South Lambeth & Vauxhall 1989: But once more I’ve discovered some extra photos from my stroll in South Lambeth on nineteenth July 1989, which started with Stockwell Park, Bus Storage, Tower and Mason. This time the images comefrom the tip of the stroll the place I had wrongly remembered my route that day. I didn’t at all times develop movies within the order by which they have been taken and issues typically received quite out of order in my recordsdata.
After taking photos on Outdated South Lambeth Highway I assumed I had merely walked to Vauxhall Station with out taking extra photos. However I now realise I had walked additional up the South Lambeth Highway an had then gone on to take some pictures in Vauxhall.
In a earlier publish I wrote concerning the library and linked to an article on Vauxhall Historical past concerning the fights by folks within the space on a number of events to maintain their library open. Due to their efforts the library, within the coronary heart of Lambeth’s Portuguese neighborhood, continues to be open 5 days per week, although probably it won’t be lengthy earlier than Lambeth Council tries but once more to shut and demolish it.
Regardless of the road identify on the wall, South Lambeth Library is on South Lambeth Rd, and Wilcox Shut is right here merely a pedestrian manner than runs alongside its southern facet, with automobile entry to the homes within the Wilcox Cloase being from Kenchester Shut, one other avenue within the Mawbey Brough council property constructed right here within the Nineteen Seventies – one of many occasions the neighborhood needed to unite to save lots of the library.
This image concentrates on the extremely ornamented frontage of the constructing. Notably spectacular are the embellished phrases TATE FREE LIBRARY.
A closing image of the library on this publish exhibits extra of the library constructing, which is barely domestically listed, which supplies it no safety. In a earlier publish I steered that this was as a result of it had been significantly altered because it was in-built 1888, dropping the copper cupolas on high of its powers probably to fulfill demand for metals within the conflict and in addition dropping a tremendous porch, most likely to permit street widening. Historic England appear to be very reluctant to listing buildings which have been considerably altered.
Opened in 1896 because the Wheatsheaf Congregational Church Mission and used till 1939 as a mission corridor, it claims to have been the primary free public library in Lambeth, although probably this was within the small villa on the positioning earlier than this, as South Lambeth Library opened in 1888. The constructing was Grade II listed in 1975.
In 1980 Lambeth Council started proceedings to evict the then tenants Cinebuild to develop it as a tenant’s corridor and neighborhood centre which opened in 1988 and continues in use “for neighborhood and enterprise conferences, meditation teams, religion teams, council surgical procedures, rehearsal house, weddings, christenings, birthday events and bingo.”
One other view of Wheatsheaf Lane and the corridor, which nonetheless seems a lot the identical now. The pub glimpsed at left was The Wheatsheaf, reflecting the agricultural nature of the realm, elements of which have been nonetheless fields when this was first opened. It’s identified to have been right here in 1788, although this constructing is Victorian. It closed as a pub in 2017 and is now a Brazilian restaurant.
In response to Vauxhall Historical past, a chapel was constructed on this website in 1793 after a lot pleading from native parishoners who needed to stroll throughout marshland to get to St Mary’s Church subsequent to Lambeth Palace. It was a harmful route as this provided hiding locations for robbers who would assault these strolling by way of it.
They have been allowed to construct a non-public chapel and the price of constructing was paid for by promoting shares entitling those that purchased them to seats within the chapel and leasing different seats. There have been no free seats and the poor nonetheless needed to cross the hazardous marsh.
Maybe it was as a result of it was a chapel for the wealthy and never the quickly rising working class inhabitants of the realm was that led to a fireplace which partly burnt the chapel down in 1856 and an incident of sacrilege of which particulars haven’t survived the next 12 months.
In 1860 the Church of England determined to arrange a separate parish of South Lambeth and to construct a brand new church on the chapel website. They wished to take over the chapel, and it took them 8 years to search out all of the shareholders and get the positioning conveyed to them. A gradual means of rebuilding then started to show the chapel into one thing extra appropriate for a parish church which was solely accomplished in 1876 to the designs of architect R Parkinson. It was rebuilt once more in 1958 after bomb harm within the Second World Warfare.
The church was devoted to St Anne most likely as a tribute to Ann Beaufoy, the spouse of George Beaufoy who had change into head of the native vinegar manufacturing unit in 1851 and had been one of many promoters of the brand new parish. It was his son Mark Beaufoy, who turned MP for Kennington who chaired the assembly in his residence in 1881 to discovered the Waifs and Strays Dwelling, now the Kids’s Society.
Behind the church is the tall tower block of BT’s Keybridge Home on South Lambeth Rd, constructed 1975-7 and demolished in 2015. Few would mourn its passing however many want its successor was quite higher.
This was taken in Langley Lane however though the wall continues to be there the constructing behind it has gone and it’s now simply a carpark on the rear of the imposing 5 storey block of the previous LCC’s 1908 Garden Lane Faculties. Later this was Vauxhall Central Ladies Faculty which in 1957 this turned one in every of two buildings of Vauxhall Manor Secondary Faculty, a complete 11-18 women faculty. This merged with the Beaufoy Faculty, a college for boys in 1983 to change into the combined complete Lilian Baylis Faculty, now on Kennington Lane The Garden Lane constructing has now been transformed to flats as ‘The Academy’.
A later publish will I hope end this stroll with some photos from Vauxhall.
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