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Aulton Place

Austral Street

27 Two Eagles. pub

Bird Street

Gone. End is Gilbert Road

Bishop’s Terrace

The Ship Features in films 'Melody’

Bowden Street.

Braganza Street

Walworth City Farm. 1987 derelict rubbish dump. Grows Asian and Afro Caribbean vegetables

Brandon Estate.

A cluster of white towers built in the late 1950s. The scheme was drawn up in 1955 for the L.C.C. Architect's Department by Edward Hollamby and six 18 storey towers were built. the estate was extended in the 1960s, with five 26 storey towers.. The early towers have recessed centres, and every four storeys is set back. On top are structures which house the services. Part of the estate is made up of other housing plus older terraces.

Branch Library with clubroom above, and a mural and other decoration by Anthony Holloway.

Henry Moore reclining figures. -Forlornly stranded on a grass mound near the towers is a noble sculpture by Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, set up as part of the idealistic post-war L.C.C.'s policy of modern sculpture in public places

Shopping Precinct. On the far side of the towers a long seven-storey range with projecting centrepiece and a passage through it

Forsyth Gardens

Brook Drive.

Lambeth Hospital. Infirmary Building and Lambeth Workhouse, 1873. Features in films 'Death Wish 3’.Lambeth Hospital. Developed from the infirmary buildings 1877 by Fowler & Hilt added to Lambeth Workhouse. Operating theatres by Yorke Rosenberg & Mardall, 1967

Neckinger down it

Burrup Place (not on az)

Cable hauled trams from junction to Streatham Library in Brixton Road 1895‑1904.

Cardigan Street

Terraces of cottages by Adshead & Ramsay, 1913. They are in a neo-Regency style, something very progressive at that time

castlebrook Close

Site of Lambeth Hospital.

Chester Way

For the Duchy of Cornwall. Later neo-Georgian housing by theLouis de Soissons Partnership

80‑l80 Georgian Terraces.

86‑88 114 132 1789, 91‑167 140‑162 164‑166.

1877 St.Mary's Church, 1872 inside grand Historical Society, Surrey City and Guilds, so Kennington Theatre,

178‑93, 95, 101, l75, 131, 75, l27, l33, 59 Vicarage

Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens between Kennington and Walworth Roads. 1831. Lake, music hall and everything else. Sold off in 1878. Three years after the London Zoo began, a zoo opened in Walworth in 1831. It was called Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens and the proprietor was Edward Cross who moved a menagerie from its original home in the Strand. The zoo had lions, tigers, elephants, llamas, a pair of dromedaries presented by the ruler of Egypt, and a giant tortoise on which children were able to ride. Five giraffes were brought from Africa by an Arab boy Fadlallah. A model of them is in the Cuming Museum. In 1848 Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the royal children paid the zoo a visit. They were especially interested in a rather strange animal friendship - a tigress and a dog that lived in the same cage. The zoo closed in 1856 and nothing of it remains in the Manor Place area, where it was situated.

Kennington Station. 18^th December 1890. Terminus of Northern Line from Waterloo. Between Oval and Elephant and Castle on the Northern Line. City London and Southwark Railway. Station tunnel 3ft deep brick lining and 20ft wide l6ft high and 20 ft long. Dome housed headgear and hydraulic lifts. One of the original stations on the first tube line. Now a listed building

Churchyard Row.

London Park Hotel - Third Rowton House,. Setup 1896,architect, H. B. Measures, at the Elephant & Castle originally asa Rowton House having 805 cubicles for working men. It was the third in a series of 'Poor Man's Hotels' started by Montagu William Lowry Corry, Lord Rowton, 1838- 1903. He had been private secretary to Benjamin Disraeli.He made a survey of London's common lodging houses for the Guiness Trust and decided to establish working men's hotels. It opened on 23 December 1897. The best possible lodgings were provided for the small charge of 6d per night. The reading room contained a large variety of engravings representing scenes from Shakespeare. The smoking room was also decorated with engravings and stags' heads. It had its own rooftop gardens, built over the dining rooms. In 1903 additional land was acquired anda further 211 beds were opened. In 1941 a bomb hit the boiler room, demolishing part of the reading room above. There was a Second bomb in 1944;. . TGhere was a laundry, plus a furniture and an engineering shop for metal equipment, were adjacent.

