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Bassand Street?
1895 artist with picture in Dulwich gallery
Bawdale
Road.
Beauval Road
1894 local family Glamis of Camberwell. Lords of Beauvale Dulwich
Tillings have built stables
behind the east side
Blackwater Street.
A large steam laundry has been
built on the north side near
Lordship Lane
Boxall Road
Called after Robert Boxall, landlord of the Greyhound, who built
cottages Boxall Row
Calton Avenue
Cottan family owned manor after dissolution. Was Green Lane, was Church
lane, and was old path across to St.Giles before Dulwich church built
1 Gallery Bookshop
St.Barnabas. made on Newcastle scale and freedom.
Sandstone, violet and vermilion, opened in 1894, and became the parish
church. A red
brick 19th century structure with a high lofty roof and very fine tower that is
perpendicular in style and ornately carved. By W. H. Wood of Oliver, Leeson
& Wood of Newcastle. The big square tower was added in 1908. The church is
of very red brick with Perpendicular tracery of North English character.
Interior with tall octagonal piers without capitals and no division between
nave and chancel. Lean-to aisle roofs and small clerestory windows. Much woodwork of 1895 done by parishioners
under the supervision of F. E. Day. Stained glass window by E. B. Powell, 1922,
quite good.
Lord Haw Haw on his soap box
Corner with Court Lane cottage, 1814 Manor House or Hall Court
Chesterfield Grove
Built by E.J.Bailey who came from
Derbyshire and used road names derived from places there.
College Road
1 the site of James Allen's Girls'
School, and later residence of Alfred Janes, artist and friend of Dylan Thomas.
Old College gates, ‘for which
Sycamore Lodge was demolished in the late 19th century’
Stella Lodge. Immediately past the gates. The only freehold home in mostly leasehold
Dulwich never acquired by the Estate. In
the mid 19th home of Sir W.T.Douglass who built the Eddystone
Lighthouse and various other harbour and sea based constructions.
Howletts Mead home of Sir Noel Hutton, Chairman of the
Estates Governors. Flowering ash or
Manna ash in the front garden – very rare.
Also a yellow flowering horse chestnut.
Oakfield, home of R. Low, chairman of the Dulwich
Society, 1790. Oriental Plane tree in the garden, scaly bark and pendulous
fruit balls.
Colwell Road
Mission
Hall converted into a shirt-dressing establishment.
Court Lane
101, 1760, has canted bay-windows; then in irregular group with a
six-bay centre of 1759-60.
103 an addition with a door with a broad fanlight; a more substantial
wing built in 1794, projecting forward, with Ionic porch.
142 garden at
former home of Anne Shelton (the "Forces' Favourite"), hacking on to
trees and rhododendrons of Dulwich Park. Urban garden planted from 1994
featuring rose garden, mixed border with roses, central lawn with fruit trees,
vegetable bed, all on a circular theme.
16 1841 nineteenth century villa
53 plainer c 18 altered
1938, also of three storeys, brown brick with red dressings;
57 larger houses, set back
from the road, yellow brick, built in 1793;
61-67,
post-Second-World-War neo- Georgian
93-95, a clever neo-Georgian pastiche of 1934.
97 is of 1796, tall, five windows wide, with ground-floor windows within
arches, and ionic door case.
Ash Cottage
C 20 Tudor, as is most of the west side. Around this nucleus larger
detached houses
Cottage of 1814,
Dulwich Court,
where Alleyn lived from 1608, has long since vanished. Whether it was merged
into Court Farm
or became a village house is not known
Old Burial Ground. With iron gates from the early 18th by G.Bamber in 1728. Alleyn gave the site to the village in 1616
because the village had no church or graveyard of its own and it was used until
1898. It includes Dulwich's 35 victims of the 1665 Great Plague. The last person buried there was Betsey Goodman,
father of the landlord of the Crown. Also buried here are Warren Hastings'
solicitor and builder of Casino House, Richard Shaw; ‘Old Bridgett’, Queen of the Gypsies, Bridget 1768; John
Eggleton, a 'player' whose wife
was the original Lucy in the Beggar's Opera; Anthony Boheme, 'the famous
tragedian'; . Samuel Matthews, the 'Dulwich Hermit'; Mathematician Thomas
Jones, fellow and tutor of Trinity College 1807. In the early 19th there
were several incidents of attempted body snatching from freshly dug graves.
