Rail, Housing, Matrimony & A Warning: Extra photos from my stroll which started at Vauxhall on Friday twenty eighth July 1989 with 9 Elms Riverside. The earlier put up was Marco Polo, Chelsea Bridge, MAN holder & Convent.
These buildings are nonetheless there in a aspect turning from Silverthorne Highway now resulting in Battersea Studios. Battersea Studios have been inbuilt 1970 as a warehouse for BT and in 1994 grew to become the house of the short-lived BBC Arabic Tv, closed precipitately on Sunday, April 21, 1996 having angered the Saudi regime (and the UK authorities) by its correct and neutral reporting. At excessive left you possibly can see the barrier resulting in that web site.
The buildings within the image have been a part of the Stewarts Lane Items Depot, an enormous space bounded by this and Dickens Avenue to the south and going east to the railway strains at Portslade Rd. It was first arrange by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway in 1860 as Longhedge and used to construct and home locomotives for his or her providers from Victoria Station a brief distance away north of the river. The unique buildings have been demolished in 1880/1 and changed by these as Stewarts Lane which housed steam locomotives till 1963 after which diesels. A lot of the constructing was destroyed by fireplace in 1967.
The depot stays in use because the Stewarts Lane Traction Upkeep Depot and is utilized by each DB Cargo UK and Govia Thameslink Railway.
Additional down Silverthorne Highway to its west is Heath Highway, the north aspect of which retains its enticing Victorian housing, with a block of 4 homes with basements and steps to their paired entrances adopted by 5 with out basements however with the identical type and ornament. On the finish at left of image is the not too long ago construct Kingdom Corridor of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Heath Terrace is on the nook of Silverthorne Highway and Wandsworth Highway and in addition to this nook entrance has two related however barely much less ornate doorways on Wandsworth Highway resulting in sixteen Flats A to P in addition to one other door for a store on Silverthorne Highway half seen in my image then occupied by taxi and transport firm Man Payne Of London Restricted.
The constructing was inbuilt 1897 and the nook door, in use after I made my image in 1989 by Dr A J Ok Ala, nonetheless led to a surgical procedure till round 2012. On the entrance of the site visitors queue is a person on a moped with a big clipboard, finding out the ‘information’ required of taxi drivers.
Matrimony Place is one in all my favorite avenue names, although this place is simply an alley with steps main from Wandsworth Highway to St. Paul’s Churchyard. I’d photographed it a number of years earlier and made a deliberate detour to see if had modified – it was nonetheless a lot the identical.
Presumably it was as soon as the customized for native {couples} to stroll up the 29 steps to the church to be married – or down them after the ceremony, and the identify seems to of some antiquity. The railings have since been changed by a pretend vintage design (in all probability due to the Clapham Society) which I discover relatively much less enticing. It’s in all probability nonetheless a spot to keep away from after darkish until you a in search of medication.
St Paul’s, Clapham was constructed on the location of the unique parish church of Clapham, St Mary’s, renamed Trinity Church on the Protestant Reformation, then demolished in 1774 to be substitute by Holy Trinity on Clapham Frequent. St Paul’s was constructed merely in 1815, grew to become a relatively odd lump after later extension by Sir Arthur Blomfield in 1875, was burnt down in World Warfare 2 and restored in 1955 and is Grade II* listed.
I didn’t go up Matrimony Place however as an alternative turned again westwards down Wandsworth Highway, hardly stopping till I got here to the highest of Victoria Rise which has these relatively spectacular Victorian Terraces on each side. Checked out from this finish the road ought to maybe have been known as Victoria Fall because it goes down noticeably to Clapham Frequent, however you possibly can see why the builders determined in opposition to this. In reality they known as it Victoria Highway, but it surely was modified later as there have been too many of those in London.
The road was laid out round 1853 its decrease finish on the location of an C18 villa constructed for the banker Henry Hoare by Henry Flitcroft referred to as The Wilderness. These homes on the east aspect have been there by the point of the 1869/70 OS survey, although these on the west aspect are slightly later.
A discover within the window at proper states:
YOU ARE WARNED
REPENT AND RECEIVE
THE LORD JESUS AS
YOUR SAVIOUR FOR
LIFE ETERNAL, LEST
YOU DIE SUDDENLY
AND GO TO HELL
WITH THE DEVIL
THE MURDERER.
At left is a window on the nook with Wandsworth Rd with plaster mouldings in a store demolished in 1998, and at proper is Clapham Baptist Church on the alternative nook.
The homes on this aspect of Victoria rise have been constructed between the 1869/70 survey and the 1893 to 1894 revision. There was additionally a chapel right here, the Victoria Baptist Church, inbuilt 1873 however this was badly broken by bombs in 1941. it was rebuilt within the Fifties, incorporating a few of the Victorian stays on its west finish on Wandsworth Highway.
My stroll continued – extra later.
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