Post to the north Telegraph Hill
Aspinall Road
Embankment where the old railway line departed.
Housing and Nature reserve too. Cutting
made in 1860, this is now a wide embankment of bramble
thickets and sycamore woodland
that turns into bright golds and oranges in the autumn. After closure it
supported an interesting swathe of chalk loving wildflowers, but was lost to a
housing development in 1989. A small sycamore wood abuts the road bridge.
Barset Road
25 home of Woodroffe friend
of Lenin
Buchan Road
2-storey houses, good gardens behind on south side.
(Booth)
Crystal Palace line
Went off at Cow Lane
junction.
Drakefell Road,
Bombed 22.6.44 29 people
injured.
Takes one up the higher ground of Telegraph Hill and off
the north side part of the new Park lies, finely situated, with splendid views
over London. The houses, 2-storey and 2-storey with basements, small, but
generally with well-to-do occupants, middle class. (Booth)
Evelina Road
5 Charles Peace
16 Golden Anchor
2-storey and 5-storey houses, mainly the former. Shops at
north east corner. More of a business street, especially at the west end. Just
south of the railway on the north side are three or four houses. At the house
next to the railway, with its passage and boundary running along the bottom of
the embankment, the notorious criminal, Peace, lived for some years. Dolby said
that he frequently arranged to come home after nightfall from one of his
house-breaking expeditions and that his plan was to throw his booty out of the
carriage window as the train passed his house. He thus arrived at the stations
without luggage and, without exciting suspicion, went home and picked up the
booty. (Booth)
Gibbon Road.
66 Railway Tavern
A few poor but majority fairly comfortable. 2-storey
houses with gardens. (Booth)
Grimwade Crescent
2-storey houses. "More of the labouring class",
not a good name, brawls etc. (Booth)
Hall Road (not on AZ)
Gates property ceases. Houses 2-storey, less well built,
much worse tenanted. Two families in each. Rents 11/- per flat. Some shops
(Booth)
Howbury Road
2-storey houses, much like Barset Road. Better from south
end to Machell Road. Here tiled forecourts and a brighter appearance. (Booth)
Ivydale Road
202 Waverley
300 Mckenzie Court. Named for Able Seaman Albert McKenzie who won a Victoria Cross.
200-302 children’s home for London Borough of Southwark 1970, Southwark Architect's
Department. The concrete blocks and tough iron railings, fashionable architect's materials of c. 1970 immediately mark it as a council building even though it is unnamed
202 Waverley Arms
St.Silas 1902-13 by J. E. K. & J. P. Cutts. Ragstone, Decorated.
Waverley Park estate. Classic speculative development. Edward Yates.
Ivedale School.
A good, bold example of the three-decker type of Board School near Nunhead
Cemetery, 1891, generously decorated. Battlemented centre with tall turreted
roof.
Poorish opposite
the stations. Two bow windows to the house and Jones said only one family in
each. Further south the road turns west along the south side of the Nunhead
Cemetery. The amenity of the road is spoilt by the shooting trial ground of the
Army &. Navy Stores in the open space at the back of the south side. Road
improves as it goes westwards. (Booth)
Kimberley Road
South east end has rather larger houses than in the northern
bits, bow windows, fronts, 2-storey and 2-storey. (Booth)
Limes Walk
Worth
exploring. One of the Small developments for Southwark, 1966, an original
solution to a long narrow site. It begins as a broad paved walk entered by a passage beneath a bridge. An old people's home, terrace houses, with gardens at the back over garages. Then comes a subtle change of
access, and a narrow alley
continues beneath slate-hung bridges edifice of Messrs Daniels, monumental
masons.
Linden Grove
Where Charles Dickens set
up home with Ellen Ternan.
London County Council Flats
pompous pre- and post-war
Urinal made in Glasgow
Nunhead Tavern, tea garden
Brock's firework factory in
1840s Houses
43 Belvedere
Nunhead Cemetery. The
fifty-one acres of the cemetery of All Saints, Nunhead, were consecrated in
1840. it was laid out by the London
Cemetery Company to designs by James Bunning, architect. The Cemetery was
consecrated by the Bishop of Winchester and in 1844 the Anglican Chapel was
built to the design of Thomas Little. A formal drive lined with mature lime
trees approaches the now ruined chapel from the gates. A second chapel for
Dissenters was built in the North-west corner of the Cemetery, but was
demolished. lodges on either side of the main entrance - one now restored - are an important element
in Bunning’s design. The paths are circuitous and winding, apart from the main
axial drive and a subsidiary path at right angles. The monuments in Nunhead are
not as distinguished as those in many other London cemeteries, reflecting the
less socially elite classes buried there. Like most private cemetery companies, by the
Second World War its management had declined and Vandalism and apathy
lead to its acquisition for £1 by LB Southwark in 1976
and it is a designated grade II historic
landscape. Woolwich beds of acid
sand and gravels underlie it and it is an outlier of high land Rising to
two hundred feet above sea level with panoramic views of London. a third of the area is open land still available
for new burial plots. Once hill top pasture It is now the closest woodland area to central
London dominated
by secondary broadleaved woodland set aside as a park and nature reserve. The
nature reserve has ash and sycamore beneath which is layer of bramble and ivy.. At the opposite
side a more open environment reveals red and white clover, bird's foot trefoil
and chamomile. On the crown of the hill is damp grassland with wood rush.
