My stroll which started in Clapham on Sunday 4th June 1989 continues in Stockwell. The primary and former half was Mild & Life, Pinter and Stockwell Breweries.
The decorations at proper are on the effective frontage of The Marquess of Lorne pub. The Grade II itemizing for this mentions is ok terracotta window surrounds and these panels in inexperienced, gold and brown glazed tiles. The pub has the handle 51 Dalyell Rd, however this facet is in Combermere Rd. The Marquis of Lorne is a title given to the eldest son and inheritor of the Duke of Argyll (in full Marquis of Kintyre and Lorne.) The ornament on the constructing contains the identify of the Licensee in 1881 though a licence for the pub was refused ten years earlier. CAMRA be aware that in addition to the effective Victorian exterior ornament a lot of the inter-war inside refitting stays.
In all probability the pub identify dates from 1878 when John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, later ninth Duke of Argyll however then Marquess of Lorne was made Governor Normal of Canada. He was married to Princess Louise, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, who has a quite effective pub named after her in Holborn.
The ornament on 20 Combermere Street at left has additionally survived. It is a Laundromat and dry cleaners.
A avenue of solidly constructed late Victorian homes. Their plain magnificence is relieved by leaf ornament on three sides of the the primary ground home windows and dentillation above the bottom ground bays. A boy performs with a ball outdoors on this quiet avenue. I can’t discover any rationalization of the road identify.
I made a detour into the centre of Brixton, most likely to make use of the general public bathrooms in Brixton Market, taking an image of the block of outlets on its north facet between Brixton Street and Beehive Place, earlier than returning to Combermere Street. I made extra photos in Brixton the identical day on one other digicam, both on this detour or later in my wanderings on the day however I can’t now keep in mind which – I’ll embrace these in one of many later posts on this stroll.
One other view of the previous Waltham’s Brewery in Combermere Street which was for a few years a Lambeth Council Depot and has since been changed by housing. Though I wasn’t in a position to view the inside, this appeared to me to be a great instance of a comparatively early industrial constructing, few of which have survived.
The pub remains to be there on Stockwell Street, a brief distance east of the nook of Combermere Street, and nonetheless seems related although it has misplaced the ‘New’ and is now longer a Braveness pub. The identify board between the 2 first ground home windows is gone, now simply boring brown empty paintwork and the bottom ground paint is throughout, not emphasising the panels and door and window frames. It used to look quite smarter. Maybe the beer is best.
Maybe surprisingly this constructing is Grade II listed, described as a “Constructing of Regency look with alterations.” The itemizing states it’s included for group worth and my image reveals a few of that group.
I moved just a few toes west to incorporate a greater view of the Mary Seacole mural on the west nook of Combermere Street. Not solely has the mural now gone, so has the constructing on which it was painted.
Mary Seacole (1805 – 1881) was born in Jamaica, her father a Scots soldier and mom a free Creole. She turned a nurse and a health care provider utilizing pure herbs, studying her expertise from her mom who ran a home taking care of injured troopers. In 1854 she utilized to the Struggle Workplace to go as a nurse to the Crimean Struggle (1853-6) however was rejected as she had no formal coaching. So she made her personal approach there.
Within the Crimea she met Florence Nightingale who refused to let her work within the hospital there, so she arrange her personal British Resort close to Balaclava to take care of sick and recovering officers, additionally going to nurse wounded troopers on the battlefield, typically underneath hearth.
Within the Crimea, ‘Mom Seacole’ gained a status among the many troopers rivalling that of Florence Nightingale. She returned to England after the struggle sick and destitute, however 1000’s who knew what she had completed for our troopers arrange a pageant and assortment for her in 1857. On the time William Russell who had been in Crimea as Struggle correspondent for The Instances wrote “I belief that England won’t overlook one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to assist and succour them, and who carried out the final places of work for a few of her illustrious lifeless.”
However someway, most likely due to her color, Mary Seacole roughly disappeared from our historical past books, and this mural and a memorial backyard near the place she was buried in St Mary’s Cemetery in Kensal Inexperienced have been a part of a marketing campaign to revive the reminiscence and status of this “Black woman of compassion” and Black historical past usually.
In 2016 a memorial statue to her was erected within the grounds of St Thomas’s Hospital, the primary within the UK to a named black lady. There was opposition to the erection of a statue to her, led by the the Nightingale Society.
Extra photos from my stroll on 4th June 1989 in a later put up.
Tags: 1989, Brixton, Brixton Rd, Brixton Station Rd, Combermere Rd, Hargwyne St, June, Lambeth, London, London Photographs, Mary Seacole Mural, Mom Seacole, New Queens Head, peter Marshall, pub, retailers, Stockwell, Stockwell Depot, Stockwell Inexperienced, Stockwell Rd, The Marquess of Lorne, Waltham’s Brewery, William Russell
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