My stroll on Sunday December 18th 1988 started on Lewisham Manner in New Cross, the place I feel I should have received off a 172 bus from Waterloo and begun by strolling a brief distance south-east down Lewisham Manner.
A Mattress, Pub, Cinema, Listed Pipe & Naval Baroque: This store was on the nook with Malpas Street, and there’s nonetheless a store there, trying just a little completely different however nonetheless promoting second hand furnishings the leaning submit was looking for, although that submit is gone, with a road check in a reasonably related place. And the pavement is now usually crowded with secondhand furnishings.
This was the second of two frames made right here as my first image on the stroll.
I circled and walked again up Lewisham Strategy to New Cross, taking no extra photos till I got here to the junction with New Cross Street, the place I discovered this wonderful group of buildings on the north facet of the road. At left is the New Cross Inn at 323 New Cross Street. There was a pub on this website at the very least by 1783 however this spectacular however unlisted constructing dates from 1890. It does look like an space the place the worst prejudices of Nicolaus Pevsner prevented many wonderful late Victorian buildings getting a point out.
Subsequent to the suitable is the location of the previous New Cross Kinema inbuilt 1925 to seat 2,300. You may learn extra in regards to the constructing on Arthur Lloyd’s Musical and Theatre Historical past Web site. It closed as a cinema in 1960, and far of the constructing behind the facade demolished for an workplace constructing. It was empty for some years however after I made this image was a furnishings retailer. Its first flooring dance corridor grew to become an Irish dance corridor, the Harp Membership which additionally hosted an indie music venue decrease down. In 1989 the nightclub The Venue opened there, quickly turning into a number one music venue with teams together with Oasis and Radiohead enjoying there in addition to Carter the Unstoppable Intercourse Machine – you’ll find some lengthy lists on the net. The outside was restored in 2006 and The Venue took over the bottom flooring as properly. It needed to shut for Covid and I feel has but to re-open.
On the proper is the previous Midland Financial institution, inbuilt 1903 and Grade II listed, in all probability the least fascinating of the three buildings.
The door and window of a store on the New Cross Street, cluttered with commercials and fliers which replicate the big native inhabitants of African and Afro-Caribbean heritage. I’m solely sorry that the ISO 100 Kodak TMX tabular wonderful grain movie I used to be utilizing has did not file the finer particulars, misplaced in its grain sample.
A part of the issue could have been that it was a moderately darkish nook, and I in all probability made the publicity with the lens at pretty broad aperture the place the decision wouldn’t have been nearly as good as common. I feel it’s one other instance of the place a bigger format or digital would have completed higher.
Pagnell Road drops steeply down from New Cross street and this barely odd window is definitely on the primary flooring of a block of flats, in all probability council-built within the Nineteen Fifties or Nineteen Sixties with outlets on the New Cross Street frontage. Empty after I photographed it, in recent times this has been a restaurant. At proper you may see the bottom flooring of the constructing.
Within the foreground is the adorned air flow pipe which is a listed constructing whereas the New Cross Inn behind is just not. The pipe and lamp submit, made in 1897 by MacFarlanes of Glasgow apparently derives from a design by famous Glasgow architect Alexander “Greek” Thomson for Glasgow’s Egyptian Halls. This column as soon as stood on prime of underground public bathrooms close by on the junction with Lewisham Manner. The pub is one other famous music venue within the space.
That is on the prime of Clifton Rise, the place supporters of the Socialist Employees Social gathering gathered to oppose the Nationwide Entrance march on thirteenth August 1977. Police stopped them right here and used horses to attempt to push them down the hill away from the march route. The SWP had refused to cooperate with different anti-fascists within the varied London Anti-Fascist Committees who along with many native residents have been in a position to oppose the march extra successfully, stopping it reaching its vacation spot of the centre of Lewisham. Sadly I used to be away from London on the time or I might in all probability have been there. Camerawork journal – I used to be a subscriber – devoted the entire of its Subject 8 to it, and you’ll see it within the 4 Corners Archive for those who don’t have a replica.
Deptford City Corridor was designed by Lanchester, Stewart & Rickards in 1905 for the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford which existed from 1900 till 1965. Its baroque model contains varied figures on the frontage together with a ship’s prow and an outline of a naval battle in addition to statues by Henry Poole of 4 naval figures together with Drake and Nelson, acceptable to the naval historical past of the realm.
After 1965 it was used for varied functions by Lewisham Council and was acquired by Goldsmiths Faculty in 2000.
Apparently in response to the Grade II itemizing these are “Tritons as corbels supporting massive oriel bay with carving of ship and marine symbols at its head.”
My stroll in New Cross will proceed in a later submit.
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