Extra From Stockwell & South Lambeth: My apologies that the earlier submit on this sequence from my stroll on Nineteenth July 1989, Tradescant, Previous South Lambeth Rd and Caron, ended with a repeat of three pictures taken on Fentiman Street from my stroll two days earlier.
After taking footage on Previous South Lambeth Street I in all probability merely walked to Vauxhall Station with out taking extra footage. However I’ve now discovered a couple of extra footage I took in all probability at first of the stroll which started with Stockwell Park, Bus Storage, Tower and Mason, and in addition some on the finish of my stroll in Vauxhall.
These tremendous homes had been constructed within the mid-nineteenth century and are Grade II listed. The nearer and additional homes are semi-detached pairs whereas 47 within the center is indifferent. Behind them is the tower block Edrich Home on Lansdowne Means.
Priory Grove runs south from Lansdowne Means (previously Priory Street) and far of it’s beside Larkhill Park. This four-storey block, with the identify on the prime Priory Constructing is near its finish at Larkhall Lane. In 1989 it had two doorways, however now there is just one on the left giving entry to the 4 flats inside. The bottom flooring has been coated with stucco eliminating the architraves that are a function of the higher flooring.
Larkhall Lane has a listed constructing and a number of other on the native record, however all I selected to {photograph} had been a few odd corners, the primary maybe exhibiting one thing of the state of the property with a tremendous stone hidden pillar. I believe this has now disappeared.
66 Larkhall Lane is now a lot improved rendering, a tidy backyard and the anachronistic shutter eliminated. The tree has additionally gone and I believe a lot of the inside has additionally been remodelled. A property itemizing on the net describes it now as “That is a horny 2 mattress, 1 tub semi-detached home in Lambeth, London. This environment friendly house is 753 sq. ft in measurement with 2 fireplaces and has been prolonged 3 instances since development earlier than 1900” and estimates its worth at £1m-£1.2m.
I believe I took this moderately quickly by means of a spot within the visitors which maybe accounts for its moderately odd tilt. At left is a moderately odd Gothic Grade II listed constructing making an attempt to be a citadel, with outlets on the bottom flooring and an octagonal tower at every finish. The constructing dates from the mid-Nineteenth century however the outlets reaching out to the primary street had been added in all probability round 40 years later over what was initially a entrance backyard and have since been a lot altered.
Tucked away within the centre of the image is a slim constructing with some fascinating polychromatic brickwork at No 345, small and moderately uncommon Victorian infill.
By way of the imposing three story automobile entrance of Wilbraham Home we are able to see Fosbrooke Home behind. This lengthy block of flats occupies many of the block between Thorncroft St and Wilcox Street. One website online helpfully tells me it was constructed between 1930 and 1949 and my guess would have been it was on the finish of that interval. 4 spectacular units of steps on the frontage result in the 36 flats, with glass bricks offering pure lighting for the steps. 9 Elms underground station opened in 2021 is only a few yards up the street.
You get an excellent view of those elephants from trains going by means of Vauxhall Station on the Windsor and Studying traces I usually go to Waterloo on. This image is taken from instantly exterior Vauxhall Station entrance. The pub constructing remains to be there however closed in 1997 and is now a Starbucks, however its higher flooring look a lot the identical. The native record dates it as mid-late Nineteenth century, however the constructing changed an earlier one on the positioning.
The identify Elephant And Fort thought to have been first used for pubs round 1770 in close by Southwark in all probability derives from the coat of arms of the Cutler’s Firm who adopted it in 1622. They used ivory to make knife handles. Although if that’s the case it could have been used first for a pub within the Metropolis for which we’ve no file.
I’ll submit the opposite footage I’ve discovered from the tip of the stroll in Vauxhall later.
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