Opposite was site of stocks and cage
Pair of c19 stucco villas with windows framed in giant arches.
Small c 18-19 cottages and shops on either side of the pub, close to the
road,
Crystal Palace Road
90 Uplands Tavern
193 Crystal Palace Tavern
289 Castle Pub
Cyrenea Road
1880 fossil found in Dulwich called Cyrenea.
Dekker Road
Named after Thomas Dekker, the Elizabethan playwright who knew, and
wrote to, Alleyn. built in 1909 on college farmlands
Desanfans Road
Benefactor of Dulwich Art Gallery connoisseur; built in 1909 on college
farmlands
Dovercourt Road
Bomb seven died
Druce Road
Dulwich College solicitors; built in 1909 on college farmlands
House rebuilt by St.Austin's 1902. Sainsbury's Centre.
Dulwich
‘Dilwihs’ in 967 in Anglo-Saxon charter, ‘Dilwiche’ 1127,
‘Dilewisse’ 1210, ‘Dulwyche’ 1555, that is 'marshy meadow where dill grows',
from Old English ‘dlle’ and ‘wise’. The dill plant was used for medicinal purposes
from early times. The manor was already divided by the 14th century: East
Dulwich is ‘Est Dilewissh’ in 1340; West Dulwich is ‘West Dilwysh’ in 1344.
Dulwich is pronounced 'Dullidge'. The first known mention of Dilwys was in 967 when King
Edgar granted the manor to one of his thanes. Dulwich has therefore over 1,000
years of recorded history. At one time the area was forest land, part of which
still survives as Dulwich Woods and is recalled by the names of Kingswood and
Norwood. Charles I and his court hunted here and, to preserve the woods for
royalty, citizens were commanded "to forebeare to hunt, chase, molest or
hurt the king's stags with guns, greyhounds, or any other means
whatsoever". Set in woods, parks
and playing fields, semi-rural Dulwich in south London
has been carefully preserved by the major landowner in the area, the Dulwich College Estate. A collegiate village with exclusivity
maintained by Dulwich College.
Dulwich Village
Fine collection of 18th
suburban dwellings retaining village character. The
village street is full of harmony and has a warm mellow style of great charm.
It is small wonder that Pickwick, lover of all things English, chose to live
here where he had a "garden situated in one of the most pleasant spots near
London”. Chestnut trees in the village
planted by James Allen, and he also began the white posts and chains.
101-103 c.1700. Land by Alleyne. Road widens after it, Woodlawn
Woodlawn – Black Walnut tree in the garden with saw toothed leaves
Bald Cypress tree in the road
18 Dr. Barbour
2 Dr. Finney
31 Art Stationers. Site of Beech House.
Where the first Lucifer matches were reputed to be sold
5 also nineteenth century
25-49 Commerce Place site of the village pond.
50 Rose Cottage
52 nineteenth century Briar Cottage
57 Georgian. Built 1793
58 Woodbine Cottage
59 Lonsdale Lodge
60 The Laurels survived
virtually intact since first built in 1767:
61 was Plasqwyn
61-67 all modern, west side of the street, nearly all 200 years old
Georgian brick houses
62 The Hollies survived
virtually intact since first built in 1767:
63 was Camden House
70 was the saddler, Flashman Furniture and Car Hire. Little house next
door to it, is the same house in Dulwich
73 Crown and Greyhound pub. 1895, cheerfully cross gabled marks the centre of the old village. It replaced
two early c 18 inns. Designated a ‘heritage’ inn. The Crown was on this present site and Greyhound was
the other side of the road. Dulwich group met there. Land used to belong to the
Greyhound. Known throughout Dulwich
as 'the Dog', both traveller's rest and 'local',
76 1783
84 1773
86 1773
88 Mitchell Builders and
Lloyd’s Yard. Mitchell & Son
Ltd occupy the original smithy of Old Clem. Here, every November 9, four days
after Guy Fawkes, the village smith would render a salute to his namesake, one
of the first shoeing smiths of England, by reversing three anvils outside his
forge, charging them with gunpowder and putting the touch paper to them
93-105 modern, 1903 named for road previously called High Street
94-96 are grey brick stucco underneath
97 eighteenth century approach, 1796, John Adock
103 'country garden in London'. Long herbaceous
border, spacious lawn, ornamental pond, roses and many and varied other plants,
plus fruit and vegetable garden.
