Telegraph Hill
Telegraph Hill, Southwark
Ansdell Road
Arbuthnot Street
Astbury Road
Queen's Road arches.
Private bus company there in the 1920s, the City Motor Bus Co., big and
successful. HO, leased from LB&SC railway co 1922. 1871-1904 it had been
stables for the London Tramways Co. The trams entered from the arches from the
service road on the other side of the railway leaving the Queen's Road on a
spur under the up platform of Queen's Road station. Still there in 1977 but the
tram lines were covered with tarmac. There were also tram tracks inside the
arches 110-111 where horse buses were repaired. In the yard opposite Astbury
Road, stables for City Buses co was seen as one of the best of the private cos.
59 Chimes pub
Besson Street
58 Fox and Hounds
Bousefield Street.
Briant Street (not on AZ)
Caulfield Road.
Dennett's Grove
Dennetts Road
69 Rising Sun. traditional Trueman’s
interior, ornate mirrors.
Dolling Place (not on AZ)
Dundas Road.
Edith Road.
Erlanger Road
Hatcham Manor Estate, also known as
the New Cross Estate, was built by the Haberdashers Company to a layout by
their surveyor William Snooke between 1887, and 1900. The other north-south
roads Erlanger Road and Waller Road were developed from the 1880s in
predominantly Edwardian style. Because of the length of the principal roads and
the lack of variety in house design, the overall effect can seem rather
monotonous
Pond in the lower part of the road which is not now used.
Faulkner Place
Firbank Road.
Franklin's Grove (not on AZ)
Gellatly Road.
Gibbon Road
Nunhead Station. Opened 1st
September 1871 by the London Chatham and Dover Railway. It lies Between Peckham Rye and Lewisham and
also Crofton Park on South East Trains. The entrance is on the east side of Gibbon Road. It was also called Nunhead Junction. It originally had two island
platforms, with the centre road, being used by up trains and those terminating here
– primarily the trains fron Greenwich Park trains. Routes to Crystal Palace,
and the Catford Loop were added in 1892and ran south. In 1925 the old station was closed and resited slightly west and rebuilt in
red brick with a single island platform.
The original entrance was closed but could still be seen bricked up on
the north side of the embankment,
Goods Yard on
the up side, closed April 1962.
Rail line Nunhead Junction Signal Box.
66 Railway Tavern
Hatcham
Developed by Haberdashers' Company in nineteenth century. In 1614 the Company acquired the manor of Hatcham. In c1867-68 they built some large houses on the north side of New Cross Road. Developed the grounds. The Hatcham Manor Estate leading up to Telegraph Hill was their largest housing development. The Haberdashers’ property mark can be seen on many corner buildings throughout the area.
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Hatcham Park Road
Preserves the name of the old manor of Hatcham, marked
thus on the Ordnance Survey map of 1816 and recorded earlier as ‘Hacheham’ in
1086 in the Domesday Book, ‘Hachesham’ 1234, ‘Hechesham’ 1247, that is
'homestead or enclosure of a man
called Hascci', from Old English ‘ham’ or’ hamm ‘and an Old English personal
name. The district once occupied by this manor is now New Cross Gate.
Was western part of Five
Bells Lane. It ran immediately north of the first small station, likewise of the 4th lock. The
humped bridge crossed the
canal. The railway dealt with the lane
by taking it underneath, giving it merely a
width of 6' and height of 7’.
Developments at the station, possibly those at the time of the mid 1840s atmospheric era, saw the
end of the lane as a through route. Continues to the east as Batavia lane.
Loco works established at
New Cross because of the hill out of New Cross - also reason for use of
atmospheric traction. The Entrance to the works had granite sett surface and a
gatehouse. Curve fits fence on 1839 plan. The Octagonal engine house was
demolished in 1950s. Rest went in the 1990s now under Sainsburys.
The Manor House
of Hatcham was bought by
the Haberdashers Company. It had Extensive grounds both sides of the canal and
road. Moated. Rebuilt 1775. In 1869, after the Hardcastle family had ceased
to live there, they demolished, Hatcham House. It lay north of the railway works.
Cage
Hatcham Park House.
Hardcastle
Hatcham Terrace?
Hathway Street
Hollydale Road
115 Hollydales Pub
Kender Estate
Kender Grove
Kender Place (not on AZ)
Kender Street
56 Hatcham Lodge. A substantial house, the doorway is flanked by
fluted columns, and there are fine round-headed windows with masks at the rear.
It was originally of 1827, but was altered and enlarged in 1858 for George
England. George England was one of the country's pioneer locomotive builders.
He founded Hatcham Iron Works in 1840 in Pomeroy Street behind the house; the
works expanded into locomotive production in the 1850s and 1860s, and over 250
locomotives were made here. It became Fairlie Engine & Steam Carriage Co
from 1869, but closed in 1872. Nothing now remains of the works; part of the
site became General Engine & Boiler Co from 1872 and later Reliance
Foundry, and part was Enos Fruit Salt Works from 1878 to 1940.
