Hanover, Belgrave, Chapel, Retailers, Taxis: Two days after my earlier stroll, on Sunday sixth Might 1989 I used to be again on the streets with my cameras, this time getting off the bus at Oval station in Kennington.
Just a few yards down Kennington Park Highway from the Oval Station is Hanover Gardens, and on the nook the Hanover Arms. The pub has been right here not less than because the 1850s and continues to be open, getting relatively extra customized when there may be cricket on the Oval a brief stroll away. Its Grade II itemizing calls the home ‘Early-mid C19’ however describes the bottom flooring pub as early C20. I’ve by no means been inside, however used to stroll previous it sometimes when a good friend had a flat in Hanover Gardens within the Nineteen Seventies.
The six monarchs of Britain from George I in 1714 to Victoria have been often called Hanoverians, however after Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha they took over his household designation, altering the identify to Windsor in 1917.
My curiosity was extra within the splendid home of the identical interval on the other nook, 324 Kennington Park Rd. I don’t suppose that is listed, although a lot of Hanover Gardens is.
Turning round from virtually the identical spot I made {a photograph} of the pub signal with its coat of arms and past, on the other aspect of the highway, the tremendous Grade II* listed Belgrave Hospital for Youngsters.
This voluntary hospital was based in 1886 in Pimlico, and moved to this constructing in 1903, although the constructing, begun in 1899 was solely accomplished in 1926. A part of the cash for its constructing got here in a donation by music corridor star Dan Leno of £625 made after his final present and some days earlier than his loss of life in 1904.
The constructing is in purple brick by Henry Percy Adams and Charles Holden and bears some resemblance to a Scottish fortress. Its basis stone was laid by the oddly named Princess Henry of Battenberg in June 1900. It turned a part of Kings School hospital on formation of the NHS in 1948 and closed in 1985. Left empty it was squatted for a while after which transformed to costly flats within the Nineties.
The constructing was designed in a roughly cruciform plan with separate ward wings that might be remoted in case of an outbreak of a extremely infections illness.
Kennington Park Highway adjustments its identify to Clapham Highway on the junction simply north of the hospital, one thing which has typically confused me. The 2 earlier footage have been taken from Kennington Park Highway, however this was undoubtedly made on Clapham Highway.
The lettering within the signal ‘THE BELGRAVE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS’ has a playful Arts & Crafts font, very a lot of the time the constructing was commenced and maybe extra appropriate for a kids’s hospital than the extra stern structure
Claylands was a mansion constructed within the space of marshy land typically flooded by the River Effra aournd 1800 by brick service provider John Fentiman who drained the land round. In 1836 he let his son, additionally John Fentiman, erect this glorious instance of a Congregational Chapel on the nook of Claylands Raod and Claylands Place.
It prospered for some years and in 1899 a Sunday Faculty was constructed behind it. Each went out of use, most likely within the Thirties and have been getting used to retailer constructing supplies when it was purchased within the late 1960 by a agency of architect who restore it to make use of as their workplaces, renaming it ‘Previous Church Court docket’.
I walked although from Clapham Rd to Brixton Highway alongside Handforth Highway, taking this image of a store window on Brixton Highway. I used to be attracted by the muddle of instruments and different objects, but additionally by two posters within the window.
One confirmed a dynamic younger girl and was promoting dance exercises, however the different had the stark phrase ‘MURDER’, a poster from the Metropolitan Police asking for help in a current homicide exterior a public home.
This 1906 manufacturing unit constructing on the north aspect of Cranmer Highway has since been transformed as a part of Kennington Park Enterprise Centre with Salisbury Home, Norfolk Home, Worcester Home and Winchester Home.
The buildings on the northern a part of this web site have been as soon as the storage for London’s first motor taxi fleet, the Normal Cab Firm Ltd, with 1,500 taxis based mostly right here, and I feel these buildilngs might have been workshops for the corporate. A while within the Nineties I took a really small half within the industrial archaeology recording of this web site, however can’t discover the small print.
From the nook of Cranmer Highway I made this image of the terrace of retailers at 26-36 on the west aspect of Brixton Highway. The River Effra as soon as ran alongside the centre of the highway right here – and presumably nonetheless does in a sewer.
The central outlets appear to have been constructed first first with these on each ends being added with a distinct design later. The homes at 22-4, past the outlets, are Grade II listed.
My stroll will proceed alongside Brixton Rd in a later submit.
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