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Albion Avenue 

Large estates of flats 1920/30s.

Clyston Street

Features in films 'Castaway’.

Corunna Road

Courland Grove

1840 Baptist Church

Guildford Road

St Barnabas, 1848-50 by Isaac Clarke & James Humphreys. A ragstone Gothic centrepiece to the contemporary classical Lansdowne Gardens.

Lansdowne Way

83 Priory Arms

Larkhall Rise

A few more c18-early c19 houses along

Linford Street

Stewarts Lane Station. 29thMarch 1858. London Brighton and South Coast Railway. Line to Penge Junction 1860 London, Chatham and Dover Railway. 1858 December closed . 1863 opened with entrance on the west side of Linford Street near Corunna Terrace . 1867 closed.

Netherfold Road

LCC Weights & Measures

Pensbury Place.

Features in films 'Janice Beard 45 wpm’, ‘Stormbreaker’.

Sibella Road

18, Small walled garden with formal framework softened by expressionist colour-themed planting. A path leads from Mediterranean-inspired patio to a tiny octagonal lawn. Terrace framed with lavender, dicentras, ferns and hostas and some more unusual woodland plants. An old bramley, white lilac, weeping pear and cloud- pruned ceanothus add height and are festooned with roses and clematis

St.Rule Street

Heathfield Primary School LSB An altered but still picturesque skyline of shaped gables, steeply pitched roof, and cupola.

74 Shaftesbury

Stewarts Lane

Junction ext. to new terminus at Waterloo 1860s

Stewarts Lane Station line to Penge Junction l860 London, Chatham and Dover Railway. To Crystal Palace open to Herne Hill l862.

Stewarts Road

Features in films 'My Beautiful Launderette’.

Stonhouse Street

Clapham Manor School. 1881 with later additions

Union Grove

Christ Church1861 By B.Ferrey, 1861-2; Kentish rag

vicarage  by G. E. Street, with many hipped gables.

Union Road

SpringfieldEstate later additions by Lambeth to the G.LC estate show a change of heart witnessed in the staggered yellow brickterraces of family houses, with bay-windows and front andback gardens car park concealed beneath, 1975-6. Clunn said “A finenew housing estate “.

99 Prince of Wales

355

369 garden house

Clifford Walk

Wandsworth Road

Springfield Estate by theL.C.C., 1935, with large blocks of flats,

Housing by L. de Soissons and G. Grey Womumformerly a private estate, 1929-30, distinguished by ratherfussy neo-Georgian trimmings. the interior courtyardsbetter.

Carey Gardens the most interesting redevelopment is, a G.L.C. estate of 1970-7 NicholasWood, influenced by the March and Martin principles ofperimeter planning 403dwellings at 136 p.p.a. Unusual layout of two irregular four-storey concentric crescents around an open space, but thegrand design negated by excessive variety in the details seethe different window designs, and the complicated recessedcorners of the inner crescent. Brick with exposed concretebands.

Westbury Estate,the familiar mixed development of the 1960s, with two twenty-one-storey brutalist towers (1964-7).  GLC

167 The Cider House

238-241 more flats.

238-246

372-37 6a few relics of decent-class earlier c19buildings: villas with Doric porches;

335-337, with Ionic porches,

553 etc f the 1820s modest cottages

827-837 Coraugh Terrace 1860.  

93-7

South Bank Poly and Vauxhall College of Building. five storeys and cheery lecture theatre. 1970-4 by Shingler Risdon Associates. Five storeys on a plaza over a car park, with a clumsy projecting lecture theatre acting as a mammoth porch canopy.

Special railway station for Queen Victoria

St.George's

Wandsworth Road Station. 1st March 1863. 1916 closed.

Wandsworth Road Station. From 1866 trains from Clapham Junction to Ludgate Hill. Wandsworth Road platform adjoining


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