Automobile Park, Angel, Works, Off-Gross sales, Co-op & Carnival Hats: I began my stroll on Sunday fifth November 1989 at Walthamstow Central Station, and walked west down Selbourne Highway.
That is Sainsbury’s multistory Automobile Park on the nook of Selbourne Rd and Vernon Rd and there’s a very strong wanting rectangular field brick constructing below the curves of the incline as much as the parking area, with anther rectangle, the again of the signal and a really small circle of a automobile tyre on the excessive proper.
I feel I walked into Walthamstow cemetery to {photograph} the chapel there which I’ve not digitised however I additionally photographed a number of memorials together with this one which I feel attracted me due to the feathers on the wing and roses.
There may be nonetheless a Lennox Buying and selling Property right here, and I feel the identical gates, though the writing on it’s smaller and extra common however in any other case every part seems a lot the identical.
Lennox Highway is a brief road and its southern facet has no buildings however merely the fence of Thomas Gamuel Park, which was re-designed within the Nineteen Nineties. So the consecutive numbering 82-83 made some sense. The realm to the west of the buying and selling property and the park has been comprehensively redeveloped with low rise housing round Lennox Highway.
Thomas Gamuel “was a wealthy London grocer dwelling in Walthamstow who bequeathed six acres of land identified then as Honeybone Discipline and Markhouse Frequent, to 6 trustees, in order that lease and income from this land could be paid to the poor of the parish.”
Chelmsford Highway runs down the east facet of Thomas Gamuel Park and this former off-license on the nook seemed as if it had lately closed with a discover on its facet ‘SHOP / YARD & GARAGE STORE TO LET NO PREMIUM’.
The signal and the lamp on the nook instructed to me it had as soon as been a pub quite than simply an off-licence although the constructing appeared too small, however I can discover no proof for this. Each these and the store entrance have now gone and the property is now residential together with a primary ground flat.
I walked down Collingwood Highway into St Barnabas Highway the place I photographed the Safford Corridor and the church (not digitised) after which made my manner north to Queens Highway to cross the railway line and get to Hoe Avenue, the place I made this picture.
The beehive was a typical cooperative image and seems a number of instances on this constructing together with its date, 1915. For a few years it was all of the London Co-operative Society retailer however now solely a small part on the northern finish is part of the Co-op, Wathamstow Funeralcare. The London Co-operative Society was fashioned in 1920 by the merger of the Stratford Co-operative Society and the Edmonton Co-operative Society and I feel this was constructed for the Stratford society.
A couple of yards north alongside Hoe Avenue I took a few footage of the enterprise on the nook with Albert Highway
I beloved the detailing right here with a quite glum wanting face holding up a column beside the door. Sadly I can’t learn the primary phrase of the identify of the corporate right here from the angle I photographed this or the subsequent body, simply DISTRIBUTORS LTD. But it surely did appear a barely uncommon commerce to be WHOLESALERS OF CARNIVAL HATS & NOVELTIES.
This property is now totally residential a has a brand new fence on high of a low wall round it with a small backyard space.
At this level I went to Walthamstow Central Station and took the Victoria Line to Finsbury Park. I can’t now bear in mind why I made a decision to maneuver to a unique space however maybe I merely thought the park at Finsbury Park could be a nice place eat my sandwich lunch. I left the station by the Wells terrace entrance and walked alongside to Stroud Inexperienced Highway.
In addition to the marginally uncommon doorway, it appeared to be nearly barricaded by the crops rising in entrance to the door, however the stairs on the skin instructed an alternate entry.
Extra from Finsbury Park in a later put up.
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