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Post to the north Stockwell
206-216
humbler cottages
3-9 South Sub Co-op
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 Mall Cleaners Great-West-Road-style factory of the 1930s
Trinity
Homes, almshouses of 1822-6
by James Bailey & Wiltshire, nine bays with
raised pedimented centre and Doric porch.
Range behind with former
washhouse, also pedimented. Another range 1806
by Field.
5-9 former South Suburban Cooperative
Society.
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 Court
from 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. 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 large delicate fanlight.
369 The
Garden House is a grander type, 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
Rogers Almshouses three linked late c 19 pairs,
Gresham Almshouses 1882, one-storeyed, with a steep roof 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.
Flats. In 1939 Edward Armstrong designed estate 400
flats in 5 storey slabs for Guinness Trust. Departure from L.C.C type flats. .
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 only worthwhile
group left elegant villas with Greek Doric doorways.
Congregational church. 1828 very charming in its
surroundings., stock brick, with a
little Greek Doric porch
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 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. 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. The Original organ loft and chapel are still there.
Pulpit and lectern from St.Michael Wood Street in the City.
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.
146-166
Queen's Row dated 1786, a much abused survivor of the usual 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.
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