Citroen & Extra Clapham continues my stroll on Sunday twenty eighth Might 1989. The earlier submit was North St, Rectory Gardens & Rectory Grove and the stroll started with Lavender Hill & Wandsworth Rd – 1989.
Though automobiles in my footage now typically appeal to consideration after I submit the on Flickr, I seldom intentionally photographed them, however that is one exception. I feel even I may need recognized this as a Citroen, nevertheless it was solely after I posted it that certainly one of my common commenters recognized it as courting from 1938. So it was 51 years previous after I took its image, and apparently remains to be round and nonetheless taxed for street use.
The home it’s parked in entrance of is 12 Rectory Grove, on the finish of a brief Grade II listed terrace at 12-18, which dates it solely as “Early-mid C19”.
I walked again south down Rectory Grove, once more passing the doorway to Rectory Gardens which I wrote about in my earlier submit on this stroll. As you may see there are retailers on Rectory Grove, one nonetheless open in 1989 and I feel promoting pottery. These buildings had been moderately grander than these in Rectory Gardens, with three storeys. Between the 2 retailers was I feel the doorway to flats above. There was one other store past this nook constructing and should as soon as have been a pair extra, though these had been I feel residential in 1989.
Persevering with south I got here to Previous City and The Polygon with this Grade II listed nook store with its row of seven giant oilmen’s jars above its mid-Nineteenth century store fronts. The constructing itself is probably a little bit over 100 years earlier.
Oilmen bought oil to the general public, primarily to be used in lighting earlier than the introduction of fuel and electrical lighting, and infrequently used historical pots and their footage in promoting. Giant jars of this form had been used for the transport of oil by ship, typically containing round 20 gallons, and when full these thick earthenware vessels will need to have weighed 70 kilograms or extra. They had been protected in transit with rope instances, however transferring them will need to have been heavy work.
However I feel these could nicely have been ‘single-use’ moderately than being returned to supply for refilling. Jars had been typically sawn in half as in Clapham as store indicators within the Nineteenth century and had been at all times then painted pink, and infrequently fastened like these above the store home windows. Many got here from the Mediterranean stuffed with olive oil, although whale oil was extra generally used for lighting till the availability fell off and it was changed by mineral oils.
Designed by William Nevin as a Baptist Church in 1889, the constructing was renovated and opened because the Individuals’s Church in 1959. Bought after the roof collapsed, it’s now the Grafton Sq. Surgical procedure and The Grafton house constructing, the place a loft flat bought just lately for round £2m.
I’d photographed this ornament above the store Pyramid only some weeks earlier, however the lighting was proper and I couldn’t resist making one other image – and I used to be additionally eager to get a greater picture of the crest. Right here’s what I wrote about it earlier:
Strolling down the road took me the Previous City, the place the sunshine was exhibiting the system on the home at No 12 right here with its proverb ‘CONTENTEMENT PASSE RICHESSE‘, the motto of the Atkins-Bowyer household. Richard Bowyer (d1820) had taken on the title when he inherited the Manor of Clapham from Sir Richard Atkins of Clapham. I’ve by no means fairly labored out what the reduction which is believed to have come from the previous Manor Home is supposed to depict.
Again in 1989 I didn’t personal a good lengthy telephoto lens – the longest I owned had been a 90mm for the Leica and a 105mm for the Olympus. I feel this was most likely taken with the 105mm and the system on the wall is actually clearer, however no simpler for me to interpret. On the prime there look like three animals with a fowl, maybe an ostrich standing on prime of what might be a crocodile or dragon or hound with maybe a snake on the fowl’s again, its head happening to the croc.
Under that with the motto unfold over it’s what might be fabric hanging from spars or maybe flames or who is aware of what, and on the backside a defend with stripes and what appears to be like like two chickens with their wings up above and one beneath a row of stars. Maybe others will know extra and remark.
The previous manor home was solely lastly demolished in 1837, although its octagonal tower had been taken down round 1810, maybe as a result of it was unsafe. It was most likely this tower that led to the road laid out on the positioning, close to St Paul’s Clapham being named Turret Grove.
Persevering with south alongside The Pavement took me to this massive 1936 growth of flats on 5 storeys with some little attention-grabbing At Deco options of which this gate submit and porch are maybe one of the best. I feel that the submit (and its associate on the opposite facet of the doorway) could have been constructed to assist an entrance gentle, however there was no signal of it. The constructing, which extends again a ways in a roughly H-shape changed three current buildings on The Pavement.
It was designed by J J de Segrais and three of its prime flooring flats on this facet have balconies with views over Clapham Frequent. On the centre slightly below roof stage is a small sculptural ornament which I didn’t attempt to {photograph}. Trinity Shut is is joined at its north facet to a different giant Nineteen Thirties block of flats, Windsor Courtroom (which for some cause I didn’t {photograph}.) It has the date A. D, 1935 on its ‘moderne’ frontage and retailers alongside its floor flooring. A tunnel by a large entrance on the proper of this block results in the rear of each blocks.
Extra on this stroll to comply with.
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