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 Brixton, Angell Town from the South c1965 (ref. B666038) | Angell Town was an estate of 1850s Italianate villas, mostly semi-detached, built on curving roads centred on St John's church, whose 1853 tower is crowned by four pinnacles. This view is from an upper balcony of Eldon House, one of the eleven-storey blocks of council flats built c1960 on the Loughborough Estate. Nearly all the villas have since been demolished and replaced by four-storey council flats in yellow stock brick. In the distance we can see the Houses of Parliament, the Victoria Tower and Big Ben. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Brixton, St John's Church c1965 (ref. B666031) | St John's Church, by Benjamin Ferrey, was completed in 1853 as the centrepiece of Angell Town. It has a fine Perpendicular-style tower with chequer-work battlements and elegant corner pinnacles. The 1850s houses between it and the photographer were demolished in the 1970s and replaced by a large council housing estate, Peckford Place. The lime trees in front of the church survive, and have matured well. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Clapham, High Street c1965 (ref. C327073) | Further north-east along the High Street, Frith's photographer now looks back in the Clapham Common direction past Cato Road (left). To the far left is a curious building with a huge semi-circular pediment. Now occupied by Moxley Architects, it was built as the Temperance and Billiard Hall in about 1900. At this end of the High Street many houses survive; those on the right have single-storey shops in front. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Clapham, the Long Pond c1955 (ref. C327034a) | Frith's photographer moves on to Clapham Common; seeking human interest, he pauses at the Long Pond at the eastern end of the Common, looking from the opposite side to C327009 (pages 108 - 109). In the distance are the houses of Clapham Common South Side, some of which survive from the 18th century and more from the 19th. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Clapham, Maritime House c1960 (ref. C327059) | The Children's Playground is in a westward projection of the common. The houses of Clapham Common North Side, part of the busy A3 London to Portsmouth Road, are visible through the trees. Behind the photographer the traffic teems along Clapham Common West Side. The playground is still surrounded by its hairpin iron railings. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Clapham, Marianne Thornton School c1970 (ref. C327056) | The Children's Playground is in a westward projection of the common. The houses of Clapham Common North Side, part of the busy A3 London to Portsmouth Road, are visible through the trees. Behind the photographer the traffic teems along Clapham Common West Side. The playground is still surrounded by its hairpin iron railings. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Clapham, Henry Thornton School c1960 (ref. C327053) | Around the corner in Elms Road (which retains many of its mid-Victorian villas) is the Henry Thornton School, within the same site as the Marianne Thornton (C327056) and also part of the Clapham Centre of Lambeth College. This is a straightforward piece of 1930s traditional school architecture under a Queen Anne-ish influence, entered from Elms Road through heavy security gates and watched over by closed circuit TV cameras. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Ealing, the Museum, Gunnersbury Park c1960 (ref. E63051) | After the Rothschilds sold the estate in 1917, a consortium of local councils bought 200 acres and opened it to the public in 1926. The mansion at the east end near the North Circular Road survived, although there were uncertain years in the 1970s. The 17th-century house had been demolished in 1802, and Rothschild remodelled and enlarged its replacement in 1835. Here we see the garden front, flanked at each end by pedimented archways, remnants of the house's 18th-century period. It is now used as a museum. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Ealing, Haven Green c1955 (ref. E63003) | North of Ealing Broadway station is Haven Green, with Victorian villas on its west side and shops to its east. The north side is dominated by Haven Green Court with its green roof tiles, a massive wall of five-storey flats built in 1927-38 and aimed at the London commuter - the flats replaced a large house, The Haven. West from Haven Green the road leads to Castlebar Park, which still retains many of its mid 19th-century villas. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Ealing, Grammar School, the Green c1955 (ref. E63025) | The old village of Ealing was south of the Broadway, with the parish church beyond Ealing Green. There are several 18th-century houses along the edges of the green, which tapers south from Pitshanger Manor. On the west side, Middlesex County Council built Ealing County Boys School in 1913 in Queen Anne style. It is now part of Ealing and West London College. At the right are the walls to Walpole Park. Next door is St Mary's, one of the village's original 18th-century houses. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 East Ham, North Circular Road c1965 (ref. E100005) | We pass under the River Thames via the Blackwall Tunnel - the northbound side dates from the 1890s, an early project of the LCC, which was established in 1888. East Ham was in Essex until 1965, but since the mid 19th century very much a part of greater London. Here we approach East Ham's town centre along the busy North Circular Road, which seems in places merely a casual linkage of suburban roads. These terraces of neat Edwardian bay-windowed houses survive, and lead towards the Town Hall with its tower. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 East Ham, High Street c1965 (ref. E100016) | High Street North is a relatively undistinguished and typical London suburban shopping street: the exuberance of the Town Hall complex is forgotten. The Midland Bank on the corner of Caulfield Road (right) is one of their 1920s Classical-style single-storey buildings that add quality to many High Streets. On the left the taller Victorian brick buildings were demolished in the 1970s and replaced by bland flat roofed ones. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Fulham, Pryors Bank Gardens c1960 (ref. F69013) | This view looks west from the same viewpoint as F69010, past the half-timbered lodge built in 1900, towards Bishop's Park proper in the distance. Bishop's Park was opened to the public in 1893 and extended in 1894 to include these former gardens of Vine Cottage, which was demolished. The garden was re-laid out in 1953; the rather good sculptures here and in F69010 are by J Wedgwood. Nowadays the elaborate floral beds have gone, to be replaced by grass and a few shrubs. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Greenwich, the Royal Naval College and Riverside Walk 1951 (ref. G204010) | Our tour now heads north-east to Greenwich to a much grander building. The Royal Naval Hospital, a counterpart to the Chelsea Hospital for soldiers, began as a rebuild of Greenwich Palace by Charles II in the 1660s, but it changed direction in the 1690s. The second pediment from the right is Webb's 1660s work. In 1873 it became the Royal Naval College; when that closed, in the 1990s it became part of Greenwich University. In the distance are the chimneys of Greenwich Power Station of 1902-10. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Hammersmith, the Bridge c1965 (ref. H387047) | This view shows the Hammersmith bank's suspension tower and the 'chains' in close detail. Two groups of four eyebar links are duplicated immediately below to sustain the vertical deck stays - some pretty massive spanners are needed here. There are architectural contrasts here as well: the ornate late Victorian Digby Mansions with a domed corner tower (left), with Thames Tower beyond, built in 1962 for United Distilleries, extended in the 1970s and re-clad in the 1990s. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Hammersmith, Lower Mall from the Barnes Bank c1960 (ref. H387024) | The scale of buildings with nothing over three to four storeys has now been rudely interrupted by the 1970s seven-storey extension to the Town Hall behind the 1930s brick building (centre). Left of it is the appalling 1960s Vencourt Hotel tower. At the right is the boathouse of the Furnivall Sculling Club, while the warehouse beside it (far right) was demolished for riverside flats in the 1980s. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Hammersmith, Town Hall Square c1960 (ref. H387010) | Immediately north of the Town Hall there used to be a small park or square. This disappeared when the Town Hall extension was built in 1971-75, its seven storeys uncompromisingly at odds with the old town hall building: architectural bad manners or boldly innovative, depending on your point of view. Beyond is King Street, where the single-storey gabled building went in the 1990s for a four-storey neo-Georgian building. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Hampstead, Jack Straw's Castle c1965 (ref. H391072) | The original Jack Straw's Castle pub was destroyed by bombs during the Second World War; it was rebuilt in the early 1960s by the noted Classical architect Raymond Erith in Georgian Gothick style. Battlemented and weatherboarded, it is a delight. When I lived in the area in the 1970s it was one of the most popular pubs in London. It is astonishing that it is now closed and boarded up awaiting conversion to flats. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Kensington, Holland Street c1965 (ref. K9012) | Frith's photographer looks east towards Kensington Church Street in the distance. Most of the terraced houses in this view are 18th-century, including the one behind the tree with the pedimented doorway (far right). This is the Old House of 1760; the artist Walter Crane (1845-1915) lived here. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Kensington, Commonwealth Institute c1965 (ref. K9021) | The Commonwealth Institute, with its forest of flag poles each flying the flag of a Commonwealth nation, occupies what was most of the southern end of Holland Park. Behind Silvia Crowe's landscape of paved terraces, trees and a pool is the exhibition hall and offices designed by Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners and completed in 1962. A good modern building, it is a splendid venue for exuberant displays by dance groups and musicians from Commonwealth countries large and small. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
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