Post to the west Central Hammersmith


Addison Bridge Place
This was originally called Portland Place
1 Now a shoe shop this was the Olympia Motor Mart in 1911.
3 there is a fire insurance plaque on the side of the house facing the road. It says ‘1790/1810’
4 Blue Plaque to Harold Laski, 1893-1950 'teacher and political philosopher, lived here 1926-1950'. He was a leading light in the Labour Party becoming Chairman of the party in 1945. W S Gilbert also lived there for a while. There is also an old metal bollard on the pavement outside
6 Blue Plaque to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was erected in 1950 by the London County Council and says it is to the ‘poet and philosopher 1772-1834’ who stayed there with the Morgan family.
9 Cast iron bollard, with bead decoration to head. This is on the pavement outside
Rowley Cottages. These are behind 6-9 and are in brick dated to about 1870.
Exhibition House. This is a new office building constructed over three interconnecting buildings. It is built on a site to the south east of the main street and at a lower level. The site previously contained about 100 garages known as ‘Exhibition garages’.
Cast iron lamp standard at the entrance, this has its original frog and lantern cage, but the lantern is missing.


Aisgill Avenue
Local authority housing built in the early 1970s on the site of the West Kensington Coal and Goods Depot
This was part of an exhibition area which was the idea of John Robinson Whitley who became involved with the idea for an 'American Exhibition' in London. He opened negotiations with the District Railway for use of a site in their ownership, including that in Fulham beyond the West London Extension Railway. He developed three sites here, including what became the main Exhibition centre. One site was between the Midland's sidings and North End Road and here he built pleasure gardens. These included a switchback railway, a toboggan slide, and the largest bandstand in London. The switchback railway and the bandstand are still shown on maps of the 1920s but by the early 1950s the entertainment has gone and it has become the west London coal and goods depot of the Midland Railway.


Auriel Road
Buildings here were badly damaged by enemy action during the Second World War.  In the air raids of 1944, many houses were completely wrecked and since rebuilt,
Pillar box. This has 'VR' embossed and was made by Andrew Handyside & Co Britannia Iron Works Derby & London


Avonmore Place
Gordon Cottage. 19th house used as the school keeper’s house.
24 Kingsley House. This has a date plaque for ‘1888’. It is now flats but the ground floor was a warehouse with a loading bay.
York House. That was an industrial building and has its original shop surround. After the Second World War this was a publishing house for the Poplar Press and others.

Avonmore Road
2a Leigh Court, this was built originally as J. Lyons office with flats above the offices around 1900.  It has also been used as a publisher’s office.
16-18 Davidson Motor and Carriage Co., Ltd., This company was here in 1919 as part of the Davidson Aviation Co., Ltd.  The aviation company works where their gyrocopter was made was at 231 Hammersmith Road (west of this square),
18 Independent Age. The organisation gives advice and support to the elderly. They were set up in 1863 as United Kingdom Beneficent Association
22 was designed by James MacLaren in 1888 as a studio and house for the society portrait sculptor H. R. Pinker. There are big studio doors and a separate entrance and porch for the house.
Avonmore Primary School. The school is in a single storey 1950s prefabricated building. It includes a nursery. There has been a school on this site since the late 19th.
20 This was a Post Office Sorting Office built in 1887.  There are crown plaques by the entrance one says ‘VR’ the other ‘1887’.
51 GLC Blue Plaque for Edward Elgar, the composer, who lived here 1891-1893
Marcus Garvey Park. This is a small 20th park which has been carved out in crowded street from small gaps and disused areas. It is laid out in two adjacent areas. In one there is a circular lawn with shrubs around the edge and there is an area for under 5s play. The other is grass and shrubs along an old brick wall.


Baron’s Court Road
The Baron’s Court area was a development by the Palliser family in the late 19th. The name may relate to nearby Earl’s Court, or to the Court Baron held by the Lord of the Manor – or just be made up to attract wealthy residents.
20 Blue plaque to Mahatma Gandhi. This says  ‘Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 lived here as a law student’ – Gandhi of course being the leader of Indian nationalism
Barons Court Garden Triangle. This behind the houses at the west end of the road on the south side. It is seen as deriving from ideas which were part of the garden city movement. The gardens are shared and managed by the 34 linked semi-detached houses surrounding it,


Beaumont Avenue
Kensington Hall Gardens. Built between 1897 and 1899. Kensington Hall itself had been built in 1834 by a Kensington Butcher Tom Slater.  It became known as “Slater’s Folly” –and was occupied as a school and from 1875 leased by the Benevolent Society of St John of Jerusalem and later by a religious sisterhood as an orphanage and convalescent hospital. It was demolished in 1897 and Kensington Hall Gardens built. It was damaged by a V1 in 1944. In 1996 Kensington Hall Gardens Ltd. was formed by leaseholders to buy the freehold.
Lillie Bridge Depot. Permanent Way and traction maintenance depot for the District and Piccadilly Lines. The Metropolitan District Railway opened a depot here in 1872. It is scheduled to be de-commissioned by 2019 and parts are already demolished.


Beaumont Crescent
The road was badly damaged bombing in 1944.
2 Blue plaque. This says “This building was the headquarters of the Universal Negro Improvement Association from 1935-1940. The UNIA is an international Pan African movement founded by Marcus Mosiah Garvey in 1914”.


Bedford Close
This new road runs between the railway lines and Warwic Road through the site of the old coal depot. It is full of colossal blocks of flats with views over the railway.


Castletown Road
4a The Bhavan Centre. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Thus was established in 1938 in Mumbai and operates in over a 100 centres in India. The UK Bhavan is the first and largest overseas branch. Its fundamental purpose is “to preserve for the posterity, the unsurpassed and indisputable beauty of Indian Culture, art and heritage”. The Congregational lecture hall fronting onto Challoner Street is also part of the Centre.
West Kensington Congregational church.  Built by Cubitt 1882. The Church was founded in 1885 and in 1972, when the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches merged it joined the newly formed United Reformed Church.


Comeragh Road.
28 Curtains Up Pub. His pub was built as the Admiral Palliser in 1878 and re-named the Barons Court Hotel. This is a Geronimo Pub – actually that’s a Youngs’ brand. It has the 60 seat Baron’s Court Theatre in the cellar.
Comeragh Mews. These are shown as Livery Stables on 19th maps. This is now housing. There is a large arch at each end of the mews.


Counters Creek
Counter's Creek. Some of this stream still exists as Chelsea Creek and it originally flowed from Kensal Green to the Thames. The course of it can be followed now as the West London rail line which itself replaced the Kensington Canal.  The original stream formed the boundary between the parishes of Kensington and Fulham and it became known as Counter's Creek, as 'Counter's Bridge' is the historic name for the crossing of the creek at Olympia. This name was first recorded in the 14th after the Countess of Oxford who held the manor of Kensington.


Cumberland Crescent
This curving road once went round to end in North End Road, but now provides an entrance to Marcus Garvey Park.
21 Cumberland Lodge. This was the caretaker’s lodge to Rugby Mansions built in 1898. It is a red brick cottage said to have a wooden dovecote on the wall.


Earsby Street
Mary Boon School. This building stands on the corner with Bishop King’s  Road. It is a three storey London School Board school. Built in 1875 by Robson and said to have on the Cumberland Crescent side plaques with ‘1899’, and ‘Boys’ and Girls’. In the 1950s this is shown as a “Secondary school and College of Commerce’ and described as a Secondary Technical School. At some point Mary Boon School moved to other premises in Shepherd’s Bush where it is said to have concentrated in dress making and domestic science. By the mid 1970s this Earsby Street building was in use for adult education classes. It would be interesting to know who Mary Boon herself was.
St James School. This is a private fee paying school set up in 1975. It consists of a girls and a junior school, with a boys' school in Ashford, Surrey. Based in an area with many embassies and departments of international agencies it has an international outlook. It is mainly in the site of the, London School Board built, Mary Boon School.


Edith Road
2 St. Mary’s Vicarage


Fenelon Road
The road dates from the 1850s and was originally Alma Road, before being renamed Fenelon Road in 1871. It originally was the site of ‘model cottages’ named after the philanthropic Earl of Shaftesbury. These were slum cleared in the 1950s and some of the road changed in road widening schemes. The road is now an alley way in a canyon between the Tesco car park and monolithic blocks of flats.

FitzGeorge Avenue
Laid out in 1897 on part of the grounds of North End House by o Henry Lovatt with blocks designed by Delissa Joseph.

Fizjames Avenue
North End Court. Flats here are on the site of North End House demolished in 1928 following a fire. It was designed by Joseph Architects. In the Second World War Gibraltar refugees were housed here.
North End House. This dated from 1791 and was in 7 acres of grounds including a lake. In 1840 it was remodelled into an informal park.
Gardens – on the site of the gardens of North End House. This modern garden was designed by Group Capt E T Haylock around two old trees. An old catalpa was cut down although it is regrowing from the stool and there is a path around it. A lawn, seats and a surrounding bed planted with roses and other shrubs.


Gibbs Green
Gibbs Green. The Green itself was on North End Road but it has given its name to the area. Gibbs Green Bridge crossed Counters Creek to join a road from Mascottes Bridge to Earl's Court to the west of North End Road. In the 16th it was ‘Gybbesgreen Lane’
Gibbs Green Estate. This was built in 1961
Gibbs Green Community Hall

Glidden Road
James Lee Nursery School
Ealing Hammersmith and West London College. This is a further and higher education college  with four campuses. The main campus is on the north side of the A4, between Hammersmith and Earls Court. Here the College offers full and part-time courses across a broad range of subjects but specialising in Health and Social Care.   The college was built here on some of the playing fields of what had been St Paul’s School.


Günterstone Road
69 blue plaque to Rider Haggard 'novelist lived here 1885-1888'.  Plaque erected 1977.

Gwendwr Road
Gwendwr Gardens.  This opened in 1949 after being given to Fulham Council by the Gunter Estate as a memorial to the residents from West Kensington who died in Second World War bombing. There is a plaque about its opening and a statue of Meditation


Hammersmith Road
Crossing into Kensington near Olympia called Countess Bridge. The road is at least medieval and may be a Roman Road.  Hammersmith Road has been an important route to London since early times. It began at Counter Bridge, now Addison Bridge. When the first toll road west out of London was designated in 1717 the Hammersmith Turnpike was built here at the junction of Hammersmith Road and North End Road.
Addison Bridge. Boundary stone 1860 for Kensington Parish
Kensington West London Station.  A small station was planned in 1840 during the construction of the West London Railway. Originally it was to go by the Kensington Canal basin but it couldn't be seen from Hammersmith Road and so a station was opened on the north side of Hammersmith Road. It was not authorised by Robert Stephenson until 1843 and its sole platform opened in May 1844 and closed in December 1844. It was used again briefly in 1863 when the West London Railway opened fully but closed in 1864 when what is now Olympia Station opened.
1 the Hand and Flower Public House, was built in the 1880’s and is a Fullers House, and was previously Marstons. There is a sign on the east chimney stack inscribed ‘Hand and Flower’. It is said to have been started by a Mr. Hand who was friendly with flower girls. However it is also said that it was rebuilt in 1788 and was renamed then. It has also been called Harvey Wallbangers, Hammersmith Charivari and the Rose and Crown
38- 40 Bell and Anchor. This is said to have been on the site of turnpike gate. It was a Truman’s House but has now been demolished. The site is now part of the Olympia lorry park.
Royal Vineyard Nursery. In the mid 19th this covered a major part of the north side of Hammersmith Road. It covered at least the sites of Olympia and most of Cadby Hall. It was the nursery of Messrs. Lee, of Hammersmith and survived until the early part of the 20th. James Lee was a Scot who has been employed at Syon House and then at Whitton. He opened the Vineyard around 1760 – and grew grapes for wine As well as a Horticultural Nursery for which they collected plants world wide. In particular they specialised in fuchsias. Lee had a wide knowledge of plants and Along with Carl Von Linne, wrote An Introduction to Botany, in 1760. At his death the nursery was carried under James Lee, John and Charles Lee, then William Lee and ended in the early 20th,
Olympia. The bulk of the Olympia building lies in the square to the north but the entrance and a huge wall of buildings lie along Hammersmith road. The main buildings date from the late 19th but the frontage on Hammersmith Road dates from 1929.  It was originally called the Empire Hall and is now Olympia Central. It is in an art deco style faced with concrete and completed and introduced the German modernist style into London. Olympia' is written in relief at the top. The original decorative horizontal fixing bars for electric exhibition advertisements are still there.
Offices.  These faceless mirror glazed offices are by Scott, Brownrigg & Turner; and replace Lyons' vast offices and factories,
Cadby Hall.  This was Joe Lyons office and factory complex and the headquarters of this pioneering catering company for nearly 100 years. Lyons was the largest catering establishment in the world and the first business to ever use a computer system. Lyons took over Cadby Hall in 1889 and it grew to cover over 13 acres spreading along Hammersmith Road. They bought the St Mary’s College campus in 1922 (in the square to the north). The original piano factory became a bakery and many new blocks were added with 30,000 staff and had the first ever business computer, the LEO. By the late 1970s, Lyons & Co. began to decline and was taken over by Allied Breweries. The Cadby Hall complex was scaled down and demolished in 1983.
Cadby Piano Factory. Cadby Hall originated with Charles Cadby, piano manufacturer, who bought the land here in 1874.  It had previously been the Croften Estate. The building was designed by Lewis Isaacs with carved portraits of famous composers and reliefs of scenes of music and poetry. After Cadby's death in 1884 the factory was sold and taken over by Kensington Co-operative Stores and Schweppes Mineral Waters.
Omnibus depot. This was present in the 1890s on the north side of the road
122 The Albion.  Pub built in 1864 and current building dates from 1923
St Mary's church. Originated in 1814 as a chapel of ease funded by a Mr, Hunt who lived locally and it was the church for the growing village of North End.  Became the parish church in 1835.  It was still then a propriety chapel. Later a church school was established here. The church was extended in the 1880s as the local population grew.  The church was destroyed by a V1 in 1944. A new church was begun in 1960. The new church is smaller but some artefacts from the old church were saved and are still used,
Burial Ground. This was declared full in 1881. Some gravestones remain round the walls of the grounds.


Kensington Canal
This canal was opened in 1828 to run from the Thames in Chelsea  along the line of Counter's Creek, to a basin near Warwick Road. It was not commercially successful, and was bought up by a railway company, which then laid a line along its route on the Fulham side. A second railway line followed.

Kensington Village
Kensington Village. This is reached via Avonmore Road.  This is a gated housing estate built in structures of the 1880s. When the area was built up in the 1880s the developers Gibbs and Flew went bankrupt and sold surplus land to Whiteley’s. The complex includes warehouses, laundry blocks and stables built in 1895 by Kirk and Randall of Woolwich. The landmark building could e seen from West Cromwell Road and was by Alfred M Ridge. The Warwick Building was used as a depository for furnishings to go to colonial residents. On the railway side is The ‘New Pantechnicon’, was begun in 1892 by William Shepherd of Bermondsey. Avon House, which was the central section of the main building, has been rebuilt as a steel frame curtain walled unit with a dummy central clock tower.


Lanfrey Place
This was once called Little Ebenezer Place built in 1853

Lisgar Street
Samuel Lewis Housing Trust Estate. This large estate was built in 1928 by the Trust and is now part of the Southern Housing Group.
Community Hall.


Mornington Avenue
Whiteley's Cottages. This is a short terrace of workers cottages in brick with stables projecting on the ground floor. Access to the living areas is by a staircase from the road leading to a first floor walkway with metal railings. They were built in 1892 and face onto Cromwell Road.


Mund Street
This once led to the West London Railway Coal Depot, and before that to the westernmost exhibition area. The switchback railway lay immediately at the end of the road.
The Pavilion. Glasshouse which has been used as an estate office and also by the Citizens Advice organisation.
Wedgewood School. This was on the north side of the road in 1981 and listed as an ‘ESN school”
Gibbs Green School. Listed as a co-educational for children with special needs. It closed in 2009
Queensmill School. This school for autistic children used the Mund Street school buildings on a temporary basis and later moved to their permanent site.
Fulham Boys School. This is a ‘Free’ Secondary Boys School founded by local parents and teachers it opened in 2014.  It will be at its full capacity in 2020.  It was founded with a Christian ethic and a ‘business’ background. It is intended to move the school to another site in 2018 but in the meantime a lot of money has been spent to make it suitable for a boys' school of this type.
14-24 Platarg Engineering. This company had been established here in 1939 by a Czech and specialised in refining platinum and silver. They moved to Brentwood 1966
14 Bendix washing machines. This appears to have been a depot for the company from 1966

Munden Street
Rising Sun Pub. Closed before the Great War. There are now flats on the site.


North End Crescent
The crescent is a stretch of what was North End Road. The road itself was straightened marooning this stretch.
3 Nell's Jazz and Blues. This appears to be part of the Sainsbury premises and the front door is actually in North End Road. It was previously BV – and it appears there have been a series of clubs here when the supermarket was the Cedars Hotel.
7 Barons Court Library. This became the Citizens Advice Bureau. There is also an advice centre for London Irish Care


North End Road
North End, This was originally a hamlet in the parish of Fulham. By the mid-19th it was one of the largest local settlements with multi-storeyed houses with basement quarters for servants.
15 this was St. Mary’s Protestant Mission and is now offices. It dates from 1895 designed by T. Woodbridge Briggs. There is a marble plaque to Miss Ann Louisa Davis dated 1895 on the front
29 Cumberland Arms. 19th pub dating from at least the 1860s and standing on the corner of Cumberland Crescent. Now a ‘gastropub’.
North End House. The grounds of this house fronted onto the road and are now the site of the North End Estate.  It was once owned by James Wild who was a collector of curiosities and a nonconformist. He founded Ebenezer Chapel in 1842
Mornington Lodge. This was built about 1834 by Squire Jones.  It was the home of various people including the local developer William Gibbs in 1878. The council demolished Mornington Lodge and replaced it with flats.
Marcus Garvey Park. This was created from a car park and redundant roadways. It contains brick walkways, seating areas and planting and acts as an informal play and recreation area. It is laid out in two adjacent areas. In the larger area there is a circular lawn with shrubs around the edge of the space and there is an area for under 5s play. The spaces are marked out by low palisades of white logs. The smaller area is grass with shrubs along an old brick wall that separates blocks of flats from the park.
37   Live and Let Live. The Greene King Pub was at one time called The Pickled Newt. It pub closed in 2016.
39 scrolled metal gas lamp bracket attached to the first floor elevation,
41A this was an Ebenezer Chapel built in the 1840’s in brick. There is a foundation stone dated 1842 in the wall at the side.
43-5 this was built as West London County Court by H. N. Hanks in 1907-8. In the central bay is a crest with a lion and unicorn, and the rainwater hopper heads are inscribed ‘E VII R’.  It is now flats.
The Grange. This is on the site of the Lytton Estate. It was a semi detached mansion built in 1715. Samuel Richardson the novelist lived there 1739 - 1754, publishing Pamela. Edward Burne-Jones also lived at the Grange from 1867- 1898. He produced many important works in studios there. After his death the house became derelict and the gardens were used as allotments in the Second World War. It was demolished in 1958 and the Lytton Estate built.  A block of flats nearby is named after Burne Jones.
47 Otto House Asylum. This appears to have been used as a private mental hospital in the late 19th and early 20th.
60 Cedars Hotel (or 3 North End Crescent), this is now a supermarket. It closed in 2011 at which time it was known as the Crescent Champagne Bar. It was built on the site of an earlier pub, the Anchor in Hope when the Cedars Estate was developed in the 1880s.  It has been described as “the culmination of alternative High Victorian fashion of the 1880s”.  The frontage area onto North End Road was added when the road was straightened.  It had also been called the Fox, the Rat and Carrot and the Fox Rattle and Hum.  A wing added in the 1960s included a club called West One Four, the Orange or the Bird's Nest – and presumably it is this that is now Nell’s Jazz and Blues.
148 The Clarence Pub
160 North End Road Medical Centre. NHS facility.
171 The Famous Three Kings. This pub dates from the 17th but was rebuilt in 1908.  This is now a ‘sports pub’, but it was more famous in the late 1970s as the Nashville Rooms, a venue for punk rock and new wave bands. Inside it is a labyrinth of doors
Railway Bridge over the District Line. There is what appears to be the base of a lamp standard at a half way point.
West Kensington Station. This opened in 1874 it lies between Earls Court and Baron’s Court on the District Line and was originally called ‘North End (Fulham)’ Metropolitan District Railway.  The name was changed to West Kensington at the request of the developers of the area. In 1927 the entrance building was rebuilt by using similar materials and finishes to those used for the Morden line to a Holden design,
180 The Old Oak. 1870s pub rebuilt in the 1930s.
235-237 The Super Cinema opened in 1922. Initially an independent it was taken over by Denman/Gaumont British Theatres in 1928. It was bombed in 1942 and never re-opened. The building became a warehouse for several years and was demolished in the 1950’s. The site is now part of the flats on the Council’s West Kensington Housing Estate.
West Kensington Estate. Terraces and towers begun in 1970 by Gleeson Industrialised Building Ltd the borough's first Design and Build project, the towers brick clad in response to the Ronan Point disaster,


Pallister Road
Palliser – Sir William Pallister was the inventor of armour piercing projectiles called Palliser shot.
Barons Court station.  This opened in 1905 and lies between Earls Court and Hammersmith on the Piccadilly and District Lines. The tracks through Barons Court were first opened in 9 1874 when the District Railway opened an extension from Earl's Court to Hammersmith. As time went on the area was developed for housing and in 1905, the District Railway opened the station   and in preparation for the opening of what was then still called the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. This opened in 1906 and became the Piccadilly Line. The station building was designed by Harry Ford and retains many of original features, including a lot of terracotta and Art Nouveau lettering. There are wooden benches on the platform with the station name along the back on enamelled metal panels. The station has two island platforms to provide an interchange between the two lines - the inner tracks are used by the Piccadilly line and the outer tracks by the District line. There is no apparent reason why it is called Baron’s Court - is it an allusion to Earl's Court?
Queen's Club.  A private sports club dating from 1887 with facilities which originally included covered tennis courts, billiard rooms, and an ice rink. Many original buildings remain designed William Marshall. It is the national headquarters for real tennis and rackets. It was established in 1886 and was tithe first multipurpose sports complex ever to be built, anywhere in the world. It was named after Queen Victoria.  Many famous sporting events have originated here and as they outgrew the Club's facilities, they were transferred to new homes at Twickenham, Wembley and White City.


Pembroke Road
84 Kensington Arms. This pub was on the corner with Warwick Road. Now closed and turned into offices.
The road passes under a bridge which links the “gardens in the two halves of the Warwick Road Estate’.
Erards, the piano manufacturers., they were on the south side of the road.


Railway
Railway lines proliferate in this square
The District and Piccadilly lines run east/west with stations at West Kensington and Baron’s Court
The Overground, aka the West London Extension Railway, runs north/south on the line of what was Counters Creek and the Kensington Canal.  The Birmingham, Bristol & Thames Junction Railway was authorised in 1836 to buy the Kensington Canal and to build a railway northward across the proposed route of the Great Western to Bristol creating a through route for freight traffic from Bristol and Birmingham to the Thames, The engineer was Sir William Hosking and the company  was soon short of money. A 2.5 mile single line opened in  1844, with passenger services between Willesden and Kensington.  The first train had one passenger. And the line closed after less than six months. From the line was only used to carry coal and soon after the canal was filled in. In 1859 it was decided to build the West London Extension Joint Railway which was formed by Act of Parliament. A double track line between Willesden and Clapham Junction opened in 1863 and did very well. Connections were set up to nearby lines and depots and in the early 20th the line was electrified.  In the 20th passenger numbers bean to decline and services were closed during the Second World War. But it remained an important freight link. After the war only some services were laid on for events at Olympia, but were not a success. Freight continued to e busy and here were also specials and excursions using this north/south link.  In 1966 the Motorail terminal opened at Kensington and continued until 1988 .In 1986 a full passenger service was begun by the District Line and new services ipoend.  New stations were planned and opened. . Now Local trains run every half hour operated by London Overground. Hourly trains run between East Croydon and Milton Keynes.  There were twice daily services from Brighton to Birmingham New Street via Reading until 2008. There is considerable freight traffic and Eurostar trains used it between Waterloo International and the depot at North Pole

Star Road
Post war flats on some industrial sites.
George Goldby. Omnibus & Carriage Works. Goldby seems to have been a coach painter from Faringdon in Berkshire who came to London and opened this works.  He seems to have been bankrupt in 1891
8-10, Church Army Social Depot, This was the Fulham Church Army Hostel  for homeless men and was open in the 1890s and remained post Second World War.

Talgarth Road
This is part of the A4, Great West Road historically going from London to Bath. This section is a dual carriageway and was upgraded to become the main route to Heathrow in the 1960s. Some of this stretch was previously Colet Gardens.
135-141 St. Paul's Studios built in 1891 by Frederick Wheeler designed for 'bachelor artists', each with a large arched studio window on the first floor, and housekeeper's apartment in the basement.
151 Colet House. This was built in 1885 by Fairfax B Wade-Palmer for Sir Coutts Lindsay, founder of the Grosvenor Gallery. It was bought by Study Society in 1957. The Society is dedicated to continuing the work of P.D.Ouspensky teacher of the Fourth Way.  It was built on market gardens in what was then Red Cow Lane, later named Colet Gardens – which became Talgarth Road in the 1960s. Colet House has the largest single studio in London, long enough to hold a cricket pitch and two other substantial studios and has been a workplace of many artists. In the 1930s Colet ballet teacher Nicolai Legat, an emigre from St Petersburg established a school here, attracting dancers from all over the world. Before the Second World War Ouspensky lived here and during the war it was occupied by Naval Intelligence. Later it became home to the Royal Ballet School, with Ninette de Valois and with Margot Fonteyn.


Vernon Street
West London Police Court. This court was originally in Kensington from 1841. It moved to Brook Green Lane in 1843 and in 1859 moved to Vernon Street. From 1889 it was known as the West London Police Court. In 1996 it closed and was moved to Talgarth Road. There is now a modern house on the site.


Warwick Gardens
New Apostolic Church. The movement the church represents began in 1863 and the Hamburg schism and there have been other changes since. This was built as St. Barnabas's Church House in the 1880s and is shown as an infant school on some maps in the 1920s


Warwick Road
Name refers to the Earls of Warwick who owned Holland House dates from 1847 and extended to Old Brompton Road 1870. The road was developed with small working class houses in the 1870s. These were slum cleared in the 1950s by the London County Council.
Warwick Road Estate. Local authority flats on the east side of the road, in two halves divided by Pembroke Road. They were built on top of the Council’ rubbish depot in 1975 and designed by Arup Associates. There are plans to demolish them
Kensington Council Central depot. This was built in 1972–5 with a frontage of over 550 feet to Warwick Road divided by the roadway of Pembroke Road. The Kensington Vestry purchased the site in 1863 from Williams the local developers. In 1877 they added some of the piano factory opposite for stables.  They bought the freehold in 1904. The whole depot was renbuilt in 1917 to designs by Arup and built by Mowlem. It is in reinforced concrete with a vast transport workshop with a roof supported by a central column and sixteen radiating beams. It is on this roof that the garden square is resting.
Empress Telephone Exchange. The Post Office installed the world's first PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) exchange at the Empress telephone exchange. It was built to the designs of G. R. Yeats of the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works.  This was opened by Postmaster-General John Stonehouse in 1968. It was demolished in 2014. A decorative mosaic on the exterior of the building had already been removed. It has now been replaced with flats.
245 Warwick House - TA Centre. This was a three-storey block of flats built in 1952 as married soldiers' quarters for the territorial army centre .This site was sold to the Russian Government for never-built diplomatic housing. It has since been demolished for more flats
Kensington Primary ‘Academy’. New school set up by Squires developers as part of the new estates on the west side of the road.
Canal Basin. This was a rectangular structure, the southern end roughly parallel to Pembroke Road, on the other side of Warwick Road. It was filled in and its site and that to the north became a railway goods and coal depot. This stretched almost to Kensington High Street to the north and Warwick Road to the west.  By the 1860s there was a row of coal drops almost adjacent to Warwick Road. Within ten years there was a huge complex of sidings and the name ‘Earls Court Junction’ with its own signal box.  From the 1950s this was gradually cut back.
247 Radnor Arms. Pub built in 1862, probably to the designs of Josiah Houle,


West Cromwell road
Extension and bridge over the West London Railway built following great local opposition. The Bill was promoted by the London County Council & Middlesex County Council in 1936 and bridge finished by 1941 connecting Cromwell and Talgarth Roads. The resulting Viaduct was bombed in 1940

West Kensington Estate
This 19th estate was undertaken by two Dorset builders – William Henry Gibbs and John P Flew – following the opening of North End Station. They laid out what they called the West Kensington estate on land that had belonged to the confec¬tioner James Gunter.


Sources
AIM. Web site
Barons Court Garden Triangle. Web site
Bhavan Centre. Web site
Blue Plaque Guide
British History Online. Survey of London Vo. 42. Web site
British Listed Buildings. Web site
Clunn. The Face of London
Cumberland Arms. Web site
Day. London Underground
Disused Stations. Web site
Fulham & Hammersmith Historical Society, Buildings to see in Fulham and Hammersmith
GLIAS Newsletter
Goldby family history. Web site
Ealing Hammersmith and West London College. Web site/.
Hand and Flower. Web site
Historic England. Web site
History of the Grange. Web site
Kensington Hall Gardens. Web site
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Web site
London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Web site.
London Encyclopedia
London Metropolitan Archive. Web site
London Pubology. Web site
Lost Pubs Project. Web site
Lyons. Web site
Number One London. Web site
Pevsner and Cherry. North West London
Pub History. Web site
SABRE. Web site
St. James School. Web site
Study Society.. Web site
Summerson. Georgian London
Symonds. Behind the Blue Plaques of London 
Thames Basin Archaeology of Industry Group. A Survey of Industrial Monuments of Greater London
University of Bath. Web site
Waymarking. Web site

Post to the north Greatness


Allotment Lane
Sevenoaks Allotment Holders Association. They manage a large site with 220 plots

Bat and Ball Road
This is a modern road built from the Bat and Ball junction to the station and continuing north in the gap which was once formed between the main line and the sidings to goods sheds.
Bat and Ball Station. The station dates from 1862 and now lies between Sevenoaks and Otford on South Eastern Trains. It was built by the London Chatham and Dover Railway and opened as ‘Sevenoaks Bat & Ball’. In 1950 it was renamed ‘Bat & Ball’. There is a station building, Station Master’s House and waiting room. It was originally the terminus of the Sevenoaks branch line from Swanley to Sevenoaks. The name derives from the Bat & Ball Inn, which no longer exists but which stood some distance away at the junction of Seal and Otford roads. A turntable stood south of the station on a site west of Chatham Hill Road.
Sevenoaks Junction. This stood north of the line which then ran forward to sidings.
Sidings. These stood east of what is now Bat and Ball road and ran to a goods shed, cattle pen and coal yard. The site of those sidings is now trading units on the east side of Bat and Ball Road. R.White, lemonade merchant, had a depot here.
Sand pit. This lay east of the railway sidings and was reached by a sidings itself a junction to the north of Sevenoaks Junction and in the square to the north.
Tramway. This ran from the gas works to the north west of the station (in the squares to the north and west) and joined a complex of sidings to the west and north of the station.

Camden Road
30 The Rifleman. Greene King House. Not clear if it is still open
St. Johns Medical Practice

Chatham Hill Road
This road provided the access to Bat and Ball Station until Bat and Ball Road was built and this road blocked. It is said to have been called Chatham Road because the rail line was once owned by the London Chatham and Dover Railway.
St John’s Ambulance, this is in old iron church bought here in 1884 by the local Roman Catholic Church from their Granville road site

Crampton’s Road
Sevenoaks Community Centre. This has three halls and a busy programme. There are plans to build a bigger complex with council facilities and a conference centre here.

Golding Road
Probably named for Goldings Brewery which was nearby in Cramptons Lane,
Sand pit. This was on the west side of the road and developed after 1870. The site was later used for a garage and workshop for Davis’s Blue Star Garage and when this closed it became housing.
Sewer vent pipe on the corner with St James Road

Greatness Lane
This led to Greatness House which was at the end of the lane (and would have been partly in the square to the north)
Greatness House. This was built by Peter Nouaille near the mill pond in 1763. It was described in 1829 as having  stabling for 10 horses, a green-house, and an ice-house,  as well as two gardens and fifty acres of land surrounding the house, with a ‘handsome piece of water well stocked with fish, Nouille sold it in 1828 to the Filmer family. It was later used as a boys school known as Lonsbury College for ‘sons of the gentry’. The house was destroyed by a film company in the early 20th who blew it up in a war propaganda film.
Silk mill. This was sited at the junction with Mill Lane. This was established here by Peter Nouaille a French Huguenot formerly based in Spitalfields. He was a crepe manufacturer from France who married Elizabeth Delamore of Greatness. By 1766 there was a factory here with over 100 workers, many of them French and where they mostly made crepe. Peter Nouille was the first recipient of a ‘Captain Swing’ letter in England in.1790. He died in 1809. The mill continued but demand fell by 1828 when it closed. The mill was powered by a mill race and pond which runs along the west side of Mill Lane to mill ponds on the south side of the Seal Road.
Abacus Furniture Project. Reconditioned second hand furniture.  This appears to be on the site of the silk mill.

Greatness Road
Congregational mission. This dated from the late 1880s and was used for the immediate local area.  It is now in office use.

Grove Road
Greatness Hall. Large building next to the pub, with which it clearly had an associated use. Now housing.

Hillingdon Avenue
This road follows the line of a previous path through the woodland. This was laid out for John Pratt, Earl of Camden as a path to his house at Wildernesse.
Hillingdon Avenue Open Space

Hospital Road
Sevenoaks Hospital. This is on both sides of the road. It opened as Holmesdale Cottage Hospital in 1873 on a site near the corner with St. John’s Hill. The hospital was built to the plans of J M Hooker in 1872 and remodelled in the 1920’s. With the inception of the National Health Service in 1948 the hospital expanded and in the 1960s a new maternity unit was built which is now the outpatients department. Other new units have also been added since.
St.John’s Lodge. This was the home of the Nouaille family after the sale of Greatness House. It was later incorporated into the hospital site.


Mill Lane
Greatness Mill.  A mill at Greatness is first noted in 1406 and by 1632 the local manor was being paid an annual rent for ‘Gritneys mill’. There are also records of a 17th fulling mill and house owned by Godhelp Cooper. Fulling mills were owned here by the Jeffrey brothers. There is no evidence where these mills were but they were likely to have been either on the site of the silk mill or where the extant mill buildings are.
Greatness Mill building. The extant mill buildings are those marked as a ‘corn mill’ on maps since the 1870s with a similar footprint to current remains. There is no evidence of an early mill on the current site but archaeological evidence in the foundations indicate an 18th date. The mill was owned and worked by George Harris for over 40 years and auctioned at his death in 1927. It was burnt down in 1928 but rebuilt and milling continued until 1935. It was then used as an upholdstery workshop.  It is now being redeveloped as housing.
Mill ponds. Mill ponds lay north and south of Seal Road then joined to a mill race which ran down the west side of Mill Lane down to the current mill site. The pond north of Seal Road exists at the top of Mill Lane. By 1936 this mill pond and race were used as a boating pond, swimming pool and lido. This use is said to date from the 1870s. The mill race was subsequently filled in and its line is now a path between houses.
Ponds and sluices serving the site of the northern mill used as the silk mill appear to have been on the east side of the lane, and are shown on 19th maps, but have since been filled in.
42-63 Cottages – Peter Nouaille built two rows of cottages in Kent ragstone for the workers in 1763. There was a pediment over the centre cottage. These appear to have been adjacent to the mill and were demolished in the 1950s.  There was also a school for the children, many of whom worked in the mill.
Scout Hut. This is headquarters for the 4th St, Johns scout Group. Their site is on what was part of the gardens of Greatness House, and the area they call “The dip” was the area of the fishpond serving the estate. There is an air rifle range on what was once the ice house.
Council houses – the earliest council houses in Sevenoaks were built here in 1914 on land purchased from the Filmers
Greatness Park.  Playing fields on land bought by the council from the Filmer family.  This is used for sporting facilities in particular Sevenoaks Town Football Club

Quakers Hall Lane
National School.  This was the original buildings of St. John’s Church of England Primary School. It was a mixed school later divided into three boys, girls and infants and opened in 1865. It was gradually enlarged and eventually moved to another site and then again to another one.  The buildings were demolished in 1978.. It is now Old School Court

Seal Hollow Road
This was originally called Locks Bottom Road and is an ancient track following a river valley

Seal Road
A25. This was the major route running to the south of London until the construction of the M25 which largely parallels it.
104 Elephants Head Pub. This pub probably dates from the 1870s but is now a vet.
Chapman’s Ford. Near the top of Mill Lane
Millpond Wood. Mixed woodland set on a hillside criss-crossed with wide pathways. Some large sweet chestnut, Scots pine and beech trees. It is owned and managed by Sevenoaks Council. The former mill pond which once lay across the road from Mill Lane had apparently gone by the early 20th and now appears to be the site of a close of houses.
Bowl barrow. This is in Mill Pond Wood and is an oval mound surrounded by a ditch which is no longer visible. It was partially excavated in the 1890’s when traces of a cremation burial were discovered.
Cemetery. This cemetery dates from 1906, and belongs to the local authority. In contains 16 War Graves, of which eleven are in two small special plots.  In the cemetery is the listed  Kraftmeier Mausoleum which is in Art Nouveau style incorporating a barrel vaulted roof.


