This continues my posts on my stroll in Walworth on eighth January 1989. The earlier publish was Walworth Highway, Harker’s Studios & John Ruskin.
From John Ruskin Road I walked again to Camberwell Highway and turned south to stroll the quick distance to the subsequent turning on the west aspect, Grosvenor Terrace
Clubland, designed by Sir Edward Maufe was opened in 1939 as “essentially the most celebrated and controversial enterprise in church youth work of the twentieth Century“, launched by the Reverend James Butterworth (1897-1977) as ‘a home for friendship for girls and boys exterior any church’. The previous Wesleyan Methodist Church on the positioning whose small congregation primarily drove in from the suburbs was pulled down and changed by this ‘Temple of Youth’. After bombing within the struggle, the constructing was rebuilt and reopened by the Queen Mom in 1964. It now has the message ‘METHODIST CHURCH’ above the door in addition to the CLUBLAND’ signal.
Though the Clubland entrance stays the identical, there may be now a brand new Methodist Church right here and this a part of with its mission assertion ‘CLUBLAND – LOYALTY & SERVICE’ in addition to the dove dive-bombing the illuminated METHODIST CHURCH signal have gone. The boards displaying the actions supplied by the church embody the Freddie Mills Membership and Wesley Guild in addition to providers and youth membership conferences. Each the sign up Japanese and the Bethel Apostolic Church and Calvary Therapeutic Temple mirror the multicultural nature of the world.
These well-proportioned giant Georgian terrace homes are nonetheless there on Camberwell Rd, most now divided into a lot of flats. The terrace of 15 homes is on the west aspect of the highway south of Urlwin St reverse the tip of Burgess Park. Most are actually residential and one has been restored with the bottom and basement flooring and “a brand new rear extension to turn out to be an enterprise workspace for structure and planning”.
This huge property at 86 Camberwell Highway is now no less than 19 flats. In response to the Survey of London, “No. 86 Camberwell Highway and the buildings forming the doorway to the yard subsequent to it have been erected in 1814–15 (as No. 16 Grosvenor Place) for Messrs. Garland and Fieldwick, masons and builders. The agency continued to occupy the premises till 1869.” A plate exhibits a 1951 {photograph} when the buildings have been occupied by various companies, together with one with ‘Branches Over South London ‘ promoting ‘Gold Medal Poultry, Canine, Pigeon & Chicken Meals’ with the embellished constructing promoting what seems to be ‘Feather Flake Flour’.
Though these finely embellished buildings are nonetheless there on the Camberwell Rd they’ve been smartened up and altered. The carriage entrance within the central part has disappeared and the smaller window above it changed and this part of the constructing made symmetrical. There are additionally now two home windows in the precise hand part making this additionally symmetrical; each home windows are new, however an inexpensive match with the earlier window. A discretely set again flooring has been added on the precise two-thirds of the constructing. There isn’t a longer the big signal on the left wall of the entrance yard of the property which fairly attracted me – and the wall has been changed by a fence. It’s a good conversion however I most well-liked the fairly extra quirky model in my footage.
Since 2014 the bottom flooring of three Addington Sq. has been Fowlds Cafe, on the nook of Addington Sq. and Kitson Highway however the upholstery enterprise, a household enterprise since 1926, apparently continues upstairs.
The fairly curiously formed Addington Sq. was developed between 1810 and 1850, and I believe this at 13-16 was most likely one of many pretty early teams of homes. The railings in entrance have been solely added round 1960 however are additionally included within the Grade II itemizing. Presumably they have been a substitute for some eliminated for wartime metallic enchantment. I believe all the homes within the central a part of the sq. are listed.
On the north aspect of the sq. was the Camberwell Basin of the Royal Surrey Canal, accomplished in 1810, and the primary homes to be constructed within the sq., now 47 and 48, have been for its engineer Nathaniel Simmonds. In 1820 one among south London’s first swimming baths opened beside the canal and a second got here later. There have been formidable plans for the canal to proceed, at first to Mitcham and additional afield, but it surely by no means crossed the Camberwell Highway. There have been wharves for stone on the canal financial institution, with a small dock.
On the proper of the image the place the baths and canal as soon as have been is now park. The baths had turn out to be very a lot old-fashioned in direction of the tip of the nineteenth century and had been transformed right into a laundry, however have been demolished by Camberwell Council in 1901 for the positioning to turn out to be a refuse depot. In 1938 this turned one among many parks created throughout the nation as a memorial to King George V, and within the Seventies turned part of the Burgess Park. The sq. was in such a dilapidated state in 1970 that it wanted a public marketing campaign to cease the GLC demolishing it to turn out to be a part of the brand new park that now surrounds it.
To be continued. The primary publish on this stroll was Elephant, Faraday, Spurgeon & Walworth Highway.
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