The earlier put up on this stroll is Evelina, Sassoon, Queens Highway, Montpelier and Mazawattee. The photographs right here come from the ultimate movie on my stroll on 18th December 1988. I solely completed the movie and developed in it January 1989 so they seem in my Flickr album for 1989.
‘Riders of the Apocalypse’ was painted by Brian Barnes on the tip property of Sanford Housing Co-operative in 1983. Pupil Co-operative Dwellings (SCD) was based in 1968 by John Arms and colleagues and campaigned for 5 years lobbying parliament and on the lookout for land till the federal government and Lewisham Council agreed to permit them the construct Sanford Co-operative Dwellings. This was the primary purpose-designed co-op scheme for the younger and cell, and was accomplished in October 1974.
Chilly Blow Lane within the nineteenth century led to Chilly Blow Farm, now lengthy gone. Within the 1850s the Croydon Railway constructed a number of tracks over it, and considered one of these went on the bridge whose two piers will be seen on this image although the bridge has gone. Railway tracks nonetheless go over the lane, and I took this image near the exit of the lengthy tunnel that goes beneath them. On the finish of the lane is Mercury Means, and Chilly Blow Lane turns at 90 levels to go south.
Straight forward, beneath one other railway line, was ‘The Den’, then the house of Millwall Soccer Membership, and I feel the highest of a stand is simply seen within the image. On the wall at left, amongst different graffiti is the message ‘Dwelling of the Lions’
I feel I made this and the following image from a footpath simply to the north of the Surrey Canal Highway. The contact sheet offers a grid reference 356781 and this will likely present a part of the world which is now Millwall’s floor in Senegal Fields.
You may nonetheless see this lengthy vary of buildings on Stockholm Highway, simply south of The Den. and parallel with Surrey Canal Highway, occupied by a variety of business firms. I think about they date from when the Surrey Canal mattress was stuffed in and the street bulit by Lewisham Council within the early Eighties.
Since 1993, the Millwall soccer floor has been on Senegal Fields. The footpath now runs subsequent to the brand new Millwall Stadium after which beneath the railway traces which have some very spectacular Victorian brickwork.
These are many of the traces out of London Bridge Station which start to diverge on this space. You may see all three bridges on this image. This was a really run-down space and the deserted elements of a moped at proper appeared an acceptable method to categorical this.
I circled right here and walked again south throughout the Surrey Canal Highway and to Bridgehouse Meadows.
This was the location of the previous New Cross Stadium opened as an athletics stadium within the early 1900s however from the Nineteen Thirties used for greyhound racing and speedway earlier than its closure in 1969. For some years Millwall FC whose outdated floor was subsequent to it used it for coaching. The stadium was demolished in 1975 and there have been bold plans for it’s a part of the location of a brand new floor for the membership – however these fell via and the brand new stadium was ultimately constructed additional north.
This manufacturing unit has been demolished and new housing constructed instead. I feel this web site was additionally a part of the over-ambitious plans for enlargement by Millwall who needed to take over an enormous space.
The trail via the meadows crosses the Surrey Canal Highway on a bridge you’ll be able to see within the distance, now not current. Either side of the park space now have new housing.
That is a part of a web site for travellers on Ilderton Rd and this home continues to be there, although there have been no Christmas window decorations once I final walked previous – however that was on a housing protest march in March 2017, the place we stopped briefly on the Bermondsey Travellers Website. Behind is the railway line from South Bermondsey Station subsequent door to the location the place my stroll ended.
This was the final image from my stroll on December 18th and accomplished a collection of walks round this a part of South-East London. My walks in 1989 started across the Elephant.
Tags: Brian Barnes, Bridgehouse Meadows, Chilly Blow Lane, Ilderton Rd, Lewisham, London, London Photographs, Millwall, mural, New Cross, peter Marshall, Railway Bridges, Riders of the Apocalypse, Sanford Housing Cooperative, Senegal Fields, South Bermondsey, Southwark, Surrey Canal Highway
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