Specimen trees are scattered throughout like Turkey oaks and a gingko. The dense undergrowth contain s remnants of the Victorian shrubbery,
with laurel, holly, box and yew with wild shrubs like elder, hawthorn and
bramble. Ivy as a symbol of remembrance,
grows abundantly. In summer the pathways take on a 'country lane' aspect with
clover, ox-eye daisies, cow parsley and buttercups and sprays of buddleia
attracting bees and butterflies. The
more open parts of the Cemetery contain comfrey, yarrow, trefoil vetches, campion, lady's smock, sorrel and
alongside nettles and rosebay willow-herb. It supports a wide range of birds including
thrushes, , wood pigeon, robin, blackbird, jay,
starling, hedge sparrow, blue, great and coal tits, green woodpeckers,
chiffchaff, various finches, cuckoo and tawny owls. Eerie atmosphere. the most prominent
memorial is the obelisk erected in 1851 by public subscription raised by Joseph
Hume M.P., to commemorate the five so-called Scottish martyrs transported to
Australia in 1795 for advocating the cause of Parliamentary reform. Other
memorials include Vincent Figgins, City of London type-founder; Sir George
Livesey, Chairman of South Metropolitan Gas Company and Thomas Tilling, who
pioneered horse drawn bus routes in South London. Josiah Stone buried there in 1867 and Prestige. In the North-east
corner is a vast catacomb dating from 1867; now sealed. Memorials from both
World Wars are maintained by the War Graves Commission, and record those killed
in Nunhead during air raids. The Stearne mausoleum is unique in London. Nunhead
Cemetery is the final resting place of a quarter of a million persons.
Gates and lodges. Formal large noble cast-iron entrance and classical piers of
Portland stone Just inside are two charming lodges of exquisite neo-classical
design. Bunning designed both gates and lodges.
Chapels: Thomas
Little won a competition to build the chapels in 1844. His designs, which
survive, were in the Decorated style of Gothic; the materials were Kentish rag
with freestone dressings. The Dissenters' chapel has been demolished, and the
Anglican chapel is in ruins.
catacomb shaft
has been filled in, and the rectangular catacomb sealed up.
Scottish Martyrs
Memorial high granite obelisk impressive. erected in 1851 to commemorate the Scots martyrs to the
cause of Parliamentary Reform. money
collected by committee under the Chairmanship of Joseph Hume
Large detached houses on east side, mixture on west.
Distinctly less good on west, some apartments. along Linden Grove. Opposite the
Cemetery, poor gravediggers, somewhat improved. West end is in the Camberwell
'W Police Division., it improves west of Gibbon Road. East of Gibbon Road Has
always had a bad name for drink and roughness but is not as bad as the streets
behind in Daniels Road (Booth)
Machell Road.
2-storey houses, six rooms, forecourts. (Booth)
Norbert Road?
Partly built embankment
connected Crystal Palace & Greenwich.
Nunhead
Reservoir which
holds 20,000,000 gallons of water taken from the Thames above Teddington. Reservoir land bought by Southwark and Vauxhall
Water Co. in 1854. 14 acres. Simple distributive works. Four reservoirs which
have now been reduced to two which can deliver forty three million gallons a
day. Originally two bull engines 1890,
60 Rev Porter, died there,
Brotherhood of the Holy Cross
Railway
Line from Nunhead built by
London, Chatham and Dover Railway in an open cutting south of Telegraph Hill.
Rye Hill Estate
L.C.C.
1939-64.
Torridge Gardens pleasantest parts
the low-density terraces hidden behind the dull blocks.
19th
villas and houses
3 George Livesey
Rye Hill Park.
2-storey and 3-storey houses built on the side of a steep
slope for good class servant-keeping families. Owing to a scare that the
waterworks reservoir at the top might burst the tenants left. Working class
have taken their place and many are to let. Good tenants remain only in the
houses near the Rye. (Booth)
Stuart Road
40 Stuart Arms
Tappisford Road
Design Reserve Council work
for Habinteg. The model suburban scale of
the area continued in the work from
1978
2-storey houses. Done up. Somewhat better than Banstead
Road - more or the mechanic class". On the east side is Stanley Hall, the
headquarters of the Nunhead Christian Band, said to represent a past local
split in the Salvation Army. Two houses in the space at the south end. The road perhaps from Barset Road represents
a still further improvement. 2-storey houses still, forecourts. At the end,
running south of the Buchan Road line is Salisbury Terrace. Poorer. (Booth)
Waveney Road/Rye Hill Park:
London County Council
flats. Fine blocks
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