Newington Estate

Pullen Estate

Wilberforce Mission House

Rowton doss house for 800 men,

Cleaver Square

Oblong of late c 18 to mid c 19 terraces formerly Prince's Square after the builder

48 Prince of Wales pub.

Sculpture of a recumbent figure, by James Butler, c. 1970.

Cleaver Square

48 Prince of Wales Cosy one-bar pub in corner of quiet square. Interesting tapestries and history of pub on wall.

18th 19th and sculpture 1970.

Cleaver Street

Cottington Street

Combines all the housing (andgaraging) within a series of A-frame ziggurats rising to ninestoreys. The internal corridors and upper level open 'streets'are rather sparsely done but there are generous upper gardenbalconies and nice planted walks at ground level. Apoint block one of those which form such distinctive jagged landmarks in South London. They use a Wates system to fit the design byLambeth Architects Department, and are the most extremeexample of attempts to make the tower form visually excitingin a brutalist manner

Cotton Gardens

Housing of the 1960s. One of the most extreme housing contrasts of the 1960s:three of Lambeth's concrete towers, segregated bygrass and trees

Courtney Square

Georgian Square built just before the First World War by the Duchy of Cornwall.

5 Features in films 'The Calcium Kid’.

Courtney Street

Estate regency style very progressive then.

5 Features in films 'The Calcium Kid’.

omnibus depot.

Dante Road

2 store. Many poor but a mixture of mechanics

Denny Crescent

Cottages by J. D. Coleridge, 1913

Fairford Grove (not on AZ)

Farmers Road

Farmer vitriol makers Farmer in 1858 factory founded in 1778

Gabriel Street (not on AZ)

Gilbert Street

Golden Place.

Gone, north of Kennington Lane and east of Chester Way

Hampton Street

35 Hampton Court Palace. Pub. Imposing interior with high ceilings

Hart Street

Gone, north of Kennington Lane and east of Chester Way

Hillingdon Street

Holyoak Road

Hotspur Street

Hurle Road

Kempsford Street

Kennington

Probably means ‘farm of a man called Cena’.or ‘place of the king’. ‘Chenintune’ 1086, ‘Kenintone’ 1229, ‘Kenyngton’ 1263. In 1337 given to the Black Prince and it has belonged to the eldest son of the king ever since. Part of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Kennington Park Road

Roman Road radiating from London Bridge opened up for suburban development by the opening of Blackfriars Bridge. Wide and tree-planted on either side some of the prettiest late Georgian terraces in South London. Modern flats, houses and shops line this pleasant thoroughfare but at the southern end, are numerous late Georgian houses with tree-filled front gardens.

St. Mary's Church built in 1877 Facing the road a fragment of the stone front and tower by Fowler, , sheltering the church of 1957-8 by A. Llewelyn Smith. The church is the successor to the medieval parish church of Newington which stood by the burial ground on the E side of Newington Butts.

Historical Society,

Surrey Zoological Garden site of 15 acres

City and Guilds of London Art School studios and classrooms

42 Old Red Lion pub Genuine olde worlde pub dating back to William III.

46 Mansion House pub. Dates to William III with oak beams and brick noggin. Cocktail lounge with piano bar.

59, the former vicarage of St Mary's, Gothic, 1873,

61-167 date from 1789-93. High quality

75, with Coade stone decoration

95, various designs, some with especially nice fanlights

101, various designs, some with especially nice fanlights

114-132 flanking the entrance to Cleaver Square, 1787-90 by Michael Searles for JosephPrince has someother Georgian terraces -

125, Various designs, some with especially nice fanlights

127, with Coade stone decoration

131 Various designs, some with especially nice fanlights

133 with Coade stone decoration

138 White Bear pub. Ex-coach house. Theatre in the rear. Comfortable, spacious trendy bar notable for settee seats, sewing machine tables and numerous mirrors on walls.

