Battersea

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.
An extract from from"London Living Memories".

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.
An extract from from"London Living Memories".

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.
An extract from from"London Living Memories".

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.
An extract from from"London Living Memories".

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.
An extract from from"London Living Memories".