105 mostly herbaceous with lawns and lots of
old-fashioned roses. Shrubbery, ornamental pond, water garden. Very pretty
garden with many unusual plants.
Bricklayers Arms. Previously called The French
Horn built 1740.
Dulwich Hamlet School occupies the two buildings, which once held the
children of both Dulwich Infants' School and Dulwich Girls' School.
Fairfield, of which only the wall now remains
Finger Post
Gallery Book Shop on the site of the blacksmiths forge, eighteenth
century coach house, nineteenth century house
Long Pond. some five hundred and fifty feet in length
and seventy feet wide, filled in in 1859, and covered by a row of shops. Filled
in with spoil from the Southern High Level Metropolitan Main Drainage Tunnel.
Number One, Dulwich Village,
Old College grounds Beech House claimed first place matches made
Post Office
St.Barnabas
Public Hall. Stands in testimony to the residents who subscribed the cost of
building in 1910. The foundation stone was laid on July 5 by A. Bonar Law. Art and Crafts style, with big sweeping
roofs, tile-hung gable, and cupola.
White Cottage
Wood Yard at the back of Barclay’s Bank.
Belonged to Dulwich College and where faggots for the poor were stacked
Ye Olde Tucke Shopp evokes memories of the traditional atmosphere of the
Village.
East Dulwich
Is dull late c 19 suburban
East Dulwich Grove
Used to be called Bailey's Grove after a local landowner
Sainsbury's sports centre
Camberwell Enterprise Building Group
James Allen
Girls’ School. James Allen was an 18th century master of the College. It is thought
to be the oldest girls' school in London. It was founded in 1741 when James
Allen, Master of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich, gave some property
in Kensington to endow his new school. He stipulated that the profits be
applied 'towards finding a school mistress or mistresses to be resident in
Dulwich for the instructing and teaching such and so many poor boys to read and
so many poor girls to read and sew...' The school started in two rooms in the
Bricklayers Arms, in Dulwich Village. In 1857, an Act of Parliament passed to
reorganize Alleyn's College of God's Gift and decreed that what was then called
the Dulwich Free School should educate girls only. Was now restricted to girls
and the school moved to new premises further along the village in 1866; the
buildings are still used by Dulwich Hamlet School. The school became known as
James Alien's Girls' School in 1878 and moved to its present site in East
Dulwich Grove in 1886 onto land through
the Bessemer estate. Early c20 neo-Georgian buildings. Playing
fields on the site of the railway. Wood was planned as a new thicket. Tennis
courts are on melon grounds of Hill House. This is now one of the
leading girls' public schools with 510 pupils, a handsome range of buildings.
Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Arctic explorer - a prized school memento is the
boat in which this Old Alleynian rescued his companions who were marooned on
Elephant Island in 1915. Botany
Gardens were created in the school grounds soon after Dr Lilian Clarke joined
the staff in 1896. It was the first such experiment by a school in this
country. A further pioneering step was taken in 1902 when the country's first
school laboratory equipped solely for botanical study was established. Composer
Gustav Hoist began teaching at JAGS in 1904. - Memorial window in the school hall. Jonathan Miller opened the
Prissian Theatre, named after former headmistress Iris Prissian, in 1983. JAGS
was the first girls' school in the country with its own purpose-built theatre.
When the lease expired on Bessemer’s model farm, it was conveyed to James
Allen's Girls' school for a nominal sum. In the 1960s the near-derelict model
farm was replaced by a new pavilion which was later converted into the Music
School
Botany Gardens, neglected from 1939- 1984, wide
range of habitats, ponds, bridge over the railway and lane, wood, meadow. Heath
and sand dune. Historic botany
garden dating from 1896. Wildlife ponds, woodland area, osier beds, country
lane, bordered by hedgerow and ditch. Many varieties of wild flowers
King's Head. rebuilt
in 1770 with cottages, stalls and courtyard. Very posh inside. Closed 1810 and
divided into two cottages - Retreat and Ivy House. Until 1899 Estate Previously called the Crooked Billet
75 Springer's Wine Bar. Interesting pub style tiling
Eastlands Crescent
1931 estate there called that because east side of the College; was a
school
Felbrigg Road?
1897 Norfolk name of the Wyndham family of Cardinal Bourgeois
Gilkes Grove
Mansion of de Coll 1889-1914. 1923 site of horse pond. Gilkes was the
master of Dulwich College from 1865-14
Glengarry Road
Goodrich
Road.
