Battersea Park, Flour Mill and Somerset Property continues my stroll on Friday 4th August 1989 in Battersea from the earlier put up, The Raven, Villas, Mansion Flats & A Bridge. The stroll started with Council flats, Piles of Bricks, A Home Hospital and Brasserie.
I’m not what was taking place in Battersea Park, and maybe I had arruved too early.
A tree near the tent had a slightly odd piece of fencing round it and I additionally photographed this, each with the tent and by itself, although I’ve not put that on-line. I walked on to the Peace Pagoda and took one other three pctures – once more not posted on-line, as a result of it was slightly higher in color – I believe there are eleven pictures within the color album for 1989.
And I nonetheless can’t let you know what was taking place within the park, however here’s a image I believe I took a bit later earlier than I made a decision to go away and proceed my stroll.
I returned west in the direction of the centre of Battersea. Again in 1989 the riverside at Battersea was nonetheless lined with business and there was no path west beside the river and I had to return from the park alongside Parkgate Rd after which cross Battersea Bridge Street and stroll alongside Battersea Church Street.
There my eye was caught by this slightly odd graffiti – again then there was far much less on partitions in London. I couldn’t decode what the drawing on the wall was meant to symbolize and I nonetheless can’t. On one aspect of the darkish field within the nook was a cartoon rabbit with two phrases of affection ‘Hun’ and ‘Snoocums’ with extra the extra comprehendible message throughout its door with a coronary heart and ‘JOSIE 4 ARNIE’. At proper was an open gate and there have been additionally some attention-grabbing shadows.
On Battersea Church Street was the nonetheless busy manufacturing facility of Rank Hovis Ltd though a lot of the opposite business together with the Morgan Crucible Firm had already gone and its website changed by housing, starting at Morgan’s Stroll property in 1984.
The mill right here had begun in 1788 with an uncommon horizontal windmill constructed by Thomas Fowler to crush linseed for the oil for paints, however a number of years later grew to become used for grinding corn and barley. Round 1825 the mill was taken down and changed by a steam engine. The mill grew and was finally taken over by the Mayhew household within the Nineties as Mark Mayhew Mill.
In 1914 the Mayhew’s enterprise was purchased by Joseph Rank and have become run by Rank’s second son Rowland who used his father’s Hull architects Sir Alfred Gelder and Llewellyn Kitchen to reconstruct and enlarge the location. They managed to get the LCC to waive rules on constructing heights to assemble the biggest grain silos in London in order that an entire lighter filled with grain might be unloaded at a time.
In 1962, Ranks acquired Hovis McDougal, turning into Rank Hovis McDougal, although by 1989 the McDougal appears to have disappeared. The mills had been up to date and produced as much as 10 tonnes of white flour an hour, utilizing primarily UK wheat delivered by lorry, although some got here from Canada and was delivered by barge from Tilbury Docks.
The mills solely lastly closed round 1992, and had been demolished in 1997; the location is now occupied by the tall triangle of Richard Roger’s Montevetro riverside flats, lined at some size by the Survey of London.
Throughout the highway to the south of the highway in 1989 was the very completely different triangle of the Dimson Corridor Social Membership, a part of the intensive Somerset Property begun by the GLC in 1962 and accomplished by the London Borough of Wandsworth. This group centre was named after GLC councillor Gladys Dimson who was the GLC housing chair from 1973-77. A colleague of Ken Livingstone, she was additionally concerned with each Shelter and the settlement of Toynbee Corridor in East London.
Presently flats on the Somerset Property are marketed at round nearly couple of 1,000,000 kilos lower than their close to neighbours in Montevetro.
The riverside developments on the river in Battersea though usually controversial do imply there’s now a riverside path alongside just about the entire size. Again in 1989 there was I believe no entry for the general public between Battersea Bridge and St Mary’s Church the place the subsequent put up on this stroll will start.
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