Arm and Sword Lane 
Lane running down from the Great North Road past pub car park. Was once called ‘Blood and Gut Alley’ or ‘Bug Alley’ because of a slaughterhouse there. The road continues under the viaduct built to enable Lord Salisbury to access the Railway station.
Viaduct villas

Batterdale
Batterdale House. 18^th house, demolished
Triangle House. This originally belonged to a tanner and there was an adjacent tan yard. Later a doctor’s surgery.  Demolished.
Convent. In 1925 Carmelite nuns built a convent on the site of the old Hatfield Brewery in Batterdale, by the railway station, and remained there until 1938
Hatfield Brewery. The Searancke family are the earliest own local brewers from the late 17^th. In 1815 it was sold to Joseph Bigg but by 1819 was acquired by Joseph Field. By the 1830s it owned forty pubs and produced more than 7,600 barrels annually”. By the 1830s it was owned by the Pryor family, local Quakers. They had maltsters in Baldock and some of the family were partners in Truman, Hanbury and Buxton. The company was, Pryor, Reid & Co. Ltd. it expanded substantially taking over other local breweries. It closed in 1920.
Waters, The site of the brewery was acquired by W Waters & Co. who built their garage in a prominent position on the bend at the bottom of Brewery Hill – roughly covering Salisbury Square
Maltings.  Hatfield brewery owners the Searancke family had two maltings in Batterdale. One was later passed to the Hare family
Fire station. In 1900 the old Fire Engine House was sold to the Great Northern Railway and a new building was erected in Batterdale
Church hall.  The original church on the site, dedicated to The Blessed Sacrament and St.Teresa. It is now the hall for Marychurch. It was built 1929-30.
Platelayers Arms Pub 1880s-1920s
William Burgess clock making business. This was sited on the corner with London Road and closed 1920s. Later undertakers and bark and wood business

Beaconsfield Road
The line of the road was originally called Beaconsfield Terrace built in 1898 but the recent layout dates from 1970.
Road with industrial units between it and the railway which are built on the site of old sidings.  These have included woodworking, printing, engineering, heating and ventilating, tool making. Housing on the west side all removed.
This area was once known as Puttocks Oak and Whitewash Alley – some of this area is in the square to the north,
Rising Sun pub. When the railway was first built a level crossing was provide to from here to the Red Lion in the Great North Road
Police cottages – there were six police cottages next to the Rising Sun. They were demolished in bombing in 1944.

Broadway
The road name ‘Broadway’ seems to date from ‘regeneration’ of the mid 20^th. Before that this was part of the Great North Road or London Road entering Hatfield from the south.  The construction of the present A1000 road, which by passes the town centre, meant that his could become an urban side road.  It leads from a roundabout on the A1000 to a junction with Fore Street and Park Street. It passes Marychurch which fronts onto Salisbury Square.
15 The Salisbury Restaurant. Now Offices.  Bolt by the 3^rd Marquess of Salisbury in 1885 with a large public hall on the first floor. Later it became a Temperance Hotel – marked as this is nth in 1891 census and only appears on maps marked as a ‘pub’ in the 1930s. After the Second World War it became a restaurant, since closed
Dray House pub. This was next to the Salisbury. Prints show it as a free standing timber building
London Road (National) School was built by public subscription in 1850. It was located just south of the junction with French Horn Lane.  It was initially for girls and infants but boys came here after 1854, but in 1904 boys moved to Endymion Road. In 1913, the infants moved to a building in Church Street and in 1924, the girls also moved to Endymion Road. The London Road building was then used for adult education and as a library and was sold in 1935. The building remained, in industrial use into the 1960s but was then demolished,
1-5 K.C.V. Precision Tool Co. They used the old London Road school building.
One Bell pub. This was at the bottom of Fore Street on the corner with Broadway
Archway leading to Jacobs Ladder.
Old Workhouse Yard. Site of Salisbury Square.
William Waters’s car and bicycle repair shop 1900s.
James Gray.   Coach builder and motor repair works 1900s. This had grown from a wheelwright in the 1850s and a new building was on the site from 1886.  On the east side of the road it crossed to over and by 1994 was part of diamonds rover.  Both premises have been demolished

Church Street
This used to be called Back Street
Jacobs Ladder– this old staircase emerges here having come down from the original and older Salisbury Square
4 The Bakers Arms.  In 1850 it was owned by the Newtown Brewery who ran a bakers and a beer shop here. It was acquired by the Hatfield Brewery in the 1890’s and later by Beskins. In 1904 there was growing concern about the great number of public houses in the town, and In 1928 seven licences were refused in Old Hatfield, the Bakers Arms was one. It is a private house.
Two Brewers pub. It was here until the 1880s when it was replaced by the rectory
42b National Map Centre. Partner of OS.
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. In 1851 5 members held services in an old cow shed adjacent to the Two Brewers Pub. By 1864 there were 18 members and they moved to a new site
St. Audrey’s This was originally built as a rectory for rector, William Gascoyne Cecil - second son or the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. It has since been a home for the blind, offices and now a care home.
St Ethedreda's Church Hall - a building which was originally Countess Anne's School. In 1732 the Countess Anne of Salisbury founded a charity school for the education of forty girls. In the 1870s the school moved into this building and stayed until 1912. In 1913, the infants moved here from London Road. School. It is red brick with stepped buttresses.
Gate into Hatfield House estate. Building marked as a lodge.

Cranbourne Road
On the route of a path through allotments going to the station

Endymion Road
Schools. In the 1880s The London Road School was over-crowded and in 1904 a new building was opened here for the boys only. Before 1910 however it was called St Audrey’s. In 1924, the girls as came here and it became a mixed school. New buildings were added and the school expanded. In 1944 it was destroyed by bombing. In 1946 it was built as a Secondary Modern under the new Act and the County Council took it over as a Controlled School. The new St. Audrey’s Secondary Modem School was formally opened by the Minister of Education on 26th July 1946, being the first new school to be built in the country after the Second World War. In 1957 the school moved out and these buildings became the Broadoak Primary School, then it became the Onslow School - which in the 1970s was on both sides of the road. It is now the Countess Anne ‘Academy’ School with an address in School Lane
Hatfield Polytechnic. This was in the Onslow School building on the east side of the road and included the National Reprographic Centre. The site is now housing

Fore Street
This once led up from the Salisbury Arms to the old parish church on the hill and to the gate of the Old Palace. It was part of the Great North Road, used by traffic going from London to Edinburgh and all points in between
Fore Street Gatehouse, Lodge at Hatfield House entrance. It includes a porter's lodge and two cottages. It is in red brick and was part of the entrance to Bishop Morton's Palace, c1480 with 17th and 19th additions. In the wall is an Edward VII post-box.
The Gatehouse. This was the Salisbury Arms Hotel. Now houses and flats. The closed archway used to be the entrance to a courtyard for 100 horses as coaching stop on the Great North Road.  Some windows blocked because of the Window Tax. It was also once called the white Lion inn. It was used as a post office in the 19^th.
Market House. In the middle ages fairs were held on the feast of St. Audrey. This stood at the bottom end of the road in the 17^th.  It had an open ground floor and a room above.  Courts were held there and it had the official weights and measures. It was moved and the upper floor used as a school. It was demolished in 1850.
10 East Indian Chief Pub. This is now a private house.  In the 18^th it was named The Roebuck and then the Nags Head, later it was the Marquis of Granby and then the Full Measure. It was the Indian Chief by 1855
12 Church Office. There is a letter box set into the wall.
11 This was a butcher’s shop 1940's - 1960's. Hooks for hanging the carcasses remain under the window eaves.
42 Crown House. Originally part of The Rose & Crown Public House dated 1495
St.Etheldreda.This is the largest church in Hertfordshire.  It was founded in 1240, and dedicated to the Saxon princess, Eltheldreda, or Saint Audrey. It was later rebuilt and the chancel and the transepts date from the 13th and the embattled tower, with its spike, was built in the 15th when a central tower was removed. In the Salisbury chapel, built 1618, is the tomb, of Robert Cecil who created the Hatfield House. Also that of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister three times and four times as Foreign Secretary from 1885-1902.The 18^th wrought-iron screen severs the chapel from the chancel and came from Amiens Cathedral. In the Brocket Chapel is William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister 1835-41. In the Ludwicke Chantry is a memorial to Thomas Fuller, Rector of Hatfield from 1684 to 1712.The pulpit was designed by Sir Albert Richardson in 1947 as a War Memorial for both World Wars.
Churchyard. This includes a wooden grave marker of John Whitmore. At the east end of the churchyard is the private cemetery of the Cecil family.
Church Cottage. Made up of three 17^th cottages standing in the church yard. Has been used as a house for curates.
Wrought-iron gates. It is said that once one of the seven pairs of gates, made in Sussex in 1710, which once enclosed St Paul's churchyard in London were here.

French Horn Lane
Section west of the railway
The section west of the railway was a new road built in 1970 through allotments while the old line of the road became a cul de sac.  The line of the ‘new’ French Horn Lane is a featureless main road and runs under the railway to the roundabout on the Great North Road from which The Broadway goes into Old Hatfield.
10site of old Rectory, latterly Howe Dell School run on self expression principles.
Manfield and Berner Maltings. These were immediately before the old railway bridge. Later replaced by houses and now demolished.
Railway Bridge.  1893 Railway Bridge removed in 1970. The old bridge was on the line of the pedestrian underpass.
Wesleyan chapel built 1889 and closed in 1938. It then became a furniture store.   Demolished 1968 in order for the new roundabout and railway bridge to be built,
Herts Militia Buildings,
Walter’s Garage Workshops

Great North Road
The present Great North Road is the A1000 built as a bypass to the town centre. The previous road north from London ran through the centre of Hatfield – now Broadway and Park Street.  The road south of Batterdale was earlier ‘London Road’
Hertford Conservative Association offices.  Demolished,
Public hall, 1910.  Built by Lord Salisbury.  Silent movies and also originally a public library Regent cinema opened in the mid 1930s.  Taking over from the old Public Hall opposite the railway station.  By 1970 it was a dual use cinema and bingo club, The Curzon. Lager as Chequers Bingo, since closed. Demolished.
52 Priory House. May have been a pub  demolished. Opened 1605 and then 1696. Called the Green Man and later The White Lion.  Searanake Brewery and the Bradshaws,
54 Great Northern PH - formerly the Hatfield Arms and before that the Great Northern Hotel and before that Duoro Arms. ‘Old railway workers pub’.
Hatfield Station.  This lies between Welwyn Garden City and Wenham Green on the Great Northern Railway and Thameslink, It opened in 1850. It once served two other lines – the branch line to Dunstable Town closed in 1965 and the railway to St.Alban's Abbey, opened 185 and closed in 1951. The station is a red brick box building from 1973, architect.  Hardy of British Railways Eastern Region. This was a much earlier station. Private waiting room for Marquess of Salisbury. In 2015 it had a bus interchange and taxi rank, refurbished ticket office, three new shops and step-free access to all platforms.
Multi-storey car park opened 2014
51 Encore House
61 GE Healthcare, offices, research and development, Life Care Solutions
& Ultrasound Education
Entrance gates to Hatfield House and Park. Late C19, gates, listed grade II, with low, curved brick walls. There are two carriage entrances, flanked by piers with stone lions and separated iron screen with the statue of the Marquess of Salisbury who built this gateway to provide access to the station. From here the drive goes on an embankment and over a bridge above the village street to the park entrance to the park.
Salisbury Statue. Bronze seated statue of Robert Arthur Talbot, Third Marquess of Salisbury, 1830-1903, He was three times Prime Minister.  Sculpture by G Frampton R.A., 1906. Stone base with Salisbury coat of arms and inscription.
Hatfield War memorial. This is next to the gates to Hatfield House, donated by Lord Salisbury. It commemorates 139 local servicemen who died in the Great World War and in 1921. The names are also recorded of those who died in air raids. It is in a garden enclosed by a clipped yew hedge and a wall. The Portland stone memorial cross is a wheel-head cross and there is a pavilion designed to provide shelter for visitors by Frederic Kenyon in 1918. There are inscriptions: “We will remember them 1939 – 1945/ (44 names)’ ... Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory mcmxiv – mcmxix/ (names) .... We will remember them 1939 – 1945/ (15 names)/ victims of enemy action on 3rd October 1940/ (21 names)/ victims of enemy action on 22nd September 1944/ (4 names)/ victims of enemy action on 10th October 1944/ (9 names)
Post Office and Telephone exchange. Designed by Frederick Llewellyn in 1936.  It included an automatic telephone exchange.  Closed 1961. There is a plaque about the opening on the building. It is now offices
76 Hatfield Social Club. Established 1934 and now in purpose built 1970s premises on the site of Northcotts
Northcotts House.  School run by Rev. Benjamin Peile, Curate of Hatfield in 1838 and closed around 1860.  Later used as Hatfield Red Cross hospital in the Great War donated by Lord Salisbury.  Home guard centre in the Second World War.  It was demolished in the 1970s to make way for a block of 25 flats also known as Northcotts.  
North Place.  Grade II listed 1795
Hatfield Park War Graves Cemetery. From September 1939 was used as a military hospital. A section of the park was laid out as a cemetery for burials from the hospital. It has 20 graves from the Second World War, plus a civilian airman. There is also a train crash memorial nearby
London Road School, This was near the corner with French Horn Lane. Later used by KCV Precision Tool Co. Thus National School was built by public subscription in 1850, It was initially for girls and infants but, in 1854, boys transferred to the school. From 1904, girls and infants only were in thus premises. In 1907, the name was changed to Church of England Schools. In 1913, girls only remained and left in 1924. The building was then used classes, adult education and a library. . It was eventually demolished as part of the Hatfield New Town development.

Hatfield House
King Edgar presented 'Hetfelle' to the monastery of Ely and in 1086  Domesday 'Hetfelle was still theirs By the early 12^th it had become a residence for the bishops and Hatfield was known as Bishops Hatfield.
The Old/Bishop’s Palace. A very early brick palace was built 1480-49 by John Morton, Henry VII’s Archbishop. In 1538 the manor passed to the Crown and the palace became home to the royal children - Mary, Elizabeth and Edward.  Here Elizabeth and Mary spent many years of their childhood, in virtual imprisonment. Elizabeth’s first Privy Council took place in the great Hall. James I gave Robert Cecil Hatfield in exchange for Theobalds and the estate remains with his descendants. Cecil demolished most of Morton’s palace and built a new house.  What remains of the old palace is a line of buildings in red brick, with end gables and a central tower.   Over the archway of the gatehouse are ancient beams and a mullioned window. The west front has a square tower, and at the end a stepped gable is surmounted by a twisted chimney. The great hall remains,
Forecourt, on the west side of the Old Palace, with the stable yard and the churchyard of the parish church. A brick gatehouse gives access to Fore Street
The House. In 1611, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury built a Jacobean House adjoining the Old Palace. It decorated for entertaining the Royal Court, with State Rooms with paintings, fine furniture and tapestries. Examples of Jacobean craftsmanship include the Grand Staircase and the stained glass window in the private chapel. The south front, the wings, the central arcade, and the tower provide a vista. There is a clock tower from the roof of the great hall, with an octagonal dome. The hall rises to two floors and has spectacular carved screen. On the first floor is a long gallery. The second Marquis of Salisbury, built terrace gardens either side of the house and installed a maze, electric lighting, and water gardens.
Gardens. Extensive and complex gardens and park, created from medieval parks. Robert Cecil's formal, early C17 gardens were created by designers including Thomas Chaundler and Salomon de Caus, and planted by John Tradescant the elder, as head gardener. The gardens were landscaped in the C18, but then remodelled and extended in the C19 and C20  There Are original fountains, a large relief of Queen Elizabeth I and a maze.
Forecourt. Walls and gates 1845 and late C19, for the second and third Marquesses. Listed grade II. With red-brick and terracotta walls, and two further additional. A broad stone staircase leads up to the central front door of the house. Beyond the north front of the House are two pairs of brick and stone, gate piers with iron gates
South approach. Thus was the main entrance in the C17. It was aligned on the centre of the south front. The road way goes to a lodge, 2km tithe south south of the House.
West Gardens, these formal garden are overlooked by the C19 west terrace. The Privy Garden, bounded by a lime walk, has the West Parterre. To the west of this the lower Scented Garden, The Wilderness Garden extends south from these formal gardens, with the remains of C19 wooded pleasure grounds.
East Gardens, terraced gardens lead down a slope from the east front, a double flight of steps leads to the east parterre, with a C20 kitchen garden, an orchard and the Mount Garden. A flight of steps goes to the Maze Garden, and the Pool Garden, with swimming pool ad yew hedges. Beyond this is the New Pond and Wild Garden, laid out in the early C17
Maze 1840s, restored mid/late C20#
Hatfield Park is made up of several earlier parks, including Middle Park and Innings Park. The central area around the House and gardens is pasture, with scattered trees.
Oak tree. The remains of an old oak tree, under which Princess Elizabeth was reputably sitting when news was brought of her accession to the throne after the death of Mary Tudor, are still preserved.

Old French Horn Lane
This was diverted and partly closed in 1970.  These notes cover the original lane as well as the small section now there
Hatfield Gas Works. Company established in 1860 by Lord Salisbury. In 1925 taken over by the Welwyn and Hatfield Gas Co. This was on the south side of the road immediately next to the railway. Now partly St.Ethelreds Drive.

Park Close
Built on the site of a Non-Conformist Cemetery. Gravestones can still be seen at the far end

Park Meadow
Newish housing on previous dairy farm land,

Park Street
This was previously Duck Lane. Part of the road is known locally as Brewery Hill
1 Checkers Inn. This is now offices. The landlord was Thomas Serin in the early 17^th and the pub was run by members of the Searancke family. The family business eventually grew into the Hatfield Brewery.
Brewery. John Searancke is known to have been the owner of a small brewery behind the Chequers Inn in 1582
2 Eight Bells Inn. This claims to be the pub house mentioned in Oliver Twist where Bill Sikes and his dog went after the murder of Nancy. It is low-roofed, timber-framed 16^th building with a 19^th front.
Jacobs Well 19^th pub. This was opposite the Horse and Groom.
Park Street Chapel. Built 1823 the first nonconformist church in Hatfield. In 1925 it was congregational. Demolished in the 1960s but some gravestones remain
Butchers Arms. This was also opposite the Horse and Groom
21 Horse and Groom Pub. Grade public house it is based on a 17^th or earlier timber frame with a later red brick casing. Still in business! It stands at the end of the old Arm and Sword Yard.
Park Street Brewery, This was leased to Arthur Sherriff and stood alongside the old Arm and Sword Yard. Complins Brewery was taken over in 1872 by Sherriff in 1899 .

Salisbury Square
Basically a car park, The original square was a double terrace of houses built for Sergeants of the Herts Militia. There was also a band room and an armoury and a communal pump. Hatfield was the headquarters of the militia 1852-1872. Demolished 1972.. The buildings on the west side follow the line of the old Great North Road.
Marychurch, RC. Planned in 1962 but built 1969-70. It was founded in 1930. Church designed by George Mathers; glass by Dom. Charles Norris and Dom. Paulinus Angold; font and welded steel screens and gates by Angela Godfrey.

