The earlier publish on this stroll in New Cross on 18th December 1988 was A Mattress, Pub, Cinema, Listed Pipe & Naval Baroque
New Cross – Retailers, Closed Pubs & Baths: The 4 retailers on the left of the image are nonetheless there on New Cross Highway at 257-263, however the buildings at proper have gone, changed by a grassed space on the street main as much as Sainsbury’s petrol station and three buying warehouses. The antiques store nonetheless appeared a lot the identical till round 2017.
Earlier than the positioning to the suitable which stretches to New Cross Gate station was developed for Sainsbury’s most was a railway items yard and works. Planning permission was granted for the event in 1995. Previous maps present this web site was a public home again in 1914 and it was The Railway Tavern which was nonetheless open in an image from the Nineteen Forties which clearly is that this identical constructing.
This huge indifferent home at 288 New Cross Highway subsequent to Deptford City Corridor is now part of Goldsmiths College. It was inbuilt 1842 as Hope Cottage and not less than from 1914 to 1940 till later was the District Postal Sorting Workplace.
Sadly the lengthy textual content on the door is inconceivable to learn, however I believe it informed you to ro spherical to the again as an alternative.
A advantageous Victorian swimming baths, slipper baths and laundries offered by St Paul’s Deptford sacristy in 1895-98 utilizing their powers beneath the 1846 Public Baths and Wash-houses Act, designed by native architect Thomas Dinwiddy and properly described in its Grade II itemizing textual content.
The baths appeared to me moderately overegged with these little turrets and the wall with its moderately ornate and substantial piers was a temptation I couldn’t resist, outlining its moderately phallic profile with the darkness of its doorway behind.
The premises have been firmly divided into two halves for women and men, and naturally I selected a publish with the phrase ‘MEN’ in a moderately fancy font for this image.
These moderately strong and closely constructed homes are reverse the baths in Laurie Grove and I feel in all probability have been constructed across the identical date.
These retailers at 297-309 New Cross Highway are apparently nonetheless there, although restored or rebuilt in a means that removes each the assorted signage and the individuality of the models, producing a protracted coherent terrace extending from to 289 to 321 (287 nonetheless appears a bit of totally different.)
There was extra character once I photographed the row, with what I feel is an unlit neon signal ‘GREY FOR HMV’ and ‘EATWELL’S THE REAL BUTCHER’ who had declared warfare on rising costs and have been you could possibly get monetary savings. A cooked meat and sausage specialist, they equipped lodges, canteens and delivery.
A way alongside New Cross Highway was the London Tyre Warehouse, its adverts masking the facet of The Fox public home at No. 62. In enterprise right here since not less than 1851 it closed round 1997 and planning permission was granted to alter the pub and the warehouse to a spot or worship together with a free meals distribution centre.
It’s now the Bethesda Constructing owned by Christ Religion Tabernacle Worldwide.
This stroll will proceed in a later publish.
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