Parents have slammed the UK's "most depressing playground" which sees children playing on slides just metres from a graveyard.
The playground, located in St Mary's church yard, has prompted derision and scorn from parents for being such a depressing place for kids.
St Mary's churchyard in Rotherhithe lies just yards from where kids play on the equipment at the park, including a metal slide made slightly less drab with a blue and red paintjob.
The play area sits on a mossy layer of green tarmac and is surrounded by trees and riverside flats.
Mum Vanessa Hammick, 39, told MyLondon : "It's the sort of playground you would use in an emergency.
"We always think it's funny. My husband says you are born and then you die. I quite like it. I feel an affection for it."
Another mum Saskia Dykstra said her son wouldn't "get it" when he slid down the slide facing the graveyard.
She said: "We speak about death and funerals.
"He did actually say to me I saw that old guy on the tube. I said he will go into the ground."
On social media people proved were unforgiving about the playground.
Paul Jones joked: "If you break your neck going down the slide then they don't have to move you far."
Susan Foster wrote: "That is bad a** Feng Shui. Run for your lives!"
Lawrence Staden added: "When just dancing on someone's grave doesn't quite cut it."
Others were more forgiving of the placement of the playground, saying it was a good use of space.
Roger Squires, 82, added: "Of course the gravestones are there but the youths in the area have got somewhere to play.
"I do not think the kids think anything of it. My feeling is it makes good use of space."
Visiting American Jason Becker, 40, admitted US playgrounds were "not usually next to a cemetery", but added: "It's a good use of space but it's a little strange."