St James Road
Sandpit. There was sandpit on the south side of the road, and indeed some houses east of Golding Road appear to be lower than the road surface.

St.John's Hill
St.John's Church. In the early part of the 1800s, a community began to develop in this area, the Rector of St. Nicholas saw that  a chapel of ease was needed and thus the church was built. It was dedicated in 1858 built of Kentish ragstone on land donated by the Marquis of Camden. In 1878, It is described, by Pevsner as ‘cheap’’. It became a parish in its own right. It was planned to build a bigger brick church in 1900 but this never happened except for an extension and a chapel. A parish room next door was built in 1910. It is a church in the Catholic tradition where Mass is celebrated every day..
75 New Inn. Demolished and replaced with flats
87 Castle Inn. This dates from the 1870s
123 Church building. This is marked as a Methodist church on old maps. No sign of life there now.
143 Railway Tavern. Demolished and now a supermarket
168 Bat and Ball Pub. The pub after which the area is named. It is now a studio and offices. It is said to have St.John’s well in the pub yard.
St |John’s Field. This was in the north west angle of the Bat and Ball crossroads and is thought to be the most likely site for a medieval hospital dedicated to St John the Baptist. This had probably begun in the Saxon period as a shrine alongside the road dedicated to St John the Baptist and near a spring at the foot of St John’s Hill. Sometime between 900-1050 a chapel was built at Greatness and a hospital was set up adjacent to this by 1289. It may have been a hospital or a hostel for travellers, and was still extant in 1534. It was suppressed at the dissolution and stones from its building were used by the Culpepper family to build themselves a house at Riverhead.
Our Lady of Greatness. There was a shrine, or a well, in this area associated with this cult.

Sources
Archaeological database. Web site
Bygone Kent 
Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Web site
Historic England. Web site
League of Friends of Sevenoaks Hospital. Web site
Megalithic Portal. Web site
Pevsner. West Kent 
Rayner. Sevenoaks Past
Sevenoaks District Council. Web site
St.John's Primary School. Web site
Sevenoaks History. Web site
Wessex Archaeology. Web site
Woodland Trust. Web site

Post to the north Battersea power, dogs



Alexandra Avenue
Facade of the Spiers and Pond laundry rebuilt here as part of the new block of flats

Alfreda Street
This was Alfred Street before the Second World War. Post war small houses were placed by local authority housing.
Connor Court. This has 120  flats on 11 floors. It was built as part of the Doddington Estate constructed by Laing 1970

Austin Road
This street was once a farm track but was Austins Road by 1851 after which it was developed with small houses. It was heavily bombed in the Second World War. It became part of Battersea Council’s Battersea Park Estate from the 1950s.  Austin Street was a late part of the scheme with blocks Atkinson and Telscombe Houses added by M.J.Gleeson in 1959
Shaftesbury Christian Centre.  The Shaftesbury Society is now called Liveability but the organisation has been working in Battersea since the mid 19th. The building dates from 1964 when it was the Welcome Mission Centre.  Wandsworth Food Bank runs from here and they also have a Spanish speaking church section. Some of the building is used for social events.
York Court Care Home. This private facility replaces the local authority owned Longhedge Close Care Home
Park House. This is the tower block on the corner which was built in 1963 as Jay House, named after local Labour MP Douglas Jay and in a lightweight concrete construction. It was sold off and renamed by Wandsworth Council in 1984.
59 Running Horse. This was a beer house replaced by housing in the 1960s
Granatt Chemical and Engineering Co, This company was in the street until the late 1950s. They were barrel finishers.

Battersea Park Road
147 Nine Elms Police Station. This was built in 1925 and is now in other use.
149 Newton ‘Prep’ School. This is a co-educational fee paying private ‘prep’ school. It is in the buildings of Raywood Street School built by the London County Council in 1926. This was a replacement for a London School Board School – free for all London children, built in 1881–2 and rebuilt because of noise issues. It was later used as an annexe to Battersea Secondary School and later was part of Clapham College
151-153 The Three Bridges built in 1868. This is now closed. It was previously The Rock House and later the Havelock Arms,
169 Masons Arms. Built in 1863 with a small statue of a mason  right up near the roof.
Battersea Park Station. This station lies between Victoria and Clapham Junction on Southern Rail Brighton Lane  and from Wandsworth Road on London Overground South London Line (only one train a day).   It is actually at the junction of the South London Line and the Brighton Main Line.  It was opened in 1867 and called York Road. .There is a complex history of stations in the area all with very similar names. These include an 1860 station at the end of Grosvenor Bridge and a station slightly to the east of the current station opened in 1867 by The London Brighton and South Coast Railway.  The station has a grand polychrome brick Venetian Gothic facade but Access to the platforms is via steep wooden staircases, Platform 1 is made entirely of wood and is not use.  A timber passageway runs the whole length of the station carried on timber support and truss girders. The façade and the booking hall were restored in 1986. The 1867 platform staircases and the ironwork survive.
Railway bridges. The road passes under a series of overbridges which carry lines in and out of Victoria and some running to depots and goods areas,
32 Life Tabernacle United Pentecostal church. This was originally the lecture hall of Battersea Park Tabernacle, designed and built in 1869-70 by builder William Higgs of Lambeth.  Originally a church was built in front of it in 1883-84.  This was demolished in the 1970s and it is now the car park.
181 Paya and Horse. Pub with Serbian food. This was previously called The Chelsea Reach. It was built as an estate pub.
231 The Magic Garden. This was previously The Eagle and dates from at least the 1870s.
Kingsway Square. Flats on the site of what was Battersea Polytechnic converted in 2006 by the St, James Group.
Battersea Polytechnic., This was the first purpose built London polytechnic designed by E. W. Mountford in 1892–4 following a competition. Expanding the polytechnic movement was an objective of the Charity Commission, and South London was then weak in facilities for training artisans, was a focus. It opened in 1894 sited on part of the gardens of Albert Palace. Inside separate activities were grouped and linked by long corridors, and there was a gymnasium, swimming bath and hall as well as a smaller women’s gymnasium. There were ten statues of worthy subjects along the front and lots of putti in the entrance hall. The polytechnic was managed by the London County Council and soon expanded in technical subjects while losing some of its recreational facilities. There were other later extensions. In 1956 it was designated a ‘college of advanced technology’ and in 1962 it transferred to Ministry of Education from the London County Council. In 1962it was decided to abandon Battersea for Guildford which led to the college becoming the University of Surrey in 1966.
Library. This was an addition to the Polytechnic in 1909–10. It was a donation by Edwin Tate, Sir Henry’s son. It was designed by F. Dare Clapham and was opened by the Archbishop of Canterbury with John Burns, then a cabinet minister. Stained glass windows by Shrigley & Hunt featured Literature. It is now an art gallery
Westminster Technical College. The Polytechnic buildings were taken over and reconfigured by the Greater London Council architects in 1973–7.It was sold in 2005 to St James Homes, part of the Berkeley Group
278 Tonicos. This was The Grove Pub which was built as an estate pub
309 Battersea Park Library. Local Council library
Park Court., This has 109 flats on 13 floors. It was built as part of the Doddington Estate constrrcted by Laing 1970
317 The Cricketers. This pub was later called the Halo Bar. It  has since been demolished.
339 Lost & Co. this was The Lost Angel. Before 2009 this was the Prince of Wales Pub which dated from the 1870s.
140 this was the site of an early steam laundry from 1879 for the caterers and hoteliers Spiers & Pond. It catered primarily for their own establishments, but also took in linen from the local area. It was ckosed after the Second World War and became laborarory. It was demolished in 2006 and redeveloped for housing called. ‘The Quadrangle’.
142 This was Propert’s blacking factory. They moved here from South Audley Street in the 1870s. The building was designed by George Ashby Lean and it has a two-storey Gothic stock-brick façade. Propert’s continued here until the Second World War.
Mandeville Close. This is a conversion of the Proberts blacking factory into offices.
154 Old Imperial Laundry. This was the London & Provincial Steam Laundry Company Ltd said to be the largest laundry of its type in the world when built in 1880  by Scrivener & Co. to the designs of Ernest Turne. A 400ft-deep well in the drying and bleaching yard provided a 15,000 gallons a day. It was taken over in 1966 by the Marie Blanche Laundry Company. The wors closed in 1983, and the buildings converted to offices for arts and design businesses.
St Saviour’s. The church was built in 1870-and designed by C. Robins and G. R. Roper.  The parish was created from part of the old Christ Church Parish. The vicarage house was built in 1880. In the 1980's the church was converted to provide meeting rooms and a smaller church.

Bewick Street
Victorian Heights. Flats in the buildings of what was Tennyson Street School. The original three-storey school was built in 1875–7, facing Bewick Street with a date plaque on the facade. It was designed by E. R. Robson but in the 1890s it was partly rebuilt and new blocs added including a two-storey special school. the school closed in 1968, when the main building became the the Battersea Studios, Inner London Education Authority’s television centre. This continued until 1999 when the buildings were to housing.

Birley Street
This is a street on the Shaftesbury Estate built by the Artisans, Labourers and General Dwellings Company, a housing co-operative founded in 1867 by William Austin. This was their first estate completed between 1873 and 1877.  Most properties on the estate are now managed by the Peabody Trust.

Broughton Street
Part of Park Town Estate Plain grey brick terraces of the 1860s remain in the main kite-shaped area of the estate around the ornament, of a lushly gross kind
Ridley Hall, Evangelical Christian Church. Homily on the building, originally built in 1884 and rebuilt in 1977 with minister’s house attached.
1a-1e King’s Bread and Biscuit Company’s works of 1882–3. It later became the Army and Navy Co-operative Bread Company, renamed the A1 Bread Company and added to in 1888. This site is now a series of trading units although one very large unit remains.
29 London Stone Business Estate. Trading units in the space between railway lines, but with a postal address in Broughton Street. An gap between houses leads under a rail line and into the estate. Subsequent development was by the British Rail Property Board in the 1980s.
Cayless Brothers Tower Works. Cayless’s wooden stairs, ladders and related items are now collectors’ pieces. A ladder factory is shown in the 1950s on a site to the north of the street which may have been Cayless.

Charlotte Despard Avenue
Youngs Court. Built as part of the Doddington Estate with 12 foors and 110 flats. Built 1970 by Laing
St Georges House. This has 54 flats on 10 floors. It was built as part of the Doddington Estate constructed by Laing 1970
Cromwell House. This has 54 flats on 10 floors. It was built as part of the Doddington Estate constructed by Laing 1970
Arthur Court. This has 110 flats on 12 floors. It was built as part of the Doddington Estate constructed by Laing 1970

Culvert Place
Long road between rail lines, trading and industrial units. Some of them modern.
Parkside Industrial Estate

Culvert Road
The road is on the line of an old lane through fields.
Wilditch Estate. Built under the London Borough of Wansdworth but designed by its predecessor Battersea Council.
Parkfields Industrial Estate. Developed after 1977 on the site of the Battersea Council depot.
Battersea Vestry Depot. This was between the railway lines and had originally been leased under Wandsworth Board of Works in 1861. Here was sited from the 1880s a 12 cell rubbish destructor supplied by Manlove, Alliott & Co. of Nottingham, which was still burning 20,000 tons of Battersea’s domestic and trade refuse 25 years later. The resulting clinker was used for road making with a hydraulic paving flag-making machine by Musker of Liverpool, which could turn out 600 yards weekly of flags faced with granite chips. At first the site had consisted of stables and workshops in huts and railway arches as well as a large chimney for the destructor.  It was also a base for the Council’s Direct Works section. It closed in 1977
103 The Flag Pub. This was originally called The British Flag. It was built in the late 1930s by Culpin & Son. It has also been called Careys.
105 Culvert Court. Workshops and storage units.
Tunnel. This very narrow and restricted tunnel takes the road under the railway to the Parkfields Industrial Estate.

Dagnell Street
Chesterton Primary School. The school was originally a Board School in Forfar Road.

Doddington Road
Doddington Estate. This was built as local authority housing in the 1960s, 1967-71 by Emberton, Frank & Tardrew using the Jespersen system.  It was designed by the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea but built by the London Borough of Wandsworth.  Generally it has been seen as a disaster. The district heating scheme was terrible and didn’t work.  There was a lot of crime and vandalism.  Later, under the Tories, a lot of the flats were sold off, and later there were changes and renovation of the flats and the common areas.

Dunston Road
66a this is the old school keeper’s house for John  Burns School with a preserved ‘girls’ entrance beside it.

Forfar Road
Chesterton School. This London School Board building became the Brixton School of Building when Chesterton School moved out. The Brixton School of Building was founded in 1904 and known as the London County Council School of Building until 1943. In 1970 it became part of South Bank University.  The buildings are now flats.

Francis Chichester Way
Named for the yachtsman who became the first man to sail round the world alone.
Landseer House. This has 54 flats on 10 floors. It was built as part of the Doddington Estate constructed by Laing 1970
Kennard House. This has 62 flats on 10 floors. It was built as part of the Doddington Estate constructed by Laing 1970

Gladstone Terrace
Elm Farm. This was a City Farm Built by local people in 1979 on half an acre of land here, It had sheep, goats, pigs, ducks and chickens and Mary the cow.  Disabled children could ride William the donkey. Volunteers built stables and a wildlife pond. Wandsworth Council evicted the farm so that the site could be used for a car parj for the adjacent private ‘prep’ school. Debts from the resulting court case were attached to one person who has had to clear them personally.
Foundry. By 1916 there was a foundry at the end of the street, later shown as the Globe Motor Factory
.
Heath Road
117-119 Heathbrook Community Hall. This site was originally a parish hall, and before that, in the late 19th, it was a school.
Kingdom Hall, Jehovah’s Witnesses

Holden Street
Holden Street School. This was built by the School Board 1875–7. It later became known as Shaftesbury Park School. It was built as the main primary school on the Shaftesbury Park estate. It was built to Robson’s three-storey designs and could take 1,104 children. It was reconfigured in 1901 by T. J. Bailey. At first Infants were on the ground floor, Junior Girls in the middle and Junior Boys on the top floor and there were three Headteachers. Eventually the two junior schools merged but there were separate infant and junior schools until l985 when the school became an Infant and Junior Mixed Primary school under one Headteacher.
35a schoolkeeper’s house from 1888.

Ingate Place
Industrial area once called Milford Estate. Although the area has been dominated by Hamptons and their depository  there have been, and are, numerous other industries located here.
Milford Estate – belonged to the builders J. M. Macey & Son and developed from 1878. Macey undertook major construction projects here and other parts of London and had offices in central London.
Hampton’s Depository. The Hampton family had a furniture shop in the west end from the early 19th. They expanded in the 20th and had a range of high end customers. They had a depository in Ingate Pace and in 1926 opened a factory nearby, as Milford Works. The warehouse is curved to follow the railway track and was built in 1900–3 to designs by Robert L. Hesketh and Walter Stokes. In red brick and terracotta. Inside  ferro-concrete columns and floors by L. G. Mouchel & Partners, licensee of the Hennebique patents. Hamptons was closed in 1956.
Decca . They moved into  the Hamptons site and stayed until 1980. Special Products Division Decca Radio and Television 1964 -1978
Safestore. Hampton’s depository is now a secure storage unit.
Workshops. Built for Hamptons between 1924 and 1955. These are now largely individual units for various businesses.
South London Tramways Company depot. This opened in 1881 and was taken over by the London County Council in 1902. It was a depot for horse trams and consisted of timber sheds and stables.
38 Setpoint.  Rolling mill instrumentation. This company was present in the early 1970s but moved to larger premises in Wales in 1977
Streamline Filters Ltd. In the 1940s this was the Hele Shaw works.
British Coated Sheets. Methods of electrogalvanising of steel sheet and strip was developed here by T.Tapp. The firm’s later works was at Ellesmere Port.
Janus Works. This was the works of Archibald Smith who also had a site in Leicester Square in 1868. They were hydraulic and general engineers The Battersea factory was built in 1880 as their manufactures expanded.  In the 1880s they made Hydraulic Passenger Lifts which included a Duplex Pump. One of their lifts was used in the Tower of London.  In 1909 the works were moved to Northampton.
4 this is an entrance to a yard where a number of units are still in place.- this includes Specturm Radio. In the 1950s the path led to an engineering works, a plating works and a car battery factory.

Lockington Road
St Marys Roman Catholic Primary School. A low-rise conventional primary school built to designs by Tomei & Mackley in 1971–2, and since extended. The school is now in federation with another local catholic school and is currently being rebuilt,

Montefiore Street
Montefiore Gardens, This was laid out at the east side of the Parktown Estate on a bombsite which was cleared of prefabs and laid out as gardens. A social services day nursery was built in one quarter which has since been sold and houses built.

Park Town
This was built from 1865 onwards, its street layout planned by Philip Flower and James Thomas Knowles. The land had belonged to Longhedge Farm – a name derived from its northern boundary hedge along what is now Battersea Park Road. Success was limited by the number of railway lines.

Peardon Street
Tun Yard. Trading and office units in what was the rear yard of the Plough Brewery which was based in Wandsworth Road (in the square to the south)

Prairie Street
Queen’s Theatre. Said to be “short-lived local attraction between 1886 and 1896” it does however still appear on maps of the 1920s.

Prince of Wales Drive
Albert Palace. In May 1885 the Albert Palace was built here e main building fronted Prince of Wales Road and overlooking the lake was of glass with an iron frame. The south side, along what is now Lurline Gardens, was built of brick, faced with Bath stone and Portland stone which had come from the old Law Courts at Westminster, demolished in 1883.  It was built for the Dublin Exhibition of 1872, and re-erected here. Albert Palace was a venue for music, and there was also a picture gallery. It was not a success and in 1886 it changed hands and was demolished in 1894.

Queenstown Road
This road leads to Chelsea Bridge after first crossing Prince of Wales Drive at Queen's Circus and Battersea Par Road.. The name refers to Queen Victoria. Developers were members of a committee of Clapham residents who successfully lobbied for this new road link from Clapham to Battersea Park, and across the river via Chelsea Bridge, built in 1858. The road was financed by the development of the land for housing.  Most of the area had previously been the fields of Longhedge Farm.
174-176 Mineral Water Factory. This was between the railway lines and was built around 1870 as a mineral-water factory for the Pure Water Company Ltd. Until the early 21st the tiled entrance to this company was still extant in Queenstown Road with tiled lettering advertising the Pure Water Co.
220–220 Two red brick structures built in 1889–90 as factories and warehousing by designed by Thomas Massa for builders Holloway Brothers as Queens Road Works for R. Z. Bloomfield & Company, army contractors and outfitters. Penthouse offices, roof gardens, and a connecting high-level bridge, were added in 1988
233–235 this is the remains of the Victoria Works of the Holloway Brothers who were 19th building contractors
Railway bridge– the first bridge south from Battersea Par Road carries Southern trains from Victoria heading through Clapham Junction towards South London, Surrey and the Sussex coast.
Queenstown Road Station.  This opened in 1877 and lies between Clapham Junction and Vauxhall stations on South Western Rail. It was originally opened by the London and South Western Railway and was called as Queen's Road (Battersea). This name still appears over the entrance. A number of other stations in the London area have been called ‘Queens Road’ and it was later renamed Queenstown Road (Battersea) by British Rail.  It was built when approach lines to Waterloo were widened and originally handled trains of both the L.S.W.R's Windsor line services and the L.N.W.R's Willesden service. A third platform and new Booking Hall were added in 1909. This building is in stock brick with a red glazed street front and the Booking Office with ticket windows dates from 1909 and is now painted in the colours of the Southern Railway. The island platform dates from 1877 and is a timber framed structure, with decorative cast iron brackets. When built this was the 'Up Windsor' platform. A third platform remains but is disused.
Railway bridge– the second bridge going south from Battersea Park road carries the main line out of Waterloo, used by South West Trains
255-259 furniture shop in what may have been an old railway building
Long Hedge House. In 1861 the London Chatham and Dover Railway bought land from Long Hedge Farm which include the farmhouse.. This became staff housing for the railway and survived until the 1960s. This was near the junction with Silverthorne Road.
166 The Victoria. This was the Victoria Hotel.
St.Philip. Built in 1870 designed and by Knowles Jun. In the centre of the Estate.  Ragstone, with a short tower with belfry windows and pinnacles. It is now an Ethiopian Orthodox Church – Saint Mary of Debre Tsion

Railway
The square includes a tangle of rail lines and what was a major railway depot. There are two sets of lines – most straightforwardly the east/west lines coming in and out of Waterloo. More complicated are a set of lines coming out of Victoria and passing through several stations – only two of which are still extant in this square -and passing through a number of junctions, some lines heading south and others turning to head west. The vast majority of this layout dates from the mid-19th built by individual railway companies.  These lines also effectively divide the area covered in this square into two halves.
Longhenge Depot. This locomotive and carriage works built by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway  to serve their London terminus at Victoria. In 1860 the company bought land which had been part of the Long Hedge farm and alongside the London and South Western Railway main line. By 1862 there was an erecting shop for twelve locomotives, and a running shed for 26 locomotives. This was a a semi-roundhouse running shed and by 1875/6 it had with 40 tracks around the central turntable, although only half were under cover. Soon after a carriage works was added and other extensions followed. The works was initially mainly used for repair works but from 1869 locomotives were built there. But this work was later moved to Ashford and by 1911 only light repairs were undertaken here. Most of the buildings of Longhedge works were demolished in 1957 to make way for a new depot for servicing electric trains. The site is now partly occupied by the Stewarts Lane Traction Maintenance Depot.
Stewarts Lane Traction Maintenance Depot. This large site is mainly in the square to the east although it includes the eastern areas of the Longhedge works. Following the end of steam traction in the early 1960s it was converted into a Traction Maintenance Depot which is currently operated by DB Schenker. By the 1880s it was generally referred to as Battersea or Longhedge Works although it was officially called Stewarts Lane. Today the depot is used for the Gatwick Express, the Venice Simplon Orient Express and one steam locomotive which operates the from London Victoria.

Rowditch Lane
This appears to have been called Sheepcote Lane until the 1970s.

Silverthorne Road
This road follows the long wall of the Longhedge/Stewarts Lane railway depot on its east side. At its southern end it follows the long wall of the Plough Brewery, based in Wandsworth Road (in the square to the south), on its west side.

St. Philip Square
Part of Park Town Estate.  Plain terraces of the 1860s are a little grander here than in the surrounding streets. However it failed to attract middle class residents. The houses have been converted to flats since the 1890s.
1 was the original vicarage
18 this was set up as a tenant’s club in 1879

St. Philip Street
Part of Park Town Estate

Stanley Grove
Part of Park Town Estate

Strasburg Avenue
Turpin House. Built as part of the Doddington Estate with 86 flats on 13 floors.  Constructed by Laing 1970.
Russell Court. This has 21 flats on 6 floors. It was built as part of the Doddington Estate constructed by Laing 1970
Palmerston House. This has 54 flats on 10 floors. It was built as part of the Doddington Estate constructed by Laing 1970
Lucas Court. This has 110 flats on 13 floors. It was built as part of the Doddington Estate constructed by Laing 1970

Warriner Gardens
Rear wall of the Spiers amd Pond laundry rebuilt here as part of the new block of flats
Proberts factory buildings here is now used by a private school.

Wickersley Road
Battersea Scout Centre. This was built in 1974 and is the headquarters of scouting in Battersea. It is also hired to a number of other community organisations.

Wycliffe Road,
St Bartholomew’s Church. This is now St Nektarios’s Greek Orthodox Church. It was built in 1900 by G. H. Fellowes Prynne in stock brick. It originally lay between two schools -  Basnett Road and Wycliffe Special Schools.
John Burns Primary School. This School is named for the great John Burns,the local MP who became the first Labour and first working class Cabinet Minister. It was originally is on the site of Basnett Road School which was a three-decker school London School Board School and which was named for John Burns. The original building were demolished  in the early 1970s by the Inner London Education Authoirty and replaced  by a MACE system school.   This  proved to have construction problems and once major repairs were needed to the roof it was demolished  in 1995. The school itself had by then taken over the buildings of Wycliffe Special School, where they remain.
Wycliiffe Special School. This opened in 1905 and was for boys and run in connection with Basnett Road School which was nearby. In the early 1960s the London County Council replaced the original buildings with a mixed school, undertaken by the Greater London Council’s Architect’s Department . It is a flat-roofed two storey building in which primary and secondary children were in separate areas. In 1993 Wycliffe Special School was closed and the premises used by John Burns School.

Sources
Bartlett School. Survey of London. Battersea. Website
Field. Place Names of London 
Grace’s Guide. Web site
Historic England. Web site
Jackson. London’s Termini
London Borough of Lambeth. Web site
London Borough of Wandsworth. Web site
London Parks and Gardens. Online. Web site
London Railway Record
London Reconnections. Web site
Masons Arms. Web site
National Archive. Web site
Newton Prep School. Web site
Pub History. Web site
Shaftesbury Park School. Web site
Skyscraper News. Web site
Wikipedia. As appropriate

Ashedene Road
Baker Arms Pub. The pub is named for Sir William Baker who purchased the local manor in 1757. The pub was once a row of cottages and has been a Macmullan house since 1946.
Telephone Exchange - with phone box outside
Smithy – this is shown on older maps as standing next to the pub on the corner with Bayford Green.

Bayford Brook
Bayford Brook is a minor tributary of the River Lea. It forms in the hills north of Bayford and in this square runs southwards alongside the belt of woodland and roughly parallel to the railway on its eastern side.  It is joined by a winterbourne stream from Great Groves

Bayford Green
Bayford Place farm
Warren House. 18th house with stables, where they have an annual musical gardens day,
Manor House. Late medieval house attached to a royal manor granted in 1547 to John Knighton.It has been enlarged and altered ever since. Later became a farmhouse until the early 20th. The middle area is the later medieval house.

Brickendon Lane
When the station was built in 1924 the road was a footpath.
Bayford School. The current school is now to the south in Ashendene but an earlier school stood on the corner with Bayford Green on the site of what is now Fourways.
Homestead Moat. This is partly filled in but the remainder of the ditch is wide and still wet
Bayford Station. This opened in 1924 and lies between Hertford North and Cuffley stations on the Great Northern Railway. Originally it could only be reached via a bridle path. There was a small waiting hut on the platforms and a booking office on the upside
Goods yard, This was very small and hardly used.
Brook Farm. Agricultural contractors.

Great Groves
Great Groves is ancient semi-natural woodland which is part Broxbourne Woods. The main tree species are oak and ash with hornbeam understorey.  There are also wild service. It is a hilly wood which is surrounded on three out of four sides by a sinuous bank and ditch system. Some of the banks are topped by huge hornbeam stubbs which were branches laid to make a stock-proof barrier against horses or cattle in the surrounding fields. Many old woods were embaned in this way and the size of these hornbeam stools would indicate a considerable age. The wood is now managed by a dedicated group with a very good website.

Stocking Lane
“an old road running north-west and south-east through the parish”

Well Row
Pond 
Willow Row. This is a row of  houses behind the pond

Sources
Baker’s Arms. Web site
Bayford Musical Gardens. Web site
British History Online. Hertfordshire. Web site
British Listed Buildings, Web site
Great Groves. Web site
Wikipedia. As appropriate

Post to the north East Ham
Post to the east Beckton




Aaron Hill Road
New housing built under the London Docklands Development Corporation post -1980
This is on the site of part of the Beckton Gas Works Tar and Liquor works – but mainly on a tangle of rail lines for the internal railway which served these departments. This was superseded by later gas works departments.

Alison Close
These properties were originally post war local authority housing, built on what was then unused land.

Alpine Way
Trading estates on a road ironically named for the adjacent spoil heaps then known as the Beckton Alps and which were at one time used as a ski centre. The road itself dates only from the 1980s when it was built through part of what was the Beckton Gasworks Products Works. It may have been built on the trackbed of one of the internal railway lines. It is now part of London Industrial Park
Solar House. This appears to be the Ladkarn Workshops which were designed by Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners in 1984-5 and originally in the West India Docks. That building was moved here when Canary wharf was built in 1986. It is a silver steel-clad shed, with a mezzanine supported by six red masts and was seen as a revolutionary structure.  There appears to be no contemporary reference to its past and it may be the wrong building.
Alpine Bar, Pub at Mountain Alps Ski Centre. This has now been demolished
Ski Centre. Mountain Top were bankrupt by 1995 and there is now no sign of the skii centre or its operations. It was said to offer
recreational skiing and snowboarding on a floodlit main slope, complete with fully integrated lubrication mist system and Doppelmayr overhead ski lift.
London Industrial Park. This was begun in 1979 by Fewster & Partners.

Beckton
This area was previously largely covered by the Beckton works of the Gas Light and Coke Company (the ‘Chartered’), subsequently North Thames Gas. It was named after Simon Adams Beck Governor of the Company at the time the works was built in the 1870s. It closed in 1976 and subsequently Newham Council began to install infrastructure and some early housing schemes – with a view to a large housing and mixed use development.  The area was then handed to the London Docklands Development Corporation by the Thatcher government, and the work done by Newham was continued by them. They were eventually instrumental in getting the third phase of the Docklands Light Railway into the area.  Their focus was more on low end private housing than the community and social housing envisaged by Newham, and to this end many thousand homes were provided.  To this were added some trading estates, major areas of chain superstores and the like, and some fanciful leisure projects like the ski slope.

Beckton Gas Works
This huge gas works covered not only this square but that to the east. In this square were the products works and some of the vast railway infrastructure. This was the ‘out of town’ works of the first ever gas company  - the Gas Light and Coke Company – ‘The Chartered’ – set up in 1811 and which by the 1870s had subsumed many of the smaller later gas companies in the north London area. Beckton Works dated from the 1870s when governments had encouraged the gas industry to built larger more efficient works on out of town sites, thus enabling closure of the smaller inner city ones. At nationalisation in 1947 it remained much the same, except it was then called North Thames Gas.
Products works. This was essentially a series of factories which dealt with and processed the byproducts of coal gas manufacture – coke, tars and a range of chemicals. Following the invention of coal gas processes were developed for what became a major branch of the British chemical industry. Coal tar was used to manufacture ingredients for disinfectants, insecticides and dyes. Sulphur was a raw material for manufacturers of fertilisers. Beckton Products Works, was built in 1879 and was the largest such works in the UK, except for East Greenwich Works.     Besides millions of gallons of road tar, products included phenol, the cresols and xylenols, naphthalene, pyridine bases, creosote, benzene, toluene, xylene, solvent naphtha, ammonium sulphate and ammonia solution, etc.

Coal Hole Lane
On 19th maps Coal Hole Lane ran east from East Ham Manor Way from a point slightly north of Winsor Terrace. It ran to cattle pens but seems to have petered out short of the river bank

Cyprus
Originally this was an estate built in 1881 estate and named after island which was taken in 1878. It was the only pocket of housing on the marshes.  It was never more than a few streets and very little remains of it. After the Second World War many prefabs were located here for people made homeless by bombing.

East Ham Manorway
This section of road is confusing and has had a variety of different uses and names. A manor way is generally a pathway going from a settlement to the Thames – hence this is a route from East Ham going through marshes to the river. Currently the section of road called East Ham Manor Way runs from a junction with Woolwich Manor Way at Winsor Terrace and runs into the square to the south where it intersects with Cyprus Place. It is no longer a through route. On 19th maps it can be seen to come into the area from East Ham and to run as East Ham, or East Ham Hall, Manorway to one of the marsh ‘walls’ – flood barriers – and then to run to the river as Woolwich Manorway. This continued even when, in the early 20th it had become a tram route – and post Second World War it was part of the North Circular Road and on the same route. By the early 1980s this had changed and from the junction with Savage Gardens a new road, Cyprus Bypass, took the North Circular down to a new junction with Woolwich Manor Way to the south. This is now completely different and Cyprus Bypass has vanished. The main road is now all called Woolwich Manor Way and what is left of East Ham Manor Way is now a side road.
Winsor School. The first school here was opened by the Gas Light and Coke Company and taken over by what was then the Borough of East Ham in 1883. A new school opened ion the site of what is now Winsor School in 1887 it was then called New Beckton Board School. In 1924 it was renamed Winsor School, after the founder of the gas company, and reorganized into separate senior and junior departments. This building was destroyed by bombing in 1940 and the school reopened in huts in 1944. In 1947 a single-storey temporary school was built. The current school buildings were built in two phases; first in 1987 and the second in 1991. The school also has a large nursery unit and a large ICT Suite.

Ferndale Street
This is an extended version of what was an old street on the Cyprus Estate.
St.Mark's Mission. This was a mission church from St. Michael and All Angels founded in 1890. It closed when St.Michael’s withdrew from the area in 1952.

Pennyroyal Avenue
London Borough of Newham housing from the 1970s. These replaced old cottages. Some later housing appears to cover the site of the football ground.

Railways
The railway history of this area is complex – the modern line of the Docklands Light Railway is straightforward but it was preceded by industrial lines and lines which were public or semi public.
Beckton Gasworks and the Railway  A single track branch railway was laid for and financed by the Gas Light & Coke Company coming from the North Woolwich line east of Custom House 33. The then terminus was outside the gasworks. The line then accessed the works where an internal railway network ran on 41 miles of standard gauge track.  In 1873 a freight service began and also a non-timetabled passenger service ran to what was then called Beckton Station in Winsor Terrace. From 1874 the station and line were operated by the Great Eastern Railway. There was another station called Beckon Gas Works inside the worksand this was  operated 1895 -1904. The goods service ended in 1930
By products works railway. This was a separate system and much simpler and smaller with only 15 engines.
Docklands Light Railway.  This was planned from 1988 as an extension to the early DLR line on the Isle of Dogs.  A depot was also planned (in the square to the east).  Passenger trains began to work between Poplar and Beckton in 1994.

Roding Road
Industrial and trading area – much of it devoted to the haulage industry,

Royal Docks Road
This is a new road built from the junction of the North Circular with the A13 and running to a junction with Woolwich Manor Way. It is designated as a part of the North Circular.

Warwall
Gallions School. Primary school opened  by the Borough of Newham in 1999.
Warwall Recreation Ground. This includes a multi-sports Olympic facility for featuring a 15 station outdoor Gym a double-sided climbing wall, basketball court, tennis wall, football goal and freestyle area for aerobics, dance, martial arts, yoga, etc.
18 Winsor Park Community Centre
20 Children’s Resource Centre

Winsor Terrace
The road is named for Frederick Albert Winsor, a wildly eccentric German who promoted the manufacture of gas from coal for lighting when no one else knew what it was. He was one of the founders of the Gas Light and Coke Company in 1811 which in the 1870s  opened Beckton Gas Works.  He had little to do with the new gas company but his son, with the same name, remained a director for most of the rest of his life. The road was opened by the Gas Light and Coke Co as the approach road to their new gasworks and it ended at the main gates. It was lined with workers housing.
Entrance to the  Beckton Gas Works, with plain pillars and ironwork. Behind it is a small park-like area with some concrete circles, an electricity pylon and the backs of supermarket car parks.
Gas Company Housing.Terraces of two-storey red brick houses of the 1870s, with larger units at the ends of terraces for senior staff
Winsor School. The first school here was opened by the Gas Light and Coke Company and taken over by what was then the Borough of East Ham in 1883. It closed in 1904 .This may have been in the building later used as a Methodist church.
Beckton Station, This was on the south side of Winsor Terrace built in an area which is now apparently under a roundabout on Royal Docks Road. It opened in 1870 and was initially owned by the Gas Light and Coke Co.  It had a single platform, a hut and a shelter and was all gas lit. There was also a signal box. Trains ran to meet shifts.  There were not really any staff.
Sidings. These are behind the station with five tracks for marshalling outgoing coke trains. Coke wagons would be pushed n here from the works and then collected by main line trains to go to their destination.
Signal box. This stood at the junction between the public line and the internal gas works railway. It also operated the crossing gates.
Methodist Church.  This began about 1875, in people’s houses. Missioners from the Canning Town circuit later opened a Sunday school and it later moved into the Gas Light and Coke Co’s School

Woolwich Manor Way
This road now runs from the A13 towards the river. In the past stretches of it have been called both East Ham Manor Way and Cyprus Bypass.
Winsor House. Brewers Fayre.Pub and restaurant
Beckton Station  This is the terminus of the Docklands Light Railway Beckton Extension which roughly follows the line of the old Dock Railway. Like all open-air DLR stations, Beckton is unstaffed and tickets are bought at machines. .
Beckton Bus Station.  This is directly opposite the DLR station and opened in 2008, It is owned and maintained by Transport for London.
Beckton Railway. The Beckton tramway crossed the road in thee area of the current DLR station. It was controlled by a signal box which later also controlled the local authority trams
East Ham United Football Club. The club played at a ground sited between Pennyroyal Avenue and what is now Woolwich Manor Way. The club was established in 1933. In 2001 they became Barking & East Ham United. This merged club closed in 2006 and East Ham became defunct. The site now appears to be part of the housing estate although it also appears to have still been in intermittent use in 2000.
St Michael and All Angels Church. This began as a mission from St Mary Magdalene Church in East Ham in 1883. A church was built in 1906, funded by the Gas Light and Coke Company but was not rebuilt after bombing in 1941 and the district was merged back into St Mary's parish. It stood on the south east corner of the junction with Winsor Terrace. St Michaels Vicarage still stood in the 1950s. The site is now a Premier Inn.
Manor Way Farm.  This was on the west side of the road north of Savage Gardens and appears to have survived into at least the 1970s. The site was owned by the Port of London Authority,
Horses. This is a sculpture sited opposite Beckton DLR station. It is a stainless steel group in a circle of trees.

