The Groves of Camberwell | Re-photo

My earlier submit about this stroll on fifth February 1989 was Denmark Hill, Ruskin and on to Dulwich.

Nothing a lot caught my consideration on the stroll from the hospital after which up Melbourne Grove till I got here to this hosrt row of outlets simply earlier than reaching Grove Vale. I feel all of those buildings are nonetheless there however the bus cease has gone and all the buildings have modified use and there’s no longer a Grove Vale Library reverse the highest of the highway, it having moved into a brand new constructing across the nook on Railway Rise, behind M&S.

I walked up Grove Vale beneath the railway bridge the place it turns into Canine Kennel Hill and up there to show into Grove Hill Highway which led me to the southern finish of Camberwell Grove – this image was taken at their junction. When Hermitage at 220 Camberwell Grove was constructed the highway was often known as 220 Camberwell Grove. Its Grade II itemizing describes it as an early nineteenth century cottage. It was constructed as a country cottage with these timber posts supporting the deeply overhanging roof to kind this verandah.

The cottage was one of many properties constructed for John Coakley Lettsom (1744 – 1815) a physician who based the Medical Society of London and had a significantly grander villa a little bit to the south at Grove Hill, demolished within the early 1800s. is now quite extra coated by greenery, making pictures tougher.

Instantly north of the cottage is that this spectacular row of homes. Nos 200-218 are Grade II listed and have been constructed as a block from round 1845.

This uncommon verandah and window was along with one of many homes on Camberwell Grove, at No 195.

Many if not most properties in Camberwell Grove and close by are Grade II listed, and 195 appears to be the one one unlisted on this part of the highway, all high-quality Regency properties, although this a part of the home seems to be a later addition. Maybe 195 is unlisted as a result of in contrast to the opposite properties it it constructed as much as the pavement edge and a few might really feel it spoils the lengthy vista of homes properly again from the pavement.

On the nook with Grove Park is that this quite odd conglomerate with what seems to have been a classical entrance lodge welded unhappily right into a later mansarded home.

Maybe the gem of Camberwell Grove, that is Grove Crescent, a Grade II listed terrace of 4 linked pairs of homes courting from round 1830 at 169-183 Camberwell Grove.

Grove Park has a number of massive villas from the 1830s and 40s, however is principally a late Victorian speculative growth of huge homes in all probability from the Nineties, with a number of variations on three variations of huge semi-detached homes. It’s made up of a number of roads, all confusingly known as Grove Park. This element reveals the doorway on the west of 125 Grove Park, only a few yards from Camberwell Grove.

That is White Lodge at 55 Grove Park, which stands out on this brief leg of the highway in a row of late-Victorian red-brick homes, which it presumably pre-dates.

This grandly Italianate mansion, Pelham Home, 14 Grove Park, is on the nook with Pelham Grove, and is now flats with a significantly newer block of flats at The Birches on the other nook.

This home, certainly one of three comparable homes at 17-19 Grove Park was in a derelict state again in 1989 however seems very sensible now.

There have been many different buildings in Grove Park which I might need photographed and a pair I did however haven’t digitised, however I felt it was time to maneuver on, and walked to the east alongside Grove Park to the place my subsequent submit will start in Chadwick Highway in Peckham.

My account of this stroll from fifth February 1989 started with A Pub, Ghost Signal, Outlets And The Sally Ann.

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