this post is not finished and not edted or checked
Factory Square
Immanuel Parish Schools by G. G.Scott, 1861, extended by
George & Peto, 1874.
Greyhound Lane
5 Two half oil jars on frontage, sign of oil and colour man.
151 Greyhound
Brewery
Green Lane
Factory premises of Small Electrical Motors Ltd. old laundry and
chimney
Guildersford Road
St.Andrew, 1885-6 by George & Peto. Ernest George
lived near Streatham Common, and his firm, well known for their Dutch domestic
architecture, did much work in this area.
Vicarage next door, 1886 by George & Peto. Good
Church Hall, 1898 by George & Yeates.
Lime Common, is
the top bit, Beam for Queen `Victoria's Jubilee, cricket green is preserved in
the Commons Act
The Rookery. the
best formal garden in Lambeth. This is
the site of an early spa. The well head
is now in a walled Old English garden with white flowors – called The White
Garden with a sundial. this is the site of one of the three original wells of Streatham Spa dating from
1659. workmen in 1660 had their homes stuck in the middle. The bright yellow monkey flower is very colourful
alongside the stream in summer and a
number of ferns such as soft shield-fern
and male fern can be found here too. magnificent cedar of Lebanon. There's also a walled English
Garden with fragrant planting; a secluded rock garden and stream; a small
yew-hedged pond garden and wisteria-clad pergola; shrubbery-lined paths and
Further down the hill is a quiet orchard.
South Side
Streatham Common
South Side home
Transferred from Metropolitan Asylums Board to London County Council, LCC
management
Streatham
In the 17th went from being a small scattered
village to a popular residential area following the discovery of the spa well
in 1660.
Streatham Common
marked on the Ordnance Survey map of
1816. and there was a fashionable spa
near here during the 18th century, based on a medicinal spring discovered in
1659 and still marked Wells on the 1816 map.
Streatham High
Road
Path
alongside the road. This is the area of relic acid grassland on Streatham Common. The large anthills of the
yellow meadow ant , which are
present in the grass, are a good indication that this grassland has been little disturbed in the past
Sainsburys,
behind it is Factory Square. Has been India rubber firm since 1838, built as
Dak. 1885, chimney, Sainsburys purchased
land occupied by the Cow Industrial Polymers
India Rubber Works of P. B.
Cow of Cow Gum. The handsome chimney
added to
the works in 1885 may also be by George Peto. Cow
Industrial Polymers P.B.Cow, 1857.
Sainsburys - Silk Mill. the Mill building is
incorporated into Sainsbury's, providing offices and refreshment facilities. The
mill was ercrcted in 1820 by Stephen Wilson, a silk manufacturpr, whose family
lived almost opposite, but with long connections with the Spiralfields
industry. Although importing both French personnel and new Jacquard techniques, Wilson is thought
to have found his new green-field-site cheaper to operate. It is a complete, purpose-built three storey Georgian silk mill, of
pleasant proportions and appearance, complete with a cupola, which was probably
the first UK location to use Jacquard-style looms. Became Cow industrial Polymers
386 1932 Ice Rink. 1927 Baths next door.
496 Beehive Coffee House and Working
Men's Lodgings; a Queen Anne front of 1878-9
by George & Peto. It was intended benefit
the workers of the neighbouring India Rubber Works
listed.
412-415 Holy
Martyrs, built by P.B.Cow
Emmanuel Church. A rebuilding and enlargement
of 1864-5 by B. Ferrey of a church built in 1854 by A. Ross. Kentish rag.
Tower. Stained glass Windows by Lovers & Barraud commemorating the chief donors, the Leaf family
of Park Hill, Streatham Common..
412-416
Streams. Architect's
Department, 1968-9, of houses on decks over garages
498 Pied Bull. Near the common, The island bar serves four
distinct areas. There are comfortable - sofas and upholstered chairs; prints adorn every wall. The garden is
particularly popular.
Hambley Mansions
668 Sussex Tavern
Greyhound Inn,
meeting house in last century of gypsies
522 Garage. A semi-deserted- looking garage is
home to the spooks' special motor pool. The cars and vans that come and go from
here don't always leave in the same colours or with the same registration
plates they had when they entered. This is where SIS built false bottoms into
the van that smuggled Oleg Gordievsky out of the USSR
Streatham Common
The common used to comprise an area of rough open land.
The trees surrounding the lower slope, and the "ancient" wooded area
at the top of the common, are comparatively modern developments being -the
result of landscaping undertaken by the Metropolitan Board of Works when they
took over responsibility in 1888. I can only assume that in the late 15th
century the common was denuded of bracken and furze as a result of which
"thorns" required to construct the pound had to be brought from
Pollards Hill. The pound was situated in the manor of South or Lower Streatham,
the common land of which was the present-day Streatham Common. The manor of
Streatham was combined with that of Tooting Bee and its common land was Tooting
Bee Common. At one time there were two pounds on Streatham Common, one was
situated opposite Greyhound Lane and the other halfway between the lower pond
and Streatham Common South, the latter being clearly marked on the Ordnance
Survey map dating from the mid-1860s and believed to be the site of the ancient
pound of the manor.
Wallfied House.
Commons rights
movement like Tooting. Sold commoners
rights. Commoners burnt the fences and
the gorse. Six mysterious men cut
enclosure fences for grazing. Well
discovered by ploughman in hot and sulphurous.
So, Streatham Well House. Common
sold by ecclesiastical commissioners to Metropolitan Board of Works for £5
West Streatham
Common
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