Sources
British History On line. East Ham. Web site
Disused Stations. Web site
Docklands Forum. Archive papers.
Everard. History of the Gas Light & Coke Co.
London Borough of Newham. Web site
London Railway Record
Wikipedia. As appropriate

Post to the south North Woolwich


Albert Road
199 Kennard Street Community Centre and Health Centre. The health centre was added in 1990 and both redeveloped in 1996
74 Royal Albert. This pub closed in 2002 and became a private house. It dated from 1867 and was a Watney’s house.
76 North Woolwich Health Centre. Built in 1981 and designed by Aldington Craig & Collinge
Silvertown Methodist Chapel. 1871-1960
78 North Woolwich Learning Zone.   Adult education centre which is a branch of Newham College of Education.
60 Sweetingham’s Cinema opened in 1912. It was later known as the Silvertown Picture Palace, and finally the Albert Cinema. It closed in 1938 and was later demolished.
39 Silvertown Constitutional Club. This was founded in 1892 and used by the local Conservative Party,
Bridge across the railway to Factory Road. This was a cast and wrought iron bridge made by Handyside and Co. There was a trellis and wooden stairs. It has now been replaced by a concrete structure.
Tram wire posts. These were still in use in the 1970s, adapted as lamp posts. They have now gone.

Beckton Railway, Gallions Branch
Beckton Railway, When the Royal Albert Dock was built, the London & St. Katharine Dock company built this railway in 1880 for passengers and parcels from the North Woolwich line to Gallions Reach, passing along the northern side of the Albert Dock. At first it was a single line between Albert Dock Junction to Central but this was later doubled and also there was them a double track to Gallions. They had second hand trains running every half hour. Central Station was converted into a halt from the 1st November 1933. In 1940 the line was bombed and was repaired for the storage of wagons but the passenger service was never reinstated. It was abandoned under the Port of London Act 1950 but was used for wagon storage at least until the mid 1960's. The Docklands Light Railway Beckton Extension closely follows the route.
Central (Royal Albert Dock) Station or Royal Albert Dock Central. This dated from 1880 and was built by the London and St.Katharine’s Dock Company. It could only be reached by a footpath from Savage Gardens along the west side of Beckton Park as it was midway along the dock with no road access. There was a mock Tudor upside building on the up side of the line was built in a mock Tudor and a wooden footbridge spanned the platforms to the east of the station building.  It was closed in 1940 by which time it was owned by the Port of London Authority. The site today is immediately south of the DLR's Beckton Park Station beneath a roundabout on Royal Albert Way. There was a signal box east of the down platform

Camel Road
ASTA Community Hub. They have groups for children, young people, adults and the elderly ranging from sports to computer training.

Connaught Road
Tate Institute. This was built as a social centre for Tate workers with amenities such as a reading room and hot baths in 1887. It was sold to West Ham Council in 1933. Silvertown Library was on the top floor from 1938 to 1961 and then leased back by Tate and Lyle for a social centre.  It is currently being converted into workshops and an art gallery.
Silvertown station.  This opened in 1863 having been built by the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway becoming part of the North London Line in 1979. In 1885 the station was rebuilt with a new, gas lit, booking office and a foot bridge. The station was entered through a tunnel under the signal box. The station was again rebuilt in the late 1970s and in 1985 the line was electrified – all gas lit until the 1970s. In 1987 the name changed to ‘Silverton and London City Airport’.  In 2006 the station closed with the line. It had previously been closed for a year in the 1990s while the Jubilee Line was built.

Crossrail
This current project has been renamed Elizabeth Line and is planned to open in 2018. This section is being built on the line of the old North Woolwich Railway which here ran eastwards from Silvertown Station between Factory and Royal Albert Roads. This is a major scheme which will bring main line trains from the Midlands through central London and on into Kent and Essex.  There are no stations on this stretch.

Dockside Road
Royal Albert Station. This is on the Docklands Light Railway’s elevated section of the Beckton branch- although the line dips slightly before reaching the station. It lies between Prince Regent and Beckton Park stations and was opened in 1994. It has two side platforms.
Polo Group Sculpture by Huang Jian which was unveiled in 2012an shows two modern British polo players playing against Emperor Ming Huang and Lady Yang. A plaque reads: China is the birthplace of ancient polo which was popular among royal families during the Tang Dynasty. The U.K. gave birth to modern polo, which became an Olympic sport in 1908 and popular all over the world.  In 2008, famous Chinese sculptress Huang Jian created for the Beijing Olympic Games “Emperor Ming of Tang and His Concubine Yang Yuhuan Playing Polo”, the only permanent large sculpture in the Beijing Olympic Park.  Four years later, Huang created the sculpture of “2012 London Polo”, in which Chinese lovers of ancient polo and British lovers of modern polo travel through time and space to gather in the London Olympic Park for a friendly polo match. 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the U.K. and is also the year for the London Olympic Games. The sculpture symbolises the friendship and cultural exchange between the two countries.
1016 Travelodge
London Regatta Centre. This is a rowing and dragon boat racing centre. It is owned by the Royal Albert Dock Trust, and is home to London Youth Rowing, London Otters Rowing Club, University of East London Boat Club, Raging Dragons Dragon Boat Club, Thames Dragons, Wave Walkers Windy Pandas DBC and Typhoon Dragon Boat Club. It was opened in 2000 and was designed by Ian Ritchie Architects. It has a 2,000 metre course, with seven lanes plus a return lane. There is also a rowing tank and a boathouse.
Windy Pandas. This Dragon Boat Club was formed in 2008 as a charity crew,
Wave Walkers. London's first cancer survivors dragon boat team
Raging Dragons. This was formed in 2002 as a charity crew called Chinese Professionals, and later Dragonflies. In 2006 it was associated with Thames Dragons and their name changed to Thames Raging Dragons but in 2009 this arrangement ended when they were sponsored by Sun Lik beer. In 2010 they were the highest placed team in London.
Thames Dragon Boat Club, This was established in 1993 and has competitive, mixed, ladies and open crews
Building 1000. Dockside offices built 2004 and includes London Borough of Newham Social Services
1000 Cold Store Compressor House. This was built in 1914 as a refrigeration plant to service surrounding warehouses storing beef shipments from Argentina. Following restoration work it has been used as offices and more recently as exhibition space.  As a compressor house it had a large water tank on the roof.

Docklands Light Railway
There are two Docklands Light Railway Lines in this square
Beckton Extension, This section of the line follows very closely the route of the old Gallions branch, but is carried on a new trackbed, and nothing of the earlier alignment can be seen. It opened in 1994 and is the longest of the railway's extensions. It runs for a little over five miles from Poplar through the Royal Docks area to a terminus at Beckton.
London City Airport Extension. This extension to the Docklands Light Railway opened in 2005. It leaves the existing DLR south of Canning Town station and runs on the south side of Silvertown Way and North Woolwich Road with a station for the airport in Hartmann Road. It was later extended to Woolwich in 2009.

Factory Road
S.W. Silver & Company were 18th Colonial and Army agents and outfitters based in the City, He is said to have set up a factory to make waterproof clothing, on a site which has never been identified in Greenwich. Later this was expanded to include insulated wires and cables. In 1852 a factory was set up in the area subsequently named Silvertown. In 1860 they acquired the patents of Charles Hancock, formerly of the West Ham Gutta Percha Co. As the result of this Silver set up the India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company.
The India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company was set up in 1864 and made a cable for the Submarine Telegraph Co, for Dover to Cap Gris Nez in the following year. Subsequently they made many more international cables and were partners in companies set up to manage them and promote them. They also owned specialist cable ships to lay them.  They also continued to make rubber goods and item related to telegraphy and eventually withdrew from submarine cable work during the Great War. The company also supplied electric generating plant to towns and cities in the United Kingdom and on the Continent. In the 1890s they began producing bicycle tyres and later car tyres. They also had a factory in France and one in Burton on Trent. In 1933 they were taken over by the B.F. Goodrich Company of Ohio and in the 1950s this became BTR Industries Ltd. The Silvertown Works site was sold in the 1960s and was redeveloped as the Thameside Industrial Estate.
Albert Works. An iron works on a site adjacent to the Silvertown Works in the 1860s and 1870s and owned by Campbell Johnstone & Co.  engineers and shipbuilders.. The company closed in 1876

Fernhill Street
22 Eastern Electric Laundry. This was an industrial laundry which closed in 1985.
Fernhill Street Baths and washhouse. There was also a clinic here run by the London County Council in the 1940s and 1950s.  These baths may be the slipper baths built by the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich in 1926, although the site appears to be in East Ham – then a County Borough in Essex and not eligible for London County Council services.  The site does not appear to be large enough for a swimming pool.  There is now housing on the site built in 1962 by the London County Council, which, presumably, replaced this washhouse.
242 Newham Catering and Cleaning Services. London Borough of Newham

George V Dock.
This square covers the west end of the dock only.
George V dock was begun in 1912 by the Port of London Authority, the King George V and is the last of the upstream enclosed docks to be built. Construction was completed in 1921. It could handle liners as large as RMS Mauretania. A unique feature was a line of dolphins – wooden posts – which lay along the south side and which were connected to the south quay by wooden bridges.  These allowed lighters to pass on the quayside of moored vessels. It had three miles of quays with concrete-frame sheds, electric cranes and platform trucks and there were 5 railway lines available to the 14 warehouses. George V closed as a commercial dock in the 1980s but it was not decommissioned and is available for use with facilities for cranes, electrical power and water, quayside working areas, storage, security, and refuelling.
George V Dry Dock. This was the largest dry dock in London and opened in 1921. This is now the site of London City Airport
Pump House for the dry dock – this was north east of the dry dock itself and had two sets of electric motors driving pumps. It was flooded in 1979
Watersports Centre. King George V dock is reserved for power water sports.

Hartman Road
Hartman Road appears to have originally been an internal dock road running along the south side of the George V dock. It was accessed via a gate off the, since demolished, Silvertown viaduct. It now serves various airport facilities buildings and a vast car parking area.
London City Airport Station. This is on the Docklands Light Railway and opened in 2005.  It lies between Pontoon Dock and George V stations and was originally built on what was called the King George V branch but is now the Woolwich Extension – since it now crosses the river to Woolwich. The station is elevated and fully enclosed and it has a direct covered connection with the adjacent airport terminal building. There is also, unusually for the DLR, a fully enclosed waiting room on the platform and a manned ticket office.

Kennard Street
Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society shop. This was their only shop north of the river and opened in 1905. It closed in the late 1970s.
St. Mary and St. Edward Roman Catholic junior mixed and infants school. This was originally in a site off Newland Street but this site was acquired by the Port of London authority in 1915 for King George V Dock. The school moved to Kennard Street and a new building was completed in 1917. The school is not there now and there is housing on the site
St Mary and St Edward Church.  This Catholic Church is now sited on the corner of Grenadier Street and Albert Road (in the square to the south

London City Airport
London City Airport is an international airport in London which was developed by Mowlem in 1986–87 and is currently owned by a consortium of overseas investors.  It is sited in the south west corner of the King George V dock with the terminal building, constructed by Seifert, above the two large dry docks – which apparently remain beneath and used for parking.  It has a single runway sited on what was known as the Peninsular Road which ran between the George V and Royal Albert Docks and then housing transit sheds. The airport is the fifth-busiest airport in passengers and aircraft movements serving the London area. The airport was proposed in 1981 with planning permission granted following a planning enquiry it was opened in 1986 and there have been several extensions since. The first transatlantic flight was in 2009.

Manwood Street
Dunedin House. Built in 1963 by the London County Council on the site of the Fernhill Street baths. It has 20 floors.

Newland Street
St. Mary and St. Edward Roman Catholic junior mixed and infants’ school. This school was originally on the corner with Bailey Street but in 1915 was moved to Kennard Street.

North Woolwich Railway
North Woolwich Railway. This was opened by the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway under George Parker Bidder. It opened as a single freight line from Thames Wharf near Bow Creek to what is now North Woolwich and was intended to transport coal. In 1847 a passenger service began from North Woolwich.  There was later a connection to Stratford and the line was taken over by the Eastern Counties Railway (later the Great Eastern). After the Second World War passenger numbers began to drop and it was used for freight only after 1969. In 1979 it reopened as part of the North London Lines with through trains to Richmond. It was closed again in 2006 and the line through this square is now being rebuilt for Crossrail.

Parker Road
Drew Road Primary School. Originally this was a West Ham Board School opened in 1895. It is now housed in a new purpose-built two-storey building since 2003 when the original building was demolished for the Docklands Light Railway

Railways
The railways which run through the area are listed separately. They are:
The old Gallions Branch railway with a station at Central. In this square this is covered by the Docklands Light Railway
The Docklands Light Railway Beckton Extension with stations at Royal Albert and Beckton Park. This was the Gallions Railway line
The North Woolwich Railway with a station at Silvertown. This is being rebuilt as Crossrail
Crossrail, now called Elizabeth Line. Under construction on the route of the old North Woolwich Line
Docklands Light Railway. Woolwich extension. With a station at London City Airport
Silvertown Tramway. Remains of original line of North Woolwich railway used for freight.
Dock railways on both Royal Albert and George V doc all. Now defunct.

Royal Albert Dock
Royal Albert Dock. This square covers a central slice of this large dock. The entrance area is in the square to the east; the passage to the Victoria Dock is in the square to the west.
The Royal Albert Dock was built in 1875-80 and covers 85 acres of water. It was built for the London and St Katharine Company with Alexander Rendel as engineer, and it opened in 1880.  It was intended as a ship canal running to the older Victoria Dock, with a quay along it where ships could berth. There was electric light using arc lamps, from the start. To the west of the north quay, is an uninterrupted straight line of quay walls for over a mile. There were no warehouses but instead there were transit sheds and designed so that one shed would serve one berth. Cold stores were later added for the frozen meat trade. Most buildings were cleared in the 1980s.
Quay Walls.  These were 40 ft high with a technically efficient stepped face and projecting toe at the base. They were built of Portland cement concrete.
Sheds. These were built in 1882 as twin-span structures made by Westwood, Baillie & Co. with wrought-iron trusses on cast-iron columns and corrugated-iron sheet cladding. They were linked by covered areas into six groups. They represent a change in dock warehousing from long-term storage to transit areas.
Dry docks at the western end of the dock, which, with the King George V dry dock, made up the largest area of ship repair in the port. These are now under the London City Airport buildings. They were thought to have been built in the 1880s. By the 1980-s the smaller was not used except for a floating dock built in 1942.
Sheds 25 and 27. These were converted for use as fully mechanized berths serving the New Zealand export trade.
Sheds 29, 31, and 33 three transit sheds. In 1920 they were replaced with ' two brick-built sheds 29 and 33, sheds, with a continuous upper floor for a cold sorting floor for meat; but later used as a cold store at 16°F  for 198,000 carcasses. Sorting of meat was later done on the quay to cut down the number of times it was handled.

Royal Albert and Victoria cut
This is a historic drainage infrastructure running along the north boundary of the Royal Albert Dock. It eventually discharged into the Thames. It was a surface feature with timber clad sloping walls.

Royal Albert Way
This is the A1020 running parallel with the north quay of the Albert Dock. It was built under the London Docklands Development Corporation with two roundabouts which have DLR stations in the middle which were designed to provide access to future development. However they have not been used as thought and they act as chicanes.
Docklands Light Railway. This runs parallel to and beneath the road. After Royal Albert Station the tracks descend to run in the middle of Royal Albert Dock Spine Road, and then take a further dip as they approach the station at Beckton Park.
Beckton Park Station. This opened in 1994 and lies between Cyprus and Royal Albert Stations on the Docklands Light Railway. It is sited beneath a roundabout.  The road rises slightly whilst the railway dips slightly as they approach the station. It is thus situated in a cutting, under the centre of the elevated roundabout. There is pedestrian access at surface level under the elevated roadways and arched over the railway

Silvertown Tramway
When the Victoria Dock was built the North Woolwich line was diverted to the north.  The old line was left in place and used for freight, being called The Woolwich Abandoned Line, or the Silvertown Tramway.  This lies largely in squares to the west but a small portion of it lay adjacent south west of Silvertown Station joining the main line to the east of the station.


Sources
Bird. Geography of the Port of London
Bloch. Newham Dockland
Bygone Kent 
Carr. Dockland
Cinema Theatres Association. Newsletter
Cinema Treasures.  Web site
Clunn. The Face of London
Connor. Branch Lines around North Woolwich
Crouch. Silvertown
Curwen. Old Plaistow
Disused Stations. Web site
East London Old and New
Field. Place names of London
Friends of the Earth. Gas Works Sites in London
GLC Docklands History Survey
GLIAS. Newsletter
Ianvisits. Web site
Loadman & James. The Hancocks of Marlborough
London Borough of Newham, Web site
London Encyclopaedia
London Railway Record
London Regatta Centre. Web site
London’s Royal Docs. Web site
Lost Pubs. Web site
McCarthy. London North of the Thames
Millichip. Gas Works Railways in London
Nature Conservation in Newham,  
Pevsner and Cherry, Essex
Phillips. London Docklands Guide.
Port of London Magazine
Portcities. Web site
SABRE. Web site
Skyscraper News. Web site.
Spurgeon. Discover Woolwich, 
Stewart. Gas Works in the North Thames Area
Tate and Lyle. Tate and Lyle
Wikipedia. As appropriate.

Post to the west Mayesbrook park
Post to the east Goresbrook  Park



Amesbury Avenue
Fanshawe Tavern, This was built in 1934 as part of the facilties for the Becontree Estate. It was later renamed The Pipers, It closed in 2000 and was subsequently demolished. There are now flats on the site.

Arden Crescent
75-77 Pupil Referral Unit

Becontree Estate Railway.
This was a temporary line which ran between Chadwell Heath and the river during the construction of the Becontree Estate. It operated between 1921 and 1934. It was established by building contractors Wills & Sons connecting with existing goods sidings at Goodmayes and running south through the future estate, to a jetty on the Thames. In this square a branch of the line ran from Porters Avenue to the lake in Parsloes Park

Cannington Road
Roding Primary School. The main part of this school is in Hewitt Road (in the square to the north) and the school has expanded onto this site since 2000.

Ellerton Road
Dawson School, was established by Barking Education Committee in 1931. The school closed in 1966, amd pupils were transferred to Dorothy Barley School or Cambell School. The site became known as Bifrons Annexe and was used by Mayesbrook Secondary School from 1970 until 1989.

Gale Street
This old lane forms much of the Dagenham boundary.
Great Porters farm. The farm was on the east side of the road in the area of Wykham Avenue. The farmhouse had a castellated parapet to the roof and a pointed doorway and it is thought to have been a 19th façade on an earlier building. It was demolished during the bulding of the Becontree Estate.
Becontree Station.  Opened in 1926 it now lies between Dagenham Heathway and Upney on the District Line. It was originally opened by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway as ‘Gale Street Halt’. It was rebuilt on its present site in 1932 and opened as a District Line Station with the name changed to ‘Becontree’
Gale Street Farm. This was sited south east of the railway line..  It was named after the family of Richard de Gal recorded in Dagenham in 1284. The farm was demolished during construction of the Becontree Estate but was used originally as the home of the LCC Agent – one of whom was father of the clothes designer Hardy Amies.
523 Worshipville Christian Centre.

Langley Crescent
James Cambell Primary School. This built as Cambell School by Barking Education Committee in 1930 and it was a secondary modern school as well as an infants and juniors.

Parsloes Park
Only about a quarter of the park is in this square. The rest is in squares to the north and east.
Parsloes Park. This is owned by the local authority. The park derives its name from the Passelewe family, who owned the land in the 13th. The land was acquired by the London County Council in 1923 and opened as a park in 1935, marking the official completion of the Becontree estate.
Pond. This was a gravel pit used by the contractors for the estate. It had stone crushing plant and coating machinery for making tarmacadam for road surfacing. In the pits were found numerous Palaeolithic flint tools including 26 hand-axes. This indicates that this may have been the site of a camp used by Neanderthal hunters for butchering animals

Stamford Road
2a Mountain of Fire and Miracles. Evangelical Church. This was Greig Hall built as a mission by Shaftesbury Society  in 1933-34

Woodward Road
St Anne’s Roman Catholic church. This now appears to be St Joseph Malankara Catholic  London
Church of God Mission International Dagenham. This is in what was Woodward Hall
Woodward Clinic
Woodward Road Library. This is  is now a re-use centre for disability charity DABD,

Sources
Barking and District Historical Society. Web site
Evans. Bygone Dagenham and Rainham.
Field. London Place Names,
GLC. Home Sweet Home
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Web site
Nature Conservation in Barking and Dagenham 
Pevsner and Cherry. Essex
Pub History. Web site
Victoria County History of Essex. Dagenham
Walford. Village London
Wikipedia. Web site. As appropriate

Beddington Lane
Beddington Nursery. In the mid 19th this very large nursery site stood to the north of the railway line and east of the Beddington Lane – and perhaps at the same time a Jolly Gardeners pub should be noted in Croydon Road
Beddington Lane Industrial Estate. Industrial area on site north of the railway line. This is light industry and warehousing locations.
Tarfroid Ltd later Thames Tar Products and Construction Ltd. They made “bituminous emulsions” but also undertook sheet metal work and welding. They originally intended to produce tar for road surfacing.  They had a siding from the Croydon bound rail line and are noted as opening in 1930 (although not shown on maps until the 1950s)
Beddington Lane Station.  Opened originally as ‘Beddington Corner’ in 1855 on the li built by George Parker Bidder between Wimbledon and Croydon following the route of the Surrey Iron Railway.  It is nearly two miles from Beddington itself and in 1887 it was renamed ‘Beddington Lane’. It was demoted in status with the introduction of push-pull services and was renamed ‘Beddington Lane Halt’. The word ‘halt’ was dropped in 1969. Until the 1990s the premises still had its old wooden building, which was painted red but kept its rural appearance.  It was then demolished and replaced by a single shelter. In 1997 the station was closed and opened as a Tramlink stop.
Beddington Lane signal box. This stood at the east end of the platform, adjoining the level crossing and dated from 1877, possibly relocated from elsewhere. In 1930 it was replaced. The box was where passengers purchased tickets. It closed in 1982, and was later demolished.
Goods Line. Immediately beyond the crossing was a sand drag which marked the western end of' a goods line, which paralleled the passenger route between Beddington Lane and West Croydon. This was used in connection with electrification, and created by joining up various sidings which lay on the north side of the line. This closed in 1976,
Beddington Lane Tram Stop. This lies at what was the west end of the old Beddington station and was opened in 2000. It is between Mitcham Junction and Therapia Lane tram stops.
Station Master’s house. This dated from 1896 and may have replaced an earlier building.
Level crossing. As a tram line crossing this is now traffic light controlled. As a railway line it was controlled by the signal box.
Townson and Mercer. Scientific instrument works. This works was on the west side of the lane on the site now covered largely by the Brookmead Industrial Estate where they had an electronic-controlled annealing gas furnace. Established in 1798 they made laboratory, scientific and medical (including lampblown) glassware and apparatus; for laboratory use, as well as for aviation and for hospitals. They invented the ‘sortationer’ which could distinguish different aluminium alloys.
58 Pullen Pumps. This firm has now closed. They were originally founded in Vauxhall London by Fredrick Pullen before the 1930s and moved here in 1968. Since 2000 they have been HoldenBrookePullen Ltd and moved to Manchester in 2003.
Townmead Foundry. Extant in the 1950s. This was an iron foundry owned by H.Hendra and Sons. They were ironfounders and patternmakers who made grey iron and castings of all descriptions.
Ebdon’s Joinery. Ebdons produced high quality joinery and woodwork for churches and other prestige locations. Their address is given as Oak Lodge, 56 Beddington Lane., Oak Lodge appears to have been at what is now 156 Beddington Lane. At 154 Beddington Lane is a very nice art deco factory, now Advance Fuels – was this also Ebdon’s?  It is known their works was rebuilt following bombing.
Energy Recovery Facility. This was commissioned by the South London Waste Partnership made up of Croydon, Kingston, Sutton and Merton Councils. Previously residual waste sent to the landfill site here but this new facility will allow it be disposed of as safely and cleanly as possible and at the same time generate electricity to be fed into the grid. It is being built and will be run by Viridor.

Brookmead Road
This road and those closely adjacent to it are now called ‘The Meads’ – hence a large sign at the entrance to this road at its Beddington Lane end.

Coomber Way
This square covers a small part of this industrial estate, which is apparently built on reclaimed land and includes sites dealing with waste of various sorts.
Tramlink Depot. This is on a site which once held a network of railway sidings, some accessing various works and other used for maintenance and storage of stock.

Croydon Road
Road which crosses Mitcham Common

Jessops Way
Brookmead Industrial Estate – this is largely a depot for a delivery and courier firm. Much of this is on the site of what was the Townson and Mercer factory.
Traq. Surrey Minimoto club. Outdoor karting, minimoto and off-road quad bike racing circuits.
Croydon Rifle & Pistol Club. This was formed in 1944 by members of the Croydon Home Guard and was known then as Croydon Rifle Club. In 1952 a pistol section was started and in 1958 a site at Beddington on Jessops Way was taken on. They moved there a hall from their previous site near Fairfield Hall – this had been an A.R.P. training centre and & a band rehearsal hall. In 1964 the Rifle Section moved into Jessops Way and it was officially opened in 1966


Mitcham Common
Described as "that dreary long-drawn expanse.  In 1801 and  1812-19 there were attempts, strongly resisted, to enclose it. Since 1891 the Common has been administered by its Conservators. It was once part of a continuous tract of pasture between Croydon to Mitcham. The original oak woodland was cleared in Neolithic times and then used for grazing – the soil is not fertile – and thus low shrubs and acid grassland as well as  heathland were predominant. In the early 19th there was some gravel extraction leaving some ponds and grazing of sheep and cattle by commoners ceased. In the Second World War some ponds were filled in between the wars, and some land was used for agriculture. Other areas were used for refuse landfill.

Mitcham Road
Jolly Gardeners. Late 19th pub which was demolished in 2003. It was commonly called The Red House.

Railway Line
Sidings north of the line near Beddington Lane Station. This was the permanent way depot for the railway. It now partly houses the Tramlinc Depot.

Red House Road
Industrial and trading area – at the present it is apparently motor industry related, with an emphasis on tyres. There were many engineering and metal industries here in the post-war years. Some are shown below:
Mitcham Driving Test Centre. This was previously the Ministry of Transport Goods Vehicle Testing Station
Royal Mail vehicle maintenance depot. This was present in the 1950s.
Red House Sheet Metal, present in the 1950s
Rometal Smelting. Present in the 1950s
Mitcham Smelters. Present in the 1950s.
Coachcraft. Van and coach body builders. Present in the 1950s

Surrey Iron  Railway Route
This early 19th horse drawn tramway ran in a straight line through this area. It was replaced by the rail line, and now by the trams.

Windmill Road
The Mill House. This is one of the few houses ever to be built on Mitcham Common. In 1806 John Blake Barker was  given permission to build a windmill on half an acre of newly enclosed land. This was in constant use until 1862 when, during a storm, it was struck by lightning and was eventually closed. It was dismantled down to its base in 1905. What remains is a single storey brick round house with a conical thatched roof. It was a hollow post mill which looked like ordinary post mill but inside the drive from the sails was taken through ae hollow main post.
House. This was built in 1860 and was called Mill Cottage or Windmill Cottage and later Mill House. It was sold in 1936 sold and used as a home for girls as well as a creamery and for packing biscuits. In 1950 it was bought by the local authority for a Youth Centre but was then divided into flats and used by the Parks Department. In 1994 it was hbought by Whitbreads and the developed into a Brewers Fayre Pub,
Ecology Centre.  This was built by Whitbread to house the Micham Common Conservators. It runs facilities for schools and environmental educaitn generally.

Sources
Closed Pubs. Web site
Croydon Rifle and Pistol Club. Web site
Disused Stations. Web site
Grace’s Guide. Web site
London Railway Record
Mitcham Common. Web site
Retracing the First Public Railway 
Thames Basin Archaeology of Industry Group. A Survey of Industrial Monuments of Greater London

Post to the south Banstead Downs
Post to the west Cheam


Avenue Road
Built on the line of an old track way
Avenue Primary Academy. This was Avenue Primary School which became an “Academy” in 2015. It is managed by the Cirrus Primary Academy Trust.  It moved to this site which had been allotments in the late 1950s. It has previously been Belmont Village School at a site which is now a private nursery.
Wildlife area.  This is behind the school and was created in1980 on the old gardens of houses which had backed onto the school fields. The school created habitats and a pond. It has chalk grassland with cowslips and other flowers and also the nationally scarce small blue butterfly. Around the pond are yellow flags and there are newts, frogs, pond skaters and water boatman.
16 Belmont Village Primary School. This was built in 1902 on part of a site designated for a church. When the school moved to its current site it became known as “Avenue School Annexe’. It fell out of use in 1970 and became a private Hopscotch nursery.
18 Sterling House.  This old factory is now flats. It was once a laundry but has been used by numerous companies many of them in specific areas of scientific innovation and expertise.
18 Nagard. This was a scientific instrument maker based here and in Brixton. They made oscilloscopes, signal converter valves and bespoke mounting. In 1962 they were taken over by Advance Components Ltd. who themselves were taken over by an American company, Gould, soon after.
St. John the Baptist. This parish church is a joint Church of England and Methodist Church. In 1908, following a public meeting, a building committee was set up to build a parish church. This site was purchased in 1910 and architects Greenaway & Newberry were appointed. A foundation stone was laid in 1914 and the church was completed in 1915. There was not enough money to build the tower as planned, and the west end remained a temporary structure until 1966 with the completion of the west wall. The wall includes the stained glass window and stonework from St Paul’s Church, St Leonards-on-Sea which was demolished. It became a joint church with the Methodists in 1983.

Balmoral Way
The South Metropolitan District Schools were on this site. They were built in 1852-3 and provided industrial education for 1500 poor children from Greenwich, Camberwell, and Woolwich. They had many facilities including playing fields and a gas works. The original schools closed in 1902. After a brief period as a hospital and asylum they became Belmont Workhouse in 1908.
Belmont Workhouse. In 1915 the buildings became a hospital for German prisoners of war and the internment for enemy aliens. In 1922 it became a workhouse for unemployed men and in 1930 was training centre for the unemployed run by the London County council.
Sutton Emergency Hospital. This was set up in the buildings of the Belmont Workhouse in the Second World War. In 1946 it became Belmont Hospital, specialising in psychiatric medicine and later Henderson Hospital both in Homeland Drive. The main blocks were demolished in the 1980s and redeveloped for housing.

Basinghall Gardens
Toll Bar Court. 12 floor block built 1965.
Carew Court. 12 floor block built 1965.

Belmont Rise
This was part of the Sutton Bypass built in 1927 and is now the A217.  It provides a through route from Wandsworth Bridge to Horley south of Reigate.
Vicarage. This was built here in 1927.

Brighton Road
B2230. This was the route of the A217 before the Sutton Bypass was built in 1927. The A217 itself runs from Wandsworth Bridge to near Gatwick in Surrey. This was a turnpike road which was created in 1745 and there was a tollgate near Sutton Lodge..
Milestone. This is on the west side of Brighton Road near Basinghall Gardens. It is a rectangular block of stone with peaked capping. On the east side is the inscription: ‘XIII Miles From The Standard In Cornhill London 1745’. It is one of a series erected in 1745 between London Bridge and
Banstead Downs.
137 Health Centre 
139 Sutton Lodge. This is home to Sutton Over 60s club. It is a brick house with a central block and matching wings.  It was built by brewer John Wells in 1762.  It is said to have been built on the site of a cottage, of 1754. It then had stables, granaries, oasthouses and other buildings. In 1838 was sold to farmer John Overton of Cheam and served as the farmhouse for Sutton Farm. Later, the farmland was sold for house building and the lodge was bought by Sutton Council, for use as a day centre.
Homeland Drive – the junction of Homeland Drive from Brighton Road marks what was the entrance drive to the South Metropolitan District Schools. A lodge stood to the south side of the junction.
Belmont Park. This is the southern part of the war time prefab site and was landscaped as part of the site redevelopment in the 1960s. It is on an undulating grassland plain bordered to the west by the railway line. Along the railway is a dense belt of trees.
The California Belmont Pub.  The pub is current called California but has sometimes also been named Belmont.  It was bombed and subsequently rebuilt in 1942. There are various stories about its origins and the origins of the name concerning gold coins, gamblers and the California gold rush.
Little Hell. A site here is marked as ‘Little Hell’ on the Roque map of 1765. This may be nothing more sinister than an old dialect form of the word ‘hill’ – ie a site on the edge of the North Downs. The name has been applied to stories about the origins of the pub.
310 R. Dance Contractors. This firm is in a cutting between 1950s the road and the railway and has been used as an industrial site since the Second World War. In the 1950s it was a coach builders and may have been Watsons. It was originally the goods yard for what was then California Station. It had two sidings and a ‘dock’. It was moved to the other side of the road when the Station Road level crossing closed.
Coal Yard and sidings. The sidings were moved to the east side of Brighton Road when the site on the west side closed. It closed for goods in 1964 but continued to handle coal until 1969. It appears to have been on the site of what is now Commonside Close.
Bus Stand. This is a long-established terminus for bus services.

California Close
This is on the site of a plant nursery run by a Mr. Belcher. In 1939 Post Office built a telephone engineering depot which fronted onto Station Road. When this became redundant in the 1970s it was let as offices. Later the site, including the nursery was redeveloped as flats.

Cotswold Road
This was previously called Banstead Road
Turf Cottage. This stood north of the junction with Banstead Road in the 19th and appears to be a single storey house with an elaborate porch, and gardens to the rear.
Sutton Hospital. In order to replace a small cottage hozpital a larger hospital was built in 1930 on the corner of Chiltern and Cotswold Roads.  It opened in 1931 as the Sutton and Cheam District Hospital. In the Second World War it had ten Emergency Medical Service beds for war casualties. In 1948 it joined the NHS. It soon began to expand taking over a private nursing home and vacant buildings belonging to the Downs Hospital. New wards were built, am outpatients and a chapel.   In 1959, the old Downs Hospital for Children became the Cotswold Wing.  Today it has a modern day surgery unit and some specialist outpatient services.  There is a Day Hospital for elderly patients and a centre for mental health care.  It is now beginning to be run down in favour of improvements to St Helier Hospital and is expected to close.
Downs Hospital for Children. In 1882 the South Metropolitan District Schools purchased this site from the Sutton Lodge estate to extend the school in Brighton Road. This opened in 1884 with a pavilion block layout, design, by the 1890s it was the Girls' School. In 1902 the School closed and the buildings were purchased by the Metropolitan Asylums Board. This then became the Downs School for children suffering from ringworm and other skin and scalp diseases. In 1913 non-tubercular children were transferred to the Goldie Leigh Children's Cottage Homes, which also specialised in ringworm cases, and the Downs School became a TB hospital for children - the Downs Sanatorium. In 1920 it was renamed the Downs Children's Infirmary and, in 1922, Cleveland Street Children's Infirmary joined them here.  In 1924 its name changed to the Downs Hospital for Children. It closed in 1948 at the beginning of the NHS. The buildings were then used by the Sutton Hospital, the Institute for Cancer Research and the Sutton branch of the Royal Marsden Hospital.
11-13 farm cottages built 1834
Malvern Centre.   This currently accommodates a Centre of Pain Education (where patients who suffer with chronic pain are helped to deal with their condition and chronic fatigue syndrome clinics.
15 The Institute of Cancer Research, This  was founded in 1909 as The Cancer Hospital Research Institute, a small laboratory in what would become The Royal Marsden in Chelsea. In the 1920s and 30s they had discovered carcinogenic compounds in coal tar and worked on the role of chemotherapy. It became independent under the NHS in 1948 but the organisations still work together. In the 1950s they moved to this site to work on nuclear medicine. In the 1960s they gathered evidence on DNA damage and cancer, leading to modern immunotherapy. In the 1970s and 80s, they helped to discover treatment drugs. They also found the cancer-causing gene. The 1990s saw the discovery gene in the familial inheritance of breast and ovarian cancer. Since 2005 they have discovered 20 preclinical drug candidates, the ICR also has a long history in training is an Associate Institution of the University of London, and was recognised as a full College of the University of London in 2003.
Letter box by Sutton Hospital entrance.  This was originally mounted in a gate post in part of gateway and gate. This model is 1882-1885.
Banstead Road Primary School. The school was built here in 1897 and was the original Belmont school. More recently it has catered for pupils with special needs, This is now housing as Baron Close
24 This was built around 1860 by farmer, John Overton, of nearby Sutton Lodge, probably to house his farm workers.