140‑162 1725

Denny Crescent, cottages 1913.

Kennington Cross

Kennington Cross gentsUnderground 'gents', 10 urinal 'stalls.' and one fish-tank cistern - a second was smashed by vandals in the 1970s

Metropolitan Cattle & Drinking Trough Association horse trough, disused. Note low-level trough for shorter creatures.

Kennington Road

Built up after Westminster Bridge opened up this part of Lambeth, still has a remarkably complete collection of late c 18 to early c19 terraces. Features in films 'Melody’.

104 etc. opposite, with stuccoed ground floors

111 Tankard pub. Spacious two-bar pub close to Imperial War Museum with comfortable panelled lounge.

121 etc. of the 1770s on the E side, with a variety of porches,

Junction of Kennington Road, an underground gentlemen's Convenience c. 1900, with original fittings (by Finch & Co. of Lambeth),

114-132 Michael Searles 1787

150 etc. date from 1840

169 Features in films 'Melody’

171 Ship Lively two-bar pub. The pub has a nautical theme with nets hanging from the ceiling and other artefacts.

233-291with a central pediment,

293 Charlie Chaplin’s pub, was previously The Roebuck.

309-341 date from c. 1787.

317 with a pediment inscribed Marlborough Houseby Michael Searles.

340 Cock TavernBack street local with small Public Bar.

St.Anselm

Vauxhall Manor School Annexe. Good example of T. J. Bailey's mature three-decker board schools with jolly Jacobean skyline. 1897, wing 1910

Baths

Balls Yard was 1870 London Tramways Depot.

St Philip, 1862-3 by H. E. Coe with chapel by H. S. Rogers, 1913, ragstone Decorated style. Demolished.

Old Town Hall Church of England Children's Society. Formerly Lambeth Vestry Hall Until 1908. After vigorous Local debate this building was erected on an island of waste ground in 1852-3 as the vestry hall, for the parish of St. Mary Lambeth. The architects were R Willshire & K Parris Originally it was single storeyed, though taller to the centre where a pedimented Tuscan portico has upper windows lighting the gallery to the vestry hall, which was aspsidal to the rear. The outer bays, which housed offices and a committee room, were raised a storey perhaps in 1872-3 making the portico much less dominant. After a period of use by a charity the building was restored in 1994.One of the earliest surviving municipal buildings in South London. Clumsy but quite imposing classical front. Nine windows in groups of three divided by pilasters. Pedimented Tuscan portico, surplus when Brixton town hall completed 1908.

Kennington Park Place.

5 Day Nursery. Built for Bishop of Rochester. By Norman Shaw, 1895. A very subdued Queen Anne facade of six bays.

Old chapel at the back with lunette windows and big eaves.

9 early c 19 altered, stuccoed, with Soanian incised pilasters and recessed entrance;

11 late Georgian

Kennington Theatreonce stood here

Kennington Lane

94 King's Arms. Modern Saloon Bar with pool table and juke box in Public Bar.

185 White Hart Modern furnished large saloon.

23l‑245 1791 offices for the Gin Distillers Co.