School Lane
Called Old St Albans road

Stable Yard
Carl Russell Co Gunmakers Ltd. 60 years experience in the British gun trade and specialise in British shotguns as a gun makers.

St Eltheldreda  Drive
Site of Hatfield gas Works

Sources
Hatfield Borough Council. Web site
Hertfordshire Churches,
Hertfordshire
Historic England. Web site
Kirby & Busby. Hatfield. A pictorial history
Nairn. Modern Buildings,
Mitchell & Smith. Branch Line around Hertford and Hatfield
North Mymms History Project. Web site
Our Hatfield. Web site
Waymarking. Web site

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Chaucer Avenue
Internal Airport Road

Cranford Lane
Internal Airport Road

Dick Turpin's Way
The area was apparently notorious for highway robbery
Hatton Farm. Open storage land, etc derelict site

Dockwell Lane
This lane was replaced by the South West Road
Hatton House, This was thought to date from the 18^th. In the 1940s it became Dick Turpin’s Kitchen, a roadhouse. It was demolished in 1978

Eagle Road
Internal Airport Road

Eastchurch Road
Internal Airport Road

Eastern Perimeter Road

Electra Avenue
Internal Airport Road

Elmdon Road
Internal Airport Road

Ensign Close
Internal Airport Road

Envoy Avenue
Internal Airport Road

Exeter Road
Internal Airport Road

Faggs  Road
Mission Room. 1930s, Baptist Chapel/Anglican Mission Room converted for office use in 2000
Radius Park  Trading Estate, Airport Industrial Properties. On the site of St. Anthony’s Home
St.Anthony’s Home. This was Temple Hatton, owned by  Sir Frederick Pollock. It appears originally to have been a farmhouse and/or a chapel. In 1899 it was sold to a Roman Catholic order and became an orphanage called St. Anthony's Home. In 1958 it was sold and the site is now Radius Park.
Lodge to St. Anthony’s Home
Green Man pub. Parts of the building date back to c.1639, but much altered. It was once thatched and had stables, now part of a bar. Hidey hole behind the chimney.

Great South West Road
Replaced Dockwell Lane. This is now the A30 and it ends at Land’s End. The section around Heathrow had been planned as the western end of the Great West Road an early bypass for motor traffic. Work began in 1914 but was halted because of Great War.  It resumed in 1919.
Cut and cover trench provided alongside the road for the tube extension to Heathrow.

Hatton Road (northern section)
Until the airport was built this road came from the north – Sipson- to the South West Road at Hatton Cross.  A stump of it remains from the South West Road to a roundabout.  The road continues south of the  roundabouit
Dog and Partridge. Demolished 1949 for the airport. The licence was transferred to a pub in Staines
Hatton Gore and kennels. Built 1840s it incorporated York stone from the Bank of England. Home of plant collector Frank Kingdon-Ward 1920s who built a rockery on the model of a river ravine in the Himalayas. Demolished 1940s for the airport. The site is part of the truck depot west Enfield Road Roundabout.
The Cedars: house, with a big pond in the front of it. Built around 1840. Demolished 1940s for the airport. Now the site of car parks in line with the north runway.
Hatton Road Farm
The Common Farm,
The Magpies pub became Cyclist's Rest cafe

Hatton Road
South west section south of the South West Road
Atrium Hotel. Aggressive blue outside.  Opened 2018. Described as ‘weird’.
Steam Farm, the first in the area to have a steam-powered plough. Real name was Rayner’s Farm

Lock Lane
Demolished for the airport

Southern Perimeter Road
Hatton Cross Station. Opened 19^th July1975.  It lies between Hounslow West and Heathrow Terminals 1 2 3 and Heathrow Terminal 4 on the Piccadilly Line. It first became an intermediate terminus on the Piccadilly Line and the first trains to Heathrow terminated here. It was built to tube line standards rather than those of the District Line. The platforms are in a tunnel but constructed as cut and cover and the tiling on central columns features patterns made up from the British Airways Speed bird logo. The station building is in brutalist concrete and includes a bus station. In 1986 Terminal 4 opened with a new line which acts as a loop to the other Terminals.  In the 1970sthere were island platforms and a ticket hall at surface level plus below surface platforms.

St.Anthony’s Way.
Internal road on Radius Estate

St.Theresa Road
Internal road on Radius Estate

Vanguard Way
Internal airport road
Boadicea House. BOAC data centre
British Airways Flight Training Centre
British Airways Global Learning Academy

Viscount Way
Internal airport road
 
 
Sources
Day. London Underground
Green Man pub website
Hatton History web site
Wikipedia

Telegraph Hill, Southwark

Ansdell Road

2-storey houses, bow windows, eight rooms, houses let on lease. Something like Lugard Road, perhaps a little better. (Booth)

Arbuthnot Street

The houses at the west corner are 2-storey double-fronted mostly. The rest is made up of smaller houses, no servants. The road is now continued a long way east to Jerningham Road but no new houses have been built on the part lying in the police division.  East of Pepys Road. 2-storey houses, built deep. New. Fine view from north side. Rents £40 a year or so. (Booth)

Astbury Road

Queen's Road arches. Private bus company there in the 1920s, the City Motor Bus Co., big and successful. HO, leased from LB&SC railway co 1922. 1871-1904 it had been stables for the London Tramways Co. The trams entered from the arches from the service road on the other side of the railway leaving the Queen's Road on a spur under the up platform of Queen's Road station. Still there in 1977 but the tram lines were covered with tarmac. There were also tram tracks inside the arches 110-111 where horse buses were repaired. In the yard opposite Astbury Road, stables for City Buses co was seen as one of the best of the private cos.

59 Chimes pub

Replica of Colls Road.  These last two roads are said by Dolby to have been originally part of the Liberator Estate. (Booth)

Besson Street

58 Fox and Hounds

2-storey houses, garden fronts. Many railway men living here. (Booth)

Bousefield Street.

2-storey houses, bow windows. Badly built, many owned by occupiers and bought through Building Societies, said to cost about £100. "Very few servants" of whom however, I saw one! (Booth)

Briant Street (not on AZ)

2-storey houses. Clearance at corner of Martha Place and omission for factory on east side. (Booth)

Caulfield Road.

Of much the same type as Lugard Road. (Booth)

Dennett's Grove

 Much like Rutt's Terrace. (Booth)

Dennetts Road

69 Rising Sun. traditional Trueman’s interior, ornate mirrors.

87 Earl of Derby

Houses of various styles, 2-storey and 5-storey. A row of 5-storey houses that used to be in very bad repair and occupied by a very low class has been altered and improved, one house alone reminding of the old condition of things. (Booth)

Dolling Place (not on AZ)

East of Rose Cottages. Eight cottages (Booth)

Dundas Road.

Described by Dolby as "just the same". (Booth)

Edith Road.

Mainly 5-storey, large, "a family comfortable class" but "not many servants".  Lodgers. Shops on the west side, south of the Chapel. (Booth)

Erlanger Road

Hatcham Manor Estate, also known as the New Cross Estate, was built by the Haberdashers Company to a layout by their surveyor William Snooke between 1887, and 1900. The other north-south roads Erlanger Road and Waller Road were developed from the 1880s in predominantly Edwardian style. Because of the length of the principal roads and the lack of variety in house design, the overall effect can seem rather monotonous

Pond in the lower part of the road which is not now used.

With houses very much like those of Waller Road, is a better-off Street, differing very little, if at all, from Pepys Rd itself. Two thirds of Erlanger Rd is new and the south end faces the Park. (Booth)

Faulkner Place

No thoroughfare, bricked with tiny squares. 2-storey houses flush with the sides. "Rough, and low class." A few houses, most doors shut. (Booth)

Firbank Road.

Still the same, houses said to let at from 10/- to 12^/-. (Booth)

Franklin's Grove (not on AZ)

Houses on south side only, 2-storey, open in front. One family to a house the rule. (Booth)

Gellatly Road.

2-storey houses. Very occasional servants, but "mostly girls", by which Dolby meant youth and inefficiency, and of such he thought that there were perhaps ten in the whole road. It is of very much the same type as Ansdell Rd. It is on the large Haberdashers' Estate of this neighbourhood and contains the only licensed house the Company allows. (Booth)

Gibbon Road

Nunhead Station. Opened 1^stSeptember 1871 by the London Chatham and Dover Railway. It lies Between Peckham Rye and Lewisham and also Crofton Park on South East Trains. The entrance is on the east side of Gibbon Road.  It was also called Nunhead Junction. It originally had two island platforms, with the centre road, being used by up trains and those terminating here – primarily the trains fron Greenwich Park trains. Routes to Crystal Palace, and the Catford Loop were added in 1892and ran south.  In 1925 the old station was closed and resited slightly west and rebuilt in red brick with a single island platform.  The original entrance was closed but could still be seen bricked up on the north side of the embankment,

Goods Yard on the up side, closed April 1962.

Rail line Nunhead Junction Signal Box.

66 Railway Tavern

From south west end to the railway is mainly 2-storey houses. Shops east of Kimberley Road. Beyond the railway to Hollydale Road is 5-storey houses and shops. (Booth)

Hatcham

Developed by Haberdashers' Company in nineteenth century. In 1614 the Company acquired the manor of Hatcham. In c1867-68 they built some large houses on the north side of New Cross Road. Developed the grounds. The Hatcham Manor Estate leading up to Telegraph Hill was their largest housing development. The Haberdashers’ property mark can be seen on many corner buildings throughout the area.                      ,

Hatcham Park Road

Preserves the name of the old manor of Hatcham, marked thus on the Ordnance Survey map of 1816 and recorded earlier as ‘Hacheham’ in 1086 in the Domesday Book, ‘Hachesham’ 1234, ‘Hechesham’ 1247, that is 'homestead or enclosure of a man called Hascci', from Old English ‘ham’ or’ hamm ‘and an Old English personal name. The district once occupied by this manor is now New Cross Gate.

Was western part of Five Bells Lane. It ran immediately north of the first small station, likewise of the 4th lock.  The humped bridge crossed the canal.  The railway dealt with the lane by taking it underneath, giving it merely a width of 6' and height of 7’.  Developments at the station, possibly those at the time of the mid 1840s atmospheric era, saw the end of the lane as a through route.  Continues to the east as Batavia lane.

Look south along the railway line opposite the station, below the bridge parapet is site of lock 5 on the canal. The canal then diverged from the railway to the east side

Loco works established at New Cross because of the hill out of New Cross - also reason for use of atmospheric traction. The Entrance to the works had granite sett surface and a gatehouse. Curve fits fence on 1839 plan. The Octagonal engine house was demolished in 1950s. Rest went in the 1990s now under Sainsburys.

The Manor House of Hatcham was bought by the Haberdashers Company. It had Extensive grounds both sides of the canal and road. Moated. Rebuilt 1775.  In 1869, after the Hardcastle family had ceased to live there, they demolished, Hatcham House. It lay north of the railway works.

Haberdashers Estate on the site of the Manor House

Cage

Hatcham Park House. Hardcastle

1/27 c1850, and are partly stuccoed and rusticated.

Terraces Along the south side are long Italianate ones of 1864

2-storey houses, a few with bay windows. Well-kept front gardens on south side. Railwaymen and clerks. (Booth)

Hatcham Terrace?

Hathway Street

A cul de sac between Senate Street and Kitto Road. Not shown on map. 2- Storey, 5 roomed houses, generally single occupants. (Booth)

Hollydale Road

115 Hollydales Pub

South side is 2-storey houses, forecourts, bow windows. Gone down, poor. With a little unnecessary severity Dolby remarked that "you generally find houses run down near a school', which would be true of middle class houses but hardly of anything below. At the north east corner, two or three dwellings. 2-storey houses, small garden fronts. High waged and low salaried class, servants few and far between. (Booth)

Kender Estate:

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Kender Grove (Booth)

2-storey houses. (Booth)

Kender Place (not on AZ)

South east of Rose Cottages. Gardens (Booth).

Kender Street

56 Hatcham Lodge. A substantial house, the doorway is flanked by fluted columns, and there are fine round-headed windows with masks at the rear. It was originally of 1827, but was altered and enlarged in 1858 for George England. George England was one of the country's pioneer locomotive builders. He founded Hatcham Iron Works in 1840 in Pomeroy Street behind the house; the works expanded into locomotive production in the 1850s and 1860s, and over 250 locomotives were made here. It became Fairlie Engine & Steam Carriage Co from 1869, but closed in 1872. Nothing now remains of the works; part of the site became General Engine & Boiler Co from 1872 and later Reliance Foundry, and part was Enos Fruit Salt Works from 1878 to 1940.

24/54 Georgina Terrace built for workers at England’s works. The Cabbage patch was north of this but not facing on the street. In 1862 it was a test track bed.  It is a fine group, probably built c1827, with steps leading up to the first floor.

Varied style of houses 2-storey. Not unlike Pomeroy Street. Mainly "mechanic class". Several courts lie off the street. Two cottages to the north of Frederick Street quite poor. Also Esther Cottages south of Faulkner Street. "Cook's Folly, 1845." (Booth)

Kitto Road

1 Holleran's Tavern

The new Park lies on either side. On the north side, between Erlanger Road and the new Waller Road, are new 2-storey houses with basements. Below the Chapel, which has been built lately, the old Chapel becoming schools, the houses are smaller. "Not many servants here. On the south side are 5-storey houses. (Booth)

Lausanne Road

44 Swiss Tavern

Built as a grand access road to the cemetery at Nunhead

Houses of all sorts, 2-storey, 2-storey, 5-storey.   Some servants... On the south side is the very small South East London   Synagogue', only a sprinkling of Jews said to be in the district, and these mostly Germans. (Booth)

Lindo Street

2-storey houses, south side only. (Booth)

Lubbock Street

Was Frederick Street. 2-storey houses flush with sidewalk.  Done up on north side. (Booth)

Lugard Road

Running south west, is just the same as Hollydale (Booth

Dairy of London's last cow keeper who was here until 1967,.John Jorden. The cows were two weeks here and then two weeks in the country.

Martha Place (not on AZ)

2-storey houses, garden fronts. Better on north side, all "rough". Two miserable houses in the south west corner. (Booth)

Martin's Place (not on AZ)

2-storey houses. "Better class" here. On the east side are only two detached pairs of houses.  (Booth)

Mason's Court (not on AZ)

Cottages. Clean. One family in each, rents 6/- (Booth)

Mason's Grove (not on AZ)

2-storey houses with basements. Garden fronts. Six rooms, rent 8/6. (Booth)

Mona Road

2-storey houses with forecourts. In  this road is a boundary line between the parishes of Deptford and Camberwell and Dolby mentioned the practice of the police, if they have anyone to arrest who can be shunted along, getting the offender into the west end of the road prior to the arrest. If this can be managed the case is tried at the Camberwell Court, if not the constable has to go all the way to Greenwich.  Doubtless this economy of time and trouble works out in other ways, not perhaps always so harmlessly. For instance, Dolby had previously mentioned that some parts of the Peckham Section are a mile or more from the police station and the Trouble it was to get a prisoner from   the more distant ground safely into the lock-up. There must be strong temptation in these circumstances to let a man go, if possible, as it so often is in the case of brawlers and of "drunks".  (Booth)

Nettleton Road

5-storey, front gardens. Several have cards: "apartments furnished". Keep a girl. Two advertised for sale. (Booth)

New Cross

Kestner Evaporators since 1914 making machinery for syrup glue and gelatin, fruit juice coffer powder and chemical industries.

Roman urns in a garden 1735

Greyhound Stadium ,

New Cross Gate.

New Cross Gate. Road island at the junction, which was the site of a tollgate from 1813 to 1865,

Toilet entrances have fine ironwork railings

Ventilating pipe of 1897 which doubled as a lamppost - it is a fluted column b Macfarlane’s Castings of Glasgow, with a most unusual vaguely Egyptian pattern based on a design by the famous Glasgow architect Alexander Thomson. This is not in as good condition as the one outside the New Cross Inn:

New Cross Road

119/141 as 109

120/128, a monumental unified composition of 1833 above modern shop fronts, the end houses both having four giant pilasters.

136/148, c1830, stuccoed above modern shop fronts. Minerva Terrace

143/147 as 109

153 Five Bells, a fine classical pub of 1841 with quoins and deep eaves. Five bells between the eaves brackets. Later extension. Ornate mirrors and heavy drapes.

Horse trough outside the pub. 19th

170/178 1838, with modern shop fronts.

182Clutch Clinic was from 1909 to 1917 the Electric Empire Cinema previously was a horse dealer.  Car body works centre

182 Electric Empire Theatre.  Opened 1909

184 The White Hart, an 1898 rebuild of a mid 19th century pub.

197 a building c1910 with flora classical dressings, originally London & South Western Bank, now Barclays Bank

207/219, formerly known as Hatcham Terrace. It is a very fine tall terrace of 1841 with long rows of windows on the ground floor, and balcony railings to the first floor.

208 New Cross Bus Depot, occupies the site of a London County Council depot, the largest in London, opened 1906, and closed 1952.

210 Kingdom Hall, of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Classical building of 1957, Reconverted from the old South East London District Synagogue in the late 1980s. The first synagogue was established here in 1904. Bombed, perpetual fire did not go out.  Not rebuilt until 1956.

221 a large house c1842 with a fine porch linked to 223.  Listed Grade II,

223/229, c1842, a terrace with recessed pairs of entrances, linked to no 221.

231/241, a terrace of tall houses, probably c1867

233 G.L.C. blue plaque: 'John Tallis, 1816-1876, publisher of London Street Views, lived here'; published 1838-40,

235 rebuilt after the war.

241 a Lewisham Council plaque: 'Sir Barnes Wallis, 1887-1979, pioneer of aircraft design, lived here 1892-1909'; he designed the Wellington bomber, and the bouncing bombs which destroyed the Mohne dam in 1943.

All Saints, 1869-71 by Newman & Billing. Kentish rag, with a large rose window. No tower.

Aske's Haberdashers' School for Girls. 1891 by Stock, Page & Stock. Quite a nice design with buttresses, plain gables. Queen Anne windows, and an asymmetrical turret with cupola, the style derived from Philip Webb

Toilets at Queens Road corner.  Triangle island site underground, vent pipe with gas lamps and fluted Egyptian designs.  Made by Macfarlanes of Glasgow and based on a design of Alexander Thompson of Glasgow.  Railings round the steps.  Closed and gone.

East from Kender Street. Private houses to a little west of Besson Street. Very few servants. The shops when they begin are second rate. (Booth)

Nunhead

 Nunhead said to have been named from an inn. The Nun's Head  - ‘Nunhead’ 1680, ‘None Head’ c. 1745,  ‘Nonehead Hill’ 1789.’ Nun Head’ 1816. 17th-century inn here called The Nuns Head. According to local legend colourful but without factual basis, the inn itself was so named because a Mother Superior was beheaded here for opposing Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.  The name may relate to ownership of land by Shoreditch nunnery of St.John the Baptist in the late 12^th.

Nunhead cutting. Cut in 1860 now an embankment.

Pepys Road

Hatcham Manor Estate, also known as the New Cross Estate, was built by the Haberdashers Company to a layout by their surveyor William Snooke between 1887, and 1900. The first road to be developed was Pepys Road, with a pattern of houses in Gothic style to the north and Edwardian style to the south.

