My earlier publish on this stroll, West Lane & Spa Highway Bermondsey 1988, ended within the Longfield esate on Fort Highway.
I met this man working I feel someplace on the Longfield Property, and as typically occurs he was thinking about seeing me wandering round with a digital camera and stopped his work to pose for me.
Streets akin to Alma Grove and one I had walked down earlier within the space Balaclava Rod clearly present that this space was constructed up across the time of the Crimean Struggle of 1853-6. when Britain and its allies, France, the Ottoman Empire and Piedmont-Sardinia defeated Russia. It was a struggle largely about Palestine (then a part of the Ottoman Empire) and the relative spiritual rights there for the Orthodox Church, backed by Russia and the Roman Catholic Church, but additionally towards imperial growth by Russia because the Turkish Ottoman empire was declining. The Allies landed in Crimea gained a battle at Alma in September 1854, then managed to repel a Russian counterattack in October at Balaclava, however with heavy British losses.
The Crimean Struggle was an essential milestone within the historical past of pictures as the primary to be broadly recorded in images, taken utilizing the cumbersome wet-plate course of by Roger Fenton, whose work was additionally part of what was in all probability the primary main mass propaganda train aimed on the rising British center class and industrial working class.
The notorious Cost of the Mild Brigade came about at Balaclava, and Lord Lucan who handed on the deceptive order which led to it had his house near the place I now reside. Although the native Lucan Arms pub named in his household’s honour is now satirically renamed ‘The Retreat’.
Strolling westwards alongside Southwark Park Highway takes you, after the junction with Dunton Highway into Grange Highway, the place I admired the frontage of the Grange Café. THis later grew to become the Jasmine Backyard Chinese language take-away and is now Hen World, however has lengthy since misplaced its fascinating frontage, although the pillars at every finish stay.
Though there was as soon as {a magazine} ‘Eternally Two Wheels’ or ‘FTW’ I believe the title of this motorbike store on Grange Highway in all probability got here from the initials of its proprietor. Ii suppose this store and the row of homes has since been demolished. In addition to promoting motorbikes it was additionally a motorcycle breaker, stripping down bikes now not in working order to promote as spare elements.
The Look In providing Home Clearances and Removals was very firmly shuttered and closed once I made this image in 1988. Actually I couldn’t look in. It was subsequent to F T W bikes. The store at left seems to be quantity 85, however numbering in Grange Highway is troublesome to observe. I feel these retailers have been shortly after changed by a fairly nameless housing block.
As I used to be photographing the store fronts this man got here out from FTW Bikes and we talked for a couple of minutes, after which I requested him if I may take his {photograph}. I took two frames and each are just a bit sharper on the shopfront than on his face.
I went on from right here to take a lot of footage of the Alaska Works, the place my subsequent publish on this stroll will start.
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