247 Pilgrim. Modern comfortably furnished interior.

355 Royal Oak Comfortable, friendly one bar local.

349 Duke of Cambridge

372 Royal Vauxhall Tavern

Herbert House c. 1860 is an orphanage to give pupil teachers of the school vicarage of 18th was a house of manager of Vauxhall Gardens, opposite

Site of first water works. South London Water Cos. works built in 1807 and burnt down six weeks later. Built two circular reservoirs on the site. 1854 altered and opened the space. Water taken from Washay, which came from Brixton into the Thames at Vauxhall. Built another works in 1827 at the foot of Vauxhall Bridge Cumberland Gardens. 20 hp engine from Kennington Lane. 142" tunnel into the middle of the river. Pumping water from the river to Kennington Lane reservoir. Then water from Vauxhall Creek was bad so they built big tunnel into the river and took river water only. Engine put there in 1840. Amalgamated with other companies in 1843. Closed 1847 and sold to Phoenix Gas Co.

St Anne R.C. 1903-7 by F. A. Walters, large, with side chapels between the buttresses inside, tall arcades, and an Arts and Crafts stencilled chancel.

St.Anne's House 1824. Soanian neo‑Greek complicated entrance. Note the pleasant entrance,

St.Peter's Schools boys and girls, and an art school, which became the school room 1863 231‑245 1791 offices for the Gin Distillers Co. Soup kitchen became the school room

St.Peter’s Church edge of area of Vauxhall Gardens, altar on the site of Neptune Fountain. By J. L. Pearson, the architect of Truro Cathedral, St John Red Lion Square, and St Augustine Kilburn. This was his first major town church, planned in 1860, built to a cheaper modified design in 1863- 4, for the Rev. Robert Gregory, together with schools, orphanage, and vicarage in the slum area that had developed on the site of Vauxhall Gardens.

Vauxhall Manor School 1897/1901 three decker board school.

Vicarage house of manager of Vauxhall Gardens

Knights Walk Scandinavian style

Features in films 'Melody’

Durning Library. Paid for by Miss Durning Smith. 1889. Lambeth benefited from the patronage of Sir Henry Tate, who lived at Streatham. Many South London libraries were designed by his protégé S. R.J. Smith. They are enjoyable examples of minor late Victorian municipal showmanship. In an elaborate polychrome Gothic, with arches of varied size, a gable, and a tower. (Opposite, in Kennington Lane, a rather exotic, pile

Imperial Court, the former Licensed Victuallers' School, by Henry Rose, 1836. Large, with a composite portico and pediment. A school would never have been so ambitious in its architecture before the c19, when higher education for the middle class became important enough to call for the monumental. An imposing pile with the swimming pool/drill hall, added in 1890. For the children of decayed Licenced Victuallers who are fed, clothed & educated” NAAFI moved in when kids moved to Slough 1921. Historical collection. Role of canteens in 2WW

155-157; with good door cases, c. 1776-80Duchy of Cornwall Estate Office.

109 etc., early c19, rehabilitated as part ofthe Cottingham Road housing scheme

Kennington Park

9, 11

Kennington Park Place.

5 for Bishop of Rochester Day Nursery

2 Simpson Maule and Nicholson manufacturing chemist 1885

Site of Wellington Mills Joshua Oakley & Sons manufacturers of emery, sand etc. three stores in the adjoining development.

Wellington Mills G.L.C. housing co-op.

St.Anselm. Planned in 1911 but not completed until 1932-3. By Adshead & Ramsay, architects of the adjacent Duchy of Cornwall housing. Plain, yellow brick, Early Christian in character. Bare interior with open timber roof. Short nave. Arcades with cushion capitals carved by A. H. Gerrard. No transept, long chancel. Baldacchino over the high altar. The original plan was for a cruciform building with central dome. Mural below the clerestory. 1971 by Norman Adams. Abstract design

Vicarage, 1913

Knights Walk.

A broad paved pathwith crisply designed, rather Scandinavian-looking one- andtwo-storey houses, flat-roofed, of pale brick with dark boarding

London Road

Elephant and Castle station. 18^th December 1890. Terminus of Bakerloo Line from Lambeth North. Between Borough and Kennington on the Northern Line. City and South London Railway between King William Street and Stockwell. The station was similar in design to that at Kennington. 1920s Northern line station partly rebuilt. 1960s Northern Line station rebuilt during the construction of the Elephant & Castle shopping centre and roundabout . 2003 Northern Line station modernised with a New extension entrance from Skipton Street. 5^THAugust 1906 Opening of Baker Street and Waterloo Railway from Baker Street to here with the terminus and the building of a typical Leslie Green structure.

