Retailers, Flats, Commerce Unions, Monks… continues my stroll round Clapham on Sunday twenty eighth Could 1989. The earlier put up was Voltaire, Billiards & Methodists and the stroll started with Lavender Hill & Wandsworth Rd – 1989.
The moderately charming three stroy constructing occupied on the bottom movement not less than by Julia Two has gone and along with the low utilitarian retailers to the precise has been changed by one of many ugliest buildings on Clapham Excessive Road. However the buildings to the left stay, though with altered store fronts, as do these on the opposite aspect of Venn St.
The Barclays Financial institution on the nook of Venn St dates from 1895 and closed just a few years in the past.
I walked on additional alongside Clapham Excessive Road and on alongside Clapham Frequent Southside earlier than turning down Crescent Lane to wander round a few of the streets to the south. Worsopp Drive is likely one of the roads in Lambeth’s Notre Dame Property off Cresecnt Lane in an enviable location only a quick stroll south of Clapham Frequent. The property was inbuilt 1947-1952 when this was a part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth on the location of the previous Notre Dame Convent. It’s a combination of various low and medium rise brick properties and these 8 storey blocks are the tallest.
I don’t know why I didn’t {photograph} the Clapham Orangery which was retained on the centre of the property, however I think about there was some good purpose.
From the property I returned to Crescent Lane the place I photographed UCW Home, then the house of the Union of Communication Staff. In line with the Clapham Society, round 1920 a home on this web site was offered to the Amalgamated Union of Constructing Commerce Staff to be used as their headquarters, and renamed ‘The Builders. Within the Thirties, the Union of Put up Workplace Staff purchased the constructing and the location was divided between the 2 unions, with each commissioning new buildings with architect L AS Culliford. This constructing was opened in spetember 1937, with a additional storey being added in 1976.
The union, by then the Union of Communication Staff , offered the constructing as workplaces to he Metropolitan Huusing Belief in 1998. They moved out in 2012 and it was transformed to residential use as Metropolitan Crescent.
On the south finish of Crescent Lane I was Abbeville Highway, strolling alongside it to the junction with Park Hill the place I made my subsequent image.
I first photographed this register 1980 and posted this about that image once I put it on Flickr:
Govette is initially a French identify, and a few them came to visit with William the Conqueror again in 1066 and got land in Somerset. The identify was usually spelt with out the ultimate ‘e’.
Govette Metallic & Glass Works, a household agency and was established in 1956 in Clapham, and within the Nineteen Seventies break up up into a number of divisions, with Govette’s remaining in Clapham. They closed the manufacturing unit there within the mid-nineties and specialised within the provide, set up and glazing of metal home windows and doorways, establishing Govette Home windows Ltd in 1996, and at the moment are primarily based in Whyteleafe. In addition they now have a manufacturing unit in South Godstone.
I walked again alongside Abbeville Highway after which up St Alphonsus Rd to the place it bends at a proper angle to the east.
St Mary’s Roman Catholic church in Clapham Park Highway whose spire seems within the background of this image was inbuilt 1849-51. The Redemptorists are a Catholic missionary congregation and got here from Belium to set arrange homes within the UK, together with this Grade II* listed monastery in Clapham designed by J F Bentley in Artwork and Craft Gothic fashion and inbuilt 1892-3.
I continued to the top of the highway and turned left into Clapham Park Highway going again to Clapham Excessive Road as I needed to take one other image of the Put up Workplace on Venn St – which I posted in a earlier put up. I got here again down Venn St to Bromell’s Highway.
You possibly can nonetheless see this alley on Bromwells Highway however the view down in is far much less attention-grabbing, with not one of the bridges linking 20 with 22 throughout the road remaining. The buildings on Bromwells Highway have been refurbished and people seen down the alley rebuilt or changed, althhough I believe that on the finish of the alley remains to be there. However what seemed like a avenue with numerous small workshops is now a lot tidier.
The account of my stroll will proceed in a later put up.
Tags: 18-20 Bromells Rd, 1989, Abbeville Rd, alley, Clapham, Clapham Excessive St, Crescent Lane, flats, Govette, Lambeth, London, London Photographs, Could, Monks, Notre Dame Property, Park Hill, peter Marshall, retailers, St Alphonsus Rd, St Mary’s Redemptorist Monastery, commerce unions, UCW Home, Union of Communication Staff
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