24/54 Georgina
Terrace built for workers
at England’s works. The Cabbage patch was north of this but not facing on the
street. In 1862 it was a test track bed.
It is a fine group,
probably built c1827, with steps leading up to the first floor.
1 Holleran's Tavern
Lausanne Road
44 Swiss Tavern
Built as a grand access
road to the cemetery at Nunhead
South East London
Synagogue',
Lindo Street
Lubbock Street
Was Frederick Street.
Lugard Road
Dairy of
London's last cow keeper who was here until 1967,.John Jorden. The cows were
two weeks here and then two weeks in the country.
Martha Place (not on AZ)
Martin's Place (not on AZ)
Mason's Court (not on AZ)
Mason's Grove (not on AZ)
Mona Road
Nettleton Road
New Cross
Roman urns in a garden 1735
Greyhound Stadium
New Cross Gate.
New Cross Gate. Road island at the junction, which was the
site of a tollgate from 1813 to 1865,
Toilet entrances have fine ironwork railings
Ventilating pipe of 1897 which doubled as a lamppost - it is a
fluted column b Macfarlane’s Castings of Glasgow, with a most unusual vaguely
Egyptian pattern based on a design by the famous Glasgow architect Alexander
Thomson. This is not in as good condition as the one outside the New Cross Inn
New Cross Road
136/148, c1830, stuccoed above modern shop fronts.
Minerva Terrace
153 Five Bells, a fine classical pub of 1841 with quoins and
deep eaves. Five bells between the eaves brackets. Later extension. Ornate
mirrors and heavy drapes.
Horse trough outside the pub. 19th
170/178 1838, with modern shop fronts.
182 Clutch Clinic was
from 1909 to 1917 the Electric Empire Cinema previously was a horse dealer. Car body works centre
184 The White Hart, an 1898 rebuild of a mid 19th century pub.
197 a building c1910 with flora classical
dressings, originally London & South Western Bank, now Barclays Bank
207/219, formerly known as Hatcham Terrace. It is a very
fine tall terrace of 1841 with long rows of windows on the ground floor, and
balcony railings to the first floor.
208 New Cross Bus Depot, occupies the site of a
London County Council depot, the largest in London, opened 1906, and closed
1952.
210 Kingdom Hall, of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Classical
building of 1957, Reconverted from the old South East London District Synagogue
in the late 1980s. The first synagogue was established here in 1904. Bombed, perpetual fire did not go
out. Not rebuilt until 1956.
235 rebuilt after the war.
241 a Lewisham Council plaque: 'Sir Barnes Wallis,
1887-1979, pioneer of aircraft design, lived here 1892-1909'; he designed the
Wellington bomber, and the bouncing bombs which destroyed the Mohne dam in
1943.
All Saints,
1869-71 by Newman & Billing. Kentish rag, with a large rose window. No
tower.
Aske's Haberdashers' School for Girls. 1891 by Stock, Page & Stock. Quite a nice design with
buttresses, plain gables. Queen Anne windows, and an asymmetrical turret with
cupola, the style derived from Philip Webb
Toilets at Queens Road corner. Triangle island site underground, vent pipe
with gas lamps and fluted Egyptian designs.
Made by Macfarlanes of Glasgow and based on a design of Alexander
Thompson of Glasgow. Railings round the
steps. Closed and gone.
Nunhead
Nunhead said to
have been named from an inn. The Nun's Head
- ‘Nunhead’ 1680, ‘None Head’ c. 1745,
‘Nonehead Hill’ 1789.’ Nun Head’ 1816. 17th-century inn here called The
Nuns Head. According to local legend colourful but without factual basis, the
inn itself was so named because a
Mother Superior was beheaded here for opposing Henry VIII's dissolution of the
monasteries. The name may relate to
ownership of land by Shoreditch nunnery of St.John the Baptist in the late 12th.
Nunhead cutting. Cut in
1860 now an embankment.
Pepys Road
Hatcham Manor Estate, also known as
the New Cross Estate, was built by the Haberdashers Company to a layout by
their surveyor William Snooke between 1887, and 1900. The first road to be
developed was Pepys Road, with a pattern of houses in Gothic style to the north
and Edwardian style to the south.
29 Ben Jacob barge building
at Deptford and Mayor of Deptford 1908 buried at Nunhead
Church of
St.Catherine, built 1893 by Henry Stock surveyor to the Haberdashers Company. Reroofed after war damage, and reordered in the 1960s for
combined church and community use. The west end was incorporated into Telegraph
Hill Neighbourhood Centre.
Vicarage is contemporary with the church, and is of
interest as the a red brick house in a predominantly stock brick area
Aske's Haberdashers' School for Boys, Founded in 1688. From the new building at Shoreditch of 1825-6 the
statue of Robert Aske in the forecourt by Croggon of Lambeth, 1836. The present
building is of 1875 by W. Snooke, yellow and red brick, Gothic, symmetrical, on
a corner site with fine views in all directions.
