which was based on the 1997 play by Patrick Marber. A key part of the plot revolves around the memorial tablet to Alice Ayres.

Getting here

Nearest tube: St Paul's (Exit 1 for Aldersgate Street)

Yellow and orange tulips in a park with group of people looking at inscriptions on a wall

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