Dorset Road
This was Burdon Road before the Second World War
12 Air raid shelter extant in the garden.
Sutton Ambulance Station. This was on the edge of the Industrial School site, later the hospital

Downs Road
California Court. This stands on the site of chalk pits and limekilns.  Cottages for the workers were said have been built here later.
99-101 house which is claimed to be the oldest building in Belmont; a 19th agricultural building.
Royal Marsden Hospital. This was was the first hospital in the world dedicated to the study and treatment of cancer. It was founded in 1851 and is based in Fulham Road, Chelsea. In 1948 under the NHS the Royal Marsden became a post-graduate teaching hospital an. In response to the need to expand to treat more patients and train more doctors, a second hospital in Sutton was opened in 1962. They moved into buildings which had been the Metropolitan District School.
Baptist chapel.  This was started by a Miss Hale in the late 1880s managed to secure £30 funding for iron church building on a plot just above the chalk pits. It was at first The Belmont Mission church catering for nonconformists of various demoninations. It was however dominated by Baptist members, and by 1910 there was pressure to re-establish a non-denominational church elsewhere and this was provided in Station Road. building. T
63 Sutton Mental Health Foundation. This is a member led facility for people with experience of mental distress, and their carers. It provides facilities for recreation with the object of improving quality of life. This is in what was St. John’s Church Hall.
Christ Church and St.John’s Church Hall.  In 1880, an Anglican Mission and Parish Hall was built under the auspices of Christ Church, Sutton, and St Dunstans, Cheam. When St John’s parish church opened in 1916 it became the parish hall. It was rebuilt in 1940 as a a steel framed structure with brick infill. When the Northdown Road hall opened in 2004, this became a mental health drop-in centre

Holland Avenue
50 Downs Lawn Tennis Club.  Cheam Lawn Tennis Club is said to have started here in 1926.

Homeland Drive
This is on the route to the original drive to the South Metropolitan Schools.
1 Belmont House. This is a residential care home belonging to the NHS. This site was originally occupied by part of the South Metropolitan District Schools. They closed in 1902 and the buildings became Belmont Workhouse.  In the Second World War it became the Sutton Emergency Hospital and, because if fears of mass hysteria at the beginning of the war, it was designated as - the Sutton Neurosis Centre.  The Hospital was however used to treat trauma patients and war casualties.   1946 it was renamed the Belmont Hospital, specialising in psychiatric medicine.  In 1948 it joined the NHS as a treatment centre for general psychiatric conditions. By the 1960s it had become the leading centre for the study and treatment of neuroses. In 1975 its work was transferred to Sutton Hospital and the Belmont Postgraduate Psychiatric Centre remains in the Chiltern Wing.  The main blocks were demolished in 1980s and there is now new housing on the area.
2 The Henderson Hospital. This was on part of the Belmont Hospital site.  After the Second World War a Social Rehabilitation Unit was established on part of the Belmont Hospital site for soldiers suffering from war related post-traumatic stress disorder. The unit went on to treat adults who had experienced childhood abuse. In 1959 it was renamed the Henderson Hospital, after the Scottish psychiatrist Professor Sir David Henderson. It developed a patient-orientated approach to the treatment of psychopathic disorders.  Until 2005 it had funding from the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group but in this changed to contributions from regional health bodies and lack of money from them made the hospital unviable. It closed in 2008 despite its reputation and success. The site now has planning consent for housing.
Belmont Pastures, A conservation area of 1.18 hectares of grassland, was once part of the site.
Bridge over the Railway. In 1864-5 the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company had built the Sutton to Epsom Downs line.  The bridge, which carried Homeland Drive over the railway tracks, was rebuilt in 1984.  The plaque on the bridge mentions the Belmont Hospital.

Hulverston Close
Shanklin Village Estate. This is local authority housing sited between Brighton Road and the railway. It was built in the late 1960s to replace wartime prefabs,

Northdown Road
Church Hall. This opened in 2004
Belmont Rest Garden. This was sold to by church to the local council in 1927;

Overton Park
Overton Park is on the site of an old recreational areas and sports grounds, some of it resulting from playing fields for the Metropolitan District Schools. It is mainly open grass with trees around the perimeter. There is an emphasis on sports facilities with three football pitches and other smaller pitches. There is also a pavilion with changing rooms, as well as a playground and trim trail.

Queens Road
3 Manse for the Methodist Minister, having originally belonged to the Roman Catholics also had planned to build a church there.
War Memorial. This is at the junction with Queens Road in a small grassed area. It has a circular stone base surmounted by plinth and in-filled wheel cross. Inscriptions are on attached metal plaques and they say ‘To the Glory of God and  in memory of the Bbelmont men who fell in the Great War 1914 - 1918 and/ those men and women who gave their lives in the World War 1939 – 1945. There are 42 names

Railway Line
This is the Epsom Downs railway which was built to convey huge crowds of race goers to the race track on the Downs. Following a number of legal problems it opened in 1865.
There were sidings north of the station for the South Metropolitan District Schools

Sevenoaks Close
Belmont Pastures. This is a long narrow triangle of land which is an old meadow which formerly belonged to Belmont Hospital. It is unimproved chalk grassland with common grasses and wild flowers, along the railway line is a hawthorn hedge and on the west is a line of large trees, mainly horse chestnut

Stanley Road
Stanley Road itself is in the square to the north.
Overton Grange School. The school is accessed from Stanley Road, to the north. Overton Grange School is a mixed “academy” school. It opened in 1997 after the need for a school in the area was identified in the 1980s and was built on the site of a blood transfusion centre. It includes a sixth form college, opened in 2002. It also has a hearing support department and purpose-built facilities for pupils with disabilities. It became an ‘academy’ in 2011.
South London Transfusion Centre. These were sited in what had been the LCC Laboratories in 1952..
Belmont Laboratories, London County Council. These laboratories dated from at least 1908 and were sometimes described as ‘Serum Laboratories’.  They carried out important and ground breaking medical and environmental research as well as preparing various chemical substances for use by the County Council.
Sutton Youth Theatre

Station Road
Folly Cottage. This house is shown in the 19th as taing up an extensive site on the corner with Avenue Road. One outbuilding is said to remain to the rear.
34  London and Belcher. This florist shop was founded in 1928 and Mr. Belcher then had an extensive nursery business to the rear and east of the shop
34 Post Office Engineering building. This occupied what was the original frontage to Belcher’s nursery. The site is now redeveloped as flats.
Deacon House. These flats are on the site of what was once The Constitutional Club. The Free Church bought the site and laid a foundation stone in 1915. The church initially included Methodists, Baptists, Congregational, and Evangelical however in 1928 it affiliated to the Methodists. After the Second World War the cost of maintaining it became unsustainable and in 1986 it agreed to share St John’s church. Sale of the site paid for adaptations to St, Johns
Hall. This was built alongside what became the Methodist church. The site is now flats.
VR pillar box. 
29 this was a dairy before the Great War and sheds and outhouses remain behind it which may have been in use for the cows. This is also said to be part of an old cottage called Hare Warren.
Rail bridge. This humped bridge was built in 1888 to replace an original level crossing. The effect is that Station Road splits into two and has two parallel arms for a short distance west of the station and an even shorter parallel section to the east.  North of the station were originally sidings, one for use of the Metropolitan District School.
Belmont Station. This opened in 1865 and now lies between Sutton and Banstead on Southern Rail. The station was built by the Banstead and Epsom Downs Railway as part of a line to take race goers to Epsom Race Course.. The station was first called California but changed to Belmont following complaints of misdirected parcels. The original station was bombed and the buildings were destroyed. In 1970 the buildings were finally replaced with a CLASP system on the down side.

The Crescent
Milestone. This is said to survive in a garden here and marked 14 miles from The Standard in Cornhill.

York Road
Built on the line of an old track beside which there were once fields where Colmans of Norwich grew garlic.

Sources
Avenue Primary Academy. Web site
BSCRA. Web site
Field. London Place Names 
Historic England. Web site
Imperial War Museum. Web site
Kirkby. The Banstead and Epsom Downs Railway
London Borough of Sutton. Web site.
London Encyclopaedia
Lost Hospitals of London. Web site
Overton Grange School. Web site
Pevsner and Cherry,  Surrey
Royal Marsden Hospital. Web site
St. John the Baptist. Web site 
Sutton Hospital. Web site
Sutton Nature. Web site
University of Brighton. Web site
Welcombe Collection. Web site
Wikipedia. Web site. As appropriate

This posting covers only the south west portion of this square.
The north west portion is South End
The north east portion is South End and Gospel Oak

Post square to the west Hampstead and Frognal
Post square to the east Gospel Oak  and Gospel Oak and Kentish Town


Aspern Grove
Local authority housing on the site of Russell and Aspern Nurseries and sports grounds. Built in 1980s on land previously owned by the railways, designed by Bill Forrest and Oscar Palacio, Camden Architects Department in post-modern style. It was the borough's last new-build housing; plain pale brick terraces. Previously this area was owned by the railway and a tunnel runs underneath. Post war it was leased to John Russell (Hampstead) Ltd., who developed here a nursery garden, jazz club and public tennis courts plus some light industry. In the 1980s it was developed for housing and following community action the three woodland areas were created alongside.

Belsize Avenue
The road was originally the carriage drive to Belsize House. At the Haverstock Hill end of the road the road surface is lowered and footpaths are raised with railings.

Belsize Wood
These sites are at the eastern end of the Aspern and Russell Nurseries estates and are between them and Lawn Road
Belsize Wood is a Local Nature Reserve is a steeply sloping site. There are two parts, one which is always open and another only open at weekends. It stands above the London and Midland railway Lismore Circus railway tunnel built in the 1860s. There are forest trees and an understorey of hawthorn and elder
Railway ventilation shaft in the North West corner of Belsize Wood
Russell Nurseries Woods. These have a network of paths and steps and some biodiversity enhancements. There is a bird feeding area and some Stag Beetle loggeries as well as an owl box.
Belsize Sensory Garden. Associated with this is a Green Gym.

Belsize Lane
5 Hunters Lodge. Gothic building from 1810 built for a merchant, William Tate.  Designed by Joseph Parkinson.

Fleet Road
Fleet Road is said to follow the Fleet River. However, a tributary to the river appears to have run to the north of this section of the road, only joining it to run alongside in the square to the east.  In this section the south side of the road is entirely covered with outbuildings and sub entrances of the Royal Free Hospital, including a long stretch of wall which may date from its fever hospital predecessor
154 White Horse pub. This pub is said to have been established early in the 18th. It was rebuilt in 1904 as a big prominent corner put with a clock at the pinnacle of the frontage. Inside original ironwork features survive.
Byron Mews. This new housing is on the site of the tramway depot (in the square to the north)
77 Royal Free Hospital Recreation Centre and Club.  Run by the Royal Free Charity this provides sports and swimming facilities as well as studio and other spaces.

Hampstead Green
This area was described as manorial waste land in the 18th and became the site of big houses and was adjacent to others.  There appears at one time to have been a small green here and in 1746 was an open space with an avenue of trees and a few buildings and a railed triangular site is now managed for wildlife, planted with a wild flower meadow. The site was owned by St Stephens’s church from 1869-75. Later it was called the Pond Street Enclosure and protected under the London Squares Act of 1931.
A Cabman's Shelter stood near the Green in  1935.
Bartram House. Bartram’s had been an ancient estate in this area with various buildings. Bartram House was built around 1806 north of the copyhold estate. It was the home from 1849 of Sir Rowland Hill whose family continued to own the site. Land to the south was purchased by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for a fever hospital and following objections in 1883 the board bought Bartram House and it was then used as a nurses' home but was exchanged in 1901 for land belonging to Hampstead General Hospital
Hampstead General Hospital. This had been founded in South Hill Park in 1882 but needed to expand. Land opposite Hampstead Green was acquired in 1901 and then exchanged with the Hampstead Fever Hospital for Bartram House which was then demolished.  It opened as Hampstead General Hospital in 1905 in a building by Young & Hall and in 1907 merged with the North-West London Hospital and began to expand its services.  In 1948 it joined the NHS and was closed and demolished in 1975 to be replaced with buildings of the Royal Free Hospital. The site became a car park and a small garden adjacent was dedicated to Dr. W. Heath Strange, the hospital’s founder.
Strange Garden. This memorial garden to Dr. Strange and the Hampstead General Hospital includes the frieze which was on the facade and which is laid out on a sloping lawn. There are other memorials on site: a Mulberry tree donated by the League of the Royal Free Hospital Nurses to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Hospital; a tree in memory of Broderick Dewhurst, clinical nurse manager 1990; a stone n memory of Helen Hendrick; a plaque in memory of Annette Mendelsohn. This garden is being moved because of redevelopment plans.
The Institute of Immunity and Transplantation is now being built on the car park and will be called the Pears Building after its donor. Along with this will be a new development, some of which will be sheltered housing ‘retirement living but not as you know it’.

Haverstock Hill
Stretch of road linking Chalk Farm and Belsize Park. The name – which dates to at least the 17th - means the place where oats are grown and it seems to have referred to the whole slope of the hill. It was also called Hampstead or London Road.
250 The George.  Established in 1666 and on Red Lion Hill in 1826. It was rebuilt in the 1920s in 'brewers' Tudor' style and has latterly been called The Rat and Parrot.
238 Rosary Roman Catholic primary school. This was originally Bartram’s Roman Catholic School and part of the orphanage run by the Sisters of Providence in Rowland Hill Street. Although it received a parliamentary grant it was not recognised as a public school but was maintained by the London County Council after 1921. After the Second World War it became Rosary School as a Roman Catholic voluntary aided primary.  It is a 19th red brick building set back from street with four storeys and an attic.
230 Maternity Welfare Centre. This was extant in the 1950s but the building is later described as a ‘Spastic Centre’.  The site appears now to be part of the Rosary School.
George V pillar box. This is on the corner with Ornan Road. It has ornate lettering cast into the door and ‘GR’ set below a crown.
WAC Arts, Arts trainbing organisation in the old Town Hall.  This was the Vestry Hall of 1877-8 built by Hampstead Vestry following a competition won by I. F Kendall and Frederick Mears. It is in red brick and stone, with a pediment on two of its sides and a corner tower. Inside is an imperial stair with cast-iron balustrades to a public hall on the first floor – the fireproof back arched floor of the hall is visible in the vestry room -later the council chamber – below. .  Alterations by Frederick Nie in 1886 included a large new committee room. In 1910-11 Hampstead Borough Council extended the building along Belsize Avenue to designs by John Murray. In 1965 the new London Borough of Camden chose St Pancras Town Hall as its main headquarters. In 1998 this was converted to an Arts Centre by Burrell, Foley
210 Shelter at the end of a drive alongside a shop – currently a Costa. This is a circular concrete pillbox with a square brick ventilation shaft on the roof. To the south is an open vertical shaft surrounded by corrugated iron with a system for dropping items into the tunnels by pulley. To the west is a low concrete structure which was probably a water or fuel tank. This was built during the Second World War with sleeping accommodation and facilities for 1,200 people. These shelters were designed as two parallel tunnels, so that they could be part of a future – but never built - express railway. Tunnels were on two floors with iron bunk, first aid facilities, wardens, and lavatories in hoppers under the works.
Ventilation shaft – modern structure painted white the brick is unpainted.
Odeon Cinema.  This opened in 1934 and with an Art Deco interior by T.P. Bennett & Son. It also has a Compton 3Manual/6Rank theatre organ with solo cello and an illuminated console. It was badly German bombed in 1941 and was. It reopened in 1954 and was by then a Rank Organisation Cinema. It closed in 1972 and was demolished leaving its adjacent shops and flats, one of the original shop units became the entrance to a new Screen on the Hill.
203 Screen on the Hill, this is in part of the site of the former Odeon Cinema, The entrance is in one of the parade of shops that was built as part of the original Odeon and retains the cream faience tiles from it. It opened in 1977 by Mainline Pictures. It has since been expanded and is now known as the Everyman Belsize Park
Belsize Park Station. Opened in 1907 this lies between Hampstead and Chalk Farm on the Northern Line. It was an original station on the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway taken over by Yerkes and now known as the Northern Line. It is a Leslie Green designed station with with rows of arches and ox-blood glazed tiles. It was refurbished in the late 1980s and although the lettering above the façade has gone there are bronzed poster surrounds from the 1920s and the original clock has been restored.  The staircase to the emergency stairs also survives in its original tiling and the original wooden lifts survived into the 1990s.  . The station was built back from the building line and this has left a small forecourt with Edwardian railings and stone plinths.
210 Deep Shelters. A quarter of a mile of twin tunnels lie below the station, constructed in n1944 as war rooms. In 1940 it was announced that a limited programme of deep public shelters would be available.
Shelter. At the junction of with Downside Crescent. This is a circular pillbox giving the northern entrance to the tunnel complex. There is a brick extension in Downside Crescent which is the current entrance and behind it a brick tower with a door at the bottom. There also a low rectangular concrete structure which is, probably a water or fuel tank. Most of the structure is painted white.


Pond Street
15 Roebuck pub. Probably dates from the mid-19th and was a Hoare’s house
Royal Free Hospital.  This originally opened in Hatton Garden and later Gray's Inn Road from 1840. It had been founded in 1828 to provide free healthcare to those who could not afford medical treatment. The title 'Royal' was added under Queen Victoria in 1837 because of work done with cholera patients. It was then the only hospital in London to offer medical training to women and work began with the London School of Medicine for Women, later renamed the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine.   A decision was taken to move out of central London after the Second World War. The site here had been occupied by the North Western Fever Hospital, which begun in temporary buildings in 1870, and the Hampstead General Hospital.  The first phase was by Watkins Gray Wood International, was built 1968-75.  These are wards in tower blocks of eighteen storeys with concentric balconies. The hospital has expanded enormously since.  In April 1991 the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust was established. Outside is a decorative iron tympanum of 1894, brought from Gray's Inn Road.  Sculpture by Jesse Watkins, two interlocking curved forms, 1974.  .
Marks and Spencer. This is on the site of the Hampstead Picture Playhouse which opened in 1914.  It closed in 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War and, despite opening again, was closed in 1940 and re-opened in 1946 as the Hampstead Playhouse. It was taken over by the Classic Cinemas chain in 1965 and then re-named Classic Cinema  It was modernised in 1968 and frontage changed and then converted into a triple screen in 1978. In 1985 it was taken over by the Cannon Group and re-named Cannon. There was a bad fire in 1986 and in 1991 it became the MGM and in 1995 taken over by Virgin.  It went on to a management buy-out and was re-named ABC. It closed in 2000 following which it was used for illegal raves and squatters. It was then bought by the Royal Free Hospital and demolished. The new building has hospital staff accommodation as well as the shop.

Railway
The Belsize Tunnel and the Belsize New Tunnel run under much of this area, east/west. The first was built for the Midland Railway by William Barlow in 1865. It was duplicated in the 1880s. It lies between Kentish Town and West Hampstead Stations.

Rosslyn Hill
St. Stephen's. This was designed by S.S.Teulon as his most expensive project.  It opened in 1870 and was funded by local Lord of the Manor Thomas Maryon Wilson. It was constantly prone to subsidence from its hillside location and by the late 1960s there were real concerns. It was closed in 1977. It was not demolished because of its listed status and instead it was squatted. It has since been refurbished following fund raising appeals and is in use by Hampstead Hill School and as a community lifelong learning centre. It is also available for community and other events.

Rowland Hill Street
North Western  Hospital. The Metropolitan Asylums Board purchased part of the Bartram’s estate for its earliest smallpox and infectious diseases hospital.  Temporary wooden and corrugated iron huts were built in 1869 and the   Hampstead Smallpox Hospital opened in 1870. Nursing care was provided by the Anglican Sisters of St Margaret, from East Grinstead.  The Hospital closed when the epidemic subsided, but reopened for a smallpox epidemic later that year. Additional huts had to be built. There were complains about possible infection and the Hospital was closed in 1872.  the Hospital buildings were then used to accommodate mentally handicapped children until Darenth Park School was ready and permanent hospital was planned for the Hampstead site.  In 1876 another smallpox epidemic began and local residents took to the courts.  Following a Royal Commission in 1881 it was renamed the North-Western Fever Hospital, treating scarlet fever and diphtheria. Bartram House was sold to them who used it as a Nurses' Home.  More land was acquired and more wards and other blocks were built.  In 1930, control of the Hospital was transferred to the London County Council.  It joined the NHS and was renamed the North-Western Hospital and became a branch of the Royal Free Hospital then still in central London.  The first kidney transplants were performed here in the 1960s, as well as the development of home dialysis was pioneered here too. The North-Western Hospital was demolished in 1973 and its site was used to build the new Royal Free Hospital.
Convent by the Sisters of Providence of the Immaculate Conception bought part of Bartram’s in 1867. they opened a private boarding school for girls in Belle Vue house and an orphanage and day school for girls in Bartram House, A new block was added in 1887 – still in use as a school. The old house was demolished and a hostel with a chapel built
Bartram’s Residential Hostel
Bartram Park. This was a large house to the south of Bartram House. it was sold to Midland Railway Co in 1867,

Sources
Borer. Hampstead and Highgate
British History on line. Camden. Web site
British Listed Buildings. Web site
Camden History Review 
Cinema Treasures. Web site
Disused Stations. Web site
GLIAS  Newsletter, 
Hillman. London Under London
Historic England. Web site
Grace’s Guide. Web site
Leboff. The Underground Stations of Leslie Green
London Borough of Camden. Web site
London Gardens On line. Web site
London Remembers. Web site
Lost Hospitals of London. Web site
Parks and Gardens. Web site
Pevsner and Cherry.  London North
Pub History. Web site
Royal Free Hospital.  Web site
St.John's Church. Web site
Subterranea Britannica. Web site
Wade. Hampstead Past
Wikipedia. As appropriate

Brampton Road
Old lane – before the 1930s almost the only lane through the area, and this is reflected in a sprinkling of 19th country houses, mostly now gone.
164 J. Thorn & Co. pre-fabricated building construction. This firm was on a large site behind housing – now Kingsgate Close. They went out of business in 1969.
142 Brampton Lodge
Brampton House. Country house demolished and replaced by semis
Brampton Place. Country house demolished and replaced by semis

Husdson Road
49 St. Thomas More Catholic Primary School. It was established in 1980 to cater for the educational needs of St. Thomas More Parish and St. John Vianney Parish, Bexleyheath.

Long Lane,
Another old lane which is now a long road consisting almost entirely of 1930s semis.  There is a small, nameless, green on the corner of Hudson Road

Pickford Close
Racing magnate Bernie Ecclestone lived here when first married.

Pickford Road
St Peter’s Parish Church and Hall. Evangelical Anglican church. In 1930 £2,000 was fund raised by local people. This resulted in a Mission Hall. Money raising activities continued and in 1936 a new Hall was opened. In 1957 a new octagonal church building to replace the mission was opened. Hans Feibusch painted murals which are now on the wall behind the Communion Table and within the dome of the roof.

Station Approach.
Bexleyheath Station. This opened in 1895 and now lies between Barnehurst and Welling Stations on South Eastern Trains. It was opened on the Bexleyheath Railway and was sited north west of the town centre because Robert Kersey, a director of the company, owned Brampton Place and wanted to profit by it. It meant However that the station it was a quarter of a mile north of the Dover Road and a mile from the market place. It is in a cutting at a point where an embankment ends. Originally it had weather boarded buildings with a bridge across the tracks which were gas lit. There was a amall waiting room on the down side.  The footbridge was built prior to electrification in 1926.  In 1936 these buildings were replaced by brick ones.
Goods yard. This was some distance from the station in a cutting. It was extended in 1932 with a new car road and another siding and a redundant goods shed was brought here from Chilworth and Albury Station. It closed in 1968
Signal box. 


Sources
Barr-Hamilton & Reilly. From Country to Suburb
Bygone Kent,
Dover Kent. Web site
Field. London Place Names,  
Geocaching. Web site
Kent County Council. History 
London Borough of Bexley. Web site 
Shaw. The Bexleyheath Phenomenon,
Spurgeon. Discover Bexley and Sidcup
St. Thomas More Parish. Web site

Post to the north Bicley
Post to the east Chiselhurst


Bickley Park Road
Bickley Park Estate. From 1861 Ernest Newton built houses throughout the area. The land had been bought by George Wythes among accusations of malpractice.
Lauriston House. Care home.
St.George's Church.  This dates from 1863 and was provided by George Wythes for the estate. It was built very expensively by F. Bames. It is in ragstone and the tower and spire were rebuilt by Ernest Newton in 1905—6.  The church was bombed in the Blitz and the next-door vicarage destroyed. Subsequently the interior was turned from light to dark by the vicar. Canon Hugh Glaisyer, by blocking all the chancel windows. It was also severely damaged by a fire in 1989.
War Memorial. This is in the churchyard and was rededicated in 2016. It is on a square base surmounted by a two stepped plinth tapered shaft and a bontonne cross. There is an inscription on the cross giving dates in Roman numerals.
Cricket club. The cricket ground here appears to have been set up by George Wythes, the original developer and appears on maps since before the Great War. The current club has an active fixture list and an arrangement with a club in Hong Kong.

Hawthorne Road
15 This is on the site of Bickley Park Farm and some buildings are said to remain at the rear

Page Heath Lane
Bickley Park School. This is a fee paying ‘independent prep’ school. It was founded in 1918 and is on two attractive sites in the road.

Southborough Road
Elmwood Nursing Home.
Bickley Station. Opened in 1858 it now lies between Bromley South to the west and both Petts Wood and St. Mary Cray to the east South Eastern Trains.  The station was originally called Southborough Road and opened by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway on the Chatham Main Line, at first from Bromley and then in 1860, to Faversham and then to Dover and Ramsgate. In 1861 it was renamed Bickley.

Sources
Bickley Cricket Club. Web site
Bickley Park School. Web site
Goldsmiths. South East London Industrial Archaeology
Pevsner West Kent
Pevsner and Cherry, South London
St. George’s Church. Web site
War Memorials On line. Web site

Church Road.
Bookham Station.  Built in 1885 it now lies between Leatherhead and Effingham Junction on South Western Rail. It was originally built by the London and South Western Railway.  They wanted to build the line into the centre of Great Bookham village but landowners and villagers were opposed and as a result the station was built north of the village in the country.  The original station buildings remain brick and with timber and corrugated sheet steel canopies, stationmaster's house (now a private house) and a cast and wrought iron footbridge.
Goods yard. This was west of the station and closed in 1965. The goods shed was used as a coal depot and builders yard and eventually demolished in the 1990s. There are now offices on the site.
Photo Me. This company building is now on the Atlas Works site. They make self operated phone booths and a range of related material was set up in 1954 and has an international reach.
Merrylands Hotel and Tea Room. This was built by Mrs Mary Chrystie opposite the station in 1885. She was a wealthy widow who invested in property development and had strong views on the dangers of alcohol. She entertained hundreds of poor families from London with non-alcoholic refreshments. In 1917 the Hotel was acquired for offices and the New Atlas Works was built in its grounds. When the factory closed in 1980 the hotel was demolished and a new office built for Photo-Me International.
New Atlas Works. In 1917 Waring, of Waring & Gillow, bought Merrylands Hotel and built New Atlas Works in the grounds and used the hotel building as offices. In the Great War it was used for the production of aeroplane parts. Afterwards the factory was run by Gillett, Stephens and Blackburne & Burney set up by Tom Gillett making engines for light cars and motor cycles. It then became known as 'Gillett Works' and was used by Wildt Mellor Bromley, a part of the Bentley Engineering Group. They made hosiery-making machinery, hydraulic equipment and undercarriages for Hawker aircraft. They closed around 1980. The factory area is now used for the manufacture of phone booths.


Edenside Road
House of Douglas Edenside nursery. This was here from 1893 to 1985. This was originally opened by James Douglas and passed to his osn Gordon. They specialised in auriculas, carnations and pinks. It was demolished in 1967 when the land was compulsorily purchased by the Leatherhead Urban District Council to enable building of Edenside council estate

Great Bookham Common
This is a remnant of a wildwood that once covered most of southern England.  In the late 1800s these commons became a popular destination for people enabled by the railway, to visit for the day. In 1923 the common was sold to a property developer and it was bought from him following a local campaign. In 1941 the London Natural History Society started making detailed surveys of these commons and since 1961 they are a Site of Special Scientific Interest. During the Second World War the commons were occupied by troops, ant-aircraft guns, a search battery, lorries and tanks. They are now managed by the National Trust
Stream. This is a tributary of the river Mole.

Little Bookham Common
This common was presented to the National Trust in 1924 by H Willock-Pollen, Lord of the Manor. It is mainly rough grassland and scrub which is poorly drained. There are several old gun pits and bomb craters.

Little Bookham Street `
Maddox Farm. Tarred 18th black barns
The Blackburn. This is the site of the old Atlas Works.  In the early 20th Thomas Gillett opened an engineering works here and in 1913 it became the works of Gillett, Stephens. They ran this along with the New Atlas Works making aeroplane parts in the Great War. Afterwards they made engines for light cars and motor cycles. In 1927 a motor cycle with a Blackburne engine won the Isle of Man TT. Engines were made here for the Bleriot 'Whippet' car and for the French-designed Marlborough car. Bookham Engineering Company took over this works in 1947 and overhauled tractors and later steel and wrought iron work. In the 1960s they moved and The Bookham factory was demolished in 1968
The Village Hall. This was a gift from Mary Chrystie, after she had bought up and closed down the Fox Inn here

Maddox Lane
Turner’s Bridge. Very narrow pedestrian bridge over the railway
Beehive Farm. The farm is also the address of an engineering company.
Bookham Grange Hotel. This opened in 1947 and closed in 2012. It is now converted into flats
Sewage works. This was built in the early 1940s by Leatherhead Urban District Council.

Maddox Park
Long Maddox Farm

Merrylands Road
Merrylands Cottages 

Oakdene Road
This was built by developer Arthur Bird and called Nelson Road

Oaken Wood
Said to be the last remaining piece of ancient woodland in the area. Mixed woodland with butterfly orchid and wild service trees.

Railway
Railway Tunnel.  The line passes through a 91 yard long tunnel which has brick portals.

Sources
Knowles. Surrey and the Motor
Mole Valley District Council. Bookham Heritage Trails
National Trust. Web site
Penguin. Surrey
Photo-me. Web site
Tarplee. Industrial History of the Mole Valley District
Wikipedia. As appropriate

Because of the size of the file for this dense inner city area, the square has been divided into four. This is the north west quarter,


Post to the north Bankside
Post to the west St,George and Waterloo
Post to the south Walworth
Post to the east Bermondsey


Avon Place
Mural painted by mORGANICo and shows a range of local scenes and stories. Some of the wall is owned by Trinity House, and the mural includes images for their 500th anniversary. It was unveiled in 2015.

Ayres Street
This was previously Whitecross Street but renamed after Alice Ayres who saved children in a fire in the 1880s.
1-6 Whitecross Cottages and Redcross Cottages. These were planned by Octavia Hill in 1887-1890 and built by Elijah Hoole.  There is as mosaic of The Sower by Lady Waterford Reset on a wall. The earlier cottages have a variety of different-sized gables and windows. They are now owned and managed by Octavia Housing and Care, a housing association.
8a George Bell House.  Community building built 1887-90 in a domestic style, with Redcross Hall incorporated at the rear. It is now studios, an office and a flat.
8 Bishops Hall. This was Red Cross Hall designed in 1887-8 by Elijah Hoole. The interior was decorated by Water Crane in 1889, with ‘Deeds of Heroism in the daily life of ordinary people'. It was intended as a reading room and library, with facilities for working men's clubs, women's groups, concerts and plays, poetry readings and gymnastics. The Cadets movement started here. It is now privately owned.
The BOST EcoHouse. This is a timber curved structure insulated with sheep's wool designed for Bankside Open Space Trust by Phil Clayton working with his team at Solid Art, Oxford Brookes University's Institute of Sustainable Development, architects White Adamski and engineers Rodrigues Associate

Borough High Street
At one time the name of High Street south of St. George's Church was Blackman Street. It is also worth noting that on the late 18th Roque map that this entire stretch of road –covering the High Street in this quarter square from 148/Tabard Street corner to Stones End - is shown as having pub after pub after pub– which probably reflects its role as a terminus for coach services, although even so, including pub yards, there do seem to be a lot of them! – White Swan, Du Black Eagle, Griffin, Catherine Wheel, Dolphin, Lamb, Horse and Groom, Flying Horse, Unicorn, Horse Shoe, Crown, Angel, Yorkshire Grey, Axe, Dun Horse, Birdcage, Faulcon, George, Three Tun.
140-148 Willcox House. This office building is home to a number of Christian bodies and some charities. It is named for Roland Wilcox who was involved in its procurement. The block may date from the 1970s and was previously used by a dealer in office machinery.
180 Brandon House. This large block is now being converted to flats. Brandon House was latterly government offices, as the head office of the, employment related, Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service and more recently the Overseas Visitors Record Office. It appears to have been preceded on the site by offices and warehouse buildings. The name Brandon House relates to Charles Brandon who had a house here in the 15th whose family were hereditary keepers of the Kings Bench Prison and later the Dukes of Suffolk.
Suffolk Place. This once stood on what is now the site of Brandon House. It was a 15th mansion belonging to the Dukes of Suffolk – being Charles Brandon at the time it was built - and later taken over by Henry VIII and it was converted to a mint in 1545 and demolished in 1557. It had vast grounds, with orchards, ponds and vineyards, stretched as far north as the line of present-day Thrale Street.
199 Haig House. Royal British Legion. Moved here from Pall Mall. They were formed in 1921, bringing together four national organisations of ex-Servicemen that had established themselves after the First World War and have since become established as the major wartime remembrance organisation including the annual poppy appeal.
White lead works
213 This is the old Crown Pub and there is still a decorative crown on the top gable. The landlord in 1902 was George Chapman hung for poisoning a series of wives/lovers. The building is now offices behind a preserved facade, most recently the London Institute of Technology and Research
St George the Martyr. A church was founded here in 1122 and rebuilt as the parish church in 1734 by John Price. It was thought it is on the north bank of an ancient channel but Roman buildings have been found which, suggest the channel was further south. The tower is probably founded on the Roman Road. Henry V was welcomed back from Agincourt here.  Two stones from the medieval church say ‘Edward, Lord of Hastings, caused me to be made AD 1438’bv‘O! Here I will set up my everlasting rest’. The church is well sited, and its square white tower can be seen throughout the area. The interior altered by William Hedger, 1807-8 it has galleries and a plaster ceiling with cherubs designed by Basil Champneys from 1897.  It was restored by T. F. Ford after Second World War damage.  The Stuart Royal arms are on the parapet of the gallery and with paintings it came from St Michael Wood Street. The church is famous because Dickens’ Little Dorrit slept in the vestry. She was baptised here and here she married Arthur Clennam so the east window is about her and about Canterbury pilgrims. It was the first church to set up a charity school in 1699, and SPCK founded was there. The original crypt is under the nave with 18th extensions and the floor under the pews is supported on old ships timbers.
Borough Station. This opened in 1890 and now lies between London Bridge and Elephant and Castle on the Northern Line It was an original station on the City and South London Railway which ran between King William Street and Stockwell and was the first deep tube. It is the most northerly of the original City and South London stations since originally from here the line ran on to King William Street. This was abandoned in 1900 when the line was diverted to London Bridge and Moorgate. Little remains of the original station entrance which was rebuilt in the 1920s when the tunnels were enlarged. The southbound platform is directly below the northbound platform and is only accessible via a narrow flight of stairs. The northbound has level access. A plaque on the station records the Second World War use of the disused tunnels as air raid shelters between 1940 and 1943 with six entrances in Borough High Street.
200 London City Hotel. Small hotel and cafe
204 Trinity. This was previously called the Hole In The Wall. It is a large pub with a panelled interior and a half timbered frontage.
223-237 Mitre House. Dramatic corner office building used for the probation service.
239 Crown Post Office. This backed on to the large, and now closed, Borough Sorting Office. It closed in 2008 and is apparently still empty. In 1870 the South Eastern Chief District Post Office and Money Order Office.
241 Prospero House. Large block used for event and training spaces.
249 Site of the Fountain and Grapes Pub. This dated from the 1820s and between 1872 and 1882 was called The Mint Gate. It probably closed before the Second World War and has long since been demolished.
275 Avon House. British School of Osteopathy. Founded in 1917 by John Martin Littlejohn, a student of Andrew Taylor Still. In 1980 they moved to London. Avon House is on the site of Avon Place and was previously in use by the Inland Revenue
Redman Green. This is what was amenity space around Redman House block.  It has been planted with trees, a wildlife hedge and a community foot project.
280 Red Lion. Pub dating from at least the 19th. It was later called Bunters Bar and then Ruse and said to have been demolished in 2016.
282-302 David Bomberg House. Thus is a hall of residence for London South Bank University students. It is named after the painter David Bomberg who taught at what was then Borough Polytechnic.
296-302 This was a ‘non-field training headquarters’ for M15 agents, although sometimes described as a ‘spy school’. Spies were taught techniques there that they would use in their work. The address is now under David Bomberg House.
298 Southwark Police Court. This dated from 1845. The address is now under David Bomberg House
323 Borough Police Station. This has a plaque on it about Stones End.
Stones End. This is where the High Street meets Newington Causeway. It is said to be the site of a fort built during the Commonwealth to defend London from Royalist attack and one of a network of forts around London

Borough Road
This road was built as part of the infrastructure consequent on the construction of Westminster Bridge in 1750 to provide access to the bridge for traffic from Kent and Surrey.  It ran across what was then the open marshy area of St George’s Fields.
62 It has been suggested that this is the watch-house for the King’s Bench Prison but it was built in 1821 by stone mason Henry Hartley on land leased from the City of London Corporation. Until at least the 1950s, the house and yard was a stone mason. The building is now flats.
68 The Ship. Pub which dates from at least the 1840s.
King’s Bench Prison. This was the second phases of the prison which moved here in 1758. It had been on the east side of Borough High Street since the mid-14th having originally been a mobile unit travelling with the Royal Household.  Built in and demolished in the 1870s.  The new prison was large with 244 rooms and included taprooms and games areas. It was burnt down during the Gordon Riots and rebuilt. As legislation covering imprisonment for debt was changed it became a military prison and demolished in 1880.
Queens Buildings.After the closure of the Kings Bench Prison it was replaced in 1881 by Queen’s Buildings which were seven storey model housing tenements. The estate was bombed in the Second World War and was demolished in 1977. It was replaced by the Scovell Estate
Scovell Estate. This is a low-rise group by Southwark Architect's Department, 1978.
77 Diary House Lett's diaries. In 1796 John Letts established a stationery business st the in the arcades of London's Royal Exchange. Merchants needed a means of recording the movements of stock and controlling their finances and Letts responded to in 1812 by creating the world's first Commercial Diary. In 1921 they moved to Southwark and in 1980 to Dalkeith. In 2001 they acquired the Filofax Group.
79-81 IPSOS Mori. This is a part of Diary House the print works of Charles Letts & Co Ipsos Mori are the large international marketing research and polling analysts.
Vestry Hall, this was the ‘town hall’ for the St.George the Martyr parish when it was the local authority.  Following the creation of the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark it appears to have been used for other civic functions – including meetings of various bodies.  In the 1920s it appears to have been the Southwark Union Relief Station. It still appears on maps post-Second World War but the site is now a modern extension to the Letts factory.
82 Baptist Chapel. This is now the, Nigerian based, Deeper Life Bible Church but has also been the Grace Church. It claims to be the oldest Baptist Church in London dating from 1624 – although, clearly, in a different building.
St. George the Martyr, National School for Boys and Girls. The local parish school moved here in 1839 having been split as a boys school in what was then Lancaster Road and a girls school adjacent to the churchyard.
47 Duke of York. For a while in the 1970s this was the Goose and Firkin, the original Bruce Home Brew pub.  It later returned to its original name. It dates from at least the 1820s
49-60 This is now the international headquarters of The International Transport Workers' Federation, is a global federation of transport workers’ trade unions, founded in 1896. The building dates from 1889 as a factory for Day and Martin, manufacturers of boot blacking
Day and Martin. Having worked in hair dressing Day and Martin began to make blacking around 1901 with a recipe from Martin's brother-in-law.  By 1808 the firm was in High Holborn and Day was sole proprietor. They moved to Borough Road in 1890m with a Range of more than 80 products. The business went through various take overs and changes. They moved to Stratford in 1913, and then to Great Dunmow. By 1976 they were Carr and Day and Martin with a range of horse care products was then launched.
83 London School of Musical Theatre. This was founded in 1995 to cater for the demand for an intensive training in Musical Theatre for the mature student. It was originally housed at The Old Vic, moved Borough Road in 2000.
83 this was designed by C Ashby Lean in 1906 for the South London Institute of the Blind.  The foundation stone record the charity’s Patron was Lord Llangattock, a local landowner. By the 1980s it was branch of Barclays Bank, and later became empty. It is an eccentric gothic building but is currently under threat of demolition
Railway bridge. In the 1860s the London Chatham and Dover railway line was built on a brick viaduct to take trains from the Elephant and Castle to Blackfriars.

