The Alexandra, Sanitary Ware & Ace continues the account of my stroll on Sunday twenty eighth Might 1989. The earlier publish was http://re-photo.co.uk/?p=15138 Retailers, Flats, Commerce Unions, Monks… and the stroll started with http://re-photo.co.uk/?p=15080 Lavender Hill & Wandsworth Rd – 1989
The Alex is without doubt one of the greatest identified pubs within the space and upstairs is the Clapham Darts Membership, open to non-members the place you may ebook an oche, although at £20 an hour you may suppose it a bit steep. I’ve by no means performed darts in a pub the place you needed to pay, however then its most likely 50 years since I’ve performed pub darts. Then you definitely paid by shopping for beer.
Its a pub too that’s greatest averted on match nights and at weekends until you need to watch sport. The pub dates from 1866, although has sadly misplaced a a lot of its Victorian inside options.
I can’t keep in mind what route I took from Clapham Park Street to Bedford Rd, most likely slicing by means of a few of the estates however not stopping to take pictures. However this home is seen from Bedford Street and drew me all the way down to make this footage. It was actually the slender spire which attracted my consideration. Inbuilt 1871 it additionally has an observatory and apparently an identical coach home behind. Lengthy transformed into flats, this regionally listed home I really feel will need to have extra of a narrative to inform than I’ve been capable of unearth.
Haselrigge Street will get its identify from one of many oldest well-connected households in England, which dates again earlier than the Norman invasion and are stated to have been the lords of the manor on the now misplaced West Yorkshire village of Hesselgreave. Bartholomew Clerke lord of the manor of Clapham who died in 1589 and his spouse, Eleanor Haselrigge, and their son are commemorated in figures on a monument in St Paul’s Church Clapham.
53-63 Bedford Street had been Grade II listed in 1981, the itemizing reads partly “Circa 1870, in inventory brick with creamy terra-cotta dressings, constructed by J G Jennings as half of a bigger scheme of homes of various measurement and high quality, to the designs of T Collcutt.” Josiah George Jennings was a famous sanitary engineer.”
Thomas Edward Collcutt (1840-1924) was an essential English architect, higher identified for designing the Wigmore Corridor, Savoy Lodge, Palace Theatre and extra. This home at 63 is on the nook with Ferndale Street which now has its very personal Conservation Space which offered me with a lot of the data under.
Rathcoole home, Grade II listed in 1981, was the principle and ultimate home of a scheme designed by T E Colcutt and constructed by Josiah George Jennings. Remarkably this home was derelict and had been scheduled for demolition in 1966 however was rented from the GLC as a hostel for vagrant alcoholics and adorned and absolutely furnished primarily by the efforts of voluntary organisations. A adorned signal on the aspect has the initials JG, the road identify and date 1882.
The home is on the nook with Ferndale Street which has its on Conservation Space. Lambeth Council’s doc on this provides extra element of George Jenning (1810-1882) who arrange an organization in Paris Road Lambeth making sanitary ware, “patenting revolutionary enhancements to
bogs.”
His ‘Monkey Closets’ put in on the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park in 1851 had been the world’s first public bogs – and for a penny shoppers “acquired a clear seat, a towel, a comb and shoe shine“. Ever since we’ve got been going to spend a penny even when that now prices 50p and comes with out many of the unique accompaniments.
Jennings arrange the South Western Pottery in Parkstone, close to Poole in Dorset to supply sanitary merchandise from the native clays, later increasing to “bricks, chimney publish and architectural terracotta” all in a pale creamy color. He developed different areas of south London together with round Nightingale Lane in Clapham.
Jennings started constructing Ferndale Street in 1870 and solely accomplished the scheme the yr he died in a visitors accident. The completion is commemorated on the aspect of Rathcoole Home which had been one of many earlier homes to be constructed.
Not all homes within the space had been constructed to the identical requirements as these by Jennings. I feel this small constructing was most likely on the entrance of some works behind whose corrugated iron roof is seen at left. I’m not certain precisely the place on Bedford Street it was, however someplace on the west aspect fairly near the railway bridge.
One other moderately fundamental constructing a bit to the north of the railway bridge at 16 Bedford Street and surprisingly nonetheless there, now a minicab workplace. Ace had a moderately wider scope, providing driving classes and in addition promoting and exchanging books – a few of which you’ll see on the cabinets by means of the window.
I took a second image with out the lady strolling previous who’s mirrored within the window, however I feel that is higher.
I rotated and walked again down Bedford Street to Acre Lane the place my account of this stroll will proceed in a later publish.
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