Clapham Parochial School
Establish in 1812, the school moved to Macaulay Road when it outgrew its previous site at the apex of Rectory Grove and North Street. It moved out of Macaulay Road in 1974 and the Muscular Dystrop...
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St. Giles church vicarage
Searching for a map showing the site of the vicarage we were delighted to find this 1893 map which also shows the relocated church porch (top right corner of the vicarage garden).
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St Giles Camberwell
An Anglo-Saxon church on this site was recorded in the Domesday Book. It was almost certainly made of wood and was later rebuilt in stone. On the night of 7 February 1841, the church was almost com...
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Pitt House
As Rocque's 1775 map shows, the cluster of houses here is known as North End. British History Online gives the village's history and here is what it says about Pitt House: "In 1762, when North End ...
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Manor House Tavern
The area was built up during the middle part of the nineteenth century and known as Woodberry Down. The first tavern on the site was built by Stoke Newington builder Thomas Widdows, 1830-4 next t...
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East Ham tram depot
Services from East Ham started on 22 June 1901, and they were taken over by the London Passenger Transport Board on 1 July 1933. The cost of maintaining the tramways and the increasing popularity o...
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Lambeth Bridge
Before any bridge there was a horse ferry here, hence the name of the western approach road. Know Your London describes how this ferry probably worked - they even have a painting. It was for conve...
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Beaufort House - Chelsea
Grand mansion built by Thomas More c.1520 and demolished 1739. The house and gardens occupied the land bounded by (clockwise): The Thames, Milman's Street, King's Road, Old Church Street. It was i...
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Althorp Lodge
In this building Robert Sadler opened a pub and leisure gardens. In 1853, using the land behind the pub, he opened the Copenhagen Running Grounds. "The ground eventually closed in 1864 following c...
Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Property
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Kidderpore Hall
From Knight Frank: "By 1843 ... Built that year, Kidderpore Hall was the home of the powerful merchant John Teil, an East India trader with vast tanneries in the Kidderpore district of Calcutta. Th...
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