This submit about my stroll on Sunday thirteenth November continues from Gardens, Neckinger, Silver Sea, Particular Ladies & Deaf Boys.
Flats, A Sq., Bread & Funerals – Walworth 1988
My stroll continued on the opposite facet of the Previous Kent Street, in Walworth, the place late Victorian housing was partly changed by fashionable council estates within the Thirties and Nineteen Sixties. I wandered by means of the Congreve/Barlow property getting somewhat misplaced, as I typically did in such locations, the place road maps just like the miniature A-Z I at all times carried in a pocket have been seldom of a lot use. The older homes listed below are in Tatum St, with these on the proper additional again in Halpin Place.
The passageway during which I used to be standing is between Ellery Home on my proper and the longer block of Povey Home on my left, each relationship from round 1964 and a part of Southwark Council’s Barlow Property.
Thelow wall on the left in entrance of Comus Home was clearly designed for youngsters to stroll on prime, and I discovered a small group doing so. The constructing on the appropriate at 5 Congreve St can be nonetheless there, and has been in use by the Redeemed Christian Church Of God (RCCG) since 1997. I’m not certain whether or not it was nonetheless in use as a manufacturing unit after I made this image, or what was made there.
I believe this was the rear of a website entered from a yard on the Previous Kent Street, probably Preston Shut, the entrance a part of which was redeveloped in round 2005. Excavations on that a part of the positioning by the The Museum of London Archaeology Service after it was cleared prompt it might need been the positioning of a Roman mausoleum.
On the finish of the road you may see Townsend Major Faculty, nonetheless very a lot in use.
The block is part of the Barlow/Congreve Property and was in-built 1957 for Southwark Council. The image is from the nook of Congreve St and Comus Place.
The blue plaque on 42 Surrey Squareclose to the centre of the image information that artist Samuel Palmer (1805 – 1881) was born right here, just some years after this road was developed in 1793-4 by architect Michael Searles. His plan included homes across the different three sides of a sq. however these have been by no means constructed.
My Surrey Sq. Park describes this as “the one remaining group of 18th century home buildings in Walworth with any pretension to architectural high quality“.
A church, All Saints was in-built 1864-65 to the designs of R. Parris and S. Subject, however broken by bombing in WW2 and changed by a somewhat plain church designed by N F Cachemaille-Day in 1959. This turned redundant when parished have been merged in 1977 and is now in use as The Church of the Lord (Aladura) and is their Europe Diocese HQ.
I used to be standing in entrance of the church with it out of image to my proper as I made this image which exhibits the church corridor, an Arts and Crafts model constructing relationship from round 1900. It was used for quite a lot of functions after the church closed and is since 2019 the Walworth Residing Room, a neighborhood house.
Dalwoods High quality Bakers and High quality Confectioners on the nook of Bagshot St and Smyrk’s Method was closed after I made this image on a Sunday morning however nonetheless in enterprise.
I used to be somewhat interested in the show font used for DALWOODS and BAKERS though I couldn’t put a reputation to it, maybe a Thirties Deco contact? One thing very related got here free with the primary Desk Prime Publishing package deal I taught, and it was considered one of a number of of which college students would make extremely inappropriate use. It somewhat contrasted to the offered block serifs of ‘HOME MADE BREAD’ above the window, finest seen within the earlier picture.
The store has modified fingers since then and now presents the somewhat much less tasty number of ‘Hair, Nails, Cosmetics & Vogue Wears’ (sic) as a unisex hair salon and boutique. The shopfront has additionally been redesigned with smaller home windows and canopies over the home windows.
One other enterprise shopfront, for J W Simpson’s Funeral Service, with the phrase CREMATIONS over the coach entrance at left, suggesting to me an on-site service for anybody misguided sufficient to drive into it. The clock had suffered some broken, with a clean black space above the face the place one of many two texts partly seen under had as soon as fitted.
I disliked the fussy little bricks that had been imposed on the entrance extension of the store, however they maybe look much less annoying now because the concrete partitions across the entrance backyard have gone to make room for a parking house in entrance of what’s nonetheless a funeral director. It’s one enterprise that by no means runs out of purchasers.
My stroll will proceed ….
Tags: Albany Rd, All Saints, Bagshot St, Bakers, Barlow Property, Church Corridor, Comus Home, Congreve Property, Congreve St, council estates, Dalwoods, Ellery Home, manufacturing unit, Funeral Companies, J W Simpson, London, London Pictures, Previous Kent Street, peter Marshall, Povey Home, RCCG, Samuel Palmer, Smyrk’s Method, Southwark, Surrey Sq., Walworth, Walworth Residing Room
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