29 Ben Jacob barge building at Deptford and Mayor of Deptford 1908 buried at Nunhead

Church of St.Catherine, built 1893 by Henry Stock surveyor to the Haberdashers Company, is a bulky ragstone church with elongated Gothic windows. The north transept is castellated; the south transept has a separate roof. The chancel was extended in 1913. A nicely designed screen in the Centre gives a good view of the church interior, which is of red brick and imposing. Large, Early English ragstone, with brick interior. Reroofed after war damage, and reordered in the 1960s for combined church and community use. The west end was incorporated into Telegraph Hill Neighbourhood Centre.

Vicarage is contemporary with the church, and is of interest as the a red brick house in a predominantly stock brick area

Aske's Haberdashers' School for Boys, Founded in 1688. From the new building at Shoreditch of 1825-6 the statue of Robert Aske in the forecourt by Croggon of Lambeth, 1836. The present building is of 1875 by W. Snooke, yellow and red brick, Gothic, symmetrical, on a corner site with fine views in all directions.

The boundary of the Peckham Section. Very much the same character as Drakefell Road. Vicarage, built just below the new church, at the corner of Arbuthnot Road. The west side has been built over up to Arbuthnot Road and all the houses are very much of the same class as those in Erlanger Road. A few years back much of this site, which is partly built over and partly Park, was brick-fields. Pepys Road. With new houses east of the Park and on the west side between Musgrove Road and Arbuthnot Road, is a good middle class street throughout. On the east side some of the houses are large red-brick erections.  The road is broad and spacious, with trees, and in a few years time may become a pleasant boulevard.  (Booth)

Queen’s Road

Queens Road Station. 1866. Between Peckham Rye and South Bermondsey on Southern Rail

397/401 a stuccoed house c1850 with fine bow windows extending through three storeys on either side of the doorway, though the ground floor bowl have been cut into by horrible modem shop fronts.

Somerville Estate. An intimate and attractive estate of 1978, with groups of dark red brick houses forming an intricate pattern of irregular clusters, mostly behind a large adventure playground on the main road.

New Cross Fire Station, of 1894, an extraordinary extravaganza with steep conical roofs on rounded towers at either end, and a tall circular tower behind.

369 Hatcham Liberal Club, a fantastic building c1911, with an oriel window above the porch, and decorated stonework. The club was established Pere in 1880, the date on the facade.

142-148two early c19 pairs at an angle to the road stand isolated among redevelopment. Listed Grade II

164 The only English Heritage blue plaque in SE15 where Jamaican born Dr Harold Moody, founder of the influential League of Coloured Peoples in 1931, lived and had a surgery.

371/373 Queens Road, a fine pair c1840 with stuccoed ground floor cement.

387 an odd small building of 1893 with decorations

Passing the entrance to The Retreat, "The Marist Convent for Young Ladies", a Roman Catholic Boarding and Middle Class College. Two or three houses appear to be occupied. Residential at this east end, with a few new houses filling in the gap (Booth)

Pomeroy Street

Development work for Delta Metal 1894

125 Coach and Horses pub??

Power's Place (not on AZ)

2-storey houses, forecourts. (Booth)

Railline

The line to Lewisham Road from Nunhead was abandoned by an Act in 1929 and the line taken up.

Rose Cottages (not on AZ)

Entered from Pomeroy Street. Four poor little places. (Booth)

Rutt's Terrace

2-storey houses, flush with sidewalk. Cul de sac, except for entrance to Waller Street Board School. "More of the labouring class than in Dennett's Road. (Booth)

Selden Road

South of Lindo Street is 2-storey and 3-storey houses. Broken windows, untidy children, poor. North of Lindo Street is 2-storey houses, better. (Booth)

Senate Street.

2-storey houses. Poor looking and gloomy, some broken windows. (Booth)

Somerville Road (not on AZ)

A cul de sac of 5-storey and 2-storey houses with small garden fronts. (Booth)

Stanbury Road

Is a replica of Lugard Road. (Booth)

St Mary's Road

Pioneer Health Centre. This health experiment was started at 142 Queen's Road in 1926  and purpose built here as the Pioneer Health Centre in 1934-5, by Sir Owen Williams with funding by Jack Donaldson. The place of a medico-social experiment, initiated by Doctors Scott Williams and Innes Pearse. The area was chosen because its population was a cross-section of income groups. The idea was that instead of medical services being for people who were sick, they should be available to everybody regardless of their state of health to detect disorders early and deal with them partly by altering environmental conditions. So the centre was a combination of club and clinic and designed to Scott Williams's requirements.  The centre provided a kindergarten, gymnasium, swimming pool, theatre, sports, etc. At The centre of the building was the swimming pool surrounded by cafes and other leisure facilities, the pool separated by glass walls. The only space shut off is the consultation block on the top floor. The Centre has a front with six out-curve bays all in concrete and glass. The Centre was converted to residential use having been used as an educational facility for a while as South London Doctors' Centre and Southwark Adult Education Institute.

Sassoon House.  A well designed block of flats Thompson & Fry, or rather Maxwell Fry, 1932

St Mary, 1961-2 by Robert Potter of Potter & Hare. One of the first new churches in London designed for the liturgical movement.  Centrally planned, cruciform, and very light and transparent, with the interior on view to the outside world.  Four big gables are all glazed with clear glass. There are roof lights as well, rising to a small central fleche. The gable cants outwards. The church replaces a bombed building of 1839-41.

Horse trough junction with Evelina Road.  ‘Be kind and merciful to your animals’Gone.

Middle class, larger houses north of the church. South of the church omitting at south east corner for St Mary's Church Hall, built 1890 (Booth)

Telegraph Hill Park

Used to be called Plow Garlic Hill, used to pay double taxes to Kent & Surrey

Park, opened 1895, is in two parts. The southern section provides, from its highest point in the grassed centre, panoramic views over Central and West London. The northern section between Pepys Road and Erlanger Road, is larger but of less interest.

Fountain dedicated to Livesey, 9 1/2 acres. St Catherine’s Park, which was bought for George Livesey so that he could be looked up to. Project achieved with money from Greenwich Board of Works, London County Council, and Haberdashers Company. Ornamental lake & bandstand. Opened by Austin Arnold 6.9.95. Of London County Council.

Telegraph system using frame with large removal shutters working from end of 1796 until 1814 peace with France. 1816 another sort tried of single high mast with two arms set to different positions and better visibility. 1820 French Chappe type used with a mast and rotating pointers

Admiralty telegraph 1795. Wooden huts. Nothing built in area until 1873. Ground opened in 1875.

James Martin and Sons Dairymen

Reservoir Kent Water Co. built 1874. 160' above OD. 1,7500,00 gall. Can be seen as a mound in the top part of the park.

Waller Road

Hatcham Manor Estate, also known as the New Cross Estate, was built by the Haberdashers Company to a layout by their surveyor William Snooke between 1887, and 1900. The other north-south roads Erlanger Road and Waller Road were developed from the 1880s in predominantly Edwardian style. Because of the length of the principal roads and the lack of variety in house design, the overall effect can seem rather monotonous

Edmund Waller School. Has a handsome London School Board building of 1887 in Queen Anne style, and a less appealing second building of 1899 to the south

Quite a new road of 2-storey houses with basements. Narrow and long slips of garden behind, clothes out to dry in many of them. Some servants and a good many "step girls” employed, that is girls who come in a few times a week and do some of the rougher work, including the steps. On the west side a Board School and at the North West corner a Fire Station, a very fine building fronting the Queen's Road. (Booth)

Washam Road

The houses are older and have small forecourts, is again the same. (Booth)

Wellington Road.

5-storey and 5-storey houses. Compared with Lausanne Road. (Booth)

York Road?

Between here and Pomeroy Street, 1976, a three-storeyed gabled fronts with upper-level deck behind, private yards, and a communal garden, around two squares by Peter Moro

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Thames Tributary Ravensbourne

The Ravensbourne continues to flow north and slightly west.

Beckenham Lane

Was there a summerhouse on Church Hill?

Browning's corner.  Site of the shop of a sausage making butcher who did not pay rates because he was a non-conformist

The area around Blythe and Swan Hills has several springs which feed down to the Ravensbourne.

Pest House Field was between Beckenham Lane and Park End.  The Pest House itself was in the south east corner.

Pixfield; or Pitts Field.  This is now the field for the Valley School.;

Pixfield was also the name of a house.  On the corner of Farnaby Road.  It is said to have had inside panels from the Great House.

Bromley Hill Place lodge stood opposite Pixfield.

Frogs Swam – name of the area between Pixfield and Bromley Hill Place

Valley Primary School.  It was built by Bromley School Board and opened in 1891. The Board had held an architectural competition in which was won bt1888/9 to select a suitable design. A design submitted under the name 'Bromley' was subsequently approved. It was by Evelyn Arthur Hellicar and Sydney Vacher. The school was built on land belonging to Pixfield, whose owner made conditions which dictated the basic form of the school.

Glebe Knoll.  Flats

Hollydene.  Flats

Footpath to Deadmen's Steps.

Ravensbourne Bridge.  Site of a mill dam there at Domesday.

Alley way with tiny padlocked All Saints Mission

Bromley Gardens

St.Mary’s disused church hall-cum-chapel survived until about 1982

2 new houses on site of St.Mary's Hall

Binello grocery

Bromley Park

Area between Beckenham Lane and London Road.  This was a small country estate which belonged to the Blyth family 1769.  Developed in the late 19^th until 1913 and the name has been taken for the whole area.

Farwig Lane

Mr.Farwig. came from Newington Causeway metal working company

Beech Tree pub.  .  Nursery site and home of very old beech tree which was a favourite of Paxton.  the tree was taken to Crystal Palace whole.  Pub rebuilt after bombing.

Head office of Russell and Bromley Shoe Co.

Lawn Villa

Gas Works, opened by Mr. Farwig, it became the gas works for the whole area.

Glassmill Lane

Mill dam on the river.  This was a very big pond.

The mill has disappeared but the extensive mill pond remains.  Mill in Domesday Book.  Initially it would have ground corn but in 1449 Lord Saye purchased the mill to produce paper.  In 1811 it belonged to Messrs. Fentham of the Strand, London, and was used to polish mirrors and lenses.  Later used for grinding and polishing concave and convex mirrors from one to five feet diameter by Thomas Ribright, optician in the Poultry, London.

Cottages 1819

Grasmere Road

3 by Ernest Newton.  Tile-hanging above brick. Big half-timbered porch bay with caryatids framing the first-floor window.

5 was built as the stables.

Harcourt House.  Built in what was originally the Bromley Hill Estate, as a family home in 1870 by local architect W.A. Williams.  It was originally named "The Glade,” and used as a school 1908 -1940, known as "The Glade Garden School" and then "Harcourt House School, Highland and Grasmere.”  During the Second World War it was used as offices for the Red Cross.  Listed.  Freda’s Garden.

High Street

The Swan & Mitre.  An old coaching inn which was popular with carters carrying farm produce and fish on their way to London markets.  It dates from the early 19th although part of the stables is 18^th. Inside is seating from Old Gaiety Theatre in London and ornate mirrors presented by Marie Lloyd.  In 1855 a large pile of crutches was found here, left by patients cured by the surgeon James Scott.

Highland Road

Entrance lodge to Bromley Hill house.

Christ Church.  Built for Samuel Cawston in 1887 using the same architect, W.A.Williams, as the houses of the Bromley Hill estate in the Early English style

28 Bromley Reform Synagogue

London Road

Parish gravel pit on the west side. In 1929 became Tranquil Place farm cottages

Salubrious Range .Laurel Inn houses. East side just north of the Beech Tree.

Bromley workhouse 1721-1845;

Park End was the site of a windmill. Moved 400 yards in 1768 and gone by 1845 opposite the Beech Tree

Bromley Central Methodist church (1965) Gone

50 Lygon House

Lauriston House 1883/1896 lived Joseph Swan of the electric light.

Bromley College.  Lies behind red brick walls and 18th iron gates with a bishop's mitre. John Warner was one of only eight Bishops to survive until the restoration of the Stuart Monarchy in 1660 and when he died in 1666 he left £8,500 for the foundation of a College or almshouse for  'twenty poore widowes of Orthodoxe and Loyalle clergymen'. It was built 1670-72 to the design of Captain Richard Ryder, a Master Surveyor who had worked with Wren. Although the style is associated with Christopher Wren it had developed before the Civil War and was a speciality of masons, bricklayers of the City of London both before and after the Great Fire. The College has 20 house around a quadrangle - a paved walk within has a lean-to roof onDoric columns of stone plus a large stone archway to the courtyard facing London Road with houses for the treasurer and chaplain on either side. There is speculation that the columns are those recovered from Gresham’s Royal Exchange. At the end of the 18th a second courtyard was added by Thomas Hardwick. For twenty more widows but using wooden columns. The college now accommodates retired clergymen and their wives. The original widows had two rooms on the ground floor, two bedrooms, and a semi-basement kitchen and was expected to be attended by a resident servant and,a spinster daughter.

Chapel between the two quadrangles of red brick. Windows by Waring& Blake, 1863. The original chapel had to be enlarged this is the replacement.

Shepherd's College.  House for spinster daughters when their mothers had died.  Will of Mr. Benetson 1840

Motorworks - James Young has bought the coach building firm of J.K.Hunter in 1863, makers of the ‘Bromley Brougham’.  Their first motor body was built in 1908 for Orpington MP, Smithers.  Made aeroplane parts in two world wars.  From 1921 they made bodies for Bentley cars as well as Alfa Romeo, Sunbeam and Rolls-Royce.  James Young also fitted some cars including Talbot and Sunbeam.  In 1937 they were bought by London Rolls-Royce dealer Jack Barclay.  They stopped coach building in 1967 but continued with body work until 1979.  Factory later used as a snooker hall.  Factory building still there 2009.

31/33 Carn Brae and Holmby House became the Lady Margaret Hospital, which was fruitarian.  Founded 1903 by Josiah Oldfield with no infectious admittances.  No proper training accreditation although they pretended there was.  Was offered to the War Office especially for Indian soldiers in 1914.  Some Belgians accommodated c. 1915.  Closed 1920.

Martin's Hill

The land formed part of an estate owned by the Bishops of Rochester.  Coles Child became Lord of the Manor in the mid 19^th and following the sale of some land residents became concerned about preserving the hillside.  The Local Board bought Martin's Hill for £2,500 in 1878.

Hop Field.  The lower slopes were where hops were grown successfully.  The produce formed part of the Palace crop which was so heavy it often needed month to pick.  In 1872 the first hops to arrive at the London Hop Exchange came from gardens at Bromley Palace, the fifth successive year that Coles Child's hops were first at the market.

The Meadow, which included the Hop Field, was purchased for the public on Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887, and given the name Queen's Mead.

Obelisk War.  Memorial at junction of Glassmill Lane and Church Road.  1922. On land adjacent to Martins Hill Recreation Ground.  The white stone obelisk and the base feature magnificent life-size bronze figures.  The memorial was unveiled on 29th October 1922 by General Lord Home GCB, KCMG.

Martin's Road

Fire brigade house.  This was on the site next to the supermarket.  The disused station lasted well after the Second World War.  The tiny station had a single arched stall for the engine.  After it had been merged into a bigger service, the building, named The Old Fire Station; became a private house.

Kerbs painted alternate red and blue for 1977 Jubilee

Meadow Road

Mill Vale

Mitre Hill stream in the garden of Mill Vale

Queens Mead

Recreation ground.  In the corner was a footpath to Pickhurst Green; footbridge over railway to a meadow with another gravel pit with more river gravel.  before the mid-1950s it was used for events and  Until about 1953 there were funfairs, with roundabouts, chairoplanes and boat swings, a few driven by steam.

Ford over Ravensbourne until 1764; part of old bridge in new building

Queens Mead Road

Brick building.  In a narrow alleyway which was once All Saints Mission.  A leaning iron chimney poked from the roof, serving an old-fashioned stove.

Ravensbourne

The Ravensbourne Flood Prevention Act was implemented following the disastrous floods of September 1968.  Thirty- six hours of torrential rain caused hundreds of houses to be filled with deep water.  Since then the Ravensbourne has been widened, deepened, culverted and canalised most of the way from its source at Keston to Deptford where it flows into the Thames.

Shortlands

Marked with this name on the Ordnance Survey map of 1876, which refers to the 18^th Shortlands House which later became a school, originally it was a field name meaning 'short strips of land in common fields’.

Shortlands golf course

Station Road

Shortlands Station.  3^rd May 1858.  Between Bromley South and Beckenham Junction and also Ravensbourne on South Eastern Trains.  Built by the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway opened as ‘Bromley’. Extended to Bickly 5th July.  Was called ‘New Bromley’ originally.  The line from Beckenham went to Pimlico, then line to Bickley, tried to get LBSCR to Bromley.  In 1885 it was renamed ‘Shortlands’.  In 1889, the line came in from Nunhead. There was a post office in the original building and the forecourt was enclosed with big gates.  Gas lamps with the station name in ground glass.

Gas lamp sewer vent pipe cast iron 1860s

Shortlands Tavern

Shortlands Laundry.  Almost facing the waterworks across the railway from the corner of Station Road and Martins Road.  Chimney removed.  Low down on the main wall in Station Road was a small square of filled-in brickwork, distinguishable as some sort of former window. In steam days it was filled not by glass but by a wooden hatch which was usually open during working hours.  The building was later occupied by a clothing factory and a motor workshop.

Valley Road

Shortlands Pumping Station.  Well of the Kent Water Works which housed a Cornish engine beam.  In 1867 it belonged to the Southwark & Vauxhall Water Co. then Metropolitan Water Board in 1910.  Water from Honor Oak is pumped to it.  It was rebuilt 1935, with new machinery and additional well.  The pump house 1860s, in rock-faced ragstone.  Now all housing.

Kingswood House.  Old people's homes 1963, near the station on a sloping site.  Comfortably by Clifford Culpin & Partners,

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HEATHROW AIRPORT 

Heathrow village and houses are gone. The Airport is the site of New Barn Farm. Marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822 as ‘Heath Row’, earlier ‘La Hetherewe’ c.1410, ‘Hitherowe’ 1547, that is 'the row of houses on or near the heath', from Middle English ‘hethe’ and ‘rewe’. The reference is to the tract of heathland west of the River Crane that gave name at an earlier date to Hatton. The old settlement was swept away when the airport was built.

Heathrow Airport. At the end of World War II there was a need for a new location for Britain's major international airport, near to the centre of London and with enough land for future demand. Hounslow Heath had been used as an RAF transport depot since 1943, and was the site of the London end of the original London to Paris air service lies – thus buried under one of the runways. Heathrow was developed as a star-shaped pattern of runways based on those used by the RAF, with administration and passenger accommodation at the centre. In 1946 this was primitive in the extreme, with tents for passengers and caravans for airport administration. In 1950 the government commissioned Sir Frederick Gibberd to design the first permanent central terminal, which opened in 1955. Heathrow became the world's busiest international airport. It covers seven square miles, has 13 miles of perimeter road.  In 1972 47,000 workers. It is an Industrial slum. It has a terminal tunnel, impressive garden. The first departure was a British South American Airways plane to Buenos Aires in January 1946.

