Park Thames Barrier lies in the area of Silvertown – possibly one of the most inappropriate of green spaces. However, it is not only the largest (from the number built over the last half century) coastal Park England, but also the pride of the city, managed to blighted areas to create a real wonder of the world.

District Silvertown 1852 – a traditional place of concentration of oil, rubber, chemical plants. The production is dirty and dangerous: January 19, 1917 exploded munitions factory, killing 73 people, and hundreds were injured. During the Second world local businesses were subjected to fierce bombing.

The place where is now the Park, was occupied by the company producing railway sleepers and Telegraph poles. Wooden blanks here was treated with hot creosote, part of which, naturally, fell into the soil. Oil soaked earth was completely lifeless.

In the seventies the "dirty" enterprises left – began construction of the Thames Barrier. In 1994 the municipality of Thames made the decision about the renovation of the territory and the organization of the Park here.

Was declared the international competition, which was attended by designers, planners, builders. Won his French landscape architect Alain Provost, who proposed the project is not just a utilitarian green array, but this landscaped Park with fountains, gardens, groves and flowery meadows.

In 1998 the mayor of London put here the first tree, and in 2000, the Park received its first strollers. He organized on two levels. From the top you can admire the Thames and watch the boats and ships pass through the Barrier. The lower gardens are artfully trimmed in the form of a huge green waves hedges of yew, gravel paths, lawns. Both tiers are connected by a Pavilion Memory. It was erected in honor of local residents who died in the Second world war. Fun and useful part of the Park is a stone patio, which hit a 32 fountain. The trick is that the fountains and no fenced in hot weather attract children and adults, such as magnet, strong jets of water to splash and fooling around.

On 22 acres of the Park was a place for playgrounds, basketball courts, cafe. And yet it is an oasis of tranquility and harmony with nature: chirping crickets, butterflies fly, buzzing bumblebees six species.