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206-216 humbler cottages
3-9 South Sub Co-op
46-52 relics of early c 19suburban houses three-storey terraces
53-57 smaller villas
53 Acre Lane Garage. The 1920's facade, of Escott, motor van builders and for a short time, Carrimore Coaches. Later a timber store.
79 New Imperial Laundry, washing shed 20 shops in London. Sunlight laundry until 1976.
86/8 Cheltenham Works of Rodent Co Int. where "Cheltenham Mineral Water" was concocted. The firm invented the Crown cap.
Pall MallCleaners Great-West-Road-style factory of the 1930s
Trinity Homes,almshouses of 1822-6 by James Bailey & Wiltshire, nine bayswith raised pedimented centre and Doric porch. Rangebehind with former washhouse, also pedimented. Another range1806 by Field.
5-9 former South Suburban Cooperative Society.
46-52 53-57 206-218
Factory Pall Mall Cleaners 30s
Trinity Asylum, wash house
Barrington Road
Junction LCD railway line to Peckham Rye built by Brighton in l864.
Bon Marche depository
Brighton Terrace
Empress Theatre of Varieties, more recently Granada Cinema and latterly a bingo hall.
Brixton Hill
Is this where the Brixi’s boundary stone was. Part of the slope going up to Streatham. A Roman road is was previously called Brixton or Bristow Causway.
Brixton Hill
Fridge this was the Palladium Cinema and had a baroque facade, since removed.
Hambrook House. ACE emblem for Amalgamated Construction Equipment Ltd.
1920s small garage and three charas lorry and coach private buses kept there in the 20s.
Landry and Co. Haulage Co not made the money from renting space to bus operators, entrance from Water Works Road became the Cambrian-Landray group garage. Later used by LT for Green Line and private hire buses. Lambray Garage still there.
Brixton Cinematograph. Pykes Cinematograph Theatre later became the Clifton and then Royalty. 1910-1957.
Sports shop in reality Pyke's Cinematograph Theatre of 1910
billboard support frame. only part to remind one it was once a cinema is outside.built in 1911 and run by Montague Pike, a big cinema entrepreneur - it closed in 1957.
Raleigh Courtfrom the earliest stage of post war development
New Park Court from the earliest stage of post war development
Brixton Road
Lambeth Town Hall. Built for the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth in 1906-8 to house the borough’s offices and civic suite. It was designed by Septimus Warwick and Herbert Austen Hall winners of a competition assessed by Henry T Hare. An intended -assembly hall was not added until 1935-8 to designs by the same architects. It occupies a prominent triangular site, with an assertive tower at its apex. Lively elevations of red brick and Portland stone and a dominant tower, carrying muscular sculpted allegorical Figures representing Justice, Science, Art and Literature - a big hefty blacksmith directly outside Buckingham Palace and figures on the Albert Memorial. The processional route from the entrance up the principal staircase to the first floor civic suite is embellished with polychrome floors made up of black, white, and green marble and plaster work incorporating coats of arms, swags, drops and cherubs' heads. Queen Mary opened the new bit in October 1938. In the entrance hall, a plaque of a wheelwright's shop, by Tinworth.
Palladium. Another 1930 cinema next to the Town Hall, designed in a similar architectural style - now converted with a modernist front as a nightclub.
St Anne's terrace home of Susannah Spurgeon before marriage
179-137 Jebb.
195 Alfred Sands & Co dyes
407-409 Beehive. single-bar pub which attracts a wideranging clientele. Good quality beer is guaranteed in this typical Wetherspoon's outlet. The wood-panelled walls display pictures of the area around the 1930s.
Ceylon Road
199/213 1905 branch of Williams bakeries.
Clapham High Street
Clapham North Station, Deep shelter in 2WW. Built by LT as agents for Minister of Home Security with sleeping accommodation for 1,200 people. Ten shelters each of two parallel 1,400 ft tunnels l6' 6" diameter. Used to so that they could be part of an express railway in the future military use for a long time. Used by the public. 1942 underneath underground station to be linked after war to high speed tube never built. 1 parallel 1,200 tunnels on two floors with iron bunts. Right angle extensions for first aid, wardens and ventilation and lavatories below street level so sanitation in hoppers under the work. Post-war all the shelters as temporary hostels – general ad hoc hostel. It was for example used to house the 1948 'HMS Windrush' West Indian emigrants (who then established themselves in nearby Brixton) and Coronation and Festival of Britain visitors.
Lane L.C.C. depot.
Effra Parade
Garage of J.Wine haulage contractors rented garage space to private buses in the 20s
355 one of a good stretch of late c18 houses again,with an excellent door case with largedelicate fanlight.