Warlike Mithras Temple on the ram.  Celtic temple and Iron Age pottery. Two ancient camps on the Ram - King Arthur's camp and Caesar camp.

Sir John Alcock, and Brown statue in Granite by William Macmillan. Both in flying kit. Installed in 1954 on the north side of the airport and then moved in 1966 to Terminal 3.  Now near the Central Tower. At the rear is a peace trident and dove. Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic in 1919 – the first to do so – in a Vickers Vimy.

Terminals 1, 2 & 3 built between 1955-1968

Tunnel linkingto the cargo site

Cargo area

Chilling station

Chapel

Heathrow Station Terminals 1 2 3.  16^th December 1977. Terminal of Piccadilly Line from Hatton Cross but also on a loop to Terminal 4 on the Heathrow Express. Built on the Piccadilly Line and Opened as Heathrow Central.  It is a reinforced concrete box below track level with a Bentonite walling system.  Ticket hall 20' below ground.  Staff accommodation on mezzanine floor, 11' lower, platforms 44’ down.  Two pairs of escalators.  There is a Travolator from ABA to terminal buildings.  It was opened by the Queen making Heathrow the first international airport in the world to be directly linked with a city centre by underground railway.  In 1986, the name was changed to Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3, and a four-mile loop was opened linking it to Heathrow Terminal 4, with Hatton Cross. This was opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales. In 1998 it was linked to the Heathrow Express from Paddington which then goes on to Terminal 4.  While this was being built in October 1994 disastrous subsidence set the programme back by six months.

Bus station

Queen's Building

Control tower by Owen Williams, bleakly grand

Perry Oaks,

Last wolf in England killed there

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Austin Road

Austin Road Estate. Red brick council estate

Blyth Road

EMI Central Research Labs factory, Electrical and Musical Industries Ltd. also Emitron TV system adopted by the BBC in 1936. They designed high-definition TV and stereo sound also airborne radar.

Gramophone Company factory. Gramophone and Typewriter CoThey bought 11 acre site with private sidings and wharf. Gramophone records were to be made as the Company's German factory could not cope with demand. They built gramophones and released 78 rpm records as His Master's Voice with Nipper, who dates from 1900.  Wallis, Gilbert designed the new factory. In 1931 the Gramophone Co. amalgamated with Columbia Gramophone Co. eventually becoming EMI then Thorn/EMI.  From 1978 as vinyl is less used factory closes.

HMV HQ moved to other side of Blyth Road in 1912 from London.

Jupiter house - Foundation stone laid by Dame Nellie Melba. All recording stars would come here until Abbey Road opened in the 1960s. A neo- Georgian brick building

Enterprise house - Former gramophone factory for HMV now warehousing and industrial units. Built 1912 by Trussed Concrete Steel Company, E Owen Williams. The rooftop water tank, has led to it becoming called 'Little Chicago'."

Neptune house - part demolished 1984. Dates from 1906-7. It is now the boiler house. 2 storey Security block

Apollo house - collection of 19^th Century brick built factories with metal-framed roofs. Important gable facing the road.

Jubilee house - 3 storeys with Reinforced concrete frame truncated wedge shape. Strange windows to the western stairs

Mercury house - 5 storeys flat slab it was the Assembly building and has Egyptian detailing.

Vulcan house - 5 storeys with two internal atriums. It was the Cabinet factory.

Phoenix house -5 storeys in height. Wedge shaped plan. It was the Record Store building

Rail line.  A small shunting engine which belonged to EMI crossed the road,

Goss works. The Old Pressing Plant, also known as Apollo House, bur 1905 by Goss Printing Co, Based in Chicago and made newspaper printing machines n the Great War occupied by the National Aero Engine Company. From 1921, McCurd Lorry Manufacturing Co until c.1927 and purchased by the Gramophone Company works and integrated to its production line

Botwell Lane

Botwell was still a quiet farming village until the Grand Junction Canal was built here,  First recorded in 831, it was the site of a spring with supposedly curative properties.

Botwell Cross. Old cottages in what is now a conservation area

Botwell House. The Catholic Parish was founded in, 1912 by Claretian Missionaries from Spain. They bought Botwell House with 4½ acres of ground,

Botwell House Catholic Primary School. This opened in 1931 built as part of the church complex.

Botwell Social Centre. This was the intermediate church enlarged and remodelled, and it opened in 1967.

Immaculate Heart of Mary Church. It was dedicated in 1961

Canal

Originally the Grand Junction Canal of 1793 was to link Braunston with Brentford.  William Jessop was the engineer. All canal bridges were numbered from Braunston. This section was built as a 'wide' or 'broad' canal – that is, its locks were wide enough to accommodate two narrow boats abreast or a single wide barge up to 14 feet in beam.

There was a canal iron milepost saying ‘Braunston 87 miles’.

Dock diagonally north east of Hayes station for gwr coal depot

Clayton Road

Names for Alfred Clayton who was the Hayes Development Company secretary.

British Oil and Turpintine Co.Excelsior Refinery and Wharr. Making motor oil

Arthur Lee and Bros. Ltd. Marble/granite/slate

School. On the corner with Printing House Road a temporary elementary school was opened in 1906 by the local authority and replaced in 1908 by a permanent school. A second block was opened in 1913; the school was closed in 1931.

Direct Line Insurance workshops. Replaced the school.

Hayes British Electrical Transformer Co built works in 1901.  Sited here because of transport, on banks of canal and GWR line S in to the factory. Their main product was the Berry transformer, invented by A. F. Berry who also invented the Tricity cooker.

Universal Tyres & Spares Ltd – an independent, family-owned tyre-fitting and MOT centre established in 1957

9 Captain Morgans. Pub which has a Celtic football followers. Previously called The Welcome Inn.

Dawley Road

Dawley house

Dawley faem

Gethceln House

Rail site

Hayes weldare asscc ild oub

Hamborough arms

Wooloack

Bournes Bridge

Fairly avenue

Grand Union Canal Walk

Harold Avenue

Hayes Town

Original name for the area was Cotman’s Town.‘ha-se’ 793, ‘Ha-se’ 831 in Anglo-Saxon charters, ‘Heso’ 1086 in the Domesday Book, ‘Hese’ 1232, ‘Hayes alias Hese’ 1648. Area covered in brushwood.

As far back as 1899, the Hayes Development Corporation had acquired land south of the hamlet of Botwell with the aim of developing factories.

Valentine Ord and Co Ltd, (saccharine glucose etc.); 1906 –

John B Erwall. (Metal fittings and instruments);

The X Chair Patents Co. Ltd. (folding chairs etc.)1909

- Orchestrelle Co. Now Listed. (Pianola factory.)1912 - -.

Keith road

Millington road Engineering works

Brewing sugar works

Marble and slate works

Mack partition works

Coldharbour

Crown Close

Neild road

Nestles Avenue

The section of the road which is in this square is being redeveloped as Hayes Village

North Hyde Road

Fairey Aviation Co.. Founded in 1915 by Richard Fairey and Belgian Ernest Oscar ex Short Bros. The Propeller Division - Fairey-Reed Airscrews - was at Hayes factory. One Hayes-built aircraft type during the late 1930s and World War II was the Swordfish. In 1957, the prototype Rotodyne vertical takeoff airliner was built at Hayes and helicopters such as the Westland Wasp and Westland Scout were built at Hayes in the 1960s.  Planes were tested at their own airstrip Northolt then at Great West Airport at Harmondsworth later

Northfield Park

Old Station Road

Pressing Lane

Printinghouse lane

Printing works postage stamps,  Harrisons. They had their own dock, since filled in

Wire works

Pump Lane

Railway

In 1838 the Great Western Railway was constructed. The company owned warehouses and shops in Botwell by 1842.

Fields to the north-east and to the north-west called ‘Brick Field’. 1866

Before the bridge by the Blue Anchor was rebuilt, the old bridge had a gate across it which only allowed pedestrians through; this was only opened at the start and end of the shifts for the vast amount of employees at the EMI during its heyday.

Sandown road

Silverdale Road

Benbow Works ex Piano Factory Pev NW, ex Works Aeolian musical Instrument Co.

Pianola factory

Chair factory tramway

Springfield road

Unexploded bomb

St Anselm's road

Station approach

Station Road

St. Anselm

Telecom House

Botwell lodge

Well shown on 1866 adjacent to north of railway

Well and clay mill north of canal

engine belonging to the B.E.T. which crossed Station Road next to the canal where a level crossing was situated, this crossed the road about where until fairly recently a Saturday market was held.

Corner of Clayton Road stood the Railway Arms where the Tumbler

Stewart drive

Trevor road

Viveash close

Western view

Woodhouse close

Bridge House

Co-op supermarket has Methodist church over it. 1977

Sainsbury's plus Civic Hall

Colman House

Hayes and Harlington Station 1883. Between West Drayton and Southall on Great Western Railway. Hayes Station was not opened until 1864,

Station goods yard. This lay between the railway and the canal. A canal basin had been built across the site, infilled 1914. No sign of canal side wharf

Sources

Wessex Archaeology, 2004, Hayes Goods Yard, Station Approach, Hayes, London Borough of Hillingdon: Archaeological desk-based assessment

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Algernon Road

St. John the Evangelist. 1895. An early work by Temple Moore, 1895-6. Plain stock brick contrasts stone dressings and elaborate decorated tracery.  Interior modelled on Austin Friars Church in the City, with tall, austere stone arcades without capitals or clerestory; the arcade provided for an aisle, which was never built.  Chapel, vestries, parish room fittings from City churches.  Noble mahogany pulpit 1760 from St Michael Bassishaw.  Elegant Font in the style of Wren, small cup on a bulbous baluster, with ogee-shaped font cover.  These and the wooden reredos are from St George, Botolph Lane, installed there in 1673, moved here 1909.  The reredos has lost its side panels and pediment.  Vestry panelling also from City churches.  Stained glass.  Memorial Chancel altar 1935 by F.C. Eden.  Brass.  Rev. W.H. Ogle-Scan 1912 erected 1928.  Large portrait brass of vestments, designed by Leslie Moore

Vicarage roughcast of 1900 is also by Moore alas, reglazed in front.  The three gables mirror what was intended for the church

Brent signal box

Burroughs tunnel

Central Circus

Pivotal, enormous, surrounded by loose compositions of meagre, thinly stretched Georgian motifs, facing the Underground station and a cinema of 1932

Gaumont/Classic Cinema. Classic quired forty-nine cinemas from Rank in December 1967 and renamed them and the company invested heavily in the former Gaumont at Hendon Central. A luxury lounge policy was created in the stalls, presenting a wonderful opportunity for stage presentations. Live shows booked by general manager Brian Yeoman included the Jewish revue Goldberg and Solomon Go Kosher for a six- day run which proved so popular that it was returned a month later for a further six days. The Syd Lawrence Orchestra was a sell-out. Miss Libby Morris in her solo revue As Dorothy Parker Once Said, Those Were the Days, starring Reg Dixon, Cavan O'Conner, Adelaide Hall and the king of jazz, Nat Gonella, played for six days. The controversial late nighter, Alex Sanders' White Witch Show, not only created an avalanche of national and local publicity but it nearly caused a riot by the capacity audience. Wrestling was also presented with top names - Mick McManus, Steve Logan, the St. Clair brothers and Jumping Jim Hussey. With its finger on the fashion of the Seventies, female front-of-house staff were attired in a black lace top and black leather miniskirt, with black knee-high boots. In February 1971, following a £72,000 conversion scheme, the Hendon Classic became a three-screen show- piece without the loss of a single evening show. Following this work, stage presentations were not entirely abandoned. In 1977, the actor John Forgeham read extracts  from the Bible from the stage of Screen One to a near capacity audience for a two-hour performance. Throughout the Seventies, this Classic was the focus of meetings, training and prize-giving ceremonies resulting from various business drives for managers. Hendon regularly presented a diet of late night shows on Friday and Saturday with an all-night horror show once a month, on a Saturday. All aspects of Hendon activity were always well pro- moted due to an excellent relationship with the editor and the show-page critic of the Hendon Times. Promotion for Hendon's second all-night horror show.

Elliott Road

The Hospital was demolished in 1992.  The site now contains the Grovemead Health Centre at 67 Elliot Road.

Hendon

Tilley Lamps Co went to Ulster

Standard Telephones early specialised research plant

 Park mansions Arcade

Handsome new shopping centre between Vivian Avenue and Queen's Road.

Montague Road

Montague Road Board School. Four were opened in 1901 the Hendon School Board was formed only in 1897, delayed by Anglican opposition. A pretty design with central shaped gable, and pargetted dormers.

Queen's Road

Hendon Central Station.  19^th November 1923. Between Colindale and Brent Cross on the Northern Line. Opened on the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Opened as an extension from Golder's Green. Built as a neo Georgian design by S.A.Hea with an elegant shopping parade around it. Hendon Central forms the North East quadrant of the composition of Central Circus with eight white stone pillars outside the entrance to the station. There were plans for the area already in 1912, butbuildingonly took off after work on the railway began in 1922.

Rosebank 1678

The Grove 16th century or 17th panelling

Rising Sun Inn 17^th

Ambassador Cinema. Gaumont Cinema . Crompton organ installed 1932.

Silkstream Junction

Signal Box  went out of use on completion of re-signalling scheme in 1983.  typical Midland Railway style - "triangular" inserts in top of  windous, and  many retain Midland Railway style finials on roof ends. accessible by public footpath from Aerodrome Road,

Station Road

Hendon Station.  1868 Between Mill Hill Broadway and Cricklewood on the Thameslink Line. Built by the Midland Railway but such features as remained after the M1 was built have disappeared under electrification works.

Signal Box went out of use on completion of re-signalling scheme in 1983.  Typical Midland Railway style - "triangular" inserts in top of windows, and many retain Midland Railway style finials on roof ends. Visible from station.

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Algernon Road St. John the Evangelist. 1895. An early work by Temple Moore, 1895-6. Plain stock brick contrasts stone dressings and elaborate decorated tracery.  Interior modelled on Austin Friars Church in the City, with tall, austere stone arcades without capitals or clerestory; the arcade provided for an aisle, which was never built.  Chapel, vestries, parish room fittings from City churches.  Noble mahogany pulpit 1760 from St Michael Bassishaw.  Elegant Font in the style of Wren, small cup on a bulbous baluster, with ogee-shaped font cover.  These and the wooden reredos are from St George, Botolph Lane, installed there in 1673, moved here 1909.  The reredos has lost its side panels and pediment.  Vestry panelling also from City churches.  Stained glass.  Memorial Chancel altar 1935 by F.C. Eden.  Brass.  Rev. W.H. Ogle-Scan 1912 erected 1928.  Large portrait brass of vestments, designed by Leslie Moore

Vicarage roughcast of 1900 is also by Moore alas, reglazed in front.  The three gables mirror what was intended for the church

Brent signal box

Burroughs tunnel

Central Circus

Pivotal, enormous, surrounded by loose compositions of meagre, thinly stretched Georgian motifs, facing the Underground station and a cinema of 1932

Gaumont/Classic Cinema. Classic quired forty-nine cinemas from Rank in December 1967 and renamed them and the company invested heavily in the former Gaumont at Hendon Central. A luxury lounge policy was created in the stalls, presenting a wonderful opportunity for stage presentations. Live shows booked by general manager Brian Yeoman included the Jewish revue Goldberg and Solomon Go Kosher for a six- day run which proved so popular that it was returned a month later for a further six days. The Syd Lawrence Orchestra was a sell-out. Miss Libby Morris in her solo revue As Dorothy Parker Once Said, Those Were the Days, starring Reg Dixon, Cavan O'Conner, Adelaide Hall and the king of jazz, Nat Gonella, played for six days. The controversial late nighter, Alex Sanders' White Witch Show, not only created an avalanche of national and local publicity but it nearly caused a riot by the capacity audience. Wrestling was also presented with top names - Mick McManus, Steve Logan, the St. Clair brothers and Jumping Jim Hussey. With its finger on the fashion of the Seventies, female front-of-house staff were attired in a black lace top and black leather miniskirt, with black knee-high boots. In February 1971, following a £72,000 conversion scheme, the Hendon Classic became a three-screen show- piece without the loss of a single evening show. Following this work, stage presentations were not entirely abandoned. In 1977, the actor John Forgeham read extracts  from the Bible from the stage of Screen One to a near capacity audience for a two-hour performance. Throughout the Seventies, this Classic was the focus of meetings, training and prize-giving ceremonies resulting from various business drives for managers. Hendon regularly presented a diet of late night shows on Friday and Saturday with an all-night horror show once a month, on a Saturday. All aspects of Hendon activity were always well pro- moted due to an excellent relationship with the editor and the show-page critic of the Hendon Times. Promotion for Hendon's second all-night horror show.

Elliott Road

The Hospital was demolished in 1992.  The site now contains the Grovemead Health Centre at 67 Elliot Road.

Hendon

Tilley Lamps Co went to Ulster

Standard Telephones early specialised research plant

 Park mansions Arcade

Handsome new shopping centre between Vivian Avenue and Queen's Road.

Montague Road

Montague Road Board School. Four were opened in 1901 the Hendon School Board was formed only in 1897, delayed by Anglican opposition. A pretty design with central shaped gable, and pargetted dormers.

Queen's Road

Hendon Central Station.  19^th November 1923. Between Colindale and Brent Cross on the Northern Line. Opened on the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Opened as an extension from Golder's Green. Built as a neo Georgian design by S.A.Hea with an elegant shopping parade around it. Hendon Central forms the North East quadrant of the composition of Central Circus with eight white stone pillars outside the entrance to the station. There were plans for the area already in 1912, butbuildingonly took off after work on the railway began in 1922.

Rosebank 1678

The Grove 16th century or 17th panelling

Rising Sun Inn 17^th

Ambassador Cinema. Gaumont Cinema . Crompton organ installed 1932.

Silkstream Junction

Signal Box  went out of use on completion of re-signalling scheme in 1983.  typical Midland Railway style - "triangular" inserts in top of  windous, and  many retain Midland Railway style finials on roof ends. accessible by public footpath from Aerodrome Road,

Station Road

Hendon Station.  1868 Between Mill Hill Broadway and Cricklewood on the Thameslink Line. Built by the Midland Railway but such features as remained after the M1 was built have disappeared under electrification works.

Signal Box went out of use on completion of re-signalling scheme in 1983.  Typical Midland Railway style - "triangular" inserts in top of windows, and many retain Midland Railway style finials on roof ends. Visible from station.

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Hinchley Wood

Select residential estate

Littleworth Road

Milestone halfway between Portsmouth Road and Oaken Lane.

Coal post outside Lessworth west side of the road

Coal post corner with New Road

Portsmouth Road

Pillar Box near Scilly Isles roundabout

Marquis of Granby

Station Approach

Hinchley Wood station. 1930. Between Claygate and Surbiton on South Western Rail. To serve new building estates

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Adam's Place

1979, an intimate version ofmulti-level housing.