Clenham Street
This is part of what was Peter Street until 1896
27 Lord Clyde.  The pub was originally called the Duke of Kent from 1832-1910, and then named the Lord Clyde following a 1922 rebuild. The exterior ground floor has green faience tiles  with: 'TRUMANS Burton Ales ... The Lord Clyde ... Trumans London Stout ... E J Bayling ... Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd' and above: 'Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd ... Ales ... Stout & Porter'.  And on the corner splay: 'The Lord Clyde ... Trade mark ... Trumans Bottled beers'. And a large eagle. Inside is a mirror with on it “‘Unrivalled Mild Ales & Double Stout”.

Cole Street.
6-8 Cole Street Studios said to be a former spice and leather warehouse
28 Warehouse. Built 1826-27 by William Chadwick
26 General Baptist Chapel. This appears to have originally been a Baptist Chapel, -independent Calvinist - and later Congregational. This is now flats

Copperfield Street
This was previously called Orange Street
All Hallows Church Garden – Copperfield Street Garden. There is a paved area and steeper steps up to a crucifixion statue pot plants. Down stone steps on the far side through an archway is the grassed-over are of the church nave. The buttressed wall on the corner with Pepper Street once was the entrance into the church.
All Hallows Church and Presbytery. This was by George Gilbert Scott Junior and darted from 1879-80. It was damaged in Second World War bombing, but some restorations were carried out in 1956. The church was closed in 1971 and let for as a recording studio and offices for a charity.
Thereby are two stone archways a chapel which is now part of a block of flats, designed by T.F. Ford in 1957. The parish was merged with that of Saint George the Martyr and Saint Jude.
The Vicarage and Church Hall. Late 19th house built in the Arts & Crafts style.
Winchester Cottages. Built by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1893 to reflect methods used by Octavia Hill.
Cast Iron bollard. This is on the south-east corner with Pepper Street and has on it ‘Clink 1812’. It is probably one of 60 made by Bishop & Co for the Clink Paving Company Commissioners.
25 Buildings for Coborn Engineer. The company was based at Peasmarsh near Guilford as well as this works and made sliding doors, trolley tracks, etc.

Disney Street
Glass works. This was the works of Faulkner, Greene & Co. Ltd who were also in Redcross Way. Established in 1933 they were Stockists of plate, sheet and safety glass. Manufacturers and processers of constructional glass products; stained glass; leaded lights; and patent glazing.

Great Guildford Street
41-43 In the late 19th this was the works of Illingworth and Ingham, suppliers of furniture to schools and offices.  In 1935 it was the works of the New Croydon Rubber Company, manufacturers of hot water bottles and related items
45 Haddon’s Model Printing Office. Haddon’s were here in the early 20th . They were type founders and manufacturers of printing equipment. This was basically a showroom where printers could visit, see equipment at work and have a go themselves.   It is now headquarters of a record company, Curb
49-55 Goodife Centre. This is an independent learning space offering “practical boutique workshops in DIY, Home Maintenance, Decorating, Upholstery, Woodwork & Carpentry, Furniture Upcycling & Restoration and various traditional hand Crafts.”
96 St.Mungo’s Hostel. This charity had been helping homeless night sleepers since 1969. It provides a bed and supper. They leased this hostel in 1995 which was previously Lancelot Andrews House. There are about 52 residents who for several months and are helped to find employment and accommodation. The hostel has recently been rebuilt to modern standards.
108 Fox and Hounds. 
Lancelot Andrews House. This was built as a hostel in the 1890s to house "vagrants and drunkards" unfit for admission to the nearby workhouse and owned by the government. It is now leased to St. Mungos.
Duthy Hall. This building is currently in use as a photographic studio. It was leased by Southwark Council in 1963 and used as a theatre for amateur productions with an annual Shakespeare festival which showcased several future stars. It appears to date from the 1920s-30s and possibly may have had a connection with All Hallows Church adjacent.  It has planning consent for redevelopment

Great Dover Street
6a Dover Castle. Large pub dating from at least the 1860s which is now a backpackers' hostel.
Great Suffolk Street
125 Libertine Pub.  This was the Skinners Arms on the corner with Toulmin Street .A one bar pub with large front windows and plush interior. There is a pool table at the front and dartboard. There are leaded light glass panels on the interior doors.
129 Suffolk House. Connecting London. This is an IT support company.  1890s Surrey Machinists Co who made bicycles. Since then there have been a wide range of concerns in this building - wallpaper manufacturers, animation studios, builders, etc.
137 The Signal Press. There are also flats in this building
130 Beck & Co. Engineering works. This firm of Hydraulic engineers and meter makers was founded in 1837 that specialised in positive water meters, water, gas and steam fittings. From 1932 they made electrically operated petrol pumps and from 1935 specialised in "Beckmeter" petrol pumps,
114 Smale House. Vodaphone, previously offices for Cable and Wireless

Lant Street
Called after Thomas Lant who acquired Suffolk House in the 17th.
1 Dickens lodged here while his father was in the New Marshalsea in 1824.  The house has gone
12 Listening Books. This company produces recordings of books as a service to the blind'.  The building is said to have previously been a printing works and there is a plaque with ‘1904’ on the building.  This is the site of a pub called The Blue Coat boy which was there 1825-1891.  In 1904 this was replaced by a ‘small warehouse’ which was in use by a local firm of brush makers.  By the late 1950s it was used by cinema engineers, Rae Stage Equipment, and in the 1970s it was in use by Norfolk Reed Thatchers,
23 Prince of Wales Pub. This pub was demolished in 2005.  In the 1960-70s the then owner had gangland and connections with the Krays.  It dated from the 1880s and was originally just called  The Prince
St. Michael and All Angels church.  This was on the corner with Trundle Street and dated from 1867. It consisted of a nave and chancel with bell cote plus a north aisle from 1904 n C W Blackwood-Price. It was declared redundant in 1953 and in 1956 converted 1956 into a church hall for St George's parish. The fittings went to St Barnabas Eltham. From 1993 to 2002 it was a Diocesan training centre and was demolished in 2004 and sold for offices and flats.
Charles Dickens Primary School. This was built by the London School Board in 1877 as the Lant Street School. In 1901 it was enlarged and in 1911 changed its name to the Charles Dickens School in honour of Charles Dickens who had once lodged nearby. Part of the street surface has now been blocked off and is now the playground.
61 Lant Street Wine Co. This was Waterloo Wines – a business supplying wines with a warehouse behind in Vine Street.  This building was once a cork warehouse built for a Mr. Peet in 1867.
64 Gladstone Pub.   The pub dates from the 1880s but was rebuilt, probably in the 1930s.  It features on the outside large paintings of Prime Minister Gladstone over written with ‘Charrington’.  It has recently been listed as an asset of community value.
Patent leather factory. This was next door to the cork factory – but numbered as 4 - and owned by a Mr Preller who had patented his process and ‘fitted up a large factory’ for ‘Specimens of Machine Driving Bands, Lashing Laces, and Ropes... suitable for any, especially hot climates’.
3 (or 5 in the old numbering system) George Hazeldine had this corner site for a ‘cart and wheel works’ from at least the 1840s on a site which had earlier been a timber yard on the corner of what is now Sanctuary Street.  He described himself at the same time as a coach and omnibus builder and held patents for ‘improvements’ on many types of vehicle. There were several Hazeldine Brothers and the firm continued until 1928 with a record for constant innovation. They made large items – vans and dustcarts.   They were taken over in 1928 by wheelwright, D.Sebel, who expanded in the 1930’s into architectural metalwork making street cleaning carts, milk churns and fronts for cinemas. War work during the Second World War included Bailey bridge components and a tower for an experimental radar station.  Harry Sebel worked on patterns for a rocking horse and after the war toys and steel furniture were made.  In 1947 they moved to Erith as Mobo Toys.
Redman House.-Local authority tower block built in 1965 with 13 floors.

Little Dorrit Court
Named after Amy Dorrit, heroine of the Dickens’ novel.
Little Dorrit playground. This was created by the London County Council's Parks and Open Spaces Committee, and opened in 1902 by the LCC Councillor for Rotherhithe, Mr A Pomeroy-Cragg. Improvement works carried out in 2001 by the Little Dorrit Park Group, and includes bronze plaques by Danuta Solowig Wedderburn. It is now supported by Bankside Open Spaces Trust’ who have installed a tiny Peace Garden, seating and a mosaic by a local artist. This is also thought to be where poet WH Davies lived.  Part of the site was Falcon Court which was the subject of various works on the dreadful living conditions of the poor, and was later subject to slum clearance schemes.  On the south side of the area in the late 19th was a steel works and a Leather warehouse
St.Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School. This is attached to the parish of Precious Blood and Our Lady of La Salette and Saint Joseph

Marshalsea Road
Marshalsea Road. In the early 1870s the idea of a new road to connect Southwark Bridge Road with Borough High Street was discussed as a way of helping the traffic congestion on London Bridge. In 1877 the Metropolitan Street Improvements Act allowed the Metropolitan Board of Works to undertake this. Marshalsea Road was thus opened in 1888. It was named after the former prison is named for the debtors’ prison which stood on the east side of Borough High Street. It stands on the site of The Mint.
Boundary mark.  This is at the junction with Southwark Bridge Road and marks the boundary between the parishes of St George and St Saviour.
Peabody Marshalsea Road estate. This covers much of the area of what was The Mint sanctuary. Peabody took over flats from the Improved Dwellings Co in 1964 and also those build by James Hartnol in 1970.
Ilfracombe Flats and Monarch Flats.  These blocks are on triangular site and were both built in 1888 by James Hartnoll from Southwark who made a fortune out of working-class housing built all over London. These flats were acquired by Peabody in 1970.
11 London Confectionary, Chocolate and Jam works. This was a depot handling jam and other items some of which were made on fruit farms in Swanley, Kent.
7 Fur warehouse. This appears to have been present from the 1890s through until the Second World War. In 1918 it is described as a ‘Hatters Furs’ business. Charles Cay & Co. hatters were in Marshalsea Street at an unidentified address.
5 in the 1930s this address is of motor car sales and spares business - William Clark (Spares) Ltd.

Mint Street
This is an old street in the Borough which covered the area of the Mint but much of its previous length has been taken by Marshalsea Road. Before the 1880s, when Marshalsea Road was built, Mint Street ran as far as Borough High Street where its entrance was called ‘Mint Gate’.
The Mint. This covered the area of Suffolk Place and the area previously owned by the Brandons, Earls of Suffolk. Henry VIII had set up mint Brandon House at a time when three additional mints were established to supplement that in the Tower. It was set up to produce silver coinage, and closed in 1551.  The area retained the name of the Mint despite its short existence.  It was handed, under Mary 1, to the diocese of York and they leased it for development of the worst sort and slums resulted. A condition of its 1550 charter turned it into a Liberty outside the jurisdiction of the City Corporatism. It became a place of refuge for debtors evading imprisonment and it also became a place where they could be exploited or die. In 1723 this status was lost in special legislation but nevertheless a terrible slum remained.  In the later 19th conditions there were exposed by a series of books and articles which drew attention to the conditions and improvements began.
Douglas Flats, Built by Improved Dwellings Co. in 1886 as part of a slum clearance scheme. The company which built them was founded in 1863 by Sydney Waterlow, the printworks owner who, interested in philanthropic housing, built flats which were self-contained, but with rents were slightly higher than Peabody's. Peabody took them over in 1964.
St Saviours Union Workhouse. In 1729 the parish of St. George the Martyr set up a ‘poor house’ in Mint Street. The Master was an expert in woolen goods and the inmates were set to work producing saleable items. In 1782 the ‘poor house’ was replaced by a larger building with administration and public offices on the Mint Street frontage. It was built for 624 inmates with 14 infirmary wards and a vagrants section. Conditions were reported as appalling with neglect of every sort.  In 1869 St. George’s became part of the St.Saviour’s Poor Law Union.  The buildings continued in use until the 1920s.  The site later became a depot for Southwark Council.
Mint Street Park. This is now on the site of the Poor Law building and the Evelina Hospital. It is the largest green park in Bankside with an Adventure Playground, a community stage, a renewed play area with a rocky climbing wall, and a ball court. It has been re-landscaped by Bankside Open Spaces Trust with raised beds created and planted by a gardening club working with Putting Down Roots, a project run by St Mungo's Association for homeless people. There is a mural on the wall of a house.

Pepper Street
All Hallows church remains. The door of the church fronts on to Pepper Street and the Copperfield Street garden area and other buildings to the rear. It is understood that the habitable remains are now a housing co-operative.
Workhouse. A new workhouse was built here, designed by George Gwilt the elder for the St.Saviours parish.  This opened in 1777. The land the workhouse was built upon was part of' Winchester Park owned by the Bishop of Winchester and had to vacate when the sub lease eventually expired in the early 19th
Harris Hat Factory. The former workhouse was leased by John Rawlinson Harris for a hat factory. When Southwark Bridge Road opened in 1819 the building was adapted into housing which faced onto the new road

Pocock Street
St Stephen’s Parliamentary Press. This was opened by the Speaker of the House of Commons in 1961. It was built on the site of the former SO Warehouse, next door to the old Parliamentary Press in Pocock Street, which had been destroyed in the war. Some 700 staff were employed here, producing Commons and Lords Hansards overnight by traditional hot-metal Linotype and Monotype and hand composition. They also produced the London Gazette, Bills, Acts of Parliament, the Vote Bundle etc. The building is now part of the County Court complex.

Redcross Way
This southern end of Redcross Way as part of The Mint sanctuary and where cholera first broke out in England in 1832.
Cathedral School. These school buildings date from 1977 and it was previously on the corner with Union Street and Redcross Way in buildings which are now the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education’s headquarters.  Before this it was on the Crossbones Graveyard site and has an even longer history which goes back to at least the early 18th.  It became a National School in the 1840s and in 1905 when St Saviour’s Church became Southwark Cathedral it was renamed as the Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overie and new buildings also resulted from actions of the London School Board. In 1977, the current school was built in Redcross Way on sites where tenement blocks had been demolished.
Redcross Cottages overlooking Redcross Gardens, were built in 1887 and part of the complex of cottages planned by Octavia Hill and fronting Ayres Street.
Red Cross Gardens. Laid out in 1887 by Julia, Countess of Ducie. The land was bought for £1,000 by Octavia Hill to stand to the rear of her cottages. A plaque was erected here by Octavia Hill in 1896. It was managed by Trustees and now restored by Bankside Open Gardens Trust who have their depot and offices nearby. Originally a gallery with covered playground under it ran along the south side and there was a bandstand.
Mowbray buildings. This and other tenement blocks in the street were built by Waterlow’s Metropolitan Industrial Dwellings Company. They were demolished in the 1970s and the sites are now used for Cathedral School.

Sanctuary Street
In the 19th this was Harrow Street
Farm House Temperance Mission. This was here in the 1870s when it was claimed, by some locals, that they could remember a farm here. It was a lodging house and also used for meetings. It appeared to be a Methodist organisation.

Sawyer Street
9 Whitehill House.  This is a block of flats, built in 1889 by L. Ambler for the Countess Selborne, one of Octavia Hill's associates
Finch’s Grotto. This was on what is now the corner with Southwark Bridge Road. It was a place of entertainment in the 18th century with gardens where there was a medicinal spring. A grotto was built over the spring and water cascaded over embankments.   The garden was planted with shrubs and trees, and extended over the area where Winchester House is today. It went out of business by the 1770s.
Grotto Place Playground
New Grotto Burial Ground. In 1777 St Saviour’s Parish bought the grotto site and opened it as a burial ground.

Scovell Road
Stones End Day Centre and the Scovell Estate

Southwark Bridge Road
Previously called Guildford Street and, before that Bandy Leg Walk. Named after Sir Richard Guildford. When Southwark Bridge was opened in 1819 this was its approach road to the south
Welsh Congregational Chapel. In 1774 a Welsh service was held in Smithfield and in 1785 when a Welsh Chapel was built. In 1806 a chapel was built in Little Guildford Street, and the freehold bought about 1870. A new chapel was then built and the current chapel is on the same site but the entrance now faces Southwark Bridge Road. In a 1990 storm part of the roof and two chimneys fell into the Chapel which was re-opened six months later
168 Winchester House.  This is the east wing of what was originally St Saviours workhouse probably built by George Gwilt senior. When the road was built, the east wing faced onto to and was converted into two houses with pilasters and a balustrade along with porches added. It was the home of Eyre Massey Shaw, the first chief officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (later the London Fire Brigade). It was the London Fire Brigade headquarters until 1937 they moved to a new building on the Albert Embankment. There were Extensions to the bulldog for the Fire Brigade in 1878 and again in 1911. It became the London Fire Brigade Museum which has now closed with items in storage.
Fire station. Built in 1878, by Alfred Mott, chief architect to the Brigade under the Metropolitan Board of Works. The frontage to a central range with three appliance bays and a five storey square watch tower. On the lintels are 'MFB', '1878' and 'MBW'. There is an extension built in 1911 with four appliance bays a vehicle access arch. There are other buildings with a range facing the drill yard and offices, a paint and repair shop. Inside are original staircases, sliding poles two stone plaques in the reception area. Upstairs are long corridors with offices, recreation rooms, and dormitories. This is of interest because of its rarity and an early example of a fire station-type as an identifiable building. It was an influential design with established a prototype.
London Salvage Corps No. 3 Station (D District), opposite the headquarters of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station in Southwark Bridge Road and on the corner with Lant Street. From there they protected the whole of south London. The corps began operations in 1866 to reduce the loss and damage caused by fires, to help mitigate the effects of fire and of fire-fighting and to salvage both premises and goods affected by fire.
134 South London Brewery. This was founded in 1760. In the 1930s it was registered as Jenner's Brewery Ltd. but in 1939 it was acquired by Beamish & Crawford Ltd. And then Woodhead's Brewery Ltd. acquired a stake in 1944. It closed in 1964 and the buildings were demolished
96 Goldsmith's Arms. Large pub next to what was the London   Fire   Brigade's training headquarters. It is said to have started in Finches Grotto, was burnt down in 1796 and rebuilt. It was damaged in again in the Second World War and was again rebuilt.  It was a two-bar pub with darts and shove-halfpenny. It has also been known as The Escape. This has now closed.
144 site of the Britannia Pub. Now demolished.
65 Fox Pub. Now demolished.
58 Bricklayers Society Hall. This was the headquarters of the Operative Bricklayers Society and/or their successor bodies. This trade union dated from 1848 and by successive merger is now part of Unite.
35 Brown Bear Pub. This was on the corner with America Street. It has been demolished.
56 Library.  The foundation stone for this was laid in 1893 for the St.Saviours Parish and it was designed by John Johnson.  It was extended in 1935. By the 1960s it had a specialist commercial reference library. The library closed in 1977.  It eventually became a community centre which closed in 1999 for lack of cash and he need for expensive repairs.
Evelina Children’s Hospital. This was founded in Southwark in 1869 as a result of a 19th tragedy. Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, at the of twenty-one left Vienna for London. In 1865 he married his cousin Evelina but in 1866 she died having gone into labour prematurely following a railway accident. Baron de Rothschild founded the Evelina Children's Hospital in the memory of her and their child. The hospital was designed by Dr Farre who was the first chair of its management committee and the hospital's consultant physician. It was a pioneer of unlimited visiting and there were Cubicles in every ward for mothers to stay beside their children. It amalgamated with Guy's Children's Department in 1947 entering the National Health Service as combined teaching hospitals. The hospital here closed in 1975 and it continues as a ward in Guys Hospital.

Stones End Street
Marks the eastern end of the Kings Bench

Sudrey Street
This was once called Little Suffolk Street
Gable Cottages.  The Cottages replicate those built for Octavia Hill but these were built for Rev T. Bastow in 1889 and arranged as an almshouse.  They were also designed by Elijah Hoole.
10 Rodney’s Head Pub. Demolished – probably closed before the Second World War

Swan Street
29 Trinity Arms. Pub opposite Southwark County Court built 1850 by Trinity House. Now closed and turned into flats
Southwark County Court Annexed to Inner London Crown Court.   This is on the site of the Southwark Court of Requests which was built in 1824. The legislation which set up the Southwark and East Brixton Court of Requests Act 1806 was repealed in 2012.
Holy Trinity  Schools.. This was a National School which stood on the east side of the street from 1841.  The architect was Richard Suter

Trinity Street,
Trinity House acquired the land it owns in Newington in 1661 on condition that it was held in trust "for Relieving comforting Easing & Maintaining of the poor Aged Sick Maimed Weak and decayed Seamen and Mariners of this Kingdom, their Wives children and Widowes where most need was".

Sources
Aldous. Village London
Bankside Open Spaces Trust. Web site
Borough Welsh Congregational Chapel. Web sit
Brewery History Society. Web site
British Listed Buildings. Web site
British Numismatic Society. Web site
Byrne. Prisons and Punishments of London
Carr, Martin and Day. Web site.
Closed Pubs. Web site
Clunn. The Face of London
Diocese of Southwark. Web site
Exploring Southwark. Web site
Field. London Place Names
Golden. Old Bankside
GLIAS Newsletter
Goodlife Centre. Web site
Grace’s Guide. Web site
Greater London Council. Home Sweet Home
Historic England. Web site
HMsOldies. Web sit
Ideal Homes. Web site
London Borough of Southwark. Web site
London Encyclopaedia 
London Gardens Online. Web site
London Metropolitan Archive. Web site
Lucas. London
Peabody. Web site
Pevsner and Cherry. South London 
Proclamation Trust. Web site
Pub History. Web site
Summerson. Georgian Buildings in London
Thorne. Old and New London
Trinity and Newington Residents Association. Web site
Workhouses. Web site

Because of the size of the file for this dense inner city area, the square has been divided into four. This is the north east quarter

The north west corner is  Borough


Post to the north Bankside
Post to the west St,George and Waterloo
Post to the south Walworth
Post to the east Bermondsey



Angel Place
It is named after a 16th pub which was on its north side. However the current Angel Place would have been inside the Marshalsea prison
Marshalsea Prison Remains. A brick wall which was the southern boundary of the prison runs along the alleyway. There is also a small garden area. There are six memorials in the alleyway – a circular stone with a quotation from Little Dorritt; an information plaque including work done by BOST; a plaque about Little Dorritt; a circular stone about Little Dorritt; a plaque about Dickens’ father and a stone plaque about the site of the Marshalsea Prison.
White Lion prison. From at least 1580 prison facilities were provided by the White Lion Inn. It was on the south side of Angel Court and Angel Alley (which no longer exist) and was used for the site of the rebuilt Marshalsea. It was known as the Borough Gaol and was succeeded by the Surrey County Prison at Newington Causeway, built in 1791.

Borough High Street
173 Blue Eyed Maid. Pub which dates from at least the 1820s and which is now partly an Indian restaurant.
211 John Harvard Library. This is a London Borough of Southwark public library. It is named after John Harvard, the Southwark clergyman who emigrated to Massachusetts and bequeathed his estate and nooks to what became Harvard University.
211 Southwark Local Studies Library opened in 1978 at the rear of John Harvard Library. It included collections had been partly inherited from the predecessor councils accumulated since public libraries had opened in the 1880s. In 1972 Mary Boast was appointed first Local Studies Librarian.
Marshalsea Prison. This was a building used by the Marshal (hence the name) of the King's Bench as a prison. It had evolved from a Court to which Marshalsea rulings could be appealed and was jurisdiction of the royal household, but later held unconnected religious and criminal prisoners but mainly debtors.It had originally been a 14th establishment further north on Borough High Street. Around 1800 it was rebuilt here on the site of what is now the John Harvard Library. . It was technically private property, with shareholders and by the 18th was a debtors' prison with separate areas for those who could afford to rent rooms and the common or poor side. It had its own bar and shops run by inmates. Conditions were very bad with many suffering torture and extortion and dying of disease or violence. It was rebuilt following an enquiry in 1811. The 1811 building is that described by Dickens and it too was overcrowded and squalid with internal arrangements made by a committee of prisoners. There was a separate section for Admiralty Prisoners
Saint George's Churchyard. (The church itself is in the quarter square to the west). . The churchyard of the predecessor church had been where prisoners from Marshalsea and other local jails were buried and also some Civil War leaders. Bishop Bonner had been buried here in 1569 late at night. The current church’s yard was on the north side of the church and was extended in 1817. It closed in the 1850s and was laid out as a garden in 1882. In 1905 the London County Council acquired part of it for a new road between Tabard Street and Borough High Street but added other land in compensation. An extended garden is accessed from Tabard Street (below).  A garden area is also to the north of the church with some memorials in flower beds and a few gravestones against the church wall. The churchyard also shares a wall with Angel Place.
134-138 Maya House. Office block Blue men with musical instruments climb up the outside of the building – this is an artwork by Ofra Zimbalista

Bowling Green Place. 
This was previously Bowling Green Lane
An internal road into a London County Council style estate featuring Kentish place names on the blocks

Chapel Place
Chapel Place was the predecessor street to Hankey Place, on a slightly different alignment at the south west end

Crosby Row
Wesley’s second chapel in Southwark. This stood at the northern end of Crosby Row. It is described as one of Wesley's octagon and built for him by Samuel Butcher, a Bermondsey leather merchant in 1764. By 1818 the congregation had moved to Long Lane to the south, and this church became a Sunday school.
St Hugh Charterhouse Mission Church. The Ark. This was on the site of Wesley’s second Bermondsey Chapel. Charterhouse Ark was built in 1892-8 by Carpenter & Ingelow.  It was later described as a “queerly-shaped building, with church and clubrooms combined”.  This church closed in 2011 and the church is now the ground floor of a block of flats.
32 Charterhouse-in-Southwark settlement. This had been  established in 1885 by old boys of Charterhouse School as a city mission to provide education and amenities to the deprived people in Bermondsey, originally in Tabard Street. Funds were raised to build St Hugh’s Church and a building here.  In 2008 the charity decided to close here in favour of becoming a grant-giving body. The site was sold to the Family Mosaic housing association and it is now a housing scheme called the Murano Building Designed by local architect Michael Trentham. The church has been rebuilt on the ground floor
Beormund Primary School. This is a special school for children who have social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. Opened as a purpose built facility in 1975.  It appears to be partly on the site of what was Laxon Street School. This opened in 1874 by the London School Board, was remodelled in 1909 and became Laxon Secondary School for Girls in 1951. Laxon Street was a turning off Long Lane, now under Beormond School. Laxon Street School merged with other schools in 1968.   Beormund may now be demolished for housing
Beormond Hostel. This was attached to the school and built with it. It took 20 boys who were pupils at the school.
37 Whitesmiths Arms, dated from at least the 1840s but closed in 2013 and turned into flats
39 Arc Day Nursery. This was Charterhouse Girls Club set up in the 1930s. Latterly Charterhouse in Southwark ran this as Arc Nursery until 2009 when was leased to an unrelated charity. The building appears originally to have been a mission hall.

Falmouth Road
Waygood Lifts. This was on the site of blocks of housing, including Bentham House. Waygood was founded by Richard Waygood in 1833 in Dorset and in 1840s moved to London. They made hand operated and later electric belt-driven and hydraulic lifts from the 1860s.  They were the first lift manufacturer in England to produce electric elevators. In 1914 they purchased the British business of the US lift manufacturer, and became Waygood-Otis and their Falmouth Road factory became Otis Lifts United Kingdom head office. By 1952 they were controlled by Otis and manufacture took place in Coventry. Otis is now a major US based lift manufacturer with some UK offices. The Waygood company was dissolved only in 2013.

Globe Street
Persian Silk Tree– rare tree grown as a street tree
Wall painted sign for C.Wallin Tin Box maker.  Wallin were here from at least the 1920s until at least the 1980s. Their address was actually the corner house in Trinity Street, no 45 with the works to the rear in Globe Street.

Great Dover Street
190 Marathon House. This was until recently County House, a government building housing the Immigration Advisory Service.  Sold off, it now appears to be about to be converted to the House of Sport.
Surrey Dispensary. The Dispensary was set up as a charitable foundation in the 18th century to provide medical services to the poor. During its history it moved many times in the area. It moved here to Great Dover Street in 1840 where it stayed until 1927. The site appears to have been bought by Upsons who traded as Dolcis. The charity still exists as a body giving grants to sick people in need.
7-14 Dolcis House. This was originally the headquarters of Upson’s ‘the great boot provider’.  They had been started in 1863 by John Upson, in Plumstead who sold shoes in Woolwich market. By the early 20th the company had branches throughout London and south-east England.  They acquired Barron & Coin 1925 and the head office was here. By 1927 they had 135 shops with nine of them on Oxford Street.  The head office moved to Leicester in 1967.  The Great Dover Street building has since been demolished
7-14 SPIE Matthew Hall. This was a facilities building for this international construction company.
7-14 Can Mezzanine. The building now offers office space to charities and others

Great Maze Pond
This road – although still a public road – is essentially an internal road for Guys Hospital (detailed in the post to the north).  Before 1900 the east side of the road was taken up with hop warehouses and, at the south end, Holcombe Buildings
Holcombe Buildings. In the 1890s Booth reported that these tenements belonged to Guys and used to house their employees

Guy Street
Guy Street Park. This was opened as a recreation ground in 1899.  It had been a burial ground for Guy’s Hospital who had bought the site in 1789 but closed it in the 1850s.  It was then a builder's yard until 1896 when Bermondsey Vestry and the London County Council bought the site from Guy’s with financial help from other local vestries and the Guinness Trust and the Metropolitan Public Gardens Trust for layout and maintenance.  It was then called the Nelson Street Recreation Ground and later Kipling Street Park.  In the 1990s a friends group was set up and the par was renovated with new planting and a shrubbery, a ball court, a play area and a rope climbing frame.
2 Guys Arms. Pub which closed in the 1990s and is now flats. It dated from at least the 1880s and a Courage’s sign remains above the corner door.

Hankey Place
This was Chapel Place, slightly realigned and rebuilt following the London County Council’s changes to the Tabard Street area. It was named for Donald Hankey who worked in a mission here before the Great War, and then, having enlisted, became well known through publications about military service in the war,
3-5  Richer House. Head office of media and audio equipment retailer. Julian Richer began buying and selling hi-fi separates at school when he was 14 and in 1978, aged 19, he opened his first shop on London Bridge Walk. They now have 53 stores nationwide and online.
Tabard Community Hall. This is also called Hankey Hall. Community facility for the Tabard Estate. It probably dates from 1924.
Wesleyan Southwark Chapel. The Chapel was built in 1809 and able to seat a congregation of 1,500. It faced onto what was then called Chapel Place.  The Chapel closed in 1918 and demolished a few years later. It, or its ancillary buildings became used as a billiard hall in the 1920s and were later taken over by the Stansfield Club, part of a Bermondsey youth mission.
Vicarage. What appears to be the vicarage of St. Stephen’s Church remains on the corner with Tabard Street.

Kipling Street
This is said to be on the approximate site of Meeting House Walk. It was also previously called Nelson Street.
NCP Car Park
St Paul. This was built in 1848 and designed by S.S. Teulon. The parish had been established in 1846 out of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey. It closed in 1956 and was used as the Diocesan furniture store until demolished in 1961. The site was sold to Guy's Hospital and is now occupied by flats
Vicarage. This was the vicarage to St. Pauls and is still a Cathedral property
St Paul’s National School. Buildings for boys and girls schools lay behind the church to the west. They appear to have closed before 1900.
Wesley chapel. This was taken over in 1743 from Unitarian Baptists. • Twenty years later he moved to a new site in Crosby Row. The chapel was on the west side of" Meeting House Walk and the chapel was probably south of the Miller of Mansfield pub. It had been built in 1736 by. Elizabeth Ginn, for a Unitarian Baptist preacher

Long Lane
Connected churches of Bermondsey and Southwark. It allegedly was created by Bermondsey Abbey around 1104 to connect its lands and buildings in Bermondsey to those at the southern end of Borough High Street and its manor to the west, later called St George's Fields. This stretch of Long Lane was called White Street in the 19th
25-33 Harding’s Tinplate. This works was demolished before the 1990s. A building belonging to the company still remains in Tabard Street
74-84 Selected Rug Co. Warehouse building with distinctive green bricks. This was part of the wire weavers Bedford, Steer, End & Co, founded on this site as the original Southwark Wire Works in 1824. In the 1890s they were workers of copper, brass, iron, steel, tinned, and galvanized wire of all kinds by steam power. By the 1950s they were making brush parts for dynamos as well as wire baskets sacks and containers of all sorts. The factory and buildings were reconfigured and partly rebuilt in the 1960s. The building is now being turned into flats,
109 The Old School Yard. This was the George pub and now claims to be a cocktail bar. The current number of the building is 109 but other nearby numbers are given for it in the past. The pub is said to date from the 1880s from licensing records but is not shown on maps before the Second World War. On all maps except the most recent this now kerbside building is shown as being smaller and to the back of the site. A broken sign on the front, now removed, indicates that it dates from the 1930s but it seems possible that the pub and its licence moved, perhaps as part of changes to the school buildings to which it is adjacent.
171 Valentines. This was previously the Valentine and Orson. The licence dates from the 1860s but this ultimate building – now demolished – looks post Second World War. Pub has now gone and flats and supermarket built on the site – which are called The Valentine. Valentine and Orson is apparently a French medieval romance where Orson is raised by bears – and the pub sign here (from Edith’s memory) was of a man with a bear.  The story was turned into a popular theatrical event in the 19th. This pub too seems to have been moved down the street from its original site and rebuilt.

