That is one other put up on my stroll on 18th December 1988; the earlier put up was Pepys Street and Nunhead Cemetery.
GH Metals is I believe nonetheless working in Evelina Rd, though its premises at the moment are lined by graffiti and there aren’t any costs on the checklist of metals nonetheless above the shopfront. Their site states the household have run profitable scrap metallic yards throughout South London and in Peckham since 1968.
Evelina, or the Historical past of a Younger Girl’s Entrance into the World was the title of a novel by Fanny Burney revealed in 1778 however I think the street just like the Evelina London Kids’s Hospital was named after the English spouse of the rich Austrian Baron, Ferdinand de Rothschild – she died in 1866, in all probability across the time the road started to be constructed up.
From Evelina Street I went up St Mary’s Street, photographing the unusually squat St Mary Magdalene Church (not digitised) , described on the Twentieth Century Society’s site as “a daring and progressive Sixties landmark” however sadly demolished by the Church of England and changed by a constructing “of no architectural benefit”. Designed by Potter and Hare it was in-built 1961-2 and demolished in 2010.
Sassoon Home designed in an Worldwide Modernist type by Maxwell Fry is Grade II listed and was constructed as part of the Peckham undertaking across the neighbouring Pioneer Well being Centre in 1934 to supply prime quality social housing. The Sassoon household had been one of many wealthiest on the planet, often called the “Rothschilds of the East“ amd when R E Sassoon, the novice jockey son of the philanthropist Mozelle Sassoon, was killed steeplechasing in 1933 his mom commissioned this block in his reminiscence.
I’ve solely digitised one of many six frames I uncovered on Queens Street, the place there are a number of listed buildings on the nook and simply to the west of St Mary’s Rd. That is Grade II listed as ‘QUEEN’S ROAD (South aspect) Nos.156 and St Mary’s Court docket (No.158)’ and the homes date from round 1845.
Montpelier Street (single L) was apparently named in 1875 after Montpellier in France (2Ls) which was a modern resort on the time and is now the seventh or eighth largest metropolis in France. In addition to one of many oldest universities on the planet with an historic centre and the well-known the Promenade du Peyrou from which you’ll on a transparent day see the Meditteranean, Montpellier was additionally well-known for its wine. Montpelier Street has none of those and beforehand the street had been known as Wellington Villas. It might have taken the identify from the close by Montpelier Tavern in Choumert Street, which though in a extra fashionable constructing in all probability dates again earlier.
This uncommon terrace of homes is pretty typical of a lot of the west aspect of the road which ends at Assembly Home Lane.These additional up the road are slightly extra embellished.
I walked again alongside Queen’s Street in the direction of New Cross the place there may be now no hint of the constructing at No 3, although these remains to be a storage workshop, now 3a. However the identify that had attracted my consideration has gone. I think about it supplied the service of customising automobiles slightly than any curiosity within the customs and traditions of town. I assumed it would make a great title image.
I made a single publicity whereas strolling north up Brocklehurst Avenue (not digitised) exhibiting the window detailon this lengthy avenue of equivalent homes, in all probability urgent the shutter out of boredom, after which was Chilly Blow Lane, the place there are the stable brick piers of a dismantled railway bridge resulting in a slim tunnel nonetheless takes the street underneath the railway, adopted by a more moderen brodge underneath extra traces with a barely wider roadway beneath.
It was a slightly scary stroll beneath, although not as scary because it is perhaps had it been a match day on the Millwall stadium close by – nonetheless then on the Outdated Den in Chilly Blow Lane.
Juno Method was between the railway bridges over Coldblow Lane, however is now closed off at this southern finish by a steady fence between the bridges and may solely be entered from Surrey Canal Street.
The constructing with the tower carrying the property identify was as soon as the Mazawatee Tea manufacturing facility, objective constructed for them in 1901 after they had been the most important tea firm on the planet. In addition to tea additionally they processed espresso, cocoa, muffins, sweets and goodies right here and likely some uncooked supplies would have come right here on the Surrey canal from the London docks. It employed as much as 2000 individuals however was closely broken by wartime bombing. The identify is from the Hindi ‘Maza’ – pleasure – and the Sinhalese ‘Wattee’ – backyard – and thus displays two of the areas from which they introduced tea. It was essentially the most marketed model within the UK till the Second World Warfare.
The tower constructing was renovated from a whole shell in 2011 and ‘Unit 13’ now homes 12 self-contained studios with excessive ceilings and good pure mild, together with the 2300 sq. foot Tea Room Studio and various smaller areas on the highest flooring.
I nonetheless had slightly strategy to go on my stroll and a couple of extra footage – I’ll put up the ultimate instalment of this stroll later.
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