Andover Row 

Barmouth House 

Carew Close 

Chard House 

Methley House

Alsen Road

Ray Walk

Roth Walk

Todds Walk 

Tomlins Walk 

Yeovil House

Annette Road 

Lord Palmerston 

Shelburne Lower School 

Loraine Cottages

Bardolph Road

Beacon Hill

Belfont Walk 

Biddestone Road

Bovay Place

Caedmon Road

**Camden Road

Was previously called Maiden Lane.  Was called Head Lane.  The road was built in the nineteenth century to connect Camden and Islington  and was part of the Turnpike Route from Camden Town to Tottenham from the 1820s.  It is named after Charles Pratt, Duke of Camden who acquired this area through marriage and subsequently developed the area. Built up along the Islington section fromthe 1850s with very large paired houses, especiallyelaborate

Athenaeum Literary and Scientific Institutions stood on the Parkhurst Road corner.  This had been designed by F.R.Meeson and was used as a banqueting hall and studio.  Demolished in 1956 and the site  Subsequently used by a petrol station.

Camden Road Baptist Chapel. Built 1853-4 by C. G. Searle of Kentish rag stone.. Designed in the early c19 wayt - the model of collegiate chapels.  It has a stair-tower which originally had spires.  Had additionally a hall and classroom.  Converted to a hostel

350-352, large houses gabled and rendered, with strapworkover the windows.

356 Cambridge House  1971

392-418 was previously called 1-3 Hillmarton Villas West

333-351 Edward Terrace

Belmore House 1971

Bracewood Arms, 1840.  Fashionable for dubious delights, balloon ascents, duels

Saxonbury Court  1960

Alfred Place 1851-1853

Barnes House

Castle View House 1975

Fairdene Court 1962

Poynder Court 1973

Floor cloth factory as a country retreat

Hall of 1858

John Barnes Library. Tucked behind an embankment. Designed in c. 1974 by Andrews, Sherlock & Partners with A. Head, Borough Architect. The ground floor has the junior library, and there is an entrance for adults at first-floor level. Inside, exposed steel trusses and top lit reading. Named for Alderman John Barnes and he opened it in 1974.

Cardoza Road

Cardwell Road

Chambers Road

Corinth Road

Cornwall Place

Mount Carmel RC School

Convent of Our Lady of Sion

Eden Grove Community Centre

Willow Court 

Corporation Street 

Crayford Road

St George, 1972-5 by Clive Alexander, the replacement for Truefitt's St George's of 1865-8 in Tufnell Park Road. A forceful red brick cube anchored on splayed plinths, with a flat lead-faced roof projecting. Interior with exposed brick, flat ceiling on thin steel piers, and restrained lighting: obscured clerestory glass, clear glass in the narrow slits below. In the front a large wooden cross and free-standing bell-frame.

Dunford Road

Eden Grove 

Electric Lighting Station central station, opened 18 96, octagonal chimney, closed 1948. Later screen wall with Secessionst oriel. Islington's first generating works glazed red brick with progressivedetails and moulded lettering.

Notre Dame of Sion School founded in the 1870s. Twelve bays in severest Gothic withpaired and triple-arched windows outlined in blue brick and a row of gabled dormers enlivened with corbelling.

1805 New River Co., abandoned 1815

Sacred Heart of Jesus. 1869. RC. Subtle composition of different elements. By F. H. Pownall. stock brick with some blue brick and stone dressings. A subtle composition of several different elements, nave, tower, and presbytery, clearly expressed, with a school detached to the north. The nave is tall, long, and dimly lit.  Red brick walls with precise black banding outlining the clerestory and arcades, with stiff-leaf capitals by Farmer & Brindley.  Hammerbeam roof Sanctuary remodelled 1960-1 by Archard & Partners.  Stained glass c19 and some post-1945 by T Grew

Westbrook House core of LCC estate.  Between the wars, now private.  Completed by 1936.  Formal Neo-Georgian front; the back,to Eden Grove, has access balconies within giant arcades.

Ringcross School, from between the wars, two storeys, with pretty iron balconies.

Schools from the former church 1854, a tall, gaunt Italianate composition of eleven bays witharcaded ground floor and central pedimemal gable.

Fairdene Court

Frederica Street

Features in films 'The Ladykillers’

Freegrove Road

Geary Street 

Hartham Close,

Hartham Road

26

Harvist Estate

Harvist Estate for Islington 1967-70with unappealing system-built nineteen-storey towers, reclad 1996-7, rearing up close to the railway line behind lower terraces    

Hillmarton Road

Field Court

7

61 site of St. Mary's Liberal Catholic Church

Jacobin Lodge

Nicholls

St.Luke. 1859 Kentish Rag. Bombed and rebuilt

Holbrook Close

Hollingsworth Street 

15-16 Original Battersea Dogs Home founded by Mary Tealby, 1860, for lost and stray dogs

28

Holloway Road

Very muddy and 'wash'   was the first red route in London. Features in films 'The Chain’.

Motor bus depot, was stables converted for buses, closed 1971

Firm making small pressed and turned parts for aircraft stayed there because of skilled labour

Artisan flats of London County Council 'five stories total height of Road

Holloway Road Station 15^th December 1906. Between Arsenal and Caledonian Road on the Piccadilly Line. Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.  Designed by Leslie Green.  Double spiral escalator up and down, moving at 100 ft per minute in one of the lift shafts but never used, still there in 1919. the idea of American engineer Jesse Reno who thought the idea up while livingin London. It was a double helix with a continuous plafirm moving ast 100 ft per minute in both directions.  Not clear if it was ever used or always thought to be unsafe.  Some of it is now in a museum but there is nothing but the shaft on site.  One of the cross passages has an electrical switch room in it. ‘GNR’ and ‘BR’ on the outside.  Well-preserved example frontage with rows of large arches; ox-blood faience outside, cream- and brown-tiled inside with handsome lettering. Built as Northern line station. Opened at Ring Cross and built along with the main line railway from Kings Cross to Finsbury Park. The Tunnel is 21' 2 1/2”, side by side with stairways in between, electric lifts.  Opened provisionally in 1906.  majority of features remain intact.  Retains all its gilded exterior lettering despite poor condition of the elevation.  Most complete ticket hall of any of Green’s stations.  Original fire hydrant cabinet. Frieze with pomegranite design.  Wooden clock and railings are all original. 

Holloway and Caledonian Road Station 1852 . Great Northern Railway ticket checking platform only.  South west side of Holloway Road close to where the tube is now. Opened as ‘Holloway’. 1856 became a proper station. 1901 rebuilt and renamed ‘Holloway and Caledonian Road’. 1915 closed and demolished. Some parts of the entrances remain.

Facade of Great Northern Railway’s coal yard receiving office became a second hand shop

London Metropolitan University was University of North London, Created in 1993 from the Polytechnic of North London, which had its origins in the Northern Polytechnic Institute, founded 1896.

Tower Building opened 1966, replacing the old main building of 1896-7 by Charles Bell. A brutalist logical design, strongly expressed. Bold horizontals at each floor level and equally forceful vertical emphasis on the service core and plant room. Eleven storeys cantilevered over two recessed ones; long low wine with concrete relief by William Mitchell. Disappointing interior Next to it a former extension to the original building: weak classical red brick facade, 1902 by A. W. Cooksey.

London Metropolitan University. White curved building 2000 by Rick Mather.

Glass Building, learning centre 1994 by Geoffrey Kidd Associates. Clichéd mirror-clad block

Graduate School. Daniel Libeskind building of 2004.

254-256 Phoebe Place

258-278 Railway Place

262-268 with volutedcentral gable,

284-308 with a natty central turret.

290 Dorset Place

292-306 Harriett Place

295 Holloway

304 Joe Meek’s studio where he recorded the Tornadoes and murdered his landlady.

304

312-332 Islington Scout Centre was Holloway Independent Chapel

338 Coronet Pub was previously a snooker club, but originally the Coronet Cinema, opened 1940 as the Savoy and ABC. Trim Art Deco front. Faience-clad

350-356 Jones Bros. Founded in 1867 and extended in the 1890s. Exuberant 1890s section. Extended in the 1890s.  The exuberant 1890s part survives, with aconical tower and clock over its big arched entrance, tall cantedbays within multi-storey arches and rich stone details.  Waitrose replaced the earlier part c.1990, copying some of the Edwardiantricks in a half-hearted way, but failing to convince because of itssquat supermarket proportions.

340-352 Johns Terrace

368 Jones' jewellers

373-393 Walters Buildings

383 Marlborough Building of the University 1960s intruder..  Built on the Site of the Marlborough Picture Theatre built 1905 by  Frank Matcham. This epic theatre of 1903 spent most of its life as a cinema before being replaced by an office block of shocking banality that dared to keep its name. 4 April 1930 had a Compton organ with the First French style wood console.

394 Selby, linen draper 

357 Holloway Stationers

378-402 Pleasant Row

399-407 Lansdowne Place

401 Parkhurst Theatre,

408-412 19^th fronts

416-418 426-434 Marks and Spencer M&S, Chequered stonework

429-441 terrace with balconies and pairs of windows

430-456 Holloway Terrace

443 Tufnell Park Terrace

408-412, with emphatically pedimented c19 fronts,

416-418 Marks and Spencer has chequeredstonework enlivening its 1930s stripped-classical house-style.

429-441, a terrace with cast-Sbalconies to, unusually, pairs of windows.

Tavern was Station Hotel

Hornsey Road

Hornsey Road branches from Holloway Road.  It was an old lane used as an alternative route avoiding the steep HighgateHill, until a shorter bypass was provided by Archway Road, in 1813.  Development around the southern end took off after SevenSisters Road, was laid out in1832.  A few little roadside villas of c. 1830-40, used as garages survived up to c.1970.  By c.1850 its southern end was fringed withstucco-trimmed terraces, with a network of small side streets.  PatchyVictorian survivals are now interspersed with an instructive variety of post-World War II housing types and some new open spaces.

Site of Road public toilets used by Joe Orton.  Gone now but south side wall before the pavement arch is lined with porcelain tiles

Hornsey Road baths, and washhouse. Diving lady neon sign. 1930s.

1 Tyrolese Cottage

47-171 Neville Terrace

Hornsey Street 

Stapleton House 

Hungerford Road

1A Matzdorf House. eco-house in timber, glass and flime. It has a walled front garden planted in modern-exotic style with palms, acacia, ginger lilies, brugmansias, bananas, euphorbias, cistus and spiky plants, agave and aloe. There is also a 'green roof resembling scree slope planted with alpines, sedums, mesembryanthemums, bulbs, grasses and aromatic herbs. Architype 2000

62 Mature town garden at the rear of Victorian terrace house which has been designed to maximise space for planting and create several different sitting areas, views and moods. Arranged in a series of paved 'rooms' each 'over-stuffed' with a good range of shrubs and perennials.

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Hungerford School Among the best of numerous classic Board schools of the 1890s by T.J. Bailey. 1895-6, symmetrical with grand curved balconied turrets. With an Infants' School of 1968-70 by the GLC job architect Barry Wilson. Wedge-shaped teaching areas radiate from the main hall

Jackson Road

Keighley Close

Lister Mews

Loraine Estate

Cairns House 

Lough Road 

Dorinda Lodge 

20 Waterloo

Middleton Grove

1 Truefitt, the developer, lived there. Outside the Tufnell Park boundary,two Truefitt houses, slightly roguish c. 1859

In between, three pairsof simpler semi-detached houses by Charles Gray.

8 the other Truefitt House

North Road

39a, a narrow tile-hung Domestic Revival house, possibly byErnest George & Vaughan, 1865, who designed workshops andstables here.

LondonGeneral Omnibus Company.  Former coach building premises built in 1900, stretch in a plain red and yellow brick line; converted in 1990 by United Work-space into designers' studios, restaurants etc.

Papworth Gardens

Laid out by London County Council. 1958. Flats picturesquely disposed

Parkhurst Road

Arcade, 1930, previously Parkhurst Hall, closed down when fights broke out at whist drives

New River original line  crossed Parkhurst Road

Flights Garage, coach garage, orange luxury coaches, Ambassadors Bus Co., 1923

Holloway Prison. Built in 1852 on a site used for the burial of cholera victims.  The original prison was demolished after 1970. It had been designed as the City House of Correction by the City’s architect, Burning, 1849-51, and became a prison for women only in 1903. It had two front wings and four wings with 436 separate cells and large workrooms radiating from a tall central tower. The gatehouse and lodges and entrance block were copied from Caesar's Tower, Warwick Castle. Its replacement, 1970-7 is by Robert Matthew of  Johnson- Marshall & Partners. It has fortified red brick walls round the perimeter, but, within this, there is an informal grouping of red brick blocks round landscaped courts which resemble a hall of residence rather than a prison made up of classrooms, workshops and community buildings to fulfil the Home Office’s 1960s focus on remedial custody for women, There is a low-key entrance and anaemic Neo-Georgian prison officers' flats also from the 1970s. Past prisoners include Oscar Wilde, Mrs. Pankhurst and Christine Keeler.  Features in films 'Turn the Key Softly’.

Thames Aqueducts.  Ring main passes under here. Started from in 1960 but it Had been suggested in 1935 – a  tunnel to take water from the Thames above Teddington to North London.  It is built in 102in diameter tunnel in interlocking concrete rings for 19 miles, starts at Hampton Water Works and finishes at the Lockwood reservoir.  Built by Sir William Halcrow & Partners.

Barnsbury House

Bunning House

Fairweather House 

Hilton House

Holbrooke Court

Castle Pub 

Morgan School of Dancing

Prince Edward

Islington Boys Club was Swedenborgian Church

TA Drill Hall 

Crayford House 

McMorran House 

Pankhurst Court 

Whitby Court 

Penn Road

Penn Road Triangle. Managed by Vestry of Islington

Hammon House 

2a walled garden; long, shady, side entrance border; small seaside-themed front garden. Huge variety of plants in well stocked borders. Over 60 containers. Greenhouse and small vegetable plot. Mature trees create secluded feel close to busy urban thoroughfares.

Piper Close 

Pollard Close 

Quemerford Road 

Rhodes Street 

Adams Place 

Ring Cross 

Small hamlet at the junction withBenwell Road and Hornsey Road which later became subsumed into Lower Hollowayh.. It stands at the junction with an earlierroute north which went via Crouch End and Muswell Hill and was known asDevil's Lane.  Its best-known feature was a gibbet wherethe rotting bodies of highwaymen were dangled in chains as a warningto others. 

Railway. Holloway Road makes a contact with the main railway line to Yorkand Edinburgh, which was originally planned to follow theline of this mail coach highway, by passing under it 

Russett Crescent 

Shelburne Road 

Shelburne Road School 

Tabley Road

Thornton Court

Tollington Road

Sobell Leisure Centre. 1973. Dull sports spaces and an ice rink inside

Walters Mews 

Walters Road

Widdenham Road

Loraine Mansions

Williamson Street

Isledon Court 

Penhros House

Vaynor House

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Bentham Road

Gascoyne Estate, 1950s London County Council housing.  First slab block inspired by Le Corbusier.  Brutalist block  first use of Alton like forms in Hackney. Large and protracted LCC/GLC post-war enterprise (1947 onwards).  The most impressiveelements are near the end of Bentham Road: the two earliest ofthe tall slab blocks, built 1952-4, when the LCC Architect's Department was at its most adventurous.  The engineer was F.J. Samuely.  Eleven storeys.  The airy open ground floors and shaped roof tanksproclaim their Corbusian allegiance; the projecting balconies withpattern of supporting beams give some life to the huge whitefacades.  As at contemporary Roehampton, the slabs have theinnovation of economic narrow-fronted maisonettes (12 ft 3 in.wide), much copied in later blocks.

4-28 1860. 1860-2,mark the shift from classical to tentative Gothic detail, withcoloured brickwork and pointed hoodmoulds

Berger Road

Berger’s

Bohemia Place

Clapton bus garage

Brenthouse Road.

Hackney Synagogue 1896. By Delissa Joseph, enlarged 1936.  Red brick with stone bands, triple-arched side entrance with pediment above.  Stately galleried interior lit by clerestory lunette windows.

Brent House.  More appealing 1931-2 by IanHamilton.  Behind nice railings.  A compact, decently detailed four-and five-storey block in a Neo-Georgian spirit; three ranges arounda small garden, built for Bethnal Green and East London HousingAssociation

Bridge Water

Bridge over the brook

Cassland Road

20-54 Hackney Terrace.  Curved rooms. A semi-circle of 1860s villas comes as a surprise.  It is the earliest survival in this area, a symmetrical composition of 1792-1801 of plain three-storey houses with simple fanlights.  Central pediment with Coade stone garlands and the arms of the three developers, which included their architect, William Fellowes.  The enterprise was organized as a building society with subscribers, a very early example, and the houses had originally not only private gardens but a communal pleasure ground behind. It is a shame that Cassland Road carries such heavy

South Hackney Upper School.  Grand design of London School Board.  1902 T.Bailey. Now sixth-form centre.  Magnificent Wrenaissance front with rusticated arches and pilasters and lavish use of cream terracotta.  Handsome contemporary walls and railings.  As elsewhere in London, the type developed from the 1870s, to the full-blown formal three-decker compositions of T.J. Bailey of the 1890s and beyond.

Chatham Place

Continues past dour c 20 flats and factories on the sites of c19 villas.

St.Luke’s church.  1871 random ragstone. By Newman & Billing, routine Decorated random ragstone.  Early English.  Tower and spire 1882; the corner turret has its own bulky spirelet.  Stained glass window 1950 by H. Vemon Spreadbury.

Hackney Free and Parochial School.  1811. Rows with other schools.  Lots of fights with other boys.  School moved in 1895 building became a laundry and then a furniture factory.  Demolished 1969.

27 Burberry Factory Shop

Morningside School.  1884 Board school. Tall, with turrets.  A large variety of lively skylines still tower above Hackney's streets of Victorian terraces and their c20 replacements.  As elsewhere in London, the type developed from the 1870s, with E. R. Robson's picturesque asymmetrical buildings in the tradition of Philip Webb

Christchurch Square

1969-76 is by the same firm as Gore Road.  Friendly brown brick low-rise housing on the site of a demolished church.

Church Crescent

Buildings of the 1840s by George Wales, surveyor to the estate.

St.John of Jerusalem.  Landmark for the Luftwaffe – towards the end of the war the spire was demolished by a rocket which exploded prematurely in mid-air. The present green copper covered spire was lowered into place by helicopter.  An Ambitious high church development. South Hackney Parish Church   By E. C. Hakewill, 1845-8. A large church on a prominent island site, an ambitious High Church replacement of the Well Street chapel of ease of 1806-10. Kentish rag walls with Speldhurst dressings.  Cruciform, with a big tower..  The original broach spire lost in World War II was replaced by a slender one by Cachemaille-Day.  Interior on the grandest scale; the detail mostly Early English.  quite progressive for the 1840s, but in places curious rather than good, see the odd clerestory tracery. Broad aisled nave with tightly placed columns, some circular, some octagonal, but not rationally ordered.  Some competent stiff-leaf carving.  Deep transepts now subdivided flank a vast crossing with intersecting timber roof.  The chancel is apsed, with a stone vault.  A black and white mosaic floor of 1893 dominates nave and aisles, exceptionally wide in the centre to allow for free seats, since removed.  The sturdy poppy-head pews were probably originally closer together.  The stalls have in addition musical angels.  Stained glass All post-war, attributed to M. C. Farrer Bell; apse with the theme of healing.  Transept with prophets, transept with St Augustine, Cranmer, Wesley and William Temple.  Monument to Rev. H.H. Norris 1850, the first rector. Brass in a quatrefoil recording that 'the church erected mainly through him is a monument to his zeal for the beauty of holiness'. His portrait is in the transept. Like the stone the church is built with, most of the names of the roads around the church come from villages around Tunbridge Wells in Kent. It seems that John de Kewer, who gave the site for the church, came from a Kentish family.