Manciple Street
Manciple Street is the result of a regeneration scheme from the early 1920s undertaken by the London County Council. . This quarter square covers only a short northern section of the street (the rest is in the quarter square to the south). The area within  this quarter square covered St Stephens Square, plus a rope walk, and Wickham Place on the south west side, and the north east Chapel Place.
Harbledown House. One of the original early 1920s blocks belt as part of the Tabard Street scheme
Rochester House. One of the original early 1920s blocks built as part of the Tabard Street scheme
Hankey Place Gardens. It had previously been the burial ground attached to the Wesleyan Southwark Chapel which closed for burials in the 1850s.   It was cleared by the London County Council in 1938 and the remains transferred to Nunhead Cemetery. The site was partly to the Church Army, and otherwise left as open space and laid out as a rose garden, which remains.

Mermaid Court
Partly an internal road in London County Council estate with Kentish place names on the blocks. In the 19th this was lined with hop warehouses. The original Marshalsea Prison lay along the north side
Mural. This is at the west end of the road and embodies the lettering ‘nomad’.
The Art Academy. Independent art school

Mulvaney Way
This road goes north/south through what is now the Kipling Estate. In the past this area contained a number of industries. Some of these were on Richard Street (detailed below) and Weston Place (also below)

Nebraska Street
Elgood House. Flats originally built for the Church Army
Southwark Telephone Exchange. At the corner with Great Dover Street, this had HOP numbers until the late 1960s. Now it has 0207-234,357,378,397,403,407 and 939 numbers.

Newcomen Street
The street developed from the yard of a pub, the Axe, which was there in the 16th. In the 17th Axe Yard, belonged to two charities, - John Marshall's and Mrs. Newcomen's. John Marshall had founded Christ Church and left his Axe Yard properties to trustees and, like Mrs. Newcomen who died in the 17th, left the property here for charitable purposes. Building here continued in the 17th and 18th and in due course the inn yard was opened up into Snow’s Fields to the east.
67 This was the property of the Newcomen charity and bore the charity’s as well as a Royal Insurance fire mark. In the mid-19th this was used as George Mansell as a printing works. This was the press for first the early South London Press.  This no longer seems to be there
66 offices of the John Marshall Trustees. This is said to be on the site of John Marshall's house and was built in 1853.  It is decorated with four carved stone heads
65 King's Arms this was rebuilt in the 18th and incorporated the royal coat of arms, as used by George II. They are those removed from the gate at the south end of London Bridge. The house was rebuilt as a pub, the King's Arms. This was once King Street with the old Marshalsea on its south side, possibly because of the presence of the royal coat of arms. It was renamed Newcomen Street in 1879
24/26 John Doyle. In the 1820s Doyle was a scale maker at Steelyard in the Borough and from 1840 in what was then King Street. The firm was Doyle & Son from about 1865. They made standard weights in 1826 and bronze cup weights marked and were in business when they were sold to Avery. Their works was said to have been designed by Wallis Gilbert in 1923
18 Nuffield House. Entrance to the private hospital which is part of Guys Hospital.
Bollards. There are two cast iron cannon adapted into bollards, one at each end of the street

Pilgrimage Street
This street was built in the early 1920s as part of the redevelopment of the area and the building of the Tabard Estate by the London County Council.

Porlock Street
Porlock Hall. Now Southwark Inclusive Learning Centre aka the Pupil Referral Unit.

Richardson Street
This street is now covered by the Kipling Estate.
18-20 Sam Wright. Buyer of leather by products. Present in the early 20th
49 The Brazon Serpent. This pub was in the street from the 1850s to the 1890s
Moore. Leather merchants, present in the early 20th. There were others in the leather and tannery trade – Barclay had a tannery in the 19th, as did George Wigglesworth in the 1860s.
British Road Services Depot. 1950s.

Snowsfield
96 The Miller pub. This was called the Miller of Mansfield.  It is a modem pub although it originated at least in the 1830s and was once on the other side of the road.  It now has a comedy club and hosts other events, plus rehearsal space.
123 Rose Pub. This dates from the 1850s

St. Stephens Square
Now under Tabard Gardens and Manciple Street
St.Stephen's Church. This church, was built in 1850 with a massive tower to the designs of S.S.Teulon. It ceased to be used for worship in 1961 and demolished in 1965. The organ was sold for £100 to Christ the King church, Salfords but it is thought other furnishings and the bells were sold for scrap. The site was sold to the Diocese as a site for a new St George's Rectory.
Church Hall. This was bombed in the Second World War and replaced by a Tenants Hall.

Tabard Street
This is what was originally called Kent Street, the old road to Greenwich, Canterbury and Dover.  It is thought that this is on the alignment of a Roman road. From 1565 it was paved with hard stone after 1814 through traffic went down Great Dover Street, and Kent Street was re-named Tabard Street in 1877.
St George’s Gardens. The larger part of the churchyard it on the east side of the street, separate from the church. It was laid out as a public garden in 1882.  The churchyard was laid out as a public garden and twenty years later Part of the south side was removed for the widening of Long Lane and it was reopened in 1902. The north wall dates from the 18th and there are with 20th wrought iron gates. The area was originally the southern boundary of the Marshalsea Prison and a plaque in the garden explains this. There are a number of trees including a plane with seating around it. A few gravestones are located in one corner. A drinking fountain, the gift of J. A. Pash and William Bear in 1859, once stood near the gate.,
Churchyard. There is an area of churchyard which remains alongside the church with a brick wall, railings and a pair of gate piers fronting a small triangular garden.
Empire Square. This development is on the site of a goods depot belonging to Pickford’s, carriers and removers. It is one of several sites which this old established, and still extant, company had in Southwark.
19 frontage of tower of Harding & Sons with inscriptions and ‘jappaners’ over the central door. They were also based in Long Lane (above)
40 London Christian School.  This is another private fee paying school.
56 London Bridge Study Centre. This is an ‘independent’ fee paying higher education centre. It undertakes courses on management, and the like,
Tabard Green Estate.  This is the housing area around Tabard Gardens. It was an ambitious scheme of the London County Council for slum clearance planned in 1910 for 2,450 people, and opened in 1916.  Most of the blocks are in the earlier standard type of municipalised neo-Georgian style.
44 Royal Oak. The pub dates from 1825 when the address was Kent Street. The brewers are Harvey’s of Lewes.
Tabard Gardens. (The bulk of the gardens and sports facilities are in the quarter square to the south). The northern end is largely open green space.

Tennis Street
Tennis Street is now a road running between Newcomen Street and Long Lane which appears to date from the 1950s. It covers what was Tennis Court and Colliers Rents.
Southwark Coroners Court. This is a modern timber clad buildings but it replaces a predecessor

Weston Place
This road is now covered by the area of the Kipling Estate 
5 George Morris. Kid leather tannery. This works was present in the 1920s.

Weston Street,
55 Greenwood Theatre. The Theatre belongs to Kings College London and used for student productions. It was built in 1975.
Imperial Emery Works. This was owned by W.J.Davies in the early 20th who were developing a number of applications and uses for emery – for example in concrete.
72 George Harker and Co. The company dated to the 1820s as a drysalters and stationers operating in dried fish, oil and spices in central London. Later they specialised in rice, pulses, dried fruit, canned goods, spices, and nuts. The factory was destroyed in Second World War bombing. After the war they were able to take advantage in the growth of individual packaging and supply to supermarkets.
72 The Grainstore. Flats
75 Vos leather merchants, brick and stucco offices of the mid 19th. The firm also had a base in Northampton
132 Lord Wellington. This pub is now a betting shop

Sources
Aldous. Village London
Bankside Open Spaces Trust. Web site
Bermondsey Churches. Web site
Biblical Studies. Wesley Historical Society. Web site
British History On line. Web site
Brewery History Society. Web site
British Listed Buildings. Web site
Byrne. Prisons and Punishments of London
Closed Pubs. Web site
Clunn. The Face of London
Dehilster. Web site
Diocese of Southwark. Web site
Dolcis. Web site
Exploring Southwark. Web site
Field. London Place Names
GLIAS Newsletter
Grace’s Guide. Web site
Greater London Council. Home Sweet Home
Historic England. Web site
Ideal Homes. Web site
London Borough of Southwark. Web site
London Encyclopaedia
London Gardens Online. Web site
London Metropolitan Archive. Web site
London Remembers. Web site
Lucas. London
Pevsner and Cherry. South London
Pub History. Web site
SE1. Web site
Skinner. Form and Fancy
Street Trees. Web site
Summerson. Georgian Buildings in London
Thorne. Old and New London
Wikipedia. As appropriate

Because of the size of the file for this dense inner city area, the square has been divided into four. This is the south west quarter

The north west corner is  Borough
The north east corner is The north east corner is  Borough Bermondsey borders

Post to the north Bankside
Post to the west St,George and Waterloo
Post to the south Walworth
Post to the east Bermondsey



Arch Street
In the 19th the street was lined on either side with stables and a coal depot which appear to belong to the Great Northern Railway. By the early 20th the stables were closed and replaced with garages with became works fronting onto Rockingham Street.  The site appears to have been bombed although the coal depot remained to be replaced by council housing in the 1960s

Avonmouth Street
Etc Venues. Avonmouth House. Conference Centre. This is a training and meeting venue where rooms can be hired,
LCC Gas Meter Testing Office. This stood at the rear of the Sessions House but appears to have been accessed from Avonmouth Street.

Bath Terrace
15 this was the second base for the South London Shoeblack Society from 1890 where it could house 35 destitute boys younger than 16.  The boys worked cleaning shoes in the daytime and wore red jerseys.  It had closed by 1890.
29 Uxbridge Arms. Demolished in 2016 this estate pub is now replaced with housing
Rockingham Street School.  This school seems to have been on the corner with Harper Road.  It was that on the site of houses called Newington Grove and was a London School Board School. It was opened in 1885 and expanded in 1888.  It is said to Have been destroyed in bombing in 1940.
Stone yard.– two stone yards are show here in the 19th century

Brockham Street.
H.Dunn Electrical Works. A works was located to the rear of the houses on the west side which may once have been known as Trinity Mews.

Dickens Square
This was once called Union Square and was surrounded by housing built in 1844. Most of these survived the Second World War but were demolished in 1971-2 because of a designation of the area as Public Open Space
Dickens Park. Also known as Dickens Fields. The park was built on an area partly destroyed by a V2 in the Second World War. It includes a Butterfly Walk conservation area and an adventure playground managed by the Rockingham Estate Play Association 

Falmouth Road
This runs roughly on the line of a previous ‘Halfpenny Hatch”.  This was a private footpath on which a toll would be charged. 
Brotherhood of the Cross and Star.  This was founded in Nigeria in 1956 and this Southwark branch is in what was the Welsh Presbyterian Church. Worshippers wear white robes known as "soutane".
Welsh Presbyterian church. This was opened in 1889 by a congregation which previously met in Crosby Row. It was designed by Charles Evans-Vaughan. It was here that a London eisteddfod began which outgrew it to meet in the Royal Albert Hall, The Old Vic and Methodist Central Hall. It ended in 1959. Membership of the chapel peaked at 514 in 1938, but when it closed in 1982 the average Sunday congregation was just 20 people.
Falmouth Road Park. This  opened in March 2006. It includes a bench is made from a London plane tree that once stood on the Tower of London Wharf. It once included designs created by local children.

Gaunt Street
This was previously Lancaster Street
103 Ministry of Sound. This is a dance club which opened in 1991 in what is said to have been a bus garage.   The company has also diversified into ownership of a record label, radio etc etc.

Harper Road
Used to be Horsemonger Lane and later Union Street. 
Horsemonger Lane Gaol. This was built between 1791 and 1799 to designed by George Gwilt the Elder, the then Surrey County Surveyor. It was then the largest prison in the county, and adjacent to the Sessions House. It replaced the old White Lion Gaol, the county gaol housed on Borough High Street. It housed both debtors and criminals and 131 men and four women were executed there. It was demolished in 1881 and the site is Newington Gardens
25-29 The Inner London Sessions House Crown Court. There has been a judicial building on the site since 1794 when the County Sessions House was opened here. A new Court building was opened in 1875, which was replaced by the present Inner London Sessions House in 1921 by W.E.Riley. This became the ‘county’ criminal court for London and is the location for the  Recorder of Southwark. It became a Crown Court in 1971 and was extended in 1974 to provide ten courts, Most recently it has been a parcel sorting depot and is now due for demolition.
Hotel Elephant. Studio providing workspaces
Newington Gardens. This was built on the site of Horsemonger Lane Goal and was laid out by the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association and opened in 1884. Later it was enlarged under the London County Council and play apparatus and a bandstand were added, but have now gone. There are now two basketball courts and two children's play areas.
Baitul Aziz Islamic Cultural Centre and mosque. This site became a mosque in 1990 and has since been expanded.  It is built slightly askew in order to face Mecca.
16 King William IV.  Later known as the LE KVO Lounge and is now the Buddhist Lounge, the Hi Ha Bar.
31 Masons Arms. Pub now demolished.
42 Royals Salsa. This was previously the Royal Standard Pub but became a salsa club from 2012. It was a 1930s brick building adjacent to and built into flats called Bramwell House. Since demolished for housing.
69 Albion Pub. Now demolished.
98 The Rising Sun. Pub dating from the 1840s but clearly rebuilt since.
Squires Youth Club. This is on the edge of Dickens’ Park
Weights and Measures Office. This dated from 1892 and replaced an office in the prison gatehouse, but was destroyed in Second World War bombing.
Mains Floor Cloth Factory. This stood slightly east of the Falmouth Road junction on the south side of the road

Meadow Row
Hand in Hand pub. Estate style pub for sale 2008
St.Matthew’s Church. The old church was demolished in 1993. The new church is linked to a new community centre. The church hosts musical performances as well as community events and services. There is a separate minimalist iron spire at the street entrance suggesting both old and new-style church architecture. The building includes some flats.

New Kent Road
This road is fundamentally a bypass.  It was built by the local Turnpike Trust in 1751 on the site of a footpath in order to access the new Westminster Bridge. It runs from the Elephant and Castle roundabout to the junction with Great Dover Street at Bricklayers Arms where it joins the Old Kent Road. It was originally called Greenwich Road.
Shopping centre (see square to the south)
16-18 London (Elephant and Castle) Horse and Carriage Repository. This was an auction house for horses, ponies and vehicles. It was on the site of the shopping centre but lay nearer to the road.
26 Charlie Chaplin pub. Named after a famous local ex-resident who it is said that had a martini at the pub during a visit to the area in the 1950s. This is also a hostel of some sort. It is on the site of a musical hall where Chaplin is said to have played and is probably built contemporary with the shopping centre
Coronet Elephant Cinema. This was originally the site of the Theatre Royal/Elephant and Castle built as a public gall but used as a music hall.  Thus was built in 1872 but burnt down in 1878, It was replaced by a new theatre, designed by Frank Matcham – his first assignment. This opened in 1879 and was rebuilt in 1882, and 1902. It stooped being used for live theatre in 1928 when on the last night the audience sang ‘Knocked em in the Old Kent Road’. It was taken over by Associated British Cinemas whose architect William Riddle Glen redesigned it with an Art Deco interior. It re-opened in 1932 with a Christie 3Manual/11Rank organ with an illuminated console. Variety shows also continued here. It briefly closed in 1941 following bombing. In 1967 it was modernised and renamed ABC in October 1967 and the facade was covered with blue metal sheeting. In 1981 it became a triple screen cinema and taken over by the Cannon Group in 1986 who sold it the Coronet chain in 1986 and it was re-named Coronet. This closed in 1999. In 2003 it reopened as a nightclub although some films were shown. It closed in 2015 and is scheduled for demolition. A new cinema is planned for a new development.
Trocodero. This very big cinema was built for Hyams and Gale and opened in 1930 designed by George Coles and on an awkward site. The auditorium was in a French Renaissance style, with gilt features. The side walls had alcoves with Roman eagles. There was a large stage, with dressing rooms and a Wurlitzer 4Manual/21Rank organ shipped from America. .It was taken over by Gaumont Super Cinemas in 1935, and was closed for a mintrh through Second World War bombing. It was closed by the Rank Organisation in 1963 and the Wurlitzer was installed at Southbank University by the Cinema Organ Society. The cinema was demolished and replaced by Alexander Fleming House with an address in Newington Causeway
Odeon Cinema. This replaced the Trocerdero and was designed by Erno Goldfinger. It was in concrete and had a roof ingeniously cantilevered from diagonal beams. It opened in 1966, later became a Coronet and closed in 1988 when it was demolished.  The site is now an annexe to Metro Central Heights. The Wurlitzer is now at the Troxy Cinema, Stepney
Railway Bridge. Carries what was the London, Chatham and Dover Railway over the road. It is now Thameslink and the line runs into Blackfriars from the Elephant and Castle. The original bridge dated from 1863.
Albert Barnes House. An 18-storey block of council flats dating from 1964. In the 1860s this was a short lived market which appears to have been replaced with housing.
Fish and provisions market promoted by Samuel Plimsoll. 1883-1886.
Holy Trinity and St.Matthew. This was a gothic church to St.Matthew, oriented north-south with major alterations in 1927. The parish was merged with Holy Trinity in 1970 and the church was disused from 1980, declared redundant in 1988. It was demolished 1992, There is now a replacement church to the rear in Meadow Row.
81 Vicarage for St. Matthew. This is now leased out by the Diocese
Cranleigh Hall. This was the church hall for Holy Trinity and St. Matthew
83 this was built in 1905 on the site of a villa. It was originally the Morning Post Embankment Home, a charity set up in memory of Oliver Borthwick, editor of the Morning Post Newspaper, and which charity still exists to help homeless people. It later was also the Borthwick Teaching Training College. Until 1961 It was used by Garnett College which trained lecturers as part of an extension in Southwark to their main site at Roehampton.  It was later used to house Rachel McMillan College's Education courses and in 1976 the College became part of the South Bank Polytechnic. During 1989-90 the building was converted into halls of residence for South Bank University and is still in use
Tavern Court Flats belonging to . Family Mosaic Housing Association. This is on the site of what was the County Terrace Tavern , which closed in 2003 having been built in 1811.

Newington Causeway
1 Elephant and Castle Pub. This 1966 building replaced the original pub after which the area is named and which stood on the site of the central roundabout.
Alexander Fleming House. This is now Metrocentral Heights.  It was originally a multi-storey office complex designed in the early 1960s by Hungarian born  Ernő Goldfinger for Arnold Lee of Imry Properties. the internal design of the building was made as flexible as possible, providing open decks which could be readily subdivided and services re-routed. The original tenant was the Department of Health and Social Security, which led to its being named Alexander Fleming House, after the discoverer of penicillin. it was converted into a residential development by St George Plc in 1997.
Metro Central Heights is a group of residential buildings in what was Alexander Fleming House.
Plaque. A commemorative plaque, donated by the Cinema Theatre Association, was unveiled by TV writer Denis Norden, who began his cinema career as assistant manager at the Trocadero Cinema in the Second World War, It outlined the history of the Trocadero Cinema.
7 Horseshoe Inn
27 Wagon and Horses. Demolished
37 John Haywood. Oilcloth manufacturer  in the 19th
45  Works for Sharps Kreemy Toffee of Maidstone 1950s
48-50 Atlas Paper works. The firm originated as a partnership in 1849 and was  set up in 1865 as Crescons Robinson & Co Ltd, account book and stationary manufacturers. The site was expanded in 1888 and by the 1900s it stood on both sides of the road. The works had three caryatids holding globes on their shoulders.. The works closed in 1981
55 Artichoke pub. Demolished
59-62 Institute of Optometry. This was formerly the London Refraction Hospital,. Set up  in October 1922. In 1988 the LRH changed its name to the Institute of Optometry and expanded to include postgraduate training, education and research. It is an independent self-financing registered charity, relying on voluntary support for its services.
63-67  Job Centre
69-71 Startrite Machine Tool Ltd. 1970s
Surrey House.  Olivers. This firm began in 1815  and by the 1830s the address was operated as a boot and shoe warehouse "town and Country trade .. supplied on the shortest notice" for wholesale, exportation and,  retail.  . They later opened a depot in Knightsbridge
Waygood–this company of lift  engineers were here from the 1840s, moving to Falmouth Road when the railway took over their site in 1863.
Rail bridge
77-85 Southwark Playhouse. The Theatre Company was founded in 1993 by Juliet Alderdice and Tom Wilson. They leased a disused workshop here and turned it into a flexible theatre space.
Mecato Metropitano  courtyard, An Italian market.
96 Kings Head,. Bombed and closed in 1941
101 The Salvation Army UK and Republic of Ireland headquarters
97-103 Elephant Motors, Ltd., present in 1934
119 Rockingham Arms. This is a new pub owned by Wetherspoons.
140 The Alfreds Head. This pub closed in 1961 and was demolished in 1962 as part of the Elephant & Castle redevelopment
175 Rockingham Arms. This pub had turrets and was built in 109. It was demolished in redevelopment of the 1960s.vc
Globe Lamp Works, Owned by S.P. Catterson and Sons 1895-1900s
192 S Tourney, and Company, Borough Wheel Works. Wheels manufactured by machinery. They were present in the mid 19th.

Rockingham Court
This street is now partly under Alexander Fleming House
Baptist church
Carpet factory, By the 1940s this was an auction room.

Rockingham Street
Duke of Wellington. Almost under the railway arch. It had tongue and grooved wood panelling and cast iron columns. It was also called the Isaac Bell and has been demolished.
39a Southwark Glasswork. In 1890 William Henry Oldham set up a glass works here.  He was replaced by John Muzzall who remained until 1907 but it was not until 1912 that the site became known as the Rockingham Glass Works and later became the Abbott Glass Co. Ltd who were glass bottle manufacturers. They were replaced here by Kempton family members, moving here from a site in Lambeth,  who had three pot furnaces and made vases, lamp shades and chimneys as well as bottles in many colours, They named this the Southwark Glassworks.  In the late 1920s they moved to Nazeing where the glassworks is still extant. The Southwark site was redeveloped with flats in the 1930s by the London County Council.
100 Rockingham Community Centre
Salvationist Publishing. Part of the Salvation Army HQ fronting on Newington Causeway.

Trinity Church Square
The square was built from 1824 by William Chadwick for Trinity House – the organisation which provides measures for safety at sea - to finance distressed mariners and their families. It is comparable to contemporary squares in Islington.
Holy Trinity Church now the Henry Wood Hall.  It was built 1823-24 by Francis Bedford as a Commissioners Church but gutted by fire and rebuilt inside as orchestral hall, 1973-5 having closed in 1960. It is a Grecian style building on a site given by Trinity House, for the surrounding estate developed around the same time.  The conversion was by Arup Associates, to an orchestral recording and rehearsal hall, was a happy solution. The brick-vaulted crypt was given a lower floor, and became a cafeteria and stores; the church itself whose original three galleries and flat ceiling had been destroyed in the fire is now an open hall with a new gallery for choir and organ.
Gate piers and railings. Replicas of those destroyed in the Second World War
King Alfred’s statue.  This is a more than life-size figure of a king which is supposed to be London's oldest statue. The statue in the garden of Trinity Church Square, said to be one of the oldest statues in London. It may be one of eight medieval statues from Westminster Hall, five of which disappeared during work there undertaken by John Soane in 1820–25. Or it might be one of a pair made for the garden of Carlton House in 1735. Or an early 19th statue made by Bubb for Manchester Town Hall.  The whole of the upper part and most of the sides and back are a restoration in Coade stone from the 18th or 19th

Sources
Aldous. Village London
British History On line. Web site
British Listed Buildings. Web site
Cinema Treasures. Web site
Closed Pubs. Web site
Clunn. The Face of London
Diocese of Southwark. Web site
Exploring Southwark. Web site
Field. London Place Names
GLIAS Newsletter
Grace’s Guide. Web site
Greater London Council. Home Sweet Home
Historic England. Web site
Ideal Homes. Web site
Institute of Optometry. Web site
London Borough of Southwark. Web site
London Encyclopaedia
London Gardens Online. Web site
London Metropolitan Archive. Web site
Lucas. London
Nazeing Glass Works. Web sit
Pevsner and Cherry. South London
Pub History. Web site
SE1. Web site
Summerson. Georgian Buildings in London
Thorne. Old and New London
Waygood. Web site
Wikipedia. As appropriate

The north west corner is  Borough
The north east corner is The north east corner is  Borough Bermondsey borders
The south west corner is Borough Newington

Post to the north Bankside
Post to the west St,George and Waterloo
Post to the south Walworth
Post to the east Bermondsey

Bartholomew Street
The road is named for St. Bartholomew’s Hospital which owned the land on which it stands. They had acquired this in connection with their management of the Lock Hospital.  They laid the road out and had houses built, none of which remain in this street..
The south side of the road is entirely taken up with St.Saviour and St.Olave School. (See square to the south)
21 Spit and Sawdust. This pub was previously called The Beehive. It was bombed twice in the Second World War and eight people killed. It dates from 1856

Burbage  Close
This was once part of Burge Street and both were once Great Bland Street and lined with houses

Burge Street
This street, which is now all social housing, had an Engineering works and Print works as late as the 1970s

Cardinal Bourne Street
This was once called Lower Bland Street. It is now entirely made up of social housing.
The Roundhouse. Lawson Tenants and Residents Association hall.
21 Aldous and Campbell. Lift manufacturers. Extant in the 1950s, when their factory was rebuilt  but had undertaken work as general engineers since the 1900s but were also then described as ‘motor lift specialists’.  In 1961 they merged with General Hydraulic Power Co.

Deverell Street
This street is now entirely made up of social housing.
Brush Factory.  This was present in the 1950s
London Sawing and Planing Mills. J. & B Groves in the 19th saw mill was owned by Groves but it was still extant in the 1950s.
Methodist Chapel opened in 1837 –this was large with a burial ground and broke with the Wesleyans in 1864 when it appears to have become a congregational chapel. This included a Sunday School which moved elsewhere in 1874. By 1911 it was in the hands of the Salvation Army,
New Bunhill Fields. This was a private burial ground built to supplement the overcrowded nonconformist ground at Bunhill Fields in the City. It was managed by Hoole and Martin.  Between 1830-1828 there were 10,000 private burials here and the result was noxious and led to several enquiries. The ground closed in 1853 and became a timber yard.
Burial ground wall. The site of the burial ground is now tennis courts under the asphalt. The wall tapers to the tip and is built of recycled brickwork and masonry.
Langdon Davis Electric Motor Co. 1905 taken over 1912 by Sturtevant Engineering.
Clarkson and Capel Syndicate. Steam lorries 1890s. Moved away 1902.
Bilbe Hobson and Hall engineers
T.Clarkson. steam generators
67 Duchess of Kent pub. Demolished and replaced with flats.

Falmouth Road
2 once part of the Surrey Dispensary
Waygood Lifts. This was on the site of blocks of housing, including Bentham House. Waygood was founded by Richard Waygood in 1833 in Dorset and in 1840s moved to London. They made hand operated and later electric belt-driven and hydraulic lifts from the 1860s.  They were the first lift manufacturer in England to produce electric elevators. In 1914 they purchased the British business of the US lift manufacturer, and became Waygood-Otis and their Falmouth Road factory became Otis Lifts United Kingdom head office. By 1952 they were controlled by Otis and manufacture took place in Coventry. Otis is now a major US based lift manufacturer with some UK offices. The Waygood company was dissolved only in 2013.

Great Dover Street
This was built as a bypass to the Old Kent Road. It was a turnpike road in 1750 for traffic.
Great Dover Street Apartments.  Halls of Residence for King's College London, mainly used for Guy's Hospital  teaching hospital
'Sidney Webb House' .  London School of Economics  Halls of Residence.
Roebuck. Mid-19th pub on a flat iron plan. The oldest pub in the street.
156 Brunswick Chapel. New Connection. This was a Methodist chapel on the east side of the road in the 19th and still extant in the 1920s.
165 red-brick and terracotta building of 1897 with massive ornate doorway. Where brick cherubs handle pots of hot metal.   This is now Halls of Residence for Kings College. It was built for engineers John Dewrance and later taken over by Babcock Power and their Nuclear Energy division.
Dewrance and Co . This business was founded in London by in the 1839s by Joseph Woods and John Dewrance, becoming   Dewrance & Co., in 1842, manufacturing engine and boiler accessories. The building was extended greatly in 1950
61 Pilgrim Fathers' Memorial Church. This is said to have had its origins in a congregation of Protestant Separatists of 1592. It is also claimed that it began in 1616, and some of the Pilgrim Fathers came from there.  They moved to a chapel in the New Kent Road in 1863 - 1864, which was destroyed in Second World War bombing. This was then replaced by a new multi purpose building on Great Dover Street called the Pilgrim Church House. This building now appears to be in commercial use and the cross which was once fixed to the gable has been removed. It is said that there was also a mural of the "Mayflower", on the wall but this is not now apparent nor is a public garden with a memorial.
161 The Black Horse, Pub which also seems to have an address in Tabard Street and which is also a back packers hostel. It has a  sign with a Courage gold cockerel mounted on top. . On the front of the building is a square red projecting sign - still Illuminated at night - with a gold cockerel. The building is post-~Second World War.

Harper Road
Used to be Horsemonger Lane
ARK Globe Academy.  This is an ‘academy’ school which caters for pupils of all ages up to the sixth form.  It appears to have achieved this by takin g over two previous adjacent schools, both with predecessor schools.. in 2007 ARK Schools won their plan to build new teaching blocks and to bring in the two schools together as one. by 2008, the Geoffrey Chaucer Technology College and Lancaster Primary School opened as the Ark Globe Academy
Trinity House School. This 19th school was on site until rebuilt in the late 1950s  It is not clear if this school was damaged in the V1 rocket attack in the Second World War. . It was also called ‘Two Saints’.Trinity School for Girls built in 1958. The.Trinity School for Girls was opened in 1962 by Monsieur Rene Maheu, the Sixth Director-General of UNESCO.   In 1976 the school was joined by Paragon School which the stood on the opposite side of Old Kent Road.  It was then renamed  “Geoffrey Chaucer School”.
Wall. The  Harper Road perimeter of the schools is said to have been built with bomb rubble and brick scraps although elsewhere it is said that this is the wall of the burial ground to the New Bunhill Chape in  Deverell Street.
Geoffrey Chaucer School , formerly Trinity House School,  This was built nb 1958 by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon and has been seen as one of the most important comprehensive schools of its era.  It was one of  the first  to break up large comprehensives into smaller, more friendly units. The star-turn was the Pentagon building as an impressive example of post-war educational architecture with a hyperbolic paraboloid concrete shell roof, the first built in Britain and it one of the few built examples of the type and still the perfect setting for assemblies, concerts and meetings., It has all been demolished except for the Pentagon and a new school built which was designed by Future Systems
Harper Street (or Road) School.  This opened in 1874 by the London School Board designed by Col.R.W. Edis assisted by T.J.Bailey later became Joseph Lancaster Primary school. It is seen as an outstanding early private-architect-designed board school in advanced Gothic taste. It became the Joseph Lancaster Primary School which commemorated  the Southwark born and based 18th educationist. This building still remains and has been incorporated into the ‘academy’

Hunter Close
This was once part of Weston Street

Law Street
37 Golden Fleece/ This now Law Street Nursery

Lawson Street
This road has now gone and is under 1960s developments
8 Dover Castle. This pub has now been demolished
8 -10 Concrete Works. This site was originally the concrete works of J. Tall who had developed a revolutionary system of concrete building construction developed by Coignet and using a shuttering method.  He built here a large 40 ft high office block with an internal circular staircase  in this concrete. This faced the road and was designed along with a number of adjacent houses.
12 London Tramways Depot.  This was opened on the site of Tall’s concrete works. It was sold to Southwark Council in 1899 when the tram system was taken over by the London County Council.  It was let for industrial use.
12 Star Works Waste Paper, This was extant here in the 1950s

Manciple Street
Manciple Street is the result of a regeneration scheme from the early 1920s undertaken by the London County Council
Pinks Jam Factory– this fronted onto Staple Street (below and in the square to the south) but covered most of the area now the north side of Manciple Street.

Merrick Square
Laid out like Trinity Square from 1853 by the Trinity Brethren. It is named after Christopher Merrick who in 1661 left land to Trinity House. The houses surround a private garden behind original 19th cast-iron railings

Minto Street
Built as part of the 1930s  LCC redevelopment scheme, largely on the site of Pinks’ jam factory.

Potier Street
Tabard Street Centre, This was originally a school, Tabard Street School which was built by the London School Board in 1873 to the designs of Frederick W Roper.  It was originally called Great Hunter Street school. It is now housing called the Tabard Centre. It has three storeys with four-stage bell tower. There is an entrance marked "Infants" and initials "SBL" and the date "1873". Another entrance is marked "Girls" . It is also shown on maps of the 1960s as ‘Chaucer Institute’ or ‘Walworth Institute’.

Spurgeon Street
This was originally Upper Bland Street, and later renamed for the preacher.

Staple Street
Staple Street itself is in the square to the north. Pink’s factory, below, had its frontage here but the main factory was in this square. The site was later called ‘The Minto Street site’ as a development area of the 1930s.
Pinks Jam Factory. at the end of the 19th century E & T Pink were said to be the largest producers of jam in the world.  It as founded by Edward Pink in 1860 and in 1879 made jams, pickles and sauces here with the trademark of a tortoise.  Working conditions at the factory were exposed at a coroner’s inquest in 1893 which followed a strike and later fatal accidents. A later strike involved 22 other factories.  Pink peppermills ground one eighth of the English pepper trade and handled one twelfth of the English tapioca business. the company employed 1800 workers during the busy season. After the Great War the company was acquired by Dutch margarine manufacturer Van den Bergh who merged it with their subsidiary Plaistowe.  The factory was demolished in 1935 to make way for the LCC housing estate.

Tabard Street
This was once Kent Street, the old road to Greenwich, Canterbury and Dover and on the alignment of a Roman road. From 1565 it was paved as far as the Lock Hospital, The road was re-named Tabard Street in 1877 and traffic directed down Great Dover Street..
Tabard Gardens. Opened in 1929 as open space and recreation area by the London County Council as the surrounding area was developed with housing. The park includes large grassed areas, a wildlife area, a children's play area, an outdoor gym, table tennis tables, artificial grass pitches and multi use sports pitches
Chaucer  School. was Westcott Street School. Westcott Street ran parallel and south of Pardoner Street and the school lay between the two.  This was a London School Board School said to serve one of the most poverty stricken areas of the metropolis. The site had previously been a rope walk
Lock Hospital, Leper Hospital which stood at what is now the junction of Tabard Street and Great Dover Street.   It ws  on the site of the first mile stone from London Bridge and on the Lock Stream.. It was founded in the 12th in order to keep lepers out of the City and were supported bv the City as well as by charity. . From  1549, St. Bartholomew's Hospital was appointed to be responsible for them, Later In the 18th it became a refuge for patients suffering from venereal disease. Ut was closed in 1760. The site is the southern part of land between Tabard Street and Great Dover Street.
Lock stream. This went past the hospital and was a branch of the Neckinger. Remains of an ancient bridge- Lock Bridge – remained here connected to the sewer system.

Trinity Street
18 Lazenby Pickle factory.  E Lazenby & Sons dated from the end of the 18th when a sauce recipe was given to Elizabeth Lazenby.  This was sold as Harvey’s Sauce and was very successful. Other products followed and by 1861 the factory  in Trinity Street was in production.  In the 20th the sauce was rebranded as Lazenby’s sauce and it was still then a family firn,  Later they amalgamated into Crosse and Blackwell. The Trinity Street factory was closed and another site in Bermondsey owned by Lazenbys expanded..  The Trinity Street factory was also badly damaged in the Second World War and in 1955 only the ground floor front wall with its windows remained.   Bedford Row was built on the site in 2009.
Trinity Street Primitive Methodist church. This dated 1876-1900.

Weston Street,
This was previously Baalzephon street,
132 Lord Wellington, This pub dates from the 1830s but is now flats and a curry house.

Sources
Aldous. Village London
Bermondsey Churches. Web site
Biblical Studies. Wesley Historical Society. Web site
Brewery History Society. Web site
British History On line. Web site
British Listed Buildings. Web site
Closed Pubs. Web site
Clunn. The Face of London
Exploring Southwark. Web site
Field. London Place Names
GLIAS Newsletter
Grace’s Guide. Web site
Greater London Council. Home Sweet Home
Ideal Homes. Web site
London Borough of Southwark. Web site
London Encyclopaedia 
London Gardens Online. Web site
London Metropolitan Archive. Web site
Lucas. London
MOLA. Web site
Pevsner and Cherry. South London 
Pub History. Web site
SE1. Web site
Southwark Burial Grounds. Web site
Thorne. Old and New London
Wikipedia. As appropriate

Post to the west (north west quarter) Mile End
Post to the west (north east quarter)
Post to the east Bromley by Bow
Post to the north Old Ford



Addington Road
Addington Arms. Pub dating from the 1860s. It does not appear to be still there.
Police stables. From 1938 twenty horses were located here. These stables were built in moderne style white concrete by police surveyor Gilbert Mackenzie Trench. There is a stable at the back as well as tack rooms and a chimney for the forge – there was a full time farrier. Above are two flats for married police officers. The white concrete wall is original. 