Lucretia Road

Longville Road

Poor. Some prostitutes but not like Gabriel Street. Dead, dismal street.(Booth)

Manor Place

Doctor's surgery, 1992 Penoyre and Prasad Any resemblance between the qualities of this incredibly dense, complex and tightly packed piece of architecture and Cullinan's Lambeth centre is more than coincidental - Penoyre and Prasad worked on that project too.

Mansion House Street.

Gone. Was south side of Kennington Lane

Mechanics, carmen. A shade better than Opal Street (Booth)

Methley Street,

2-storey and 5-storey. All the same, dull and depressing, fair backs. Mechanic compositors, no poor. Rent 20/- a week (Booth)

Milverton Street

2-storey and 5-storey. All the same, dull and depressing, fair backs. Mechanic compositors, no poor Rent 20/- a week. Out of the west side. Is Wigton Place. "Small cab owners, about two horses each." (Booth)

Monkton Street

Lambeth Community Care Centre, 1985 Edward Cullinan Architects This community care facility – accommodating a 20 bed community care centre, with day care for 35 and its own therapy and nursing staff-provides local hospital attention and specialist medical services. It is an unusual commission for the 1980s and has probably attracted more attention from northern European architects than British ones.

Newington

Newington . ‘Neuton’ c.1200, ‘Niwentone’ 13th century, ‘Newenton’ 1258, ‘Neuwyngton’ 1325, that is 'the new farmstead or estate', from Old English ‘new’ - oblique case ‘niwan’ and ‘tun’. Grew up as a farming area after Lambeth Palace brought more traffic on the Kent road. Got a reputation for making clay pipes. Henry Penton was a big landowner who began to sell for building.

Newington Butts

Newington Butts is recorded as from 1558 and recalls the site of the old archery butts here either archery or family name. Main road that soon becomes Kennington Park Road. It has an historic name for in 1538, when archery became a compulsory exercise for all citizens, butts were set up here. Somewhere here, too, Joanna Southcott founded her meeting house with Mr. Carpenter, her main disciple. Later the two quarreled and Joanna went off to Lambeth to repeat the process with a Mr. Tozer. Faraday was born in 1791 in Newington Butts. He began his career as a bookbinder's errand boy in Marylebone but later, when he attended lectures at the Royal Institution, he came under the patronage of Sir Humphrey Davy who fostered his scientific inclinations. Faraday's inventions were too numerous to catalogue but any single one of them could have made him famous. In later life he moved to a house at Hampton Court and he died there in 1867.

17 Butts Free House. No real ale.

22 Leisure Centre1878/80. Elephant and Castle Recreation Centre. By the swimming pool there's a pink elephant. Large, low complex incorporating swimming pool, sport centre, etc. By Southwark Architect's Department, 1978

140 Plough and Harrow pub. Lively comfortable two-bar timber panelled

146 Cricketers pub

St.Mary's churchyard. Church pulled down in 1876 and now in Kennington Park Road. Medieval church rebuilt in 17th and pulled down for road widening 19th. 1877 now an attractive little park with flowers and grass and a rather monstrous clock tower. Various churches stood here in the past including Norman, medieval and Georgian buildings. At one of the churches the parents of Samuel Pepys were married. Clock tower given by R.S.Faulconer. Managed by Newington Burial Board