Tunbridge Wells - Kentish place names round about.  The man who built the church came from there

Semi-detached housing by Colquhoun Miller - interesting, but forbidding.

Monger Almshouses rebuilt in 1847-8.  Tudor doorways, shaped central gable, and an oriel with lozenge glazing. Before turning right across Well Street Common, you originally built in 1670, for the use of six poor men over sixty years old. The widow of Sir John Cass got into trouble in 1732, when she allowed some women to lodge there. The building was entirely rebuilt in the middle of the 19^th century, although some of the original stonework was re-used. In Cass Charity.

1-2 villas are of the same date as the almshouses also Tudor, with gables,

Group with echo the villa form semi-detached white-rendered by Suhoun & Miller, 1981-4, with dramatic deep eaves overhanging off set balconies and Mackintosh-inspired detail.

Churchwell walk

Railway has interesting brickworks diagonally

Clapton Passage

Corner Clapton road was the large house Priestly lived in 1791.  Red brick wall is probably a remnant of it.

Collent Road

A handsome warehouse, for James Taylor dated 1893.  Facing bricks.

Cresset Road

Lennox House.  Experimental post war housing By J.E.M. McGregor, the Professor of Architecture at Cambridge.  Ideas that space below the flats should be used for market to subsidise the rents.   Remarkable 1937.  built for the Bethnal Green and East LondonHousing Association.  A friendly brick ziggurat of pantile-roofedflats with stepped-out private balconies, cantilevered out overcovered central space, which was intended for a market.  Traditional materials conceal an innovative reinforced concretestructure, precursor of the type of plan and mixed uses develooedin more monumental fashion for the Brunswick Centre, its 1960s successors. in Cresset Road, is an unusual

Cardinal Pole school annexe.  In the buildings of the old French hospital.  Old Huguenot foundation.  Now a Catholic school.  Built for 4-0 men and 20 women replacing building in Old Street.

Elsdale Road

Maternity and welfare clinic.  Period piece by the Borough Engineer. Percival Holt, Streamlined, brown brick.  1938-9. 

Flanders Way

Berger School. ILEA.  Homerton, has low clustered polygonal pavilions with little pyramid roofs.

Frampton Park Estate

Straggle of slabs of various ages and heights. Earlier parts of 1953 by theLCC; continued in the 1960s by the GLC.

Pitcairn House

Fremont Street

A tight enclave of stuccoed terraces begun in the 1850s but mostly datingfrom the 1860s.

Gascoyne Road

LCC flats completed 1947, are five-storeyed, with a series of projecting balconies, a little more imaginative in design than the average at that time.  On sun balconies and agreeable views

Homerton Station. 1^st October 1868. Between Hackney Wick and Hackney Central. North London Line Silverlink. North London Railway. Although smaller the original station building would have been like those still at Hackney Central and Camden Road. The present station was built when passenger services were restored to the North London Line in the 1980s.. The original entrance in Barnabas Road was part of a huge single storey building, taller than the adjoining railway bridge. At track level, it was protected by canopies which stretched about two-thirds of the platforms' length. By 1898, the demand for Workmen's Tickets had become very heavy and the Sweetmeat Automatic Delivery Company were asked to supply dispensing machines at certain stations and such was the need here that two were installed. it closed with the rest of the line in 1944. After closure, the structure became dangerous, and although it survived into the 1950s, it was eventually demolished.  Following the re-introduction of passenger services over the line, a new station opened on 13th May 1985 on the site of its predecessor, and uses the original passenger subway, but the platforms are shorter. The rebuilding was approved by the GLC Transport Committee in January 1984, and cost £440 000 to complete, with the necessary finance provided by the Hackney Partnership Scheme. The lower section of original frontage remains standing, and there is a worn down stone step, which once led into the booking office.

Cattle creep Beneath the west end of the platforms runs a very low arch, which was constructed as a cattle creep and provides a souvenir of the early days of the line when cows grazed in nearby meadows

Gore Road

Terraces and infilling. Uniform stucco trimmed around Victoria Park 1845

Kenton Road

Was built up with regular terraces in the 1860s,

Shrubberies.  Managed by Hackney District Board

Kenton Arms.  Cheerfully flourishing a decorative corner gable with swags and prettycornice.

Kenworthy Road

Immaculate Heart of Mary.  1873. 1952.  Only walls stone.  Convent of the Sacred Heart. Began as a country house, and still has a five-bay wing of c. 1800; arched first-floor windows on the E side, a shallow bow much hemmed in.

Lauriston Road

c19 realignment of Grove Street, an oldroute, runs through a well-preserved enclavedeveloped from the 1860s by the Norris estate, with spaciouslylaid out streets of stuccoed villas.  .the roads around the perimeter of the park were laid out by theCrown Commissioners at the same time as the park, but development was slow

Trinity congregational church.  1901. By P. Morley Harder. Red brick and sandstone, in a late Gothic style.

Earl of Ellesmere.   Possible old Godson’s Brewery.

Jews Cemetery.  High walls.  Hambro Synagogue.  Granite sarcophagi on paws.  Closed 1886.

The Workshop

Slips.  Managed Hackney District Board

Triangle, Managed Hackney District board

Pottery and turning point for horse trams

Independent Chapel. Ground Managed by Hackney District Board

Assemblies of God.  Was Hampden Chapel.  1847. ASSEMBLIES OF GOD Dignified Italianate stuccoed front; projecting centre with Venetian window and pediment.

Loddiges Road

Lot about Loddiges.  12743-1826

Mare Street

Mare Street. ‘Merestret’ 1443, ‘Meerstreete’ 1593, ‘Mayre street’ 1605, ‘Marestreete’ 1621, that is 'street of houses or hamlet on the boundary', from Middle English ‘mere’ and ‘strete’. Mare Street is now the main street of Hackney, but was originally a small hamlet at the extreme south of the parish where the road meets the border with Bethnal Green. Like so many old commercial thoroughfares, is a late c19 and Edwardian jumble with neglected late Georgian frontages visible intermittently above shop fronts? 

224-228 a late c18 group dating from 1780-1, built by Joseph Sparkman.

Bus Depot site of black and white house.  Hackney Brook through the grounds

Meynell Crescent

1890s

Meynall Gardens

Hampstead Garden Suburb cottages.  1932. Remnants of previous house in the gardens. A.Savill picturesquely laid out at the end of the common.A nice oasis of the site of a house of 1787 - some remnants remain in gardens.

Morning Lane

Money Lane on Roque.

Corner was the Green Man.

Morning Lane

Chatham Place was country lane.

North is the valley of the Hackney Brook.

watercress beds. Several long ditches, or rather trenches, filled with running water. one of the artificial streams for the continual growth of watercresses for the London market.

Houses built by Fox.

Paragon road

Hackney Free and Parochial Church of England School.  Early post war secondary school replacing 1811 building, 1951. By Howard V. Lobb & Partners, 1951, a very early post-war secondary school, replacing a building of 1811.  A compact spine range with two projecting arms, one with the hall, planned so that it could be used separately.  One to three storeys, brick, decently detailed in the quiet modern of the 50s; library fittings by Gordon Russell.  Extended 1995 by Barren & Smith.  Science block, English department and gymnasium.

71-83 an attractive group built 1809-13; half-stuccoed pairs of three storeys, with low entrance links with broad doorways behind four Doric columns.  The inspiration must be Michael Searles's similarly arranged Paragon, Blackheath.  Surprising ogee-arched fanlights.  The development was on land of St Thomas's Hospital, Southwark, and the design possibly by the hospital surveyor Samuel Robinson, or by the builder Robert Collins.

Post Office 1928.  Changed use. Tall stretched-out Neo-Georgian

Penshurst Road

Penshurst Arms dated 1864.

Ram Place

Gravel Pit Chapel where Priestly preached.  1790s. Wedged between other building as industrial use.  Board school on site of Gravel Pit.  1810 new chapel built.  Faces towards Morning Lane. The Gravel Pit Chapel was established as a small break-away group in 1804 from the Ram's Chapel, Homerton.  The Old Gravel Pit community were a Congregationalist group. In 1810 they took the lease on the Morning Lane site. By 1853 the congregation had quadrupled and an extension was built. However in the 1860's with the congregation increasing all the time and the lease expiring in 1871, it became clear that new premises would have to be found. Besides this the building was found to be in an alarmingly precarious structural condition. This was discovered by an old man who dozing off one Sunday, so the story goes, felt the pillar against which he had rested his head move. He reported this to the church authorities and it was discovered that rather than supporting the ceiling the pillar in question was actually hanging from it, as were several others in the building. Considerations of safety accelerated the decision to move. The Old Gravel Pit Chapel saw its last service on 23rd April 1817 and the new chapel in Lower Clapton was inaugurated on 26th April 1871.

Plaque to Jospeh Priestley, 1733-1804 which says  'scientist, philosopher and theologian, was Minister to the Gravel Pit Meeting here in 1793-1794' . Priestly was born in Fieldhead nr Leeds, and is best known as the chemist who discovered oxygen, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid and sulphur dioxide. As well as for their individual uses, he claimed he improved methods for studying gases, in order to benefit mankind. Later, as a result of a religious experience, he became a Unitarian Minister. The Gravel Pit Meeting, was a large gathering of like minded people who supported the aims and principles of the French Revolution. Priestly, for his part, preached a like revolution for Britain, this wasn't exactly appreciated by those in power. They, via the local police, organised a mob to ransack his home and fire it. In 1794 he was persuaded to emigrate to America,where he was given a hero's welcome. Plaque erected 1985.

Retreat Road

Site of pond where the brook went

Junction with Mead Place Retreat Almshouses 1821 for dissenting widows.  Gothic revival.  Bombed and demolished

Rowe Lane

17 A family home with sustainable attributes including natural building materials, harvested rainwater, a frame that uses European larch, a timber pellet boiler and cedar-clad roof.

Shore Road

Once called Water Gruel Way

18 site of Shore House now gone.  1570 belonged to the Knights Templars.

19 bits of the old mansion house found in the gardens

South Hackney Common

Was Lammas Lands so common land but shut off for a lot of the year.

St. Thomas’s Place

Between the gravestones and the strip ofgreen.  A typical stucco-trimmedterrace dated 1859, with earlier reset stone of 1807.

Urswick Road

Was Upper Homerton Road.  Truant board school.

Valette Street

Valette House London County Council flats. 1906 on site of Jerusalem Square behind it, in Valette Street, tall very plain built for those displaced by the widening of Mare Street.

Hackney Trades Hall 1912 built as HQ of Friendly Society

Victoria Park Road

Anarray of plain mid-Victorian detached villas,

220 Bedford Hotel 1870, givencharacter by its paired arched windows to the upper floors.

Royal Hotel. Stuccoed

The Falcon and Firkin Brewery  one of a group of pubs in London – which were owned by Midsummer Leisure - which brew three or more ales, to the same recipes, in each of their pubs.

Shopping centre.  Liberties type shop.  Behind it where the horse drawn trams turned round.  Pottery was a Coach House - the Metropolitan Tramway Company’s drivers’ restroom.

Hackney Forge

Parkside Library.  1964 Gibberd

Cardinal Pole School. An annex occupies the former French Hospital by R. L. Roumieu, 1865. Built to house forty men and twenty women over sixty, replacing an earlier building in Old Street. Brick, with dark brick diapering. Broad composition, with picturesque Franco-Flemish central tower and Franco-Flemish dormer windows. Very beefy.

Warneford Street

A tight enclave of stuccoed terraces begun in the 1850s but mostly datingfrom the 1860s.

Water Lane

Brook along it skirting Berger Factory

Lord Nelson was the Woolpack Brewery.  On the site of the brook by a bridge.  Viaduct of the railway goes over what was the brewery yard.

Wyke Estate built by London County Council on the site of the Berger factory

Berger's Paints. one of the largest local industries,established on land off Shepherd's Lane in 1780, and surviving hereuntil c.1960

Well Street

Centre of an old hamlet. Marked by a jumble of low shops and street market.  With the typical c19 development ofsmall industrial concerns behind.

Well Street slips

8 Features in films 'Born Romantic’.

152 site of the Eagles where Morley MP and father, the Nottingham hosier, lived.

Magnificent board school.  Opposite site of charity schools

Shuttleworth’s Hotel includes the Hand in Hand and the Widows’ Home.  Asylums for the Jews, which also became warehouses.

Next door Hackney Depot was LGOC Horse Tram Depot

Market

Junction with Palace road where Forsyth House is was site of Priory of St.John of Jerusalem.  Supposed to have been a Pilgrim Rest place.  Gone by 1831.

Well Street Common

One of the few green areas in East London where there are no adjacent towers of flats to diminish the sense of space.  one of the old stretches of common land which have survived . On a quiet evening you can almost see the sheep munching away. Elms gone. Last bit of old Hackney Park.  Path to South Hackney.  Probably a well at cottage place near where St.John of Jerusalem Priory was. 

Estate & Cassland Estate.  Probably called Botany Bay & charity of Sir John Cass.  Thomas Cass father was carpenter to the Royal Ordnance.  Mr. Cass lived in Lauriston Road or before it was built 1690s.   French Hospital in garden of old rectory.  M.M.Harris.

Wick Road

Jumble of low shops and street market

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North Ockham Road

Horsley Station  1866

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Maswell Park Road

Maswell Park

Named from ‘Mossewelle’ 1485, ‘Moswell’ 1498, that is "spring or stream of a man called 'Maessa', from Old English ‘wella’ and an Old English personal name. Belonged to an Isleworth charity and the area  was marked off with boundary stones. Let to a colonel who then let it to farmers.

Maswell Park Health Centre

Allottments behind the health centre are the last bits of the charitable fields

Nelson Road

St.Edward, RC, 1961, designed by F. X. Velarde, completed by R. O'Mahony. An elongated plan on a narrow site. Font and aumbry by David John.

Admiral Nelson

Whitton Road

Hounslow Station1850 Between Feltham and also Whitton and Isleworth on South Western Trains  . Opened August 1849 on the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway. Originally situated in open country south of the town on the road to Whitton.  New downside booking office in 1933. In 1989n  the station house was let as an office and the ticket office moved to an outbuilding.

Sidings added 1933

Goods Yard. Original yard closed 1968.

New goods yard 1931 and enlarged in 1937.  closed 1967

Northern Star Pub built when the line was opened

South Western Pub also opened on the other side of the line

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Balfour Road

Laid out with housing early 20th

Great West Road

991 Listed Grade II Reinforced concrete warehouse to the design of FE Simpkins.

Lampton

Lampton-eld 1376, Lampton 1426, Lambton 1611, that is "farmstead or estate where lambs are reared', from Old English lamb and tun  - withheld 'open land' in the earliest spelling. Its situation just south of Osterley, also a name related to sheep farming, is interesting. Property of the Bulstrode family who also owned Hounslow. 

Lampton Lane

Down the ram's muzzle

Lampton Village on the rams head

Lampton Road

Bulstrode family development plans in 1881 but only a few grand houses built.

Hounslow Central Station. 1^st April 1886 Between Hounslow East and Hounslow West on the Piccadilly Line.  Metropolitan District Railway. The line on which it was built originally no longer exists. This line went at first to a station then called Hounslow Town which had been closed, and is now the site of the bus station. this station was opened to replace it and called Heston-Hounslow.  It was originally just a corrugated iron building. However for a while there were various loop arrangements and the old station was re-opened.  1909 the loops were closed and the present system was set up. 1912 new station buildings were opened . 1925 renamed Hounslow Central . 1933 Piccadilly Line services began  .1964 District Line services were withdrawn

Town Hall of 1857 and library

Town Hall.  Hounslow Civic Centre. This modern well detailed and elegant building is set within the pre-existing landscape of Lampton Park. It was planned from 1965 designed in house by a team headed by the borough architect George Trevett that included B.E.T. Noble and I. Tawrycewski. Built in 1972-6 it is composed of four square low rise pavilions linked by a central reception area all built of reinforced concrete clad with bands of Portland stone above abase of engineering brick. The civic areas are housed in one pavilion with a self contained twelve side council chamber expressed extremely as a drum at its centre. Under the first hand influence of contemporary German planning the principle of Burolandscaft, or open plan landscaped office', was adopted. This flexibility was even extended to the members' suite. A single large area that can be subdivided into temporary rooms'or, left clear for public functions. Special attention had to be paid to sound insulation as in addition to the usual traffic noise the building is under Heathrow flight paths. Completing the concept of the civic centre, a landscaped setting   by Jakobsen Landscape Architects, was carried out in 1976-8. This includes a hedged car park a pebble-and boulder garden, linear pools, a ha-ha, and contoured mounds

The Lawn, Regency house excellently restored by Haslemere Estates in 1975.  It stands at right angles to the road in counterpoint to the unadorned red brick civic centre car park behind.  Three-bay front with two shallow bows; upper windows and ground-floor verandas with elegant fringed ogee hoods of cast iron.

177 Jolly Farmer

Black Horse pub 1759 rebuilt 1926.

Lulworth Avenue

Montague Road

Site of the Trinitarian Friary established in 1200 near the site of the police station.  By the dissolution this was the richest such house in England.

Laid out with housing early 20th

Holy Trinity church. Evolved from the Friars church. Destroyed by arson and rebuilt in 1961.

Osterley Road

Estate developed 1854 by the Conservative Land Society with curving roads and housing varying in size and style.  Tall classical villas faced with stone patented by architect John Taylor

St.Mary

Queens Road

Laid out with housing early 20th

Spring Grove Crescent

Spring Grove Road

Spring Grove House,

Built 1645 for Offley.  Then Banks built second house on the site, and then Pears of the soap .1892.  Hounslow Borough College Poly and house of A.Pears the soap man.  Aries horns - Isleworth where Joseph Banks introduced merino sheep in England lived.  Development of village.  H. Davies who lost all his money has only house built

Stucley Road

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Bridge Road

Pear Tree Estate, Heston and Isleworth electricity generating plant

Beldam Packing and Rubber Company

Eversley Crescent

Laid out by 1855, and nearly a hundred houses were up b 1887.

Kingsley Road

Hounslow East Station. 2^nd May 1909 as ‘Hounslow Junction’. Between Osterley and Hounslow Central on the Piccadilly Line  The District Line between Hounslow Central and Osterley had been reopened following closure of the unsuccessful loop arrangement to ex-Hounslow Town. This new station was initially called ‘Hounslow Town’ and the old Hounslow Town station and its two loop tracks were closed for good.  It is a garden city style building with Tudor chimneys by District Line architect H.W.Ford  but the style made growth very difficult. In 1925 the station was given its present name at the same time that Hounslow West and Hounslow Central received their current names. In 1933 the Piccadilly Line services was  extended to run to Hounslow West. In 1964 District Line services were withdrawn . In 2000s rebuilt with a modern glass enclosed ticket.. Not rebuilt with other stations on the line in 1930s. 