Alfred Street
1-5 Inland Revenue Office. Sold off 1981. Has been used as a college an as offices

Almshouses Way,
This was once called Priscilla Street. 
1 Drapers' Almshouses. These were built in 1706.  What remains is a brick group of four tenements with central raised and pedimented chapel. They were restored in 1982 but were originally part of a larger group funded by Sir John Jolles in 1617 and built by the Worshipful Company of Drapers. The present range was funded by John Edmanson who used Sir Christopher Wren's office to build what remains today. In 1858 a lodge was built on the fourth side forming an quadrangle with 44 almshouses and a chapel. In 1867 the site to be bought by the North London Railway Company and The tenants were moved to Tottenham. All that remained following railway work was this centrepiece flanked by 4 almshouses. The tenants moved back in until the 1950s after which the site became derelict. The GLC and the  Oxford House Housing Association rebuilt the almshouses in 1982. 

Arnold Road
The stretch of road south from Bow Road is alongside railway arches all with small business, mainly motor trade. The road then turns abruptly east along the line of what was Archibald Street.
William Brinson Centre, Day centre for people needing day care.  To be demolished for housing.
Bow Road Goods Depot.  This was opened by the Great Eastern Railway in 1885.  It was on a triangle of land and handled coal, bricks, building materials and general merchandise and was had a 5-ton capacity crane, a weighbridge and a lock-up. It closed in 1964 and the Bow Triangle Business Centre is now on the site
Gas Factory Junction. This is a railway junction named for the gas works adjacent to it. It has acted as a boundary point for the rail lines which converge on it and has had a past with many interchanges and the necessary signal boxes to deal with them. It was also used by lines serving the gas works, and a coal depot.
Rope walk. This is shown in the 19th lying in space between the rail lines.

Blackthorn Street
All Hallows church.   This was originally designed by Ewan Christian in 1873-4 for the Grocers' Company and funded by the sale of the City church of All Hallows Staining. It was rebuilt in 1954-5 by A.P. Robinson of Caroe & Partners, using the core of the war-damaged church and which preserves Christian's big brick design towering above the street. Inside was over- powering but a reordering in 2001 by Tonk Hornsby of Keith Harrison Architects had provided a multi-functional hall. Inside is a plaque which says “The Church of All Hallows, Bromley by Bow, was destroyed by bombs on 18th September 1940 and the new church was dedicated by the Bishop of Stepney on 19th October 1955 to the Glory of God. The rebuilt church commemorates the men and women of Bromley by Bow who died through enemy action in the World War 1939-1945
Mission. In the 1860s the "Lighthouse Mission" had a permanent building in a chapel here. A chapel had been included when the street was built up in 1876, following meetings held in the home of a local residents. The chapel continued to be used until it was bombed in the Second World War 

Bow Common Lane
Bow Common Gas Works.  This was the Great Central Gas Works set up in 1850 by Angus Croll on behalf of the City of London in order to replace the inner city Blackfriars works.  It was set up as a ‘consumers’ company which meant that shares were owned by those who would buy the gas – in this case the City of London.  This was a successful works but Croll’s eccentricities led to problems.  It was eventually taken over by the Gas Light and Coke Company in 1870 and eventually partly rebuilt by them. Four gas holders appear on site in 1870 along with a large central retort house. It also shows buildings fronting Bow Common Lane, which may be those which remain along with what appears to be the original gateway and some holders to the rear. By 1914 three large holders has been added to the north of the site. It was modernised in the mid 1920s and closed in 1968.  Numerous small businesses are based on this site.
Rail links to the gas works. Initially there was a tramway link to the Limehouse Cut. There was also a rail link to the North London line with two sidings on a timber viaduct serving a coal store – this was later replaced by concrete but remained in various forms into the 1960s.  

Bow Railway Works
Bow Railway Works belonged to the North London Railway.  The original works was in the area between the diverging tracks of the junction south of Bow Road from 1853. Originally there was a two-road erecting shop, plus smiths and boiler makers where company locomotives were serviced. The works was set up by Bow the Company's Engineer, William Adams Who was in post 1853- 1873.  This early section was closed and demolished after the London and North West Railway took over the works after 1909.
Work here was at first the repair of rolling stock bought from outside, but from 1860 locomotives were built here. Between 1879 -1901, thirty tank engines designed by J.C.Park were built here. One of these remained in use until 1958. The final steam locomotive was built here in 1906. 
The works was expanded from 1882. Doorway opposite Bow station led to new buildings, steps led to 'Bow Palace Yard' and a line side walk went from the Poplar-bound platform. By 1882 the works covered thirty-three acres, and stretched for three-quarters of a mile.  It employed about 750 men.
Walkway. This ran on a bridge across the works between Campbell and Devons Roads, separated from the railway by brick walls. 
South of the walkway were machine and carriage shops and stores. This area was expanded under the London Midland and Scottish Railway ownership as from 1925 a depot at Plaistow was closed. In the 1930s the Hudd automatic train warning system was developed and manufactured here and as a result a British Railways national team developed the standard Automatic Warning System here. In 1956 diesel-electric locomotives were repaired here.
The workshop was badly damaged in Second World War bombing and the wagon was workshop destroyed but work here continued into the late 1950s. It closed in 1960 with work transferred to Derby.  The majority of the buildings were demolished around 1966. 
The site is now mainly under a housing development from the 1970s with the tracks beneath encased in a concrete tunnel. The carriage shop was finally demolished in the late 1980s as part of works for the Docklands Light Railway.

Bow Road 
65 Electric House. Built in 1925 by Harley Heckford, Poplar Borough Surveyor, as the Borough Electricity Showrooms and offices, plus some flats.
Minnie Lansbury Clock.  Minnie was a suffragette and daughter in law of George Lansbury. She was an elected alderman on Poplar’s first Labour council in 1919 and was jailed in 1921 for refusing to set a rate. The clock was erected in the 1930s.
83  In the 1920s this was the Poplar District branch of the Charity Organisation Society and offices for the London County Council Children’s Care (School) Committee 
97-99 Tredegar House. This was built as the Training Home for Pupil Probationers at the London Hospital in 1911 and designed by Rowland Plumbe. It was converted to flats by David Wood Architects.
109 in the 1920s this was Evans Hurndall Mission & Relief Work amongst the Poor of East London
117 Bow Road Police Station. This was built in 1912 to replace the old building which is further up the road to the east. From 1880 until 1933 Bow was the main station of the Division until re-organisation in 1933. It was designed by John Dixon Butler, the then Metropolitan Police Surveyor.  Above the porch is inscribed 'POLICE' plus a date stone. Inside is a cell block with the original shuttered apertures for monitoring prisoners and which once housed Sylvia Pankhurst.
Rail Bridge. This carries the Bow Curve over Bow Road. This was opened by the London & Blackwall Extension Railway in 1849. It had been intended to build a junction with the Eastern Counties Railway and run trains from Fenchurch Street to Stratford.  This bridge appears to have been rebuilt in 1907. Following the withdrawal of passenger services in 1949 the line was retained for diversions and electrified. It was reduced to a single track in the 1980s to allow space for the Docklands Light Railway north of the station.
121 Bow Road Station. This is now a betting shop and in addition two platforms and two stairways from the street remain. There is a commemorative plaque.  Initially the station here was on the south side of the road but it was thought necessary to allow for a walkway connection with Bow Station which was on the North London Line at the site of what is now the Docklands Light Railway line. This was opened in 1892 and was a substantial building with stairways to the platforms.  There was also a new signal box. Increased competition led to falling passenger numbers and the walkway was closed in 1917. In 1935 the signal box closed and in 1941 the station was closed following bombing. The station re-opened in 1946 but it closed a year later and it was partly upgraded. It reopened in 1947 with a greatly reduced service. It permanently closed in 1949. The station buildings were leased out and the platform building demolished in 1967.
121-143 Lepow Works. L Power & Sons Ltd. Power Neon Signs Ltd This Company used the station building 1964-1979. They were electrical engineers and made neon signs. 
Wheel Works. This is marked behind the station in the 1870s and the site later used as a saw mill. 
125 Little Driver. This pub may date from at least 1805 and the name relating to coach services and their drivers.  When the railway opened in 1849 the name was adapted to the new mode of transport. It was rebuilt around 1869. It was a Charrington’s pub and retains some woodwork and a Hoare & Co.’s mirror on the wall plus flower painted mirror panels behind the bar-back and in the fire surround
127 -129 Bow Electric Theatre. This was owned by John Bussey and opened in 1909 and continued through the Great War until 1915. The site is now a filling station and supermarket.
131 -133 H C Banly Ltd, motor wagon builders. This firm was here in the 1920s but by the 1930s were selling second hand solid tyres.
135 Poplar Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption. Present in the 1920s and often treating ex-soldiers.  They also campaigned to give information about tuberculosis arranging exhibitions, sometimes accompanied by entertainment.
141 Bow & Bromley Local Labour Party offices in the 1920s. This was one of several addresses used by the Party – but this stands about halfway between George Lansbury’s home and Sylvia Pankhurst’s offices!
145 Bow Station. This was on the site of the Enterprise Garage. Some elements of the station wall may remain at the back of their forecourt. Bow Station opened in 1850 built by the East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway with an entrance on the north side of Bow Road.  Initially built as a goods line only a passenger station here was provided when the line was extended to Islington. In 1869 it was rebuilt to include a large room upstairs for the Bow and Bromley Institute  This was a large building by Edwin Home. From 1892 there was an interchange and a walkway to Bow Road Station on the Fenchurch Street line a few yards to the west.  The station closed in 1944 following bombing but part of the building was used by British Railways as a parcels depot, until 1965 with a maroon 'Bow Parcels Depot' sign.  The line was closed in the 1960s following changes in the area and in the docks.  The site was cleared before the opening of the Docklands Light Railway in the 1980s when the old track bed was used for the new line.   A plaque was put on the current building.  
The Bow and Bromley Institute. This ‘Moorish style’ was added to Bow Station in 1870. The Bromley Literary Association and the Bow Working Men's Institute merged as the Bow and Bromley Institute, and in 1897 it part of the East London Technical College. It closed in 1911 and leased to the Salvation Army. 6,000 books were transferred to local libraries and the organ was sold to a place of worship. In the 1920s it was used by George Williams & Co Ltd, wholesale clothiers.  In 1933 it became The Embassy Billiard Hall, then The Bow Palais and later The Emerald Ballroom. It was badly burnt out in 1956 and demolished. 
Bow Road drinking fountain. This was the Match Tax Testimonial Fountain designed by Rowland Plumbe in 1872 and which stood on the Bow Station forecourt. This was tax on match boxes which was opposed and led to local demonstrations and the fountain was funded by Bryant and May. It was demolished in 1953 for widening Bow Road.
151-153 Office block. This is built on the site of what was the Poplar Conservative Party Office at 151 with the Bow & Bromley Constitutional Club inevitably next door with the same secretary in the 1920s. It has been recently used as a recording studio and has signage on it about a maths and computing school.  It is also now the Sampson PLAB Academy which is a private training college for NHS posts.
Site of Bow Fair. This annual Whitsun Fair attracted large crowds in the 18th and 19th.  In 1823 it was closed down due to "rowdyism and vice".  
157 Bow House –this was once Poplar Town Hall. It was built 1937-8 by Clifford Culpin of E.G Culpin & Son. It had a streamlined bowed front and continuous bands of glazing. With carvings, mosaics, etched glass panels and a mural. five exterior panels by David Evans show trades and professions used in the building - socialist realist depictions: welder, carpenter, architect, labourer and stone mason. There is also a mosaic on the canopy above the former Councillors’ Entrance. There are also the Docks and industries, and Art, Science, Music and Literature on the fascia. Public use ceased in the 1980s and it was converted for commercial use in the early 1990s. In the lobby to the Chamber is a prayer of dedication by a Socialist Sunday pupil, originally in Bow Vestry Hall. 
161 NatWest Bank Building, originally the London County Westminster & Parrs Bank Ltd. This was previously once offices for Recol or Ragosine Oil. This was founded by Victor Ivanovitch Ragosine who held patents for mineral oils which were used by the aircraft industry. In the 19th the Rectory, in a large garden, stood on this site.
161a Costcutter. This was built for the Stratford Co-op in 1919 by their Surveyor, H.E. Tufton. On the gable is their usual relief of a beehive. 
163 This listed 18th building is now a kebab shop. In the 1930s it was Poulton, Selfe and Lee, a specialist laboratory glass blowing business. It had earlier been, in the 1890s, the Bow and Bromley Social and Literary Club and during the Great War the Anglo Mexican Petroleum Company. 
167 Kings Arms. Dates from the 1820s or earlier. It closed in 2006.  It may now be a backpacker’s hostel.
169 -175 In the 1920s this site comprised, Hudson’s who were refuse contractor. A printer William Gillard; 75 Fullman Barnett & Son who were builders merchants and David Williams a dairyman
177 Our Lady Refuge of Sinners and St Catherine of Siena.  This is a Roman Catholic Church Designed by Gilbert Blount which opened in 1870.  The parish is run by the Archdiocese of Westminster. It was administered until 1923 by Dominican nuns from the adjoining St Catherine's convent. It had been built as their chapel through the gift of Miss Reynolds, later Lady Hawkins. The church is in Kentish ragstone and was Enlarged in 1882 by A.E Purdie, and later partly rebuilt after war damage. The organ by Norman, Hill & Beard came from Holloway Prison. 
181 This building and others to the rear were part of the Convent of St. Catherine.  181 itself, which is now a shop, was the Presbytery for the adjoining church. St Catherine’s Convent was set up by Dominican nuns in 1866 who had nought a building called Alfred House.  They cane to work in a school in St. Agnes school, then in Arrow Road., When they left part of the building was turned into factory premises
181 Merron ltd. Simplex Works. This company made aircraft parts here during the Second World War, having specialised in moulded wood for boat hulls.
183 Durham and Moysey. This company was here in the 1890s and subsequently making ... Presses, Machines for Sheet Metal Working .... Patent Safety Power Press ..... Machines of all kinds 
183 John Muir and Son leather tyre factory. This Ayrshire firm had a branch here in the early 20th to make the “shock- shifter " hub. To the rear is the Nunnery Studio Gallery set up in 1996 by the Bow Arts Trust and includes a studio complex. There is a focus on site-responsive work that explores the history and themes of the local area.
183 Bow Arts Trust building  by Leaside Regeneration LTD Project. Building provided for the Trust on the street frontage.
185 Three Tuns. This pub was originally on Bow High Street by 1823 when it was owned by Hodgson’s Brewery. It was later a Whitbread pub and in 1985 enlarged and called Ye Olde Three Tuns. There was a wooden Last Supper over the bar.  Three Tuns appear on the arms of the Brewers and Vintners Livery Company. In 1999 it closed and became flats.
193-197 This premises is now converted to flats called Link House. 
193 Working Girls Club. This was set up by Annie Besant in 1891 and funded by Helena Blavatsky, Founder of the Theosophical Society, as a 'bright and pleasant home' for working class women from the East End of London. It was set up subsequent to the Match Girls Strike. A hall was added which was also used for lectures and public events. The site is now part of a block of residential buildings.
195-197 Salvation Army Hostel in the early 20th. As Archer House became Tower Hamlets Social Services Dept.
195 a Neo-Georgian shop front. Victorian works with wide piers faced in glazed brick six bays under gabled dormers. 
199 This is a late 18th building which has recently been restored having previously been reconstructed in the early 20th and used as a print shop by an Arthur Tollfree 
201-205 Garage. This was Grove Hall garage, which appears to have been used as a garage by the Metropolitan Police 
203 & 205 Atlas Iron Foundry Durham Bros, iron founders. Numerous plates on iron buildings throughout London demonstrate their work,
207 - 209 Knowles Sheridan & Co Ltd, show card frame manufacturers. 'Show cards' told people about upcoming events. The site suffered significant bomb damage in the Second World War. By 1989 it was home to night club and is now flats.
215-217 This 1930s garage was built on the site of a 16th house recorded by the Royal Commission in the course of its demolition. 
223 This appears to be the Green Light Youth Club and Green Light Kitchen. It is a late 17th building with a early 19th shop front
Anderson, Anderson & Anderson Ltd, India rubber goods manufacturers India rubber factory. This lay behind the buildings here before the 1930s. 
Bow Church and associated buildings – the Church stands in an island between the north and south sides of Bow Road.
St Mary’s – Bow Church.   In 1311 the Bishop of London licenced the building of  a chapel because of the distance from the-Stepney parish church,. They were given land on the king's highway and thus a church was built on an island site. It remained a chapel of ease until 1719, when Bow became a parish in its own right. The oldest part is the rubble-stone aisle wall which may be 14th and there is a late 15th tower with a turret and clock. In 1555 Elizabeth Warren was burnt at the stake here for her Catholic views.  Repair work was undertaken following storm damage in 1829 and in 1896 pioneering conservation work was undertaken by Hills & Son, supervised by members of Ashbee’s Guild of Handicraft who provided the metal-work. The committee also designed a new vestry. Much of the church including the upper portion of the tower was destroyed in air raids of 1940, and the rebuilding of the tower can be seen. Designs for repairing this damage were made by H.S. Goodhart Rendel. Inside are memorials of the Tower Hamlets Rifles Regiment, from St. Stephen's church. There is also a wooden battlefield cross from the Battle of Loos recording 13 men who died. There are memorials from the disused Holy Trinity Church, Bow and a memorial to 90 people from the parish who died in the Great War,
Churchyard. A small, trim churchyard, enlarged in 1824. It is enclosed by railings which were reinstated in 1984. It was designed as a public space in 1895 by Fanny Wilkinson of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association and we some monuments and table top tombs remain in situ. planting at the front of the church includes some old evergreen shrubs and enormous plane trees 
Statue of Gladstone. This is a bronze of 1881 by Albert Bruce Joy, commissioned by Theodore Bryant, the match manufacturer. Gladstone has stood above the public lavatories. And he is on a circular base holding out his hand as if addressing a meeting
Bow Brewery.  Hodgson’s Brewery. George Hodgson had begun here in 1752 and one of the smaller London brewers. A major customer was the East India Company and Hodgson was still shipping porter out to India in 1823.  October beer, which was a strong, pale, well-hopped brewed stock beer also shipped out and needed to be kept until it was two years old before it was fit to drink.   It was also improved by the climate through which it had to pass. Pale ale, "light and excellent" was being sold in India alongside cider and London porter by 1784. By 1811 George Hodgson’s son Mark was running the brewery. Some 4,000 barrels were being shipped to the East every year.  The brewery at Bow Bridge was rebuilt in 1821  and set themselves to ensure a monopoly on export to India of beer.  This was opposed by other shippers who dealt with other brewers and brewers from Burton tried to replicate Bow beer and Hodgsons began to decline. In 1842 it was only the 25th largest brewery in London by consumption of malt, and by 1849 Edwin Abbott & Son, Pale Ale and Stout Brewers, had taken over the Bow Bridge brewery. In 1863 it became the Bow Brewery Co Ltd, and in 1869 it turned into Smith, Garrett & Co. themselves taken over by Taylor Walker of Limehouse in the 1920s. The Bow brewery was demolished in 1933 to make way for London County Council flats.
246 Bombay Grab. This pub was here by 1805 and was later the brewery tap for Hodgson’s Brewery. The pub name relates to a ship in the East India Marine. It was rebuilt in 1933 and owned by Ind Coope.  After the flyover was built the pub had its name painted on its roof in white letters. It closed in 1992 and now houses a mosque and an Islamic community centre.
246 Bow Central Mosque. This was founded in 1998 in building which had been a local pub and vandalised. It has quickly been transformed into a community social and religious centre serving them through five-daily prayers and facilitating other socio-cultural activities.
242 In the 1880s this was ‘Ye Bowe Press’ – a printers
240 Bow Brass Works. Benjamin Rhodes & Son, brass foundry. This company was extant from at least the 1880s to the 1920s and made all sorts of brass items from plumbing items to gunnery. This site is now flats
214 White Horse, Pub which dated from the 1820s. This site is now flats
204 George J Betts & Co Ltd, harness and clog makers. This firm had a shop here in the early 20th. This site is now flats
202 East London Foundry. Hunter & English Ltd, engineers. The firm was set up in 1797 by two young Scots, Walter Hunter and William English, in 1803. Rennie commissioned then with framing a pair of large lock-gates for the East India Docks and as result were employed by dock engineer Ralph Walker. They also worked for Poplar Parish. In 1850 the partners were succeeded by their sons and eventually grandsons, achieving major contracts including marine engines and stationary pumping engines. They built engines for naval launches, dredgers, large cranes. The firm finally closed in 1921. The site is now flats
198 site of a baker's shop, where in October 1912 Sylvia Pankhurst opened the first East London branch of the Women's Social and Political Union. A gold sign on the front read: "Votes for Women" and Willie Lansbury got wood from the Lansbury wood factory for a platform outside from which Sylvia could make speeches. On the site are flats and a garden for Wilfred Housing Cooperative.
156 Three Cups Pub. This pub was present by 1826, becoming  in 1855 Bow Palace Music Hall,  and from 1889 Marlowe Music Hall and  a hall to the rear where Sylvia Pankhurst spoke. It later became a Cinema in 1923. 
156 Regal Cinema.  This was built on the site of the Three Cups public house and later a music hall; it was rebuilt in 1892 as the Eastern Empire Theatre. taken over by the Macnaghten Vaudeville Circuit in 1899, and operated as the Palace Theatre until 1917, and the Tivoli Theatre until 1918. In 1923 it was rebuilt by George Coles and re-opened as the Bow Palace Cinema. It was rebuilt in 1935, in Art Deco style by Leslie Kemp & Frederick Tasker, with interior decoration by Mollo & Egan. It re-opened as the Regal Cinema,. It closed after bomb damage in the Second World War and re-opened in 1947. It closed in 1958 and was demolished in 1960. There are now flats on the site.
150 This was a Labour Committee rooms under George Lansbury.  There are now new flats on the site
148 Black Swan Pub. This was on the corner of what had been the village green where there were stocks and a whipping post until the mid. The pub was here by 1822, probably owned by Hodgson’s Brewery.  In 1916 it was destroyed by a bomb in a Zeppelin raid. It was rebuilt in 1920 and said to be haunted by the ghosts of the landlord’s two daughters who died in the air raid.  It closed for road widening in the early 1970s. There are now new flats on the site
126 Bird in Hand Pub. This was recorded with a skittle ground by 1772 and owned by Truman’s.  It was closed before 1991 and has since been demolished.  There are now flats on the site
116 Police Station – Selbys. This was the original Bow police station, erected in 1863 and used until 1903, when it transferred to a new building .Sylvia Pankhurst aimed a stone at their window in 1913. It was designed by Charles Reeves, Surveyor to the Metropolitan Police. 
Selby and Son, funeral directors. They originally on the corner of Bromley High Street, at the junction with Devon's Road, before they moved to the junction of Bow Road and Bromley High Street. 
Tower Hamlets Register Offices, - Bromley Public Hall. This was built in 1879-80 by A. & C. Harston as the Vestry Hall for St Leonard's parish. It was on the site of the Bowry Almshouses. Wings were added in 1904 by R.E Atkinson 
Bowry Almshouses. Mary Bowry ,widow of Captain Bowry of Marine Square, died in 1715 and left a bequest for almshouses to be built for 'poor men who must have been bred to be seamen and to their widows past labour'.  They were demolished and the vestry hall was built on this site
114 Bow Bells Pub.  This dates from the 1860s.  It is said to be haunted.
Drapers Almshouses. What remains of the almshouses are now in private ownership hidden away among modern housing to the south with an address in Rainhill Road. Until the late 19th gates and a drive to them fronted on to Bow Road to the east of what is now the Docklands Light Railway – originally the North London Line, which company bought the site of the almshouses in 1867? 
Bow Church Station.  This was opened in 1987 and lies between Devons Road and Pudding Mill Lane on the Docklands Light Railway. The DLR here is built on the line of the old North London Railway.   
Modern Building on the left hand side of Bow Church Station is on the site of an entrance to the North London Railway Works. 
86 this house, now offices, was in use as a girls school. In 1880 the Coopers Company Girls' School moved here but the existence of the school was later questioned by the Charity Commission.  The school was therefore merged with the Coburn School and this was reluctantly agreed.  It was then renamed Coburn School for Girls, The school is now in Upminster.
Bow and Bromley Station, This was  the earliest station on this site for this line. It was a wooden structure on the south side of Bow Road which opened 1849.  It was built by the London and Blackwall Railway with two short facing platforms and a crossover. It closed in 1850
Bow Road Station. This was south of the road and built in 1875; on the site of the Bow & Bromley station which was still extant.  It  opened in 1876. the booking office was in the arch beneath the line with an entrance on the west side of the bridge and steps up to each platform. There was a small coal office on the east side of the bridge. 
Signal box. This was the north side of the bridge on the up side. 
72 The Cinema. This opened in 1915 and closed in 1916 operated by John Bussey.  It stood next to the the south east side of the railway bridge. It is currently a mini cab office.
58-66 Thames Magistrates Court. With the juvenile court it was built in 1990, designed by Phillip Arrand, architect to the Metropolitan Police.  It is the administration centre for the East Group of courts and deals with adult cases from Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham, and Waltham Forest Boroughs.  It replaced a previous court building  
Bow County Court.  This was built on the same site as the current court in the 1860s designed by Charles Reeves 
Bow Road Station. This opened in 1902 and lies between Bromley by Bow and Mile End Stations on the District and Hammersmith and City Lines. It was originally built on the Whitechapel & Bow Railway – in effect the District Railway - as part of their extension eastwards .It was to be called originally ‘Wellington Road’

Bromley High Street 
This is the old centre of Bromley by Bow and leads into the village from Bow Road but little remains of the old village. 
Village Green. This was at the junction with what is now Stroudley Walk.  It was surrounded by inns and shops as well as stocks, ducking stool,  an obelisk, and a whipping post into the mid 19th,  In 1913 Sylvia Pankhurst began a local campaign with a speech here... 
Bow Bridge Estate. This London County Council estate opened in 1933 and has been added to since. It fills the area between Bromley High Street and Bow Road and replaces numerous workplaces and old buildings.
36 John Dore's Coppersmiths and Distillery Engineers. They are the oldest distillery engineering business in the world. It began as Aeneas Coffey & Sons, of Dublin in 1830 and in London by 1835. John Dore took the company over in 1872 and moved the business here. In 1904 John Dore he invented a "Wash" Still which is still used by the industry. In the late 1960's council building led them to move to Essex and the business was sold. This site is now used by Dorrington Point Tower Block. 
Robinsons & Co . This was an iron moulding company. 
50-52 Moulders' Arms. This was demolished in 2007 and replaced by flats.
67 Blue Anchor Pub. Closed 2015
85 Tudor Lodge. With dance studios and a child care centre.
94 The Seven Stars. This was called the Seven Stars by 1681 and is shown in early prints of what was then called Bromley Broadway. It has been suggested that it was used by the Palace here by as domestic offices and outhouses. There is also evidence of a link to a Freemason's Lodge. In 1822 it was a Hodgson’s Brewery house. The original timber frame building was demolished in 1895 and rebuilt. By 1983, it was called the Pearly King, It closed around 1988 and has now been converted to flats
East London Foundry. This site south of the road appears to be part of the Hunter and English Works otherwise sited to the north between here and Bow Road. It may relate to Walter Hunter’s departure from the business in 1897. 
Bow Tank Works. In the late 19th this was the works of Lancaster 7 Co. who seem also later to have been in Hancock Road.
Bow Foundry.  Henry Edie and Co established in 1843, and still extant in the 1920s.. Made stink pipes among other things.

Bruce Road 
1 Bruce Road Congregational Church. This was founded in 1866 and in 1972 it became a United Reformed Church. It is closed and the building is now a community arts centre
1 Bromley by Bow Church in the Community. This consists of the old congregational church and a church hall. Linked to the Bromley by Bow Centre which stands to the rear and to which it is joined. It includes a nursery and a crèche and is also used as an arts centre. In the front of the building is a sculpture of a nun with her fingers in her ears. Inside are mosaics undertaken by people who have used the centre
34 John Bull Pub. Long since closed and demolished.
50- 60 site of house which where Doris and Muriel Lester rented a house, started a nursery school, and in 1912 were joined by their brother Kingsley, who died two years later.  This laid the foundations for what became Kingsley Hall.
92 The Children's Nursery. This was established in 1912 and built by C. Cowles-Voysey for Muriel Lester in 1923 on the site of some stables. It was built as a nursery school plus accommodation for staff and was opened by HG Wells hoping to incorporate radical principle in child care. There is a sculpture over the main entrance of the Madonna and Child by Gilbert Bayes and inside is a mural by the artist and writer, Eve Garnet. A plaque on the building refers to its past. The building still functions as a nursery – although the web site mentions nothing about its past or founding principles.
Bruce Road United Methodist church. This 19th church appears to have been in place until the 1940s.  A memorial to the dead of the Great War apparently survives from the church.

Campbell Road 
Rounton Park. A small local park with a walk way, benches, landscaped gardens, a children’s play area and trees.
Railway Bridge. This carries the District Line between Bromley by Bow and Bow Road stations. Here, beneath the road, was Campbell Road Junction.  A building on the north west side of the road may or may not be an amenity building for the railway. There are businesses in the arches here.
Campbell Road Junction. This dated from 1897 and was intended to cure hold ups on the railway. It was a joint venture between the Metropolitan Railway (today’s District Line) and the London Tilbury and Southend Railway. It created the Whitechapel and Bow Line which diverged from the District Railway here,
Signal Box. This stood in the western fork of the junction – on an area between the two railway bridges in Rounton Road behind what is now a car wash. It dated from 1905 replacing a predecessor from 1902 to the east. 
1 Gurdwara Sikh Sanghat. The site was purchased in 1977 and established in 1979. The congregation, originated from ten villages in Pakistan and arrived in England in the early 1950's, following partition. They came from particular the Bhart Sikh community.  This has since expanded into another building in a nearby street.
68 Cherry Trees School. Very small primary school for boys.
102 Fairfoot Library. Built by Harley Heckford in the 1930s, it includes the Poplar coat of arms and a date plaque.  The library closed in the early 21st and in 2002 Tower Hamlets Council sold it at auction. The developer who bought it acquired planning consent to convert it into flats and sold it again for a vastly increased price.

Cantrell Road
This road once skirted the southern walls of Tower Hamlets Cemetery but now is within the nature reserve area and is no longer a residential road.  It runs westward from the railway and some businesses are located in railway arches here.

Devas Street
This was originally called Park Street until the 1870s
St.Andrew’s Hospital.  This was the The Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum which opened in 1871 south of the Stepney workhouse and built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a major hospital in this Sick Asylum District. It was designed by by A. Allarston with a pavilion plan which became a model for workhouse infirmaries.  It included a water tower. A School of Nursing was established here in 1875 and a Nurses' Home in 1896. In 1920  it was renamed St Andrew's Hospital, after a local church destroyed in the Great War. In 1948 the Hospital joined the NHS. An Accident and Emergency Department opened in the 1980s in Devas Street but the hospital was gradually run down and finally emptied of patients in 2006 and the hospital was demolished. The site is now housing blocks. 
Marner Primary School and Marner Children’s Centre. This was Marner Street School built in 1893 for the London School Board.  It then stood in Marner Street which ran parallel and south of Devas Road and which disappeared in post-Second World War Developments.   Te school had a war memorial to the dead of the Great War. It was severely damaged in Second World War bombing but survived and renamed Marner School in 1951. The school is currently undergoing some redesign and new buildings being added to the original.

Devons Road
Devons Road originally ran south westwards from Bruce Road to join its present route at a point east of the Campbell Road junction. At a point probably in the late 1960s this was changed and it was diverted to run south from Bruce Road on the line of what had been Brickfield Road and then at the junction with Devas Road to turn at right angles and run due west across what had been the railway motive power depot to join its original route east of Campobello Road.  This stretch of road is elevated and acts as a bridge covering the area which was once railway sidings and then what is now the Docklands Light Railway line.
Devon’s Road Motive Power Depot.  This is effectively the southern part of Bow Works Devons Road which ran as far as the Limehouse Cut. This part opened in 1882 and under steam days provided motive power for trains out of Broad Street. The entrance was at the south end of Brickfield Road. The depot was built under John Park, and had two sheds with coaling and watering facilities. In the 1930s one shed was demolished and concrete mechanical coaling plant built. . In 1934, it was transferred to the Midland Division, with 73 locomotives. The depot survived the war and in 1957 it became Britain's first all diesel depot. Bigger depots were later built and it was closed from 1964, and the work transferred to Stratford. It was eventually demolished, 
Devons Road Goods Depot. This was opened by the LNER for coal traffic in 1874, and enlarged to handle freight in 1891. In 1916, it was bombed in a Zeppelin raid. Despite a large bomb crater, traffic was restored. It closed in 1964. 
Devons Road Station. This opened in 1987 and lies between Langdon Park and Bow Church on the Docklands Light Railway. It is on what was the North London Line, at the far western edge of the Bow Railway Works. 
75 Widows Son or Bun House Pub.  There is said to have been a Bun House here in 1829 owned by a widow. Expecting her sailor soon home at Easter made some buns for him, and when he did not arrive, hung them up on the rafters and this has continued every year since. There is an annual ceremony every Good Friday performed by a sailor. The pub dates form 1840 and has been closed but is now reopened.  It is said there are six squares & numbers on a stone in the cellar – and a Widow’s Son is a freemason.
105/117 Acme Studios. Started in two derelict shops as bases for artists
135 Lighthouse Baptist Church.  A plain Baptist church built in 1895 by E. Holman. It began in the 1860s as Lighthouse Mission in Blackthorn Street. When the Lighthouse building was opened, it was used for Sunday School classes and as a base for young people until the Blackthorn Street chapel was destroyed in Second World War bombing.
224 Tenterden Arms.  This was on the corner of Fern Street. It dated from 1869 and was a Truman’s house. It closed in 2007 and demolished in 2012 and replaced with a flats and a betting shop.
248b All Hallows Rectory. Built in the 1870s and now appears to be let as flats
Church Hall. Built alongside the Rectory and now apparently flats.
Britannia Rubber Works. Kampultican Works. This stood opposite All Hallows in the 19th and had been established in 1854.

Eleanor Street
Bow Triangle Business Centre. On the site of a small railway goods yard.
Crossrail ventilation shaft
Traveller residential site

Empson Street 
Until the late 1960s the section of road running south from Devas Street to the right angle bend, was part of Brickfield Street. Earlier still, until 1879, Empson Street was called George Street and was residential.
1 Print Processes Litho Ltd. this firm has been on site here since at least the 1960s.
104 The Beehive pub. This pub dates from the 1840s – although the building looks more modern than that and it is not shown on maps until after the Second World War.
W. Lusty and Sons. Lloyd Loom. This firm was on the 17 acres of Russia Wharf and Saw Mills on the south side of the street. The Lloyd Loom process was invented in 1917 by an American, Marshall B. Lloyd, who twisted Kraft paper round a metal wire, placed the paper threads on a loom and wove them. William Lusty was a merchant who salvaged driftwood from London canals to make packing crates and who got the patent rights to the Lloyd Loom process and set up here. By the 1930s it was popular and successful. Production here ended following the bombing of the factory in the Second World War. The business was relaunched in 1951 but sales did not recover and the London factory was closed and the business moved to Worcestershire and in 1968 it stopped production. The site has been used for a variety of works since and is currently under development and for use as studios.
St Andrews church. This stood in what had been Brickfield Street and was destroyed in Second World War bombing. 

Fairfield Road
Poplar Civic Theatre. This was the area to the rear of the old Town Hall which fronts partly on Fairfield Road. Before the Town Hall was built in the 1930s this was the site of a vestry hall.
2a Rectory for St.Mary’s Church. This is a mid-19th building on part of the site of an earlier house

Fern Street
70 Linc Centre. This is a low, informal advice centre of the 1990s. It is used by various groups, a nursery and so on from the Lincoln Hall estate
The Fern Street Settlement. This was opened by Clara Grant, who became head teacher at the infants' school in Devon's Road in 1900, and moved into a house in Fern Street.   Clara was motivated by her Christian faith to address the poverty and deprivation here established Fern Street Settlement as a hub to improve the lives of families living in and around Bromley-by-Bow. The Fern Street Settlement has been working for the well-being of families here since 1907. Inspired by Canon Barnett at Toynbee Hall, Clara helped her school children with breakfast, clothes and boots. She collected toys and other bits and pieces and made them into little bundles, which were sold for a farthing.  They were in great demand, and to manage the crowds of children she built a wooden arch on was written: 'Enter all ye children small, none can come who are too tall'. 
Memorial plaque to Clara Grant 

Grace Street
Samuel Berger & Co. Starch Works. Rice Starch blenders.  This company dated from at least the 1830s. They were eventually taken over by Reckitt and Coleman and subsequently Unilever. They closed in 1969. The works was on or near the site of Grace Place.

Kitcat Terrace
Formerly Avenue Road. The name is to  commemorate Rev Henry James Kitcat, rector of St Mary’s 1904 -1921 who was responsible for the building of the parish hall here.
St.Mary’s Parish Hall. This appears to be used by various social services work of Tower Hamlets Council.  It no longer belongs to the church.
Exit doorway to the Great Eastern Railway Bow Station and a walkway between it and Bow Road Station.  The door was said to exist in the 1980s but appears to have been removed during subsequent development. 

Knapp Road
Clara Grant School. Originally, this was All Hallows School and its Clara Grant was Head Teacher . The school was built on a different site in 1905 and is a London School Board building with a a formal three-decker front with a flat roofed playground and a separate nursery block. It was then called Devons School. It was renamed The Clara Grant Primary School in 1993 and there have been additions and alterations to the building since.

