Shaftesbury Park & Latchmere Highway: Persevering with my stroll in Clapham on Saturday July twenty ninth 1989 which started with Some Insanity and Homes in Clapham. The earlier publish was A Chateau, Wix’s Lane & Shaftesbury.
Thes two handcarts on Ashbury Highway near the nook with Grayshott Highway took me straight again to my childhood. Tradesmen generally used such carts to hold their gear and supplies across the streets again within the Fifties, and my father continued utilizing his till he retired within the late Nineteen Sixties every time he wanted greater than he may keep it up his bicycle.
Ladders, bricks, tiles, sand, plaster, instruments, cookers, fridges, bee hives and extra could be carted across the streets of Hounslow and neighbouring areas. Dad by no means owned a automobile or a van, although in his youth he had ridden a motorbike. Typically I’d be recruited to tug the cart, and when youthful nonetheless I typically bought a trip on it when he needed to take care of me whereas he was working as a plumber, painter and decorator, electrician, plasterer, bricklayer and many others. Although social companies now would have a match if he took me up with him to control whereas he was roofing.
And as a Boy Scout in my teenagers I typically helped to tug a trek cart loaded with our tenting gear for a weekend at Chalfont St Peter, setting off alongside busy predominant roads for round 15 miles to the camp web site.
The doorway at left is on the nook of Grayshott Highway and Eversleigh Highway, the place above the porch on the opposite facet of the street is the date 1878 and the intertwined initials of the Artizans’, Labourers’, & Common Dwellings Firm. I’ve written in earlier posts concerning the firm and you too can learn a way more detailed account within the Survey of London’s Shaftesbury Park Property chapter.
A more in-depth view of the porches on among the homes on Eversleigh Highway – these are on the southern facet of the road. The uniformity of the lengthy terrace is enlivened by the occasional gable with a slender window within the attic storey although any room there will need to have been solely dimly lit and with steeply sloping sides. However servants weren’t stored in luxurious.
Within the distance you may simply make out the octagonal turret with a steep roof, nearly a spire, on the finish of the terrace at No 44.
On the triangular websites on the corners of Eversleigh Highway and each Ashbury Highway and Kingsley Avenue are relatively extra substantial indifferent homes. This doorway is on Kingsley Avenue however the deal with is eighteen Eversleigh Highway. These ‘Gothic’ Homes had been designed for the extra affluent ‘clerk’ lessons and had been the costliest of 4 lessons of housing constructed on the property, intentionally making a social combine. However even the smallest ‘Class 4’ two bed room homes had been too costly for the various poorer working class households.
I made my approach west out of the Shaftesbury Park Property onto Latchmere Highway and turned north in the direction of the railway. On the east facet of the street is a brief terrace of the property, however the west facet may be very totally different, and even comprises a pub, one thing the property, constructed on temperance rules, lacked. Most likely lots of its residents made their away throughout Latchmere Highway to the Fox and Hounds, though maybe few may afford it because the property rents had been excessive.
A number of yards additional north, subsequent to the railway strains was the Iglesia Ni Christo, Church of Christ. The church was based within the Phillipines in 1913 and it now has 2.8 million worshippers there. Its founder Felix Y Manalo grew to become dissatisfied with the theology of the established church buildings, finally establishing his personal which claims to be based mostly on the true church established by Jesus Christ within the first century and rejects the standard Christian perception within the Trinity for a perception in solely ‘God the Father’ because the one true God.
The church now has members in “165 nations and territories within the six inhabited continents of the world” and has round 50 church buildings throughout the UK. The Latchmere Highway web site is now occupied by a block of flats however there’s an Lglesia Ni Christo additional north in Battersea.
I continued north on Latchmere Highway beneath the lengthy bridge taking 15 tracks out of Clapham Junction throughout the street, adopted instantly by one other bridge with two extra and continued, going beneath yet one more railway bridge a few hundred metres on.
Latchmere Passage is a slender avenue working west from Latchmere Highway after which turning south beneath two relatively small bridges to Falcon Park and one other on to Cabul Highway.
My remaining publish on this stroll will choose up the story right here shortly.
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