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Crossways

Heston Hall,

Heston End

Hounslow West

New district formed on part of Hounslow Heath in the late 19^th.

Bath Road

Ambassador Cinema 

Hounslow West Station. 21^st July 1884. Between Hounslow Central and Hatton Cross on the Piccadilly Line Metropolitan District Railway opened as s ‘Hounslow Barracks’. Hounslow and Metropolitan District Line terminus on a loop line, which no longer exists. 1884-1975. was Hounslow Barracks Station, opened 21^st July 1884, with shuttle service from Osterley by the District Railway. Trains ran in 1903 on a line which had been laid many years previously.  Trains ran from Hounslow Town Station. It was a subway track for a while, doubled in 1926. The original station was stock brick and booking hall but only one platform. The new station uses the original entrances but the Holden building has been kept. It was renamed Hounslow West on 1st December 1925 and a new station was opened on 11th December 1926 rebuilt as tube station.  1931 a Portland station, heptagonal hall, shops, offices & car park floodlit at night. Piccadilly Line trains from 1933. A new platform for the Heathrow Link was built when the line was extended to Heathrow in 1977 after quarter of a century of discussion.  .  Island platforms linked with a covered walkway to the existing ticket hall. Bus layby and car park outside.

St Paul's church, 1873

Salvation Army barracks

Sutton Way

Westway

Traveller’s Friend pub only building in the area in the early 19^th.  Has since become a Macdonalds

Cut and cover trench alongside the road for the tube extension to Heathrow.

London Road

Dominion Cinema On 28 December 1931, Bromige's cinema, was opened. This latest Dominion was a much more substantial 2,022 seater with a very wide auditorium and an unusually shallow circle to the rear. It had boldly designed ventilation grilles on either side of the screen with zig-zag shapes and large uplighters on either side. The facade was a sturdy-looking stucco portico with buttressed walls and vaguely Mayan overtones, which fronted an otherwise dull and conventional brick shed with an asbestos roof. While externally it certainly was not one of Bromige's best designs, its angular appearance was very much of its time. The building was quickly sold to London and Southern Cinemas and passed with that circuit to Odeon in the spring of 1938. The Dominion closed in December 1961 and quickly became a bingo hall, which it remains

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Viticultural Research Station ?

Hurstlands

Hurst Green Station.   1st June 1907. Was formerly a wooden structure opened on the south side of the road. It was re-sited and built in brick and became a station rather than a halt on 12 June 1961. 

St.John’s Church. By J.O.Scott. inept bit of flint.

Ice-House Wood Road

Ice-House. The garden at the western end, and on the north side of the road appears to be situated on the site of an old quarry, and the brick dome of an ice-house projects from the ground at the lowest part of the garden.

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Copper Mill Drive

John Broad's 16th century brass and copper mill

Grove Road

Primary school

Hall Road

2 County Arms

Hartham Road,

Is their a connection with Capricorn

Pear's Lanadron Soap Works

Isleworth

An ancient town – charter of 677 which calls it ‘Gishereusyrth’ – ‘the enclosed settlement of Gslhere’.  ‘G’ dropped before the 13^th.   The history of this name demonstrates a bewildering variety of spellings; the first syllable alone has been ‘Gis-‘, ‘Ist-‘, and ‘Yst’; ‘Hist-‘, ‘Yist-‘, ‘Yhist-‘, and even ‘Thist’-. That the modern form should be phonetically so close to the earliest record of the name demonstrates the strength of oral tradition and its ability to withstand scribal vacillation. The first form cited below comes from a forged charter, but the document is regarded as reliable in its spelling of place names, almost certainly derived from an original deed of the purported date  ‘Gistelesworde’ 1086 in the Domesday Book, ‘Istleworth’ 1231, ‘Thystelworth’ (sic) 1477, ‘Iseliworth’ 1576. After the reformation available land made this an area for the rich to move to. 

Linkfield Road

London Road

Crowthers Yard 10 acres of antiques

183 Coach and Horses

Rose and Crown.  The pub name symbolises the union of York and Lancaster in the marriage of Henry VI  and Elizabeth of York. 

574 Milford Arms

Isleworth Station. 1849. Between Hounslow and Syon Lane on South Western Trains. Line from Barnes in 1849 on the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway when it replaced Smallberry Green. It is at the boundary between Isleworth and Hounslow. Extended to Feltham in 1850. In 1989 the up side canopy was removed and neglect to the station house led to increased vandalism.

Odeon Parade

Conversion of Isleworth film studios into flats. It was a George Coles Odeon cinema - not very inspired internally, as if he had not yet got into his stride with 'modern' Odeons, but the exterior was very nice indeed. Opened in March 1935. The third Odeon by Coles, it shows how he quickly adapted his more traditional style to the simple modernism of the Odeon circuit, with Germanic curves and effective lighting. This cinema closed in 1957 to become a film studio.

Osterley Road

Were laid out by 1855, and nearly a hundred houses were up b 1887. A few original houses tall gaunt classical villas in spacious gardens, faced with Taylor's own patent stone

St.Mary's church built and spire collapsed twice. Faced with Taylor's own patent stone

Quaker Lane

Friends Meeting House

Raybell Court

Housing Manning & Clamp, 1976, a traditional almshouse composition in brown brick with steeply pitched roofs.

Smallbury Green

Supposed to be place of the ton for Whitton

Spring Grove

Remains of a grander Victorian suburb which grew up on the edge of a former hamlet called Smallberry Green. It as developed around Sir Joseph Banks's former house by John Taylor Jun., for H. D. Davies, who bought the Spring Grove estate in 1850 and further land a few years later.

St John's Road

St John the Baptist church. Paid for by the brewery owners and completed in 1857

Watneys Brewery. This was both the largest and the oldest commercial enterprise in the village. Founded in 1726, it gradually expanded to incorporate other mills on the river and was eventually sold to Watneys in 1924. Brewing ceased in Isleworth in 1952 although bottling continued till later. Dinosaur humps rising behind Gumley Gardens. The buildings by S. Hutching of Watney Mann include two with Silberkuhl roofs - no internal columns, the single-storey beer warehouse of 1964-5 and a two-storey building of 1967-70 with bottling and canning hall on the upper floor.

The Grove

A few original houses tall gaunt classical villas in spacious gardens, face with Taylor's own patent stone

Thornbury Common

This was the name of the common, which lay between Osterley and Spring Grove.

Woodlands Road

A mid c19 commuters' suburb of modest stucco trimmed villas near the railway

Woodlands Grove

A mid c19 commuters' suburb of modest stucco trimmed villas near the railway

Wood Lane

Level Crossing, Hounslow station adjoined it 1849-1850

Hounslow Smallberry Green Station22^nd August 1849. London and South West Railway by Wood Lane level crossing. Temporary terminus for trains from Barnes to Feltham. 1850 closed

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Azenby Square.

2-storey and 2-storey with basement houses. A great mixture, mechanics and labouring class. Gone down. (Booth)

Basing Court

Basing Manor House. Demolished in 1883. It included beautiful specimens of oak panelling and antique carving. The manor existed in the fourteenth century.  The Manor House School began using the quaint old Basing Manor House. Attached to the school were acres of land used as a recreation ground by the pupils. After the school was demolished, a horse tram depot was built on the site, and later used for electric trams.

Red Cow, rebuilt 1962

2-storey houses. "Rather poor class." (Booth)

Bellenden Road

Rye Lane Depot, in what today is Bellenden Road, had been over by the military authorities during the First World War returned to the London County Council in 1919. It was used subsequently by London Transport as a garage for motor vehicles and the bus garage was built on the site in 1952. In the 1960s the Department of Employment took over the garage for use as a repair workshop for buses until 1986. The garage was later used as a as a factory producing Comply plasterboard products. Site of Basing Manor House.

Bull Yard?

Thomas Tilling HQ

Bushey Hill Road,

Matthew Dean of St Paul's, born

Nearly all the detached houses shown on the map have given way to smaller dwellings. Occasional servants. (Booth)

Camberwell Grove

28a Camberwell Bookshop

59 Stone Trough Books

94 Cottage Orne opposite the chapel destroyed in the last war. 

188 Grove Hill Terrace, J. Chamberlain born, London County Council plaque 188 Joseph Chamberlain was born here in 1836.  plaque which says. 'Statesman, lived here' . He was M.P. for Birmingham and moved back to London in 1876. As an Imperialist his policies helped precipitate the Boer war.

The Hermitage

Built as a private avenue to a mansion of the Cock family in Church Street

Lettsom Estate. The Lettsom family lived in the big house and the estate is built in the grounds. Dr John Coakley Lettsom, a well-known Quaker physician, at the beginning of the 19^thcentury whose income sometimes amounted to as much as £12,000 a year, and who was as philanthropic as he was wealthy. In his large house he entertained some of the most eminent men of his time but adverse circumstances compelled him to part with his delightful mansion some time before his death, and as his town house was not large enough to accommodate them. He also had to dispose of his library and museum.

Camberwell Grove House.  A stream ran through the grounds which were said to be the origin of Camber ‘well’. It flowed into a canal at Fountain cottage' .

Grove Chapel, 1819. Late Georgian chapel, very modest. Stone plaque by Coade.fits perfectly into the late Georgian atmosphere. Pretty, with a five-bay, two-storey front, very modest. Built in 1819 by David Roper.

220 beyond the continuous stucco terraces, some with Greek Doric porches.  The Hermitage, a late C 18 or early c 19 rustic cottage with tree-trunk columns supporting the eaves, but suburbanized by pebbledash.

Mainly detached villas, getting past their best days, but still in single occupancy. Along east side a new row has been built. Inferior, for two families. (Booth)

Camden Estate

Camberwell MB & Southwark LB 1969 both deck systems and car park more cheerful Chepstow Way is quite attractive. Ambitious piece of re- development by Camberwell (later Southwark) council, designed in 1969 and instructive to compare with North Peckham Estate.  Both are built on a deck system with car parking beneath, and are linked by a bridge across Commercial Way.  The earlier scheme, completed in 1972, was considered enlightened for its date in avoiding tall slabs, but the monotonous upper walkways and cramped courtyards surrounded by the five-storey dark brick maisonettes, which are not inviting.  This is built in a more cheerful yellow brick, has more variety and is not so large

Chadwick Gardens

Nature garden

Chadwick Road

155 North View.Victorian Villa with a planning row going on in 2008

Print Village – site of Gordon’s Brewery.

2-storey houses. Decent, trees, quiet. Generally one family to a house. two families in some. Others keep a servant. Comfortable. Gordon Brewery and open ground on north side. (Booth)

Chepstow Way

Busy broad central walk of Camden Estate is quite attractive.  At one end it widens; into a little square overlooked by a taller block of flats with shops below, and with a health centre opposite.

Choumert Road

Very modest Girdler's Almshouse

43 Montpelier

79 Wishing Well . decorative Irish drum

2-storey houses, most with bay window. Houses vary much in style but a gradual improvement toward Copleston Road. Working class. Building trades etc near Bellenden Rd. Clerk, travellers at upper. (Booth)

Crofton Road.

Better and larger houses north of the bend and servants frequently kept here. South of the bend 2-storey, 6- or 8-roomed houses with bow windows, ornate. High waged and low salaried classes. Apartments often let. Servants not kept. (Booth)

Dagmar Road

Like Wilson Road, even to having its better-to-do detached house. (Booth)

Elm Grove

48-52 stone made to look like brick

Grace's Road

Mainly 2-storey houses. (Booth)

Grove Crescent

Stuccoed houses built on part of the Lettsom Estate in the earlier c 19:  development begun by the railway engineer and speculator William Chadwick

169-183 spatial development. Alternate pairs with large pediments

94 Fountain Cottage

Grove Park

For the most part new semi-detached and detached redbrick villas. A few of the old houses still left. On the site of one four new ones have been built, all good, as the ground available was large. Most of the new dwellings, however, cover ground previously clear.  Inglewood House the only really large one left. "City People,” generally fairly well to do.  A smart lady who passed us with nurse and children was pointed out as the wife of a highly salaried man at some brewery and as a quondam bare-backed rider at Sangers! (Booth)

Development begun by the railway engineer and speculator William Chadwick

Tiny stuccoed lodge at the corner

?  Older detached three-bay house, much altered, built by Lettsom's friend Henry Smith c. 1776-80.

Day Nursery in grounds of no?  Long low by Neyland & Ungless, 1971-3

113Camberwell Tape Laboratory.  Bugging embassies in London has a history now 75 years long. The original monitoring base was here run by the Metropolitan Police. It is still the Met's main centre for special bugging and monitoring.

Grove Park Cuttings:

Vacant rail side land. Woodland with steep slopes.

M15 monitoring of embassies

Havil Street

Originally called Workhouse Lane but changed to Havil Street when Mr. Havil lived there in Havil House.

Bethel Asylum., plain for aged women, built by William Peacock in 1837

St Giles Hospital. This began as an institution founded under the Poor Law of 1601. In 1726 the Vestry of St Giles', builtg a a workhouse for lodging and employing the poor. This was on the west side side of the road at the  junction with Peckham Road. In 1815, this was demolished and another workhouse was buil,t at the back of the old site, In 1873 by the Camberwell Board of Guardians added an infirmary and a  circular blockwas added in 1888-1889, It was transferred to the London County Council in 1930. A new operating theatre and reception were provided four years later. Camberwell Health Authority voted in 1983 to close most of the facilities.

Vestry hall

5 Orange Tree

Highshore Road

Royal Mail Delivery Office - Society of Friends Meeting House 1826. Used as a postman’s office. Simple, yet distinguished. Enlarged in 1843. Built of stock brick

Yard at the rear was a small burial ground.. 1832-61 but cremated remains buried there until 1959. 

Lalfourd Road.

Good middle-class, with garden fronts- small and high waged class. No servants. Three new houses built at end. All red-brick, bow windows (Booth)

Lettsom Estate

The most elaborate house was that built by Dr John Coakley Lettsom in 1779-80 (demolished in the 1890s).  It stood in its own grounds to the East of Camberwell Grove.  Riches & Biythin's estate 1970 stands in part of the grounds.

Lettsom Street

 2-storey and 2-storey houses. (Booth)

Linnell Road

2-storey and 5-storey houses, shops. Working class occupants mainly. (Booth)

Lyndhurst Grove

43 Cadleigh Arms,

Dolby considered that exactly the same class of people lived here as in the southern end of Crofton Road. The houses are 2-storey, much the same as those in Crofton Rd, although less ornate. (Booth)

Lyndhurst Square

Lyndhurst Squareis one of Peckham's most modern flat developments

1 80ft x 40ft walled garden. Formal layout with lawn, flower beds, mosaic, gravel and flagstones. Sunken terrace with herb garden in retaining wall. Plants in terracotta containers. Evergreen, slightly tropical looking structure to planting, with perennials planted through and around. More foliage than flowers. Many unusual plants. Sitting areas in sun or shade.

3 Sophisticated cottage garden approx 80ft x 50ft. Old roses, herbaceous borders, many climbers on house and in garden, sunken garden with fountain and container  planting, surrounded by mature trees.

Lyndhurst Way,

Another residential thoroughfare.

53 Lord Lyndhurst pub

Peckham School, a vast new building for girls with playing fields and tennis courts all around.

Lyndhurst Way,

Was called Lyndhurst Road

88 childhood home of Ken Farmington, Billy Walker in Coronation Street

Warwick House School on house on site was animal painter Harrison Weir, early ILN artist

53 Lord Lyndhurst

2-storey, bow windows. Bad building. Rents as in McNeil Rd. Rents, character of building and occupants like much of the neighbourhood. (Booth)

Maude Road

5-storey houses.  (Booth)

McNeil Road

2-storey houses, bow windows, some broken. Bad building. West side the poorer.  The street is quiet, both on the poorer west and east side. East side let at 7/6 the floor (three rooms and scullery).  (Booth)

Peckham Road

Village common on the hills, belonged to the Gloucesters. Connecting the old villages of Peckham and Camberwell is mostly an accumulation of public buildings and L.C.C. flats.  The exception is the late Georgian group around the town hall (all now municipal offices).  On the South side, set back, a group of three houses, two identical ones of five bays, linked up later, and one of three bays, with good doorways with fanlights.  Opposite are some more late Georgian houses, altered.

102 Walmer Castle

Acrow Mill, cogs and workers

Arlington Music Hall

Blenheim House

Borough Architect's Department, housed in a range of 18th century houses

Camberwell and Southwark Technical College

Camberwell House the building dates from 1777 and was formerly known as the East Terrace. This range of houses is of some architectural interest. Henry Roberts was born here at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was the architect of the Fishmongers' Hall and an early employer of George Gilbert Scott. A later resident of the houses was Robert Alexander Gray, chairman of the Camberwell Vestry which ran the civic affairs before the Camberwell Borough Council was formed in 1900. He was known as 'Father of the Parish'. The houses were taken over as an extension of Camberwell House Lunatic Asylum which was on the north side of Peckham Road. This building still exists and is an extension to Southwark Town Hall; it dates from around 1780. The building was originally King Alfred School, or Alfred House Academy, founded by Dr Nicolas Wanostrocht. It was the lost famous school for the boys in the parish in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Some of those educated there included: Robert Browning, father of the poet; mathematician George Parker Bidder; Alfred Dommett, first Prime Minister of New Zealand, and Sir Joseph Arnold, Chief Justice of India. In 1832 the school moved to Blackheath and the Royal Naval School took over the premises. In 1846 the building became a lunatic asylum.

Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and Passmore Edwards South London Art Gallery,  1896-8, with baroque caryatids at the portal and baroque window pediments. By Maurice Adams. F.W.Rossiter had a surplus stock in his shop 1868. Bought a house in Peckham Road and built a gallery on the back. It was there so long as it was open on a Sunday. Gallery built by Adams financed by Passmore Edwards. One of the foremost centres of its kind in the capital. In 1868 an art exhibition took place in William Rossitter's shop window in Camberwell Road and from this sprang the germ—nourished by pre-Raphaelite painters—of the South London Art Gallery. The present Gallery was opened in 1891 and is of the florid 19th century type of architecture used also for the nearby Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. It has a fine permanent collection of paintings mainly of the 19^th and 20th centuries with one valuable earlier work, "The study for the masked ball at the Wanstead Assembly" by Hogarth. The Southwark Reference Collection of 20th century Original Prints, started in 1960, includes examples of many media, aquatints, etchings, lithographs, lino-cuts, wood-engravings etc., and covers work by both British and foreign artists. South London Fine Art Gallery, Camberwell, early twentieth century.  Over a century ago South London Gallery in Peckham Road was built to house a collection of paintings of the eminent artists of the day. The paintings were largely donated by wealthy benefactors. One aim of the gallery was to give people the opportunity to see the best art being produced at the time.  The Founder was William Rossiter; in 1868 he set up a South London Working at 91 Blackfriars Road. Ten years later it moved to larger premises at No. 143 Lane The College was extended to include a free library, the first in South London. In October 1878 and a few months later Rossiter added to it by borrowing during the summer months - so the Gallery was born. The institution shifted firmly in the direction of the visual arts and this change was recognised. As Rossiter explained, 'so many friends lent pictures, and so many were that the exhibition intended for a few weeks has now been in existence for fourteen years, and has become so important that the name of Free Library has been replaced  by that of South London Fine Art Gallery. 'The Gallery moved to Battersea and then to Camberwell in 1887 to a warehouse in Camberwell Road. The South London Fine Art Gallery was built in and opened to the public in May 1891.