Paton Close 
Bow School.  This was built in 1913 by London County Council Architects Dept, replacing a school of 1876.  There is also a schoolkeeper's house and a Performing Arts Centre built in 1995 by Robert Byron Architects. The school moved to a new site in Twevetrees Crescent and this site may become a primary school,

Powis Road 
Kingsley Hall.  The building was established as a Christian fellowship in 1915 by Doris and Muriel Lester, sisters from Loughton. They bought the Zion Chapel on the corner of Botolph and Eagling Roads and named it Kingsley Hall in memory of their brother. It dates from 1926-8 designed by C Cowles-Voysey. Inside is a ground-floor hall and chapel with recreation rooms above ad rooms for residential workers. Responsibilities were shared on the model of an ashram, following Muriel Lester's visit to Gandhi at Ahmedabad. . After the Second World War the building was used by R.D.Laing as a psychiatric unit and the patients destroyed much of the interior. Doris Lester died in 1965 and Muriel Lester in 1968. The hall was later restored and is now a community centre. David Ricardo, economist, grew up there. 
Plaque to Gandhi. He stayed here for six weeks during 1931 when he attended the Round Table Conference at St James's Palace, for negotiations for Indian independence. His room here is kept as a memorial. 
Peace Garden. This opened in 1985 and for the Lester sisters working for peace was a very important part of their lives.   There was once a small sculpture by Gilbert Bayes, donated by A.A. Milne.  There is an has an abstract metal sculpture in the peace garden

Railway 
The railway infrastructure of this area and its history is – to put it at a minimal – detailed and confusing.
Fenchurch Street Line. Main line trains run through the area, passiug through Bromley by Bow Station (which is in the square to the east, but the line runs westward of this) this was built in two parts either side of Gas Factory Junction (which is near the Bow Triangle Business Centre. It originated from 1849 train services which ran on what was called the London and Blackwall Extension Railway from Fenchurch Street to Gas Factory Junction where it curved north and went to a station on Bow Road called Bow and Bromley. In the 1850s there were changes to services and eventually a line was added from Barking to Gas Factory Junction in 1856. The line was operated by the Great Eastern Railway until 1921 when it was operated by the London and North Eastern Railway and it is often referred to by the initials of these companies until nationalisation.  A station called Bow Road was built on the line on the north side of Bow Road. On the south side of Bow Road were a station called Bow and Bromley and another Bow Road. No station now exists at either location.
The District Line. This also passes through the area stopping at Bow Road Station on Bow Road and then on to Bromley by Bow Station (in the square to the east).  Although these are now ‘underground’ stations, the line was not seen, when built, as anything different to the other surrounding lines bad – as were other lines – was set up by a consortium of railway companies.  In 1897 The Whitechapel and Bow Railway was promoted – and seen as a way to relieve pressure on Whitechapel bad Fenchurch Street Stations. It ran from Whitechapel to Bow Road and met the London and Tilbury Fenchurch Street line (above) at a junction now under Campbell Road. The stations were built to be able to take London & Tilbury trains.  It opened in 1902 and was managed by the District Railway.   Trains ran through to East Ham and it was electrified soon after. A new signalling scheme was set up in the 1920s.  In 1933 the District came under the control of the London Passenger Transport Board – and hence ceased to be part of the railway network and there were moves to isolate ‘underground’ lines from ‘railway’ lines in areas, like this, where lines were shared,. There have been numerous changes in management since, but the stretch of line between Bromley by Bow Station and Campbell Road junction is still shared. 
Docklands Light Railway. This runs mainly on the line of what was built as the East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway.  It was conceived as a coal carrying line bringing coal from the docks up into north London and beyond. In 1850 it was connected to Bow Junction where it joined the line into Fenchurch Street and was finally finished down into the docks in 1852.  By then it was taking passengers and stations were thus provided one of which was Bow Station on Bow Road. The North London Railway’s massive Bow Works was built alongside the line in this area south of Bow Road.

Rainhill Way 
This is the main road within the Crossway Estate built from 1970 by London County Council housing. It was built on the site of part of the Bow locomotive works with three twenty-five- storey towers constructed while the tracks were still in use. Rainhill – referring to the Rainhill Trials in 1829 has a railway connection for building on the site of the railway works. This is also reflected in the names of the tower blocks – Mallard Point, Hackworth Point.
St. Agnes Catholic Primary School. In 1865 the school was opened on this site in what was then Arrow Road with the Dominican Sisters teaching here. The infants remained in a building in the Convent grounds in Bow Road. In the Second World War, the school was bombed. In 1951, the school was re-organised as a Junior Mixed and Infant School on the present site. A nursery class was opened in 1956.

Reeves Road
Prospect Park. The site of the park was previously part of the railway yard – an area of sidings running north east from the engine sheds near the Limehouse Cut.. Three pieces of masonry found during construction have been retained.  These  stones were found in a pile in the railway yard and are on end as small parallel pillars. One stone shows a winged angel which might have come from St Andrew's Church which once stood near here. The park was laid out in 1995 and has a children’s play area, and a nature reserve.
20 Old Duke of Cambridge. Pub which closed in 2013

Saint Andrew’s Way
This road is going through an area once in the railway works. It consists of a series of trading estates and buildings
St Andrews house. London Ambulance Service.  This dates from 1998 with a curved tower; three metal-clad floors above a tall grey brick service basement. It is one of three such centres for the service in London

St.Leonard's Street
This is the old main road which ran from Bow to the Docks and the river.  It now follows the route of the Tunnel Approach Road, built in ways to replace it.  It eventually peters out to the south in a miserable path between the motorway and modern blocks of flats.
Nunnery of St Leonard.  This was a Benedictine foundation from at least 1122 and perhaps a pre-Conquest foundation. It was founded by William, Bishop of London, for a prioress and nine nuns. Henry VIII gave it to Sir Ralph Sadler, who converted it into a house. In 1635 the then Lord of the Manor, Sir John Jacob, demolished it and built a new house there, on the site. This stood east between the churchyard and Priory Street. At the end of the 18th it was a private boarding school for boys, Bromley School or Bromley Manor House Academy. It was demolished early in the 19th 
St.Leonard’s church. This dated from 1842 and was a replacement of a 12th used as the nunnery church and adapted for the parish in 1835. It was demolished in 1842.  The Chancel was one of the few Saxon buildings left in London and retained Saxon artefacts and Norman features. All that is left is part of the boundary wall. It was destroyed by bombing and the construction of the Blackwall Tunnel northern approach road.
Churchyard. This contains the remnants of St Leonard's Church and is entered through a stone archway of 1894. Huguenot refugees in the 17th and 18th  built their tombs in the churchyard.  Much of the site passed out of ecclesiastical control by 1819 and was used for housing. It was closed for burials in January 1856. When the Blackwall Tunnel Approach underpass was built in 1969 many remains were re-interred in the East London Cemetery. Some of the area was a children's playground in the 1990s
Memorial Gate.  This was erected in 1894 as a memorial to the Rev G A How, vicar 1872-93. 
Dye House. This stood near the church in the 18th and Dyers Row ran south of the graveyard,
The Old Palace. This was a house which stood here 1606 - 1894. It was said to have been a hunting lodge built by James I and his arms were displayed inside. It later became Palace House School. In 1893 it was acquired by the School Board for London as a site for a school. Its demolition led to protests headed by the architect C.R. Ashbee and as a result some relics were preserved and some plaster panelling is in The Victoria & Albert Museum. 
Old Palace Primary School. This replaced a board school of 1894 which was destroyed in the Second World War. It was designed in 1952 by Cecil C. Handisyde in the Festival of Britain tradition. In the playground is a sculpture: 'No' which is a bronze boy wrestling a cat, by Bainbridge Copnall. On a wall is a memorial plaque to the 36 firemen killed during the Second World War when it was head quarters of the local rescue services. 
37 Mahee Court. This was once the Priory Tavern, now flats
Arch.  This forms the entrance to the Bromley by Bow Centre.  It is an 18th structure designed by William Kent which came from Northumberland House, near the Embankment.  It became the entrance to the garden of Tudor House, now Bob's Park. It was moved here in 1998. 
Bromley by Bow Centre.  Designed by Gordon MacLaren of Wyatt MacLaren.  This developed gradually following the appointment of anew minister in 1984 around the Congregational Church, sited in Bruce Road where the older church hall remains.  Between the two buildings is a planted courtyard.  The church interior was remodelled in 1991-2 to provide a central worship area the church hall was subdivided, with classrooms on the upper floor.
Healthy Living Centre. This was built on land taken from the park in 1995 and is a curved building in vivid orange brick designed by Wyatt MacLaren in 1997.  It houses a doctors' practice and other services and grew out of the community work undertaken initially from the Congregational Church. There is a covered link to the church which runs beside a small landscaped courtyard including a sculpture: the Passenger, by Paula Haughney commissioned to remember the life of Lord Ennals.
Bromley-By-Bow Centre Gardens. This is the Paradise Gardens, with potted plants and mosaics plus a courtyard with a pergola and pool.
Tudor House. This was an early 17th house latterly occupied by George Gammon Rutty who added an archway, two stone statues and a ship's figurehead.
Bob's Park. This was a Recreation Ground laid out by the London County Council in 1900 on the site of Tudor House.  In the early 21st it was bought by the Bromley by Bow Centre and redesigned. It is named after Robert Greenfield, the onetime park keeper.  A path meanders through the park like a stream and has set into it blue glass squares with pictures of animals or flora that live in water.  There is a children’s play area with a scaled serpent or dragon with a trough down it's back designed to fill with water after rain.  There are allotment beds accessible to the disabled and ceramic pathways. There is a seat in the shape of a large smiling animal; another is in the shape of a bird.  There is also a War Memorial obelisk with a wreath and there is a cafe, Pie in the Sky, 2002: by Wyatt MacLaren 
Stepney Union Workhouse. This was opened in 1861 south of what is now Talwin Street. It was designed by Henry Jarvis for 800 inmates as a grand building with a south facing frontage with a tower. There were additional works along the boundary with the railway to prevent escapees from using that route.  The buildings were badly damaged in Second World War bombing and the surviving parts used for homeless families. It was demolished in 1966.
St Leonard’s Schools. These stood on the south corner of what is now Talwin Street. There was a national school here before 1841. It is later shown as a Sunday School and post Second World War has become an upholstery works.  The site is now flats.
50 The Imperial Crown. This pub dated from before 1841. It was a Taylor Walker Brewery house with tiled brewery signage on the Talwin Street wall.  It closed in 2003 and is now flats.

Stroudley Walk
Stroudley Walk. This was named for the locomotive engineer William Stroudley.  This area was to be the centrepiece of a new estate, with shops and a market and brick arches were built with flats above. None of this worked. 
Warren House tower block built on the site of Bromley's former police station. 
8 Rose and Crown Pub. This pub dates from the 1720s when it was the Bowling Green Inn. It was rebuilt in the late 19th and renamed.  It was a Taylor Walker house.  It closed in 2007 and is now a shop.
Obelisk.  Outside the pub stood a horse trough and drinking fountain surmounted by an ornate gas lamp, locally referred to as the Obelisk. 
32-40 Stroudley Walk Health Centre This community health hub is a relatively recent initiative, open for clinics and advice for 12 hours every weekday 
31 Streets of Growth "A social enterprise charity specialising in engaging youth and young adults away from educational and career drop-out

Talwin Street
This was once called Love Lane. 

Tidey Street
24 Queen Mary Nursery. Built to the rear of what was Bow Common Methodist Church in Devons Road in 1937 by S.P Dales, founded as part of a Methodist mission and school established as its East-End Mission in 1885, to combat poverty and squalor with evangelism and social work. It was badly damaged in the first night of the 1940 blitz.  There is a carved brick relief of a figure with two children high up. It is now in the ownership of the local authority – possibly since 1971.  It was apparently closed in 2016.
Bromley Picture Palace. This was a cinema in the conversion of a former Methodist school-room by the architectural firm Moffatt & Dearing and which opened in 1910. It later became the Tidey Street Picture Palace, and in 1919, it was re-named Whitehorn Cinema. It closed in 1930 following a licencing problems and never re-opened. The Queen Mary Nursery now operates from the site.
The Kinematograph Theatre. This was probably a shop conversion, in 1909 which closed in 1910 when the Cinematograph Licencing Act became law.

Tidworth Road
This follows the railway line and is built on the line of what once were sidings from the Bow Road Goods Depot.

Tomlin's Grove 
Electric substation. This was built by Poplar Council pre-1930 and has their coat of arms on it. Called the pumphouse it was disused for 30 years and has since been converted to housing.

Tower Hamlets Cemetery
Only the eastern third of the cemetery is in this square, the rest is in the square to the west.
Round Glade. Now with a Habi-Sabi Bat Roost 
The Pollards
Lime Tree Walk
High Glade
Monument Glade
Hurricane Woods. This area was badly affected by the winds in the 1987 storm. A plantation of tall plane trees was blown down. 
Dissenters’ chapel in what is now called Hurricane Woods. Designed by Wyatt and Brandon, this has an octagonal form, and is in the Byzantine style.  Underneath are extensive catacombs, 
Holly Walk with Poplar War Memorial
Memorial to Victims of Second World War Air Raids in Poplar. This is in the Holly Wood area.  It is a simple curved brick structure erected in 1952. The brickwork is topped with concrete and there is a flower bed at the base.
Poplar Wood
Cantrell Glade Entrance

Trevithick Way
New flats and roadway on the line of the walkway which once ran over the Bow Railway Works. 

Violet Road 
Ventilation Shaft. This brick structure, looks like a chimney but is a sewer ventilation shaft from the late 19th

Wellington Way
Wellington Buildings. These were built to rehouse those made homeless by the District Line construction. 
Wellington Way Centre. Built as a maternity clinic in 1927.
Wellington Primary School. This was opened as an open air school in 1928 by the London County Council.

Whitethorn Street 
13 Open House, this is currently the Mind Centre. The dairy signage outside remains.
Model Farm dairy. This dated from 1890 with a cow shed to the rear. It swas owned by a Reuben Alexander
Francis Mary Buss House. The dairy was bought by the North London Collegian School in 1926 to commemorate 100 years since Frances Mary Buss’ birth and wass converted for social services and a ‘settlement’ by the school and club premises for local people as Frances Mary Buss House. The cowshed was turned into a library. It closed in 1967 and was leased to other organizations.

William Guy Gardens
William Guy Gardens is a development of council houses on the approximate site of Bromley Workhouse
Ian Mikardo School. special school for boys aged 11-16, who have been deemed unteachable. It moved here in 2011 from a site in Weavers Fields. Ian Mikardo was the long term MP for the area. 

Sources
Bow Arts. Web site
Bow Central Mosque. Web site
Bow Church. Web site
Brewery History Society
British History Online. Bow. Web site
Children’s House Nursery. Web site
Cinema Treasures
Clara Grant School. Web site
Clunn. The Face of London
Connor. Fenchurch Street to Barking.
Day. London Underground
Diamond Geezer. Web site
Disused Stations. Web site
East London History Society. Newsletter
Fern Street Settlement. Web site
Friends of the Earth. London Gas Works site
Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery. Web site
Grace’s Guide. Web site
Greater London Council .Home sweet Home
Historic England. Web site
Horne. The District Line
Ian Mikardo School. Web site
Lighthouse Church. Web site
London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Web site
London Encyclopaedia,
London Footprints. Web site
London Journal
London Railway Record
London Travellers. Web site
Lost Hospitals of London. Web site
Lost Pubs. Web site
MIND. Web site
North London Collegiate School. Web site
Our Lady and Catherine of Siena. Web site
Pevsner and Cherry, East London
Pub History. Web site
Robins. North London Line,
Stewart. Gas Works of the North Thames area
Taking Stock. Web site
Tower Habitats. Web site
Welch. The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway
Wikipedia  Web sites
Workhouses. Web site

Post to the north Mickleham
Post to the east Burford Bridge



Adlers Lane
Ancient lane running at a diagonal between Chapel Lane and what is now the A24 which ran through what was once the centre of a medieval village. It has been suggested that this is part of the original Pilgrims Way. It was built up with modern up market housing since the 1940s. It terminates at a gate leading into Gravel Pit Plantation. The lane used to continue across the railway to the main road.  There is now no trace of the lane east of the railway.  Adler is the name of a house here.
Gravel Pit Plantation. This was planted with trees until the 1920s

Bradley Lane
The lane is now set up as the entrance to the Denbies Wine Estate, with car parks, signage, etc. It passes through fields which are now vineyards. The section leading to a junction with the A24 has now been diverted southwards.
Bradley Farm. Bradley farm is now the visitors’ centre of the Denbies wine estate. The farmhouse itself is used for B&B accommodation. It was once a pig and cattle farm.
Denbies Wine Estate visitors' centre. This is double courtyard building which acts as an entrance to the estate. It includes a working winery installed as an exhibition with a commentary as well as wine cellars, a cinema, art gallery, lecture room, two restaurants and a shop.  The vineyard itself is the largest in the UK and one of the largest privately owned vineyards in Northern Europe. It covers 265 acres and can produce up to 400,000 bottles annually.
Railway Bridge– this carries the Leatherhead to Dorking railway.
Bradley Farm Cottages. These are adjacent to the railway bridge.
Fields– in the farm fields here wartime tanks were buried by the Canadian Army here in 1944.  At least two of these have been dug up.

Burney Road
Road with up market housing built up mainly since the Second World War. The road is named for Fanny Burney, whose Camilla Lacey house stood to the north.

Camilla Drive
Archway at the Crabtree Lane junction. It dates from 1923. It has or had the word ‘Leladene’ set above it. It was built by Victor Freeman in memory of his wife Lela.
Plaque on the srchway recording the residence here of Fanny Burney and General d’Arblay at Camilla Cottage.

Chapel Lane
It has been suggested that this is part of the Pilgrims Way. The concept of this path originated in the mid 19th Ordnance Survey – yet the path probably follows the line of a prehistoric track running under the North Downs.
Camilla Lacey. This is the site of the house which novelist and diarist Fanny Burney built; it is said, with the proceeds of her novel ‘Camilla’. She lived here with her husband General d’Arblay 1797-1801. The house was later sold and passed through many owners. It is said to have burnt down in 1919 destroying a collection of Burney memorabilia.  In 1922 the site and a new house were bought by Victor Freeman which he named Leladene after his wife Lela who had recently died. It has since passed through other owners and is now called Camilla Lacey.
Ice House.  This was rectangular built into an artificial mound, which had been made to give a view of Norbury Park.  It stands in the north west corner of the site
Chapel Farm. The farm dates from the middle ages and was the centre of the manor of Polesden.
Barn. This is a late 16th early 17th timber framed barn with weatherboarding on a base of flint and stone.  This base includes some blocks which may be reused from derelict adjacent Chapel. It has now been converted to housing.
Ruined Chapel. Ruins of a late 13th chapel – what remains is a flint built west wall with a gable and part of the east wall. It was probably part of the medieval manor of Polesden.  It was probably abandoned as a chapel in the 16th and used as a farm outbuilding

Crabtree Lane
Lovedon Cottage. This was formerly a 17th Farmhouse called 'Birds and Abbotts’. Between 1930 and 1960 it was occupied by H J Baker who used the outbuildings as a forge. Later his son ran a car repair business on the site.
St Michael's Chapel.  This is a Chapel of Ease to the church at Mickleham. It was originally an oak-framed barn owned by 'Birds and Abbotts' arm used in the 19th by railway workers.  It was secured as a rest room for them by a local lady, Elizabeth Vulliamy. She organised Sunday services, and helped with writing letters to the men’s families. The barn continued to be used for Sunday services after the workers had left and in 1904, it was licensed as a chapel-of-ease

North Downs Way
Modern long distance footpath which runs from Dover to Farnham and passes east west through this square.

Pilgrim’s Way
This was built as the entrance to Home Farm
Home Farm. This was part of the Camilla Lacey estate and was built for Victor Freeman in the 1920s. The buildings were arranged round three sides of a courtyard with a pump in the middle. There was a central clock tower and a pump which remains. The estate developed financial problems in 1932 and the site was developed as housing by Portwell Ltd,
Barn End. This was built to house senior farm workers.
Tudor Cottage. This was the house for the farm manager
St Anthony. This was built to house senior farm workers

West Humble Street
West Humble. May be remains of a hamlet depopulated in the Middle Ages
'The Stepping Stones' Public House.  This was originally the Railway Arms built around 1870 on the site of the old workshops. It was renamed The Stepping Stones when Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Home Secretary Chuter Ede ate here in 1946 to celebrate the re-instatement of the Stepping Stones across the River Mole.
Anti-tank ditch. This was dug in the Second World War from the pub eastwards across the fields belonging to Bradley Farm
Box Hill and West Humble Station. This lies between Leatherhead and Dorking Stations on Southern and also the South Western railways. It dates from 1867. The owner of Norbury Park was a retired railway contractor, Thomas Grissell,   and he insisted on having his own station, and to be able to stop any train at the station on request.  It was built in a very ornate style, designed by Charles Driver with patterned tiles, exposed gable timbers and a pyramidal turret with ornamental ironwork.  The station was successively named-'West Humble for Box Hill' until 1870, then 'Boxhill and Burford Bridge' .then 1896, 'Boxhill' until 1904, then 'Boxhill and Burford Bridge' again until 1985.
Catbells. This was the village Infant School
Cleveland Court. These flats and houses are on the site of what was Westhumble House and named Cleveland after the Duke of Cleveland lived there in the 1830s. It was later owned by astronomer, physicist and mathematician Sir JamesJeans.  The annual Box Hill Music Festival was held here until 1992. The house was later demolished

Sources
British Listed Buildings. Web site
Chelsea Speleological Society, Newsletter
Denbies Wine Estate. Web site
English Wine Producers. Web site
Historic England. Web site
Penguin.  Surrey
Pevsner. Surrey
Stepping Stones. Web site
Tarplee. Industrial History of the Mole Valley District
Wikipedia. Web site. As appropriate.

Adelaide Avenue
Much of this area was built up in the early 20th century by Bridge House estates.
St Margaret’s Square this area of green space stands in front of houses as an amenity area

Arica Road
Playground next to Macmillan House with murals alongside

Ashby Mews
Graham Platna Co. Ltd, Ashby Works. Electro Plating. There are now flats on this site. Ashby Works was extant in the 1950s.

Beverley Court
In 1189 the  manor of Brockley was given to a Premonstratensian Abbey the buildings of which were sited here. In  1205 they moved to Bayham Abbey but kept the Brockley holdings until 1526. The foundations of some of the buildings here were discovered during 19th buildings at Manor Farm in
Wickham Road.

Brockley Cross
This road junction appears to run from the junction of Geoffrey Road sand Upper Brockley and to the junction with Coulgate Streets.  In the middle ages it was an unnamed meeting place of three roads. One first ran from here to Deptford. Another was on the line of Brockley Road and ran south. The other had come from Telegraph Hill and went on to Nunhead.  The area was known as Deptford Common from around 1800 and a stream from here flowed roughly along the line of Malpas Road to join the Ravensbourne near Deptford Bridge.
The Croydon Canal is said to have altered the road layout when it was built, so that the towpath became a section of the road.  Canal right through it and seems to have been the towpath for a while. The bridge over the railway is on a site south of its predecessor over the canal, this was immediately south of the lock cottage but there was no road to the west.
11 This was a railway building contemporary with Brockley Lane station. It is said to be the station master's house.

Brockley Road
Brockley Lane Station.  This was on the line built between Nunhead and Blackheath Hill and Greenwich Park. The London Chatham and Dover Railway opened the line late in 1871, with this station in 1872 sited on the embankment above Brockley Cross on the bridge which crosses the line running north from Brockley Station.   From Nunhead, the line branch rose for a short distance, and then fell to the station at Brockley Lane. The platforms were wood, apart from short brick sections on the bridge over the road.  The track level buildings were also of wood and were at the London end.  There were waiting rooms were on both platforms and an office for the Station Master on the down side, and a porter's room on the up.  The line closed for lack of custom in 1917.  The line remained open for freight west of this station and the area to the east used to store carriages. It reopened to Lewisham in 1929 but this station has never reopened.  It was finally demolished in 1982.
28a Brockley Lane Station Entrance. There was a street level entrance entrance on the down side, west of Brockley Road. This now consists of a modern metal gate reached via three stairs and brick piers where the entrance was. It was closed in Great War and never reopened.  A path led into a subway, from which stairs went up to wooden platforms. A building here was demolished after a fire in 2004.  A subway ran under the line from here and is still there.
Brockley Lane signal box. This was east of where the tracks serving the two freight establishments diverged. It closed in 1973.
163 St.Andrew's United Reform Church. This was formerly a Presbyterian church built in 1882 by McKissack & W. G. Rowan of Glasgow.
180 Sainsbury’s and associated flats. This is on site of Brockley Motors which was once the site of Ritz Cinema
Ritz Cinema. This was originally the Brockley Picture Theatre opened in 1913. It was re-named Palladium Cinema in 1915. In 1929 the name changes again to Giralda Cinema and in 1936 when it was closed for renovation. It re-opened as the New Palladium Cinema and in it was re-named Ritz Cinema. It closed in 1956 and was demolished in 1960.
184 Brockley Barge. Wetherspoons' pub which used to be called the Breakspears Arms.  Probably dates from the 1880s.
201 Brockley Sorting Office. In the public area is a plaque “In memory of Sean McGill died 30. 10. 92 aged 22.  He died in a road accident. The office is on the site of the 19th Methodist Church which fronted onto Harefield Road,
240 Brockley Social Club. This opened in 1913.
315 shops on what was a vacant space entering a tennis ground, later the Roundel club
347 Brockley Cemetery Lodge. This is the altered original lodge. It is a, L-plan house with medieval-style touches, built in Kentish rag stone. There is an adjacent cedar tree, Built 1858
Brockley Cemetery Gothic gate piers. The cemetery opened in 1858 for the Deptford Burial Board.
294-296 Brockley Road Co-op. This was St Cyprian’s church. This was built as a mission church called either as St Mary's Chapel or ‘St Cyprian Mission Hall’.  St Cyprian's church itself which stood on Adelaide Road and was bombed in the Second World War and services reverted to the mission. It was sold in 1968 to the Roman Catholic Church and used s a hall and community centre by the Catholics. They planned to build a new church here but this was not done. In 1981 they built a new hall behind which was sold in 2009. The church has now been rebuilt behind the original frontage to form a shop.

Brockley Tips
This appears to be the area north of Endwell Road and alongside the railway to the east. This may have been an area where spoil from the canal was dumped.
Brick Field, this was owned by W. V.Nichols in the 1880s/

Chelwood Walk
Chelwood Nursery School. This was originally Honor Oak Nursery School which opened in early 1939, being renamed Chelwood after the war.

Coulgate Street
The southern section was once called Railway Approach, The road was once part of Brockley Lane
Croydon Canal.   The canal was roughly on the line of the railway which bought it out and replaced it.  It is thought that the grassed area in the bend of the road is on the line of the canal. A lock was sited here by the end of the grassy embankment near the footbridge on the west side of the street. When the railway was built spoil was dumped into the old canal and the embankment is thought to be the remains of this.
1, 2, 3 labourers’ cottages built in 1833. It is thought that these may have fronted the canal – they are only one room deep.
Flats on the site of the Post Office Sorting office.  This had a plaque on it for ER VII 1901 and included two halls and offices. The date was also on the rain water heads.  Some parts of the wall and entrance piers remain. Postmen’s office
Brockley Station.  This lies between Honor Oak Park and New Cross Gate stations on Southern Rail. Trains run here from London Bridge and go to Caterham, Guildford and Dorking and also on the loop to Victoria.  Since 2010 it is part of by London Overground for trains running between Highbury and Islington and West Croydon, The line was built by the London and Croydon Railway which opened in 1839 on the line of the Croydon Canal. This station was added and opened in 1871 - it is said that the station opened then to beat the opening of Brockley Lane Station which is on a line above the station which crosses it. Originally there was a two storey gabled station building on the up side and another single storey red-brick building on the down side. This was replaced by a system-built CLASP station which is a two storey flat roofed utilitarian structure composed of concrete panels.
Footbridge. Iron lattice girder bridge which goes across the railway built in 1904
Mural. The 4-paneled mural is called “The Wall” and was created by Louis Henry for the 2004 Brockley Max festival. It originally showed scenes of historic Brockley but has been damaged since.  Other murals have been added and alternations have been made for subsequent Max Festivals.

Cranfield Road
St Peter's Church Hall.  Opened in 1879 and originally provided Bible study for domestic servants, space for an Orchestral Society and the Microscopical Society. It also included a Book Club. It is now an Indian church.
St Gregorios Indian Orthodox Church This is what was St Peter’s Church hall. The church is also called the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, founded by St. Thomas, one of the twelve apostles who went to India in A.D. 52. St. Gregorios Church is the first such parish church in the United Kingdom and is the mother church of all others there. 

Dalrymple Road
Footbridge over the railway. There was no bridge here for the canal and this is a 1830s bridge widened. It was replaced in the early 1990s/
Railway. Under the bridge the Catford Loop line crosses the main line. The loop runs between Brixton and Shortlands and carries trains to Sevenoaks.

Dragonfly Yard
This was Martin’s yard. Martins were dairymen based in Endwell Road

Drakefell Road
This stretch of the road was once called Penmartin Road.
Brockley Cross Business Centre. Once the side of a siding to the coal depot, Martins Sidings. This was entered from Mantle Road.
Endwell Works. Harefield, manufacturing chemists. Pre 1970

Endwell Road
100-106 Tea Factory. Flats in what was Bridge house. This is said to have been in the late 1940’s and later extended by the London Tea and Coffee Company whose original warehouse had been destroyed in the Second World War.  It appears to have been occupied by the Economy Tea Co. which dated from 1934. It was used for blending and packing tea.  The original brick building has been extended with a tower and roof addition.
111 Tele Nova moved here in the 1960s producing specialist radio and telecoms items. In the 1980s they became part of ASCOM and have since moved away.
115 Howarth Timber
115 Co-op bakery. Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. This is now Howarth Timber.
J. W. Pindar factory. They were druggists’ engineers. In 191l the made a pill cutting machine for Beechams in the US.  Later they made suppositories etc
Rail Bridge
Brockley Cross Business Centre. This is also accessed via Drakefell Road.
Launderette and dry cleaners with signage. David Bowie is said to have made a film here. It has been suggested that the building was constructed for Martin’s Dairy.

Foxberry Road
Mural –this is of Bob Marley, created by Dale Grimshaw for the Brockley Max.
76-78 Elim Pentecostal Church- this was St.George’s Church built in 1893 by Balham Brothers to the designs of Gilbee Scott as a daughter church of St James, Hatcham. It was never consecrated.  It has red facing bricks with additions in London stocks. There is an open trussed timber roof. There was no bell. It was sold in 2003 to the Pentecostal church. To the south was a church hall built in 1887 and said to be on the site of a forge.
84 Greens of Brockley. Kneller Iron Works also listed in Kneller Road. The site is now new housing.
Mission Hall. This stood adjacent to the Kneller Iron Works before the Second Wold War.

Geoffrey Road
The eastern end of the road was once St.Peter’s Road
The Old Stables. This was the site of Little Brockley Farm

Harefield Mews
This has its original granite sett surface
Cranfield Works. In 1893 this was Photophane Company, Photo-Mechanical Art Printers. They remained there until at least 1920.

Harefield Road
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built in 1876. This was later replaced by the sorting office building.

Howson Road
4 Brockley Police Station. Now closed and sold off and converted to flats. It was built in 1881-3 to the designs of John Butler Surveyor to the Metropolitan Police. The building has a main entrance on Howson Road and a return frontage on Kneller Road with a large yard area to the rear. When closed it still had its original layout with reception, waiting room, charge room and offices on the ground floor, a canteen in the Kneller Road wing and the cells in the opposite wing, with the sergeant’s family quarters upstairs. There was a drill yard to the west.
St. Mary Magdalene Church.   This began as a mission in 1905. The  church  was  built  by  the  diocesan  builder Mr  Romain  to designs in the Roman style by the architect Young Bolton, It opened in 1899. It is in brick and the front has a Celtic cross and a circular window in the centre. There is a niche with a statue of St Mary Magdalene.  In 1906 the Augustinians of the Assumption were put in charge of the church and remained until 1997. In 1917 a Calvary was unveiled as a War Memorial was designed by Joseph Dutton and is on the street corner. In 1920 it became an independent parish. In 1940 much of the church was destroyed in bombing along with the presbytery. It was restored by 1950. In 1997 the Assumptionist Fathers left, and the parish was placed under the care of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity.
St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Primary School. This was built at the same time as the church.

Ivy Road
This is an ancient right of way and one of the oldest thoroughfares in Lewisham. It now runs alongside the cemetery wall.
Cemetery wall – in the wall is the rear of a chimney, thought to be for cremations.

Kneller Road
Kneller Iron Works. This firm was present from at least 1916 and seems to have still been extant in the 1970s when they were making hospital and care home trolleys and equipment. Galvanized mild steel and steel sections. Owned by Henry Green. A long wall with alcoves must have been the boundary to their site.
Brockley Police Station. Rear entrance for vehicles and boundary formed by a high brick wall.

Cemetery
Cemetery. This square covers a portion of the northern area of Deptford Cemetery and Ladywell Cemetery. The two Cemeteries were opened within one month of each other in 1858 and are sited on adjacent plots of previously open land. The area is shown in 1745 as 'Brockley Wood.  In the 19th it was owned by the Earl of Dartmouth and called 'Great Field', previously Strodes or Shrouds or Northfield.  They were common fields or Lammas Lands. They are owned and managed by Lewisham Council and are important wildlife sites. Until 1948 they were completely separate, divided by a wall but were merged in 1965, and the wall was replaced by a grassed ridge planted with a line of trees.

Malpas Road
247-243a Land  from the lock cottage stretches into what became Malpas Road and is marked by the four houses of 247-243A .. When Malpas Road was built in the 1890’s a gap was left here

Mantle Road
Railway Bridge crossing a deep underpass
Maypole Court. This was the Maypole Inn dating from the 1880s and closed in 2014.
Martin’s Siding. This was on the north side of the Brockley Lane Station. A goods line was opened in 1885 for 36 wagons and leased to London North West Railway which sub let to coal merchant Charrington Warren Ltd.   The entrance was in Mantle Road. , Martins were dairymen based in 4 Endwell Road. Closed in 1970
Great Northern Railway coal depot. This was by the up side of Brockley Lane Station for 40 wagons and serviced coal trains from Farringdon Street and Loughborough Junction. Closed in 1970.
Brockley station had an entrance here.

Revelon Road
Drumbeat School. Drumbeat is a special school for children and young people with autism.  It opened in 2012 for 6th form students
Meadowgate School. This was a community special school. The school was on the area blasted by a V1 in 1945. The school has been demolished and replaced

Roundel Close
Housing on the site of tennis courts and then the Roundel Club.

Seymour Gardens
Partly on the site of the Great Northern Railway coal yard

Shardeloes Road
Canal locks 11 and 12 may have been at the end of this road. The retaining wall in the southern part of the road shows the cutting which gave a level section between the locks,
Old lock house. A lock-keeper’s cottage was on the east side of the canal opposite Millmark Grove on the site of garages. This cottage survived until the early 1940’s.

St.  Asaph  Road
John Stainer Community Primary School. This was built in 1884 by the London School Board.  and was originally ‘Mantle Road School’ – the school predating the construction of St. Asaph Road.. In 1954 some of the school was demolished and the school was renamed. There has been some expansion of buildings on the site recently.

St.Margaret's Road
Fire hydrant iron pavement cover. Made by James Simpson & Co.
Phone box. 

St.Norbert Road
This is basically the main road through the Honor Oak Estate.
48 Golden Dragon.  Fifties built estate pub in a parade of shops with a basic interior, apparently unchanged for many years. Closed in 2009 and demolished/

Tack Mews
This is on the site of stables which were the last remnants of Manor Farm.,

Turnham Road
Turnham Primary Foundation School. This is the primary school for the inter-war Honor Oak Estate, and it is to be assumed that the school was built with the estate.

Upper Brockley Road
On the 1870 OS map, this is the one and only road shown.

Wickham Road
St. Peter’s Church. This was built 1866 -1870 in the grounds of the 12th Premonstratensian Abbey, using ‘sea-worn stones from the coast of Kent’ and designed by . Fredereick Marrable. The tower was completed 1890 by A. W. Blomfield..  There is a lot of expensive polychrome decoration. A hand-wound clock in the tower is by Smiths of Clerkenwell.  On inside walls are memorials to dead of the Great War.
St.Peter's Centre to the rear of the church

Sources
Brockley Barge. Web site
Brockley Central. Web site
Brockley Cross Action Group. Web site
Cinema Treasures. Web site
Disused Stations. Web site
Field. London Place Names,
Lewisham Local History Newsletter
Lewisham Local History Transactions
London Borough of Lewisham. Web site
Monk. The Muffin Man and Herring Barrow
Municipal Dreams. Web site
Remnants of the Croydon Canal. Web site
St George. Web site
St.Gregorios Indian Orthodox Church 
St Mary Magdalene Church and school. Web site
Retracing Canals to Croydon and Camberwell.
Spurgeon. Discover Deptford and Lewisham
St.Peter’s Church. Web site
Transpontine. Web site
Wikipedia. As expedient.