The earlier submit on this stroll I made on 18th December 1988 was New Cross – Outlets, Closed Pubs & Baths.
Pepys Highway and Nunhead Cemetery
Pepys Highway is part of the massive Telegraph Hill conservation space designated a few years after I made this image. It’s a late Victorian deliberate residential property in what was then often called Hatcham and principally consists of somewhat comparable homes constructed by two native builders on a reasonably steep hillside owned by the Haberdashers’ Firm between 1870 and 1899. I don’t suppose there may be any specific connection between Samuel Pepys and Pepys Highway, however definitely he was continuously within the space each for his work as Secretary to the Admiralty very a lot concerned in Deptford’s Royal Dockyard and visiting John Evelyn at Sayes Court docket. The semaphore telegraph on the high of the hill which provides the world its title arrived later in 1795.
These two homes, Silverdale and Thornhill are on the west facet of the road at 62 and 64, and are a part of an extended succession of roughly equivalent properties on either side of the road. However these had been the one pair with an ice-cream van exterior after I made this image.
Most likely due to its uniformity I took few photos on my lengthy stroll up the hill on Pepys Rd, simply a few photos on the high of the hill of Hatcham Faculty, one in all which (not digitised) consists of the statue of Robert Aske, one in all solely 5 listed buildings within the conservation space, the others all being phone kiosks!
I used to be on my solution to Nunhead Cemetery, one of many ‘Magnificent Seven’ nice cemeteries arrange across the then outskirts of London as its inhabitants was rising quickly and the small parish cemeteries within the metropolis had been changing into dangerously overcrowded.
Parliament handed an act selling the institution of personal cemeteries exterior central London in 1832 and within the following decade seven had been established – in date order Kensal Inexperienced, West Norwood, Highgate (West), Abney Park, Brompton, Nunhead and Tower Hamlets.
Nunhead, initially often called All Saints’ Cemetery, was established by the London Cemetery Firm in 1840 and is without doubt one of the least well-known of the seven although it’s the second largest at 52 acres.
Monetary difficulties triggered its closure in 1969 and it was purchased for £1 by Southwark Borough in 1975. In 1981 the Pals of Nunhead Cemetery was fashioned and along with the council started the restoration of the cemetery which was reopened to the general public in 2001.
I feel my photos had been taken on a Sunday afternoon tour led by the Pals. The embrace a few of the extra notable monuments within the cemetery which you will discover out far more about on the Pals website online they usually supply common guided excursions, however you’ll be able to wander freely by yourself because the cemetery is open to the general public each day and you will discover a helpful map on the net.
The Wikipedia entry on Nunhead Cemetery lists plenty of notable folks whose graves are within the cemetery, however few had been acquainted names to me. One who very a lot made an affect on London was Sir George Thomas Livesey (1834 – 1908), engineer, industrialist and philanthropist and chairman of the South Metropolitan Fuel Firm. One other was Thomas Tilling, who gave London its first double-decker buses and was for a few years England’s main bus operator. Allegedly ‘Tom Tilling’ turned Cockney rhyming slang for a shilling coin, although I by no means heard it used.
The Brockley footpath runs alongside the southwest fringe of Nunhead Cemetery and I used to be in a position to depart the cemetery and stroll down it again in the direction of Nunhead. You’ll be able to exit the cemetery on Limesford Highway and stroll alongside this to the trail.
My stroll will proceed in one other submit shortly.
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