Camberwell's Civil Defence headquarters and control centre  at the corner of Vestry Road. This was an underground building which was the best of its kind in London.

Camden Church. Rebuilt in 1874. Until eighteenth century in Camberwell.  Built in 1795 for the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, much enlarged 1814. Chancel 1854 by Scott in a Byzantine style said to be the outcome of consultation with Ruskin. Since demolished

Extension, totally unsympathetic large concrete extension by Murray, Word & Partners, c. 1960.  Two long bands of windows with others of irregular shape in between.

Fire station. Peckham s first fire station opened in 1867; the building still exists in Peckham Road. This is a few metres from the present one which was opened on 2 March 1991 by Cllr A.G. King, Chair of the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority, and Cllr Tony Ritchie who was the Southwark member of the authority. The present fire station occupies the site of one which the London County Council had built. This was opened on 9 July 1925 by Geoffrey Head, chairman of the L.C.C Fire Brigade Committee.  The South London Press reported that it was the first of its kind in London as it was built to meet the requirements of the shift system. The newspaper stated: 'The reason for the change is that the men nowadays live in their own homes and are only at the station during their period of duty. The only residential quarters provided are those for the station officer, although there are a mess room and a recreation room with other accommodation for the shift men. At the rear is a large drill yard with the best drill tower in London'.

First cinema converted to a bingo hall

Flats, 'fine new blocks of workers flats - standing well back from the roadway in gardens', London County Council

Food Office

Gramophone Record and Music Library for the Borough

Peckham house. Charlie Chaplin's mother, Hannah Chaplin, was transferred here in 1912. It was a private lunatic asylum but had previously been a mansion owned by Charles Lewis Spitta and the wealthy Spitta family . It became a lunatic asylum m 1826 and closed in 1951 so Peckham School could be built on the site

Peckham School. Built On the site of  Peckham House which was a private lunatic asylum pre-Second World War. curtain-walled ranges around a hall, pleasantly set back from the road behind trees by Lyons Israelis' Ellis, 1956-8.; Norma, wife of former Prime Minister John Major was a pupil here.  Has become Harris Academy.

Harris Academy.

Kennedy’s Sausage Factory.  Run by one branch of the family in a converted fire station.

Kingfisher House site of Camberwell Central Library between the Pharoah's pub destroyed by fire on 9 July 2004 and Pelican House. It was bombed during the Second World War. The library was opened on 9 October 1893 by HRH the Prince of Wales who became Edward VII after his mother, Queen Victoria, died. The Prince, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of York, went to the new library after opening the South London Fine Art Gallery a short distance away in the same road. A guard of honour of the First Surrey Rifle Volunteers was posted at the entrance. The royal guests were greeted at the library by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman Sir Stuart Knill, who was born in Camberwell. They were taken by the architect and builder through the library and then into the pretty recreation ground at the rear of the building. The Prince made a speech in which he wished, 'the success of this fine new building, so well arranged, so complete, so well built in every respect'. Mr Frederick G. Banbury, MP for Peckham, said that he did not think anyone would deny that education conferred innumerable advantages upon a nation or that public libraries were important in disseminating knowledge among all classes of the community. The library was built in Jacobean Renaissance style. The architect was Robert Whellock who designed three buildings in SE15 that still exist - the   Livesey Museum, Nunhead Library and the former Central Hall in Peckham High Street. The new library replaced a temporary central library in the High Street, Peckham.

Lucas Gardens, a small but tranquil oasis of trees, flowers and grass amid houses and commercial premises. The park has a children's corner, a bandstand, cafe and facilities for municipal summer shows. Pleasant open space. Mature trees. created in the grounds of a former lunatic asylum, Camberwell House.

Peckham Lodge, formerly the headquarters of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers, was formed in 1851 and  bought land at the corner of Lyndhurst Road in 1899.  there were originally three buildings along Peckham Road between Lyndhurst Road and Grummant Road. In 1916 they were joined together. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers' symbol, the slogan 'Be United And Industrious', 1851 and 1916 are carved above the doorway on the west side of the building. during the Second World War bombs blew the roof off the building but the premises remained for nearly ninety years the general office of what became the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union. A new administrative block was built in 1961 and the Executive Council block ten years later.  In 1912 a small chapel was at the Grummant Road side of what became the union's garden. The union left Peckham in 1996 and is now part ofAmicus. The former front door of the Peckham building is now in the General Secretary's office in King Street, Covent Garden.

Pelican House renamed Winnie Mandela House in 1989, demolished. The pelicans on the building were a reminder of Pelican House School which  occupied the site in the nineteenth century. The pelicans, originally stood on brick pilasters at the entrance gates. The Surrey Association for the General Welfare of the Blind, which was established in 1857, In 1910 it became the London Association for the Blind and is now Action for Blind People. In 1924 power machinery was installed to manufacture knitting needles and bangles. This was the first time a visually impaired person had operated power machinery anywhere. The workshop premises were extended in 1928/29. New offices at Pelican House were completed in 1952/53 but it was sold in 1976..

School of Arts and Crafts 1896. Technical School for Young Craftsmen 1908, with fine arts section built in memory of Lord Leighton. The cost was underwritten by Passmore Edwards

Sculpture, bronze nude, by Kare Vogel.

The New Phoenix Brewery Ltd (North Surrey Brewery) operated  in Peckham Road. It came under the control of Lovibonds of  Greenwich in 1900 and was wound up in 1927.

The Registrar's Office,

Town Hall.  The site was that of  Havil House, owned by Mr. Havil. The first municipal building on this site was Edward Powers’ vestry hall, put up in 1872-3, after a competition said to be ‘a gross piece of jobbery’.  It was designed in a French Renaissance and Italianate mix. Much of it was demolished in 1934 for the the new Camberwell Town Hall, by E. C Culpin & Bowers but largely the work of Bowers, a Dulwich resident.  It is interesting for the speed of it’s construction which took less than a year, and because the Victorian vestry room was included in it between new blocks to the front and back – when opened it was said to be a ‘hall of mirrors’..  the steel frame clad is clad in Portland stone with a mayoral balcony above the main entrance, plus a carving of a ship's prow, including the arms of the Borough of Camberwell.

Vestry Hall. Local government affairs for the parish of St Giles in Camberwell were run by the Vestry in the nineteenth century. The first hall was built in 1827 on the opposite comer of Havil Street from the present Southwark Town Hall. A much larger Vestry Hall was erected in 1872/73. When Camberwell became a Metropolitan Borough in 1900, this became the Town Hall. The Vestry Hall was rebuilt in 1934 but the Council of the London Borough of Southwark meet in the Council Chamber of the former Vestry Hall. 

Pitt Street

Sceaux gardens. A serious example of connected layout landscape not railed in, run over to the kids, living undergrowth. A showpiece of 1955 - tower blocks nature gardens, car parks, not yet fashionable showpiece of developments for Camberwell by F.O.Hayes.  First of a whole series of council estates north of Peckham Road.  This one was Camberwell's showpiece of 1955-9 (Borough Architect F. 0. Hayes).  Two fourteen-storey slabs of cross- over maisonettes, and lower blocks (one and six storeys), pleasantly grouped in mature gardens, not yet complicated by the 1960s rage for massive car parks.

Female figure stone statue of a draped woman.  Right hand on a sword. Early 19^therected here 1960s.

Shenley Road.

No part so good as the north end of Crofton Road. Otherwise the same class. 2-storey houses. Mostly two families to a house. Servants the exception. (Booth)

Sumner Road

107 McCabe Free House

133 Golden Lion. The Golden Lion was the badge of the Lion of Flanders

260 Alliance

Winchester House.  Stood at the corner of Peckham High Street and the east side of Sumner Road, was still in existence in 1953. It had been the headquarters of Thomas Tilling's omnibus firm. Before that it was a grammar school where the founder's son Richard S. Tilling, was educated. During a lesson Richard scratched his initials R.S.T. on a windowpane with a glass-cutter; Thomas Tilling later worked in this old schoolroom, which was known as 'the parlour'. This room became the heart of the business; all the important decisions were made there. When the cellars of this old building were altered in 1915 an underground passage was discovered which had long connected Winchester House with the property across the road Basing Manor House. Winchester House had a front garden, which was destroyed when the road was widened. Thomas Tilling started his four-horse omnibus service from Rye Lane to Oxford Circus in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition at Hyde Park. His was the fastest on the route, He was the first proprietor to refuse to pick up passengers from various places and take them to the omnibus starting point, nor would he wait until the omnibus was full before it set off. Murals on the former North Peckham Civic Centre, in the Old Kent Road, and the Nunhead Green Community Centre include a Tilling omnibus. At London's Transport Museum in Covent Garden one of The Times omnibuses used by Thomas Tilling is preserved. Thomas was buried in Nunhead Cemetery where his grave can still be seen

Parallel with the Canal.  Irregularly built street. At the north corner of St George's Rd the All Saints Club.

South side is 2-st houses with fronts. North side is 2-st houses flush with sidewalk. Doors open into rooms. Poorer. (Booth)

Talfourd Road

37a Jeremy Irons actor lived there for a bit

Houses are smaller (Booth)

Victoria Road (not on AZ)

2-storey private houses on west side. Mostly used for some Trade: bootmender, photographer, umbrella mender. Other side is 5-storey shops.  (Booth)

Vestry Road

The boundary of this police section. North of Linnell Road the west side is 2-storey houses. Decent working class. Last side has only one house occupied, a small job-master's. South of Linnell Rd the houses are larger but occupied by people of very much the same class. (Booth)

Wilson Road

Houses with basements. Two and three families the rule. Working class. From, except for the detached house occupied by one of the local clergy.(Booth)

Aspinall Road

Embankment where the old railway line departed. Housing and Nature reserve too.  Cutting made in 1860, this is now a wide embankment of bramble thickets and sycamore woodland that turns into bright golds and oranges in the autumn. After closure it supported an interesting swathe of chalk loving wildflowers, but was lost to a housing development in 1989. A small sycamore wood abuts the road bridge.

Barset Road

25 home of Woodroffe friend of Lenin

Buchan Road

2-storey houses, good gardens behind on south side. (Booth)

Crystal Palace line

Went off at Cow Lane junction.

Drakefell Road,

Bombed 22.6.44 29 people injured.

Takes one up the higher ground of Telegraph Hill and off the north side part of the new Park lies, finely situated, with splendid views over London. The houses, 2-storey and 2-storey with basements, small, but generally with well-to-do occupants, middle class. (Booth)

Evelina Road

5 Charles Peace

16 Golden Anchor

2-storey and 5-storey houses, mainly the former. Shops at north east corner. More of a business street, especially at the west end. Just south of the railway on the north side are three or four houses. At the house next to the railway, with its passage and boundary running along the bottom of the embankment, the notorious criminal, Peace, lived for some years. Dolby said that he frequently arranged to come home after nightfall from one of his house-breaking expeditions and that his plan was to throw his booty out of the carriage window as the train passed his house. He thus arrived at the stations without luggage and, without exciting suspicion, went home and picked up the booty.  (Booth)

Gibbon Road.

66 Railway Tavern

A few poor but majority fairly comfortable. 2-storey houses with gardens. (Booth)

Grimwade Crescent

2-storey houses. "More of the labouring class", not a good name, brawls etc.  (Booth)

Hall Road (not on AZ)

Gates property ceases. Houses 2-storey, less well built, much worse tenanted. Two families in each. Rents 11/- per flat. Some shops (Booth)

Howbury Road

2-storey houses, much like Barset Road. Better from south end to Machell Road. Here tiled forecourts and a brighter appearance. (Booth)

Ivydale Road

202 Waverley

300 Mckenzie Court. Named for Able Seaman Albert McKenzie who won a Victoria Cross.

200-302 children’s home for London Borough of Southwark 1970, Southwark Architect's Department. The concrete blocks and tough iron railings, fashionablearchitect's materials of c. 1970 immediatelymark it as a council building even though it is unnamed

202 Waverley Arms

St.Silas 1902-13 by J. E. K. & J. P. Cutts. Ragstone, Decorated.

Waverley Park estate. Classic speculative development. Edward Yates.

Ivedale School. A good, bold example of the three-decker type of Board School near Nunhead Cemetery, 1891, generously decorated. Battlemented centre with tall turreted roof.

Poorish opposite the stations. Two bow windows to the house and Jones said only one family in each. Further south the road turns west along the south side of the Nunhead Cemetery. The amenity of the road is spoilt by the shooting trial ground of the Army &. Navy Stores in the open space at the back of the south side. Road improves as it goes westwards. (Booth)

Kimberley Road

South east end has rather larger houses than in the northern bits, bow windows, fronts, 2-storey and 2-storey. (Booth)

Limes Walk

Worth exploring. One of the Small developments for Southwark, 1966, an original solution to a long narrow site. It begins as a broad pavedwalk entered by a passage beneath a bridge. An oldpeople's home, terrace houses, with gardens at theback over garages. Then comes a subtle change of access, anda narrow alley continues beneath slate-hung bridges edifice of Messrs Daniels, monumental masons.

Linden Grove

Where Charles Dickens set up home with Ellen Ternan.

London County Council Flats pompouspre- and post-war

Urinal made in Glasgow

Nunhead Tavern, tea garden

Brock's firework factory in 1840s Houses

43 Belvedere

Nunhead Cemetery.The fifty-one acres of the cemetery of All Saints, Nunhead, were consecrated in 1840. it  was laid out by the London Cemetery Company to designs by James Bunning, architect. The Cemetery was consecrated by the Bishop of Winchester and in 1844 the Anglican Chapel was built to the design of Thomas Little. A formal drive lined with mature lime trees approaches the now ruined chapel from the gates. A second chapel for Dissenters was built in the North-west corner of the Cemetery, but was demolished. lodges on either side of the main entrance  - one now restored - are an important element in Bunning’s design. The paths are circuitous and winding, apart from the main axial drive and a subsidiary path at right angles. The monuments in Nunhead are not as distinguished as those in many other London cemeteries, reflecting the less socially elite classes buried there. Like most private cemetery companies, by the Second World War its management had declined  and Vandalism and apathy lead to its acquisition for £1 by LB Southwark in 1976 and it is a designated grade II historic landscape.Woolwich beds of acid sand and gravels underlie it and it is an outlier of high land Rising to two hundred feet above sea level with panoramic views of London. a third of the area is open land still available for new burial plots. Once hill top pasture It is now the closest woodland area to central London dominated by secondary broadleaved woodland set aside as a park and nature reserve. The nature reserve has ash and sycamore beneath which is  layer of bramble and ivy.. At the opposite side a more open environment reveals red and white clover, bird's foot trefoil and chamomile. On the crown of the hill is damp grassland with wood rush. Specimen trees are scattered throughout like Turkey oaks and a gingko. The dense undergrowth contain s remnants of the Victorian shrubbery, with laurel, holly, box and yew with wild shrubs like elder, hawthorn and bramble.  Ivy as a symbol of remembrance, grows abundantly. In summer the pathways take on a 'country lane' aspect with clover, ox-eye daisies, cow parsley and buttercups and sprays of buddleia attracting bees and butterflies.  The more open parts of the Cemetery contain comfrey, yarrow, trefoil  vetches, campion, lady's smock, sorrel and alongside nettles and rosebay willow-herb. It supports a wide range of birds including thrushes, , wood pigeon, robin, blackbird, jay, starling, hedge sparrow, blue, great and coal tits, green woodpeckers, chiffchaff, various finches, cuckoo and tawny owls. Eerie atmosphere.  the most prominent memorial is the obelisk erected in 1851 by public subscription raised by Joseph Hume M.P., to commemorate the five so-called Scottish martyrs transported to Australia in 1795 for advocating the cause of Parliamentary reform. Other memorials include Vincent Figgins, City of London type-founder; Sir George Livesey, Chairman of South Metropolitan Gas Company and Thomas Tilling, who pioneered horse drawn bus routes in South London. Josiah Stone buried there in 1867 and Prestige. In the North-east corner is a vast catacomb dating from 1867; now sealed. Memorials from both World Wars are maintained by the War Graves Commission, and record those killed in Nunhead during air raids. The Stearne mausoleum is unique in London. Nunhead Cemetery is the final resting place of a quarter of a million persons.

Gates and lodges. Formal large noble cast-iron entrance and classical piers of Portland stone Just inside are two charming lodges of exquisite neo-classical design. Bunning designed both gates and lodges.

Chapels: Thomas Little won a competition to build the chapels in 1844. His designs, which survive, were in the Decorated style of Gothic; the materials were Kentish rag with freestone dressings. The Dissenters' chapel has been demolished, and the Anglican chapel is in ruins.

catacomb shaft has been filled in, and the rectangular catacomb sealed up.

Scottish Martyrs Memorial high granite obelisk impressive. erected in 1851 to commemorate the Scots martyrs to the cause of Parliamentary Reform. money collected by committee under the Chairmanship of Joseph Hume

Large detached houses on east side, mixture on west. Distinctly less good on west, some apartments. along Linden Grove. Opposite the Cemetery, poor gravediggers, somewhat improved. West end is in the Camberwell 'W Police Division., it improves west of Gibbon Road. East of Gibbon Road Has always had a bad name for drink and roughness but is not as bad as the streets behind in Daniels Road (Booth)

Machell Road.

2-storey houses, six rooms, forecourts. (Booth)

Norbert Road?

Partly built embankment connected Crystal Palace & Greenwich.

Nunhead

Reservoir which holds 20,000,000 gallons of water taken from the Thames above Teddington. Reservoir land bought by Southwark and Vauxhall Water Co. in 1854. 14 acres. Simple distributive works. Four reservoirs which have now been reduced to two which can deliver forty three million gallons a day.  Originally two bull engines 1890,

60 Rev Porter, died there, Brotherhood of the Holy Cross

Railway

Line from Nunhead built by London, Chatham and Dover Railway in an open cutting south of Telegraph Hill.

Rye Hill Estate

L.C.C. 1939-64.

Torridge Gardens pleasantest parts the low-density terraces hiddenbehind the dull blocks.

19th villas and houses

3 George Livesey

Rye Hill Park.

2-storey and 3-storey houses built on the side of a steep slope for good class servant-keeping families. Owing to a scare that the waterworks reservoir at the top might burst the tenants left. Working class have taken their place and many are to let. Good tenants remain only in the houses near the Rye. (Booth)

Stuart Road

40 Stuart Arms

Tappisford Road

Design Reserve Council work for Habinteg. The modelsuburban scale of the area continued in the work from1978

2-storey houses. Done up. Somewhat better than Banstead Road - more or the mechanic class". On the east side is Stanley Hall, the headquarters of the Nunhead Christian Band, said to represent a past local split in the Salvation Army. Two houses in the space at the south end.  The road perhaps from Barset Road represents a still further improvement. 2-storey houses still, forecourts. At the end, running south of the Buchan Road line is Salisbury Terrace. Poorer. (Booth)

Waveney Road/Rye Hill Park:

London County Council flats. Fine blocks