Voltaire, Billiards & Methodists continues the account of my stroll on Sunday twenty eighth Might 1989. The earlier submit was Postmen, The Majestic and Extra and the stroll started with Lavender Hill & Wandsworth Rd – 1989.
This avenue apparently solely received the title Voltaire Street within the early twentieth century, earlier than which this a part of it was known as Station Street. The French author Voltaire got here to stick with his buddy Everard Fawkener in Wandsworth when he was exiled from France in 1726, and is believed to have moved across the space, however there appears to be no report of him having lived anyplace round this street in Clapham.
The almost certainly ideas as to the place he lived in Wandsworth is that it was near the River Wandle in Wandsworth City or Earlsfield. There’s a improvement on Garratt Lane known as Voltaire Buildings, however that solely received its title from Barratts in 2004 after they redeveloped the location of the previous Wandle Faculty.
Voltaire Motors was in a railway arch at Voltaire Rd, simply earlier than the doorway to Clapham Excessive St Station. I believe that is now ARCH Clapham or The Bridge, homosexual bars.
The Temperance Billiard Corridor Co Ltd, based in 1906 constructed halls like this, inbuilt 1910 by their in-house architect Norman Evans, in lots of cities and cities throughout England. It had simply change into architects places of work once I made this and the following image.
In line with Wikipedia there have been about 20 Temperance Billiard Halls unfold round London in July 1958, although it doesn’t state what number of of those now stay. A minimum of two of them, together with the Grade II listed Temperance Billiard Corridor in Fulham later grew to become pubs. The Clapham constructing is unlisted however is contained in the Clapham Excessive Avenue Conservation Space.
The Nationwide Provincial Financial institution merged with the Nationwide Westminster Financial institution in 1970, probably when this late nineteenth century financial institution constructing grew to become solicitors places of work. It’s nonetheless residence to solicitors however a distinct agency. The buildings behind the financial institution are most likely slightly older.
Clapham Methodist Church Corridor and Faculty on Nelson Row was inbuilt 1873, and used for worship till the primary church was accomplished in 1874. The spectacular church was badly broken and made unsafe by wartime bombing and was finally changed by a big glass fronted constructing on Clapham Excessive St which opened in 1961 – and has since been refurbished.
This constructing stays on Nelsons Row, although the doorway is now bricked up and Studio Voltaire now occupy the location additional down the road. I believe this will now be part of their complicated.
These have been additionally a part of the Methodist Corridor and Sunday Faculty buildings.
Again in 1989 the plates beside the door of Nelson Works have been for Common Steel Fabrications, although there was one other title on the Nelson Works signal above the doorway, not fairly legible, although some letters could be made out.
Studio Voltaire, based in 1994 by a collective of artists and creatives in a disused tram shed on Voltaire Street in 1984 moved to this web site in 1999, and in 2019-2021 accomplished a metamorphosis, refurbishing a lot of the constructing.
Extra from this stroll in a later submit.
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