Metropolitan Tabernacle. Although it has been given a "face lift" the Baptist tabernacle has remained virtually unchanged through all the changes at the "Elephant". The first tabernacle was built in 1861 but was burnt down in 1898. The second building perished by enemy action in 1941 but it was again rebuilt and 1959 saw the present building, with 1,750 seats, opened for worship. In addition to the church and gallery, the tabernacle has an extensive crypt, a large Sunday school hall and a wide range of offices as well as very strikingly designed glass-fronted baptistery on a mezzanine floor level. Spurgeon's Tabernacle 1865 original Surrey Tabernacle. Built in 1861 for Charles Haddon (d. 1892), the Baptist preacher, and rebuilt after a fire in 1898. It was gutted by bombing, but being rebuilt. Spurgeon's Tabernacle 1865 original Surrey Tabernacle. Rebuilt 194l, 1,750 seats.

G.L.C. housing of 1982-3

Newington EstateSouthwark Borough Council 1971-7; low yellow-brick terraces.

The Drapers livery company created Walters' Almshouses on a site now at the southern intersection island in 1640, giving the tower block opposite its name 'Draper House'. The almshouses were relocated to Brandon Street in the 1960s as part of the major redevelopments here.

Draper Estate L.C.C 1962. High-rise flats over shops, with one twenty-five-storey tower. On the side lower public buildings. Draper House. Features in films 'Empire State’, ‘The Strange Affair’.

16 Bar South Central was Draper's Tavern

Monkton Street.

Gone, Line of Gilbert Road

Booth: Mechanics, postmen, meat salesmen.

Oakden Street

Booth: like Monkton Street

Opal Street.

1950 Lambeth tower blocks. . Densely packed group mixed heightsup to nine storeys, enlivened only by some Festival-style tiledbalconies and brickwork

Radcot Street

Booth: 2-storey and 5-storey. All the same, dull and depressing, fair backs. Mechanic compositors, no poor. Rent 20/- a week

Ravensdon Street,

Booth: 2-storey and 5-storey. All the same, dull and depressing, fair backs. Mechanic compositors, no poor. Rent 20/- a week

Regency Place

Gone – part of a maze of streets south of Kennington Lane and east of Cleaver Square

Booth: Regency Square out of its East side. Poor, quiet. 2-storey. Labourers. At the South East end is Diamond Place. 2-storey houses on south side only

Renfrew Road.

42 Court Tavern

Lambeth Hospital polychrome brick gate piersand lodges t

Magistrates' Court 1869 by T. C. Sorby, brickand stone, Tudor Gothic (court room with open timber roof),

Fire Station, 1868, enlarged 1896 by a tallasymmetrical building with Jacobean gable. By the L.C.C. FireBrigade Department under Robert Pearsall. The earlier partplainer, with slightly Gothic window details.

Orient Street

Oswin Street

Was Temple Street.

Penrose Street

Walworth main works original L.C.C Tram Depot 1891

Reedworth Street

Renfrew Road

Former fire station, c.1910 – note look-out tower above.

Magistrates' Gourt of. 1869 - a sharp contrast with the County Court

Lambeth Hospital, A large rambling site, closed as a hospital in 1977 Built 1872

St.Anne's Place

1‑17.

Stables Way

Site of Kennington Palace stables.

Houses, maisonettes, and studios (1967), in yellow brick, blending well with the older cottages.

Stannary Street

37 Alderman. Pub with haunted cellars

Sullivan Road

St .Mary's Square

Tyer Street

Flats

Walcot Square

1837/9.

198 actress Sarah Poole

Walcot Stores Features in films 'The Krays’.

Walcot Square

1837/9.

233 291 309 241 l787.

317 with pediment from Marlborough House.

Walnut Tree Walk

Some good late-18th-century houses

Roots and Shoots, wildlife garden with large summer meadow, beehives, observation beehive, old roses, echiunis, 2 large ponds. Wildlife displays, nest box cameras, activities for children and adults. Hot borders, Mediterranean mound. Run by innovative charity providing training, garden advice and plant sates. Fine walnut tree and Acacia dealbata.