Great Spillmans
Local field name
Green Dale
two lodges.
One on the St Olave's Recreation Ground and the other on Sir H Bessemer's estate
Hansler
Road.
Heber Road
3 Heber Arms
A few houses on north side near Lordship Lane 2-storey and
3-storey. Remainder 2-storey houses with
bay windows. A few shops near the Board School. Houses on north side, west of
Cyrena Rd, are better than the rest. People are not allowed to take lodgers.
(Booth)
Hillsborough Road
Place where Alleyn had property.
Jennings
Road.
Landcroft Road
Plot 1867 lot of land of Frien Manor
Landells Road
Ebenezer Landells lived in Dulwich, started Punch and worked in the
Greyhound, 1868
108 Bernardi's Vineyard
Lordship Lane
Named from the title ‘Lordshipp’ 1609, from Middle English
lordship 'a manor or estate', probably with reference to the old manor of
Friern owned by Holywell Priory in Shoreditch- Lordship Lane formed the
boundary between this manor and Dulwich.
1 East Dulwich Tavern
14 Chener Books
17 South London Christian Bookshop
27 Foresters’ Arms
Dulwich Wells near corner of Dulwich Common & eighteenth century spa
91 Lord Palmerston. Furnished in stately home style
211 Magdala
381 The Plough. Bus
terminus. In 1805 this was a shack.Arts and Crafts conservatory. Plough by Dulwich College in 1838 sold to the railway because of big
profits.
Moria Close, handicapped peoples scheme to eliminate sense of isolation
Lytcott Grove
Named after family that had died of the plague
1943 bombed and 10 people died
Allsopps bottling store close to the wall of Alleyn's
School
Melbourne Grove
North Cross Road
North Croft Road piece of land
Pellatt Road.
Crystal
Palace Rd.
Plough Lane
Tiny pond managed by London Wildlife Trust.
Two cottages on south side and
another detached house. Men work for a milkman, about l0/- a week. (Booth)
Rodwell Road
Landell's daughter’s father in law. The White House green still there.
Police station opened 1881 after the Charlie Peace burglaries
Shawbury
Road.
The Salvation Army has a large hall in this
road.
Silvester
Road.
East Dulwich Provident Dispensary, the popular
medical resort. People pay a weekly subscription. Sometimes the attendance is so large
that they have to have a policeman to regulate it.
Tarbert Road.
Thompson
Road.
Thorncombe Road.
Townley Road
Especially made in order to give ample access from
Lordship Lane. The road took its name from Margaret Townley, the mother of
Edward Alleyn, founder of Dulwich College.
Christ Church Presbyterian
Church of England 1890. Bombed and demolished. Vicarage still there.
Alleyn's School. Dates from
1887 when it was built to house the Lower College of God's Gift This
establishment, called after the 17th century founder, had 810 boys in 1960 and a range of well
equipped buildings surrounded by playing fields. The new school contained sixteen classrooms,
offices, kitchens and servants' quarters but it had no gym and the field was a
wilderness where the pheasant waged incessant war on the mangel-wurzel'. A
path, wide enough to take a horse and cart, was cut from Dulwich Village to
Alleyn's to enable easy access. This path was called 'Smith's Walk' and named
after the headmaster the Revd J.H. Smith; it finished up opposite the front
door of the school. Re-organisation of
Dulwich College in 1881, building in 1887. Pioneer in day schools house system,
partly rebuilt in 1939 and 1964. During
the First World War 264 Old Boys were killed. They are remembered by the school
organ above the platform in the Great Hall, which was installed in their
memory. In 1920 R.B. Henderson, who had been Master at Rugby School, became
headmaster. He revolutionised ideas within the school. He once said, 'it will be
boys you will teach here, not subjects'. Parents were told that the whole
waking time of the boy belonged to the school. Private again in 1958, independent again in 1976. Girls from 1976. In 1975 a major change of direction
came when the first girls entered the school in the sixth form. The following
year the school became co-educational with a first year intake of thirty girls.
Various new buildings have been added to the school in recent years. Formal late c19 Jacobean front with cupola.
Later additions
Near junction bombed 20 killed.
Greater part of road abuts on cricket fields
and the grounds of Alleyn s School.
Trossachs Road.
Ulverscroft Road
Local field name.
Wellington Place?
Wellington House was police station, lot of fuss because no station in
Dulwich
Whateley Road.
Woodwarde Road
1884 Alleyn's first wife
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