369 The Garden House is a grandertype, with two bow windows and side entrance.
St.John, 1840 by T. Marsh Nelson. Hexastyle Ionic portico. A very late example of the classical style for the Church of England
Combermere Road
Marquis of Lorne Pub comer of Mordaunt with a yellow, green and brown tiled ground floor facade.
Effra Parade
Garage of J.Wine haulage contractors rented garage space to private buses in the 20s.
Electric Avenue
Ferndale Road
Terraces and houses of c 1870designed by T. Collcutt, and built by Jennings, an enthusiast for terracotta, as the details in a mixture of styles show
Rogers Almshouses three linked late c 19 pairs,
Gresham Almshouses 1882, one-storeyed, with a steeproof with terracotta finials.
Site of garage for private buses in the 1920s, Fleur de Lys bus 1920s.
Hethrington Road
Doctors surgery
Landor Street
St.Paul's Chapel built 1767 ext 1810 rebuilt 1867.
St Andrew, A chapel was built in 1767, extended in 1810, and remodelled in 1867 by H.E. Coe with Romanesque w end and tower. Vestries and chapel 1891 and 1894 by A.J. Pilkington. Galleries removed 1924.
Horse trough. Disused two-bay granite trough by the Metropolitan Association.
70 Landor . Huge, vibrant Victorian one-bar pub, with carved mahogany fittings. engraved mirrors behind the bar, and the unusual artifacts displayed around the bar. upstairs theatre is in action
London Road/Kings Avenue
Horse trough Met.
Loughborough Park
Preserves the name of Loughborough House, marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1816, so called because it was the residence of Henry Hastings, created Lord Loughborough in 1643. The area was developed as a residential district after the house had been pulled down in 1854.
Early developments in the area following the arrival of the railways. Terraced housing for the lower middle classes.
1840s villa developments.
Flats. In 1939 Edward Armstrong designed estate 400 flats in 5 storey slabs for Guinness Trust. Departure from L.C.C type flats. Influential in Dutch looking yellow brick.
Porden Road and Bucknell Road
Some garage for buses in the 1920s Shaw and Berry Garage now local government offices.
St.John’s Crescent
Villa developments of the 1840s
1-5 1825/7 onlyworthwhile group left elegant villas with Greek Doric doorways.
Congregational church. 1828 very charming in its surroundings., stock brick, with a little Greek Doric porch in antis and round-headed windows, matching the few older villas left amidst the recent housing estate
St.Matthew's. Yet another 'Waterloo' church, this one by C. F. Porden, 1822. An interesting and successful solution to the Church of England problem of the Georgian period as to how a portico and a tower can be combined. The usual solution introduced by Gibbs at St Martin-in-the-Fields is never entirely happy. Here the tower is boldly moved to the end, and nothing interferes with the appreciation of the Greek Doric portico with four giant columns in antis. The tower has a tall ground floor with one window, a first upper stage with Greek Doric columns, and a second thinner and octagonal. Subsidiary entrances into the church on the sides of the tower. The body of the church is of stock brick with Grecian window surrounds. The window has two Doric columns, even inside. The church was gutted in 1976, when the first stage of its conversion into a community meeting place was completed, leaving the original organ in place in the gallery and a chapel at the end of the ground floor. There were originally three galleries on piers. Fine Grecian communion rail of iron. It HAS A Circular font with Greek-key and egg-and-tongue motifs. It has many monuments T. Simpson 1835 by Sievier; two heads in medallions. George Brettle 1835 by R. Westmacott. Charles Kemp 1840 and R. Gibbs by H. Weekes, and some other tablets. Gutted in l976 became a community meeting place. The Original organ loft and chapel are still there. Pulpit and lectern from St.Michael Wood Street in the City. Church built as development grew throughout the area.
Churchyard. large monument to Richard Budd of Russell Square 1824, by R. Day, solid neo-Greek, in three stages of decreasing size, the Grecian and Egyptian motifs of Soanian derivation. Dedicated as a Peace Garden.
House outside was called Church Road and Prince of Wales garage run by Bull Brothers for private buses. Wilson Optimist bus, The Lea Rig.
Clapham north built as 2WW deep shelter. Used by the public. 1942 underneath underground station to be linked after war to high speed tube never built. 1 parallel 1,200 tunnels on two floors with iron bunks. Right angle extensions for first aid, wardens and ventilation and lavatories below street level so sanitation in hoppers under the work.
Stockwell Green
Former brewery of Edmund & Thomas Waltham, 1880. Part used as ambulance garage. Corner Combermere Road.
Stockwell Park Walk
Small park. Features in films 'South West 9’.
146-166 Queen's Row dated 1786, a much abused survivor of theusual late Georgian terrace housing.
Trinity Gardens
45 Trinity Arms. Small local pub. Single-bar pub, a few yards from Brixton town centre. built in 1850, named after Trinity Asylum which stood in nearby Acre Lane, and was founded in 1824 by Thomas Bailey.