Queen’s Road
Queens
Road Station. 1866. Between
Peckham Rye and South Bermondsey on Southern Rail
Somerville Estate. An intimate and attractive estate of 1978,
with groups of dark red brick houses forming an intricate pattern of irregular
clusters, mostly behind a large adventure playground on the main road.
New Cross Fire Station, of 1894, an extraordinary extravaganza with
steep conical roofs on rounded towers at either end, and a tall circular tower
behind.
369 Hatcham Liberal Club, a fantastic building c1911, with an oriel
window above the porch, and decorated stonework. The club was established Pere
in 1880, the date on the facade.
164 The only
English Heritage blue plaque in SE15 where Jamaican born Dr Harold Moody,
founder of the influential League of Coloured Peoples in 1931, lived and had a
surgery.
371/373 Queens Road, a fine pair c1840 with stuccoed
ground floor cement.
387 an odd small building of 1893 with decorations
The Retreat, "The Marist
Convent for Young Ladies", a Roman Catholic Boarding and Middle Class
College.
Pomeroy Street
Development work for Delta
Metal 1894
125 Coach and Horses pub??
Power's Place (not on AZ)
Railline
The line to Lewisham Road from
Nunhead was abandoned by an Act in 1929 and the line taken up.
Rose Cottages (not on AZ)
Rutt's Terrace
Selden Road
Senate Street.
Somerville Road (not on AZ)
Stanbury Road
St Mary's Road
Pioneer Health Centre. This health experiment was started at 142 Queen's Road in 1926 and purpose built here as the Pioneer Health
Centre in 1934-5, by Sir Owen Williams with funding by Jack Donaldson. The
place of a medico-social experiment, initiated by Doctors Scott Williams and
Innes Pearse. The area was chosen because its population was a cross-section of
income groups. The idea was that instead of medical services being for people
who were sick, they should be available to everybody regardless of their state
of health to detect disorders early and deal with them partly by altering
environmental conditions. So the centre was a combination of club and clinic
and designed to Scott Williams's requirements.
The centre provided a kindergarten, gymnasium, swimming pool, theatre,
sports, etc. At The centre of the building was the swimming pool surrounded by
cafes and other leisure facilities, the pool separated by glass walls. The only
space shut off is the consultation block on the top floor. The Centre has a
front with six out-curve bays all in concrete and glass. The Centre was
converted to residential use having been used as an educational facility for a
while as South London Doctors' Centre and Southwark Adult Education Institute.
Sassoon House. block of flats Thompson &
Fry, or rather Maxwell Fry, 1932
St Mary, 1961-2
by Robert Potter of Potter & Hare. One of the first new churches in London
designed for the liturgical movement. The church
replaces a bombed building of 1839-41.
St Mary's Church Hall, built 1890
Telegraph Hill Park
Used to be called Plow
Garlic Hill, used to pay double taxes to Kent & Surrey
Park, opened 1895, is in two parts. The southern
section provides, from its highest point in the grassed centre, panoramic views
over Central and West London. The northern section between Pepys Road and
Erlanger Road, is larger but of less interest.
Fountain dedicated to
Livesey, 9 1/2 acres. St Catherine’s Park, which was bought for George Livesey
so that he could be looked up to. Project achieved with money from Greenwich
Board of Works, London County Council, and Haberdashers Company. Ornamental
lake & bandstand. Opened by Austin Arnold 6.9.95. Of London County Council.
Telegraph system using
frame with large removal shutters working from end of 1796 until 1814 peace
with France. 1816 another sort tried of single high mast with two arms set to
different positions and better visibility. 1820 French Chappe type used with a
mast and rotating pointers
Admiralty telegraph 1795.
Wooden huts. Nothing built in area until 1873. Ground opened in 1875.
James Martin and Sons
Dairymen
Reservoir Kent Water Co.
built 1874. 160' above OD. 1,7500,00 gall. Can be seen as a mound in the top
part of the park.
Waller Road
Hatcham Manor Estate, also known as
the New Cross Estate, was built by the Haberdashers Company to a layout by
their surveyor William Snooke between 1887, and 1900. The other north-south
roads Erlanger Road and Waller Road were developed from the 1880s in
predominantly Edwardian style. Because of the length of the principal roads and
the lack of variety in house design, the overall effect can seem rather
monotonous
Edmund Waller
School. handsome London School Board building of
1887 in Queen Anne style, and a second building of 1899 to the
south. GLC building 1872
Fire Station, a very
fine building fronting the Queen's Road.
Washam Road
Wellington Road.
York Road?
communal garden, around two squares by Peter Moro
Comments
I found a baptism record at St James Hatcham Parish Church and the abode of the child was 44 Mason Street. You have Mason's Court and Mason's Grove (neither on AZ) on this page.