Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[quimcunx]

There is. Not so faded either.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Why don't you just post your failed flicker code and let someone competent post the pic for you?

(((old people and new technology)))


How long ago was it called Bleak Hall Lane, minnie? That might prove helpful for brix's investigations.

Became New Park Road in 1884

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Look at my location!!!!!

It doesn't exist, therefore you don't exist and I shall therefore ignore you

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Before it was Bleak Hall Lane it was Balams Lane

http://landmark.lambeth.gov.uk/display_page.asp?section=landmark&id=4097

and Moorish Road was Mill Lane

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Does anyone know what is going on with the whitewashed sections? Very puzzled, me.

Don't look whitewashed, just sunlight hitting them

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Have got a bit obsessed with the Lambeth Archive website recently. New Park Road (my road) looked completely different 55 years ago!

Whereabouts on New Park Road is that? I'm round that way too and can't place where it was. I guess none of that exists any more?

i think that's the side with the hand in hand on it, looking down towards brixton hill.

Looks like a bit of it is still there from this streetview

go have a look down the side street next to morelli's and you'll find the quaint little cottages i mentioned earlier

On Lambeth Landmark page it says that the properties were knocked down and replaced by Arkwright House, Brindley House and Parsons House.

Parsons House is on the other side of Streatham Place as is Brindley House. Arkwright House seems to have been on the corner of New Park Road and Atkins Road, but I'm not convinced. Maybe it was the building that was demolished opposite Tesco?

So I reckon you're all wrong and I'm right.

I could be wrong though

 

[lang rabbie]

I'd never seen this picture of Gilham's cottages on the west side of NPR before - I think they were roughly where the junction with Tilson Gardens now is.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Link not working. Just what on earth is going with Lambeth's Website? It's not just the Lambeth Landmark bit. I've been trying to get hold of all sorts of info and failing miserably.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Worked yesterday

eta: working today as well

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Well that Lang Rabbie's link didn't work for me and there's info i need for a grant application meeting I involved with and it's been a bit of a nightmare. Broken links and glitches all over the shop. Maybe they've blocked access from Housing Estates

 

[Mrs Magpie]

AHA!

Last edited by lang rabbie; 08-08-2010 at 17:48. Reason: Had forgotten page refs and images aren't same on Landmark. grrrr!!!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Well that Lang Rabbie's link didn't work for me and there's info i need for a grant application meeting I involved with and it's been a bit of a nightmare. Broken links and glitches all over the shop. Maybe they've blocked access from Housing Estates

Just go into Lambeth Landmark website and type New Park Road, there's not a lot of photos so you won't have to trawl to find it

 

[Mrs Magpie]

It's OK...Lang Rabbie fixed the link after I said I couldn't get it...still loads of PDFs I can't access at the moment though.

 

[paolo]

Don't look whitewashed, just sunlight hitting them

I see what you mean now. Still something odd going on. Probably done in Photoshoppe.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I see what you mean now. Still something odd going on. Probably done in Photoshoppe.

Maybe they're leaving them nice and clear for the local grafitti artists?

 

[lang rabbie]

On Lambeth Landmark page it says that the properties were knocked down and replaced by Arkwright House, Brindley House and Parsons House.

Parsons House is on the other side of Streatham Place as is Brindley House. Arkwright House seems to have been on the corner of New Park Road and Atkins Road, but I'm not convinced. Maybe it was the building that was demolished opposite Tesco?

So I reckon you're all wrong and I'm right.

I could be wrong though

Quite right! Arkwright House was block that used to have the parade of shops underneath with the former Post Office.

IIRC For a long time it didn' have any sign telling you name of the block as the local kids had prised the letters off one by one.

It is being replaced by this architectural wonder:

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Quite right! Arkwright House was block that used to have the parade of shops underneath with the former Post Office.

IIRC For a long time it didn' have any sign telling you name of the block as the local kids had prised the letters off one by one.

It is being replaced by this architectural wonder:

Excellent. I was hoping you'd appear to tell me I was correct! Yeah, I remember the shops. I think there was a Spar or Costcutters there, but I may be wrong

Found any pictures as to what will appear next to the doctor's surgery on Streatham Place?

Shocking that these people who live in New Park Road could get it so wrong

 

[lang rabbie]

Streatham Hill chitter chatter (cont'd)

Early Development at Streatham Hill

It was at Streatham Hill that the first residential area was established in Streatham proper. This entailed the building of a number of stylised villas and cottage type properties along the west side of the highway towards Brixton Hill. At the top of the hill some limited house building had already occurred just north of Mill Lane (now Moorish Road).

An integral part of the Streatham Hill development was the laying out of Streatham Place. This planned road anticipated the construction of similar roads that were soon to criss-cross the parish in anticipation of housing developments. South of Streatham Place the "Paragon" was developed; a row of twenty fashionable stucco styled properties, planned to be a main feature in this newly designed residential area. With the unfolding of the 1830s, further house building took place in this area with the construction of numerous small terraced properties and shops along the north end of Bleak Hall Lane, an old country lane renamed New Park Road in 1884.

You can't see Streatham Place in Brix's photo as it was originally a fairly narrow road with low houses, and most of those east of NPR survived until the widening of the South Circular in the 1950s.

The high roofed building in the background of the picture is the LCC block at the north west corner of New Park Road/Streatham Place - there is a kink in the road just south of the junction, which is why you can't see the cottages that still survive [north of the new block containing the Tescos]

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You can't see Streatham Place in Brix's photo as it was originally a fairly narrow road with low houses, and most of those east of NPR survived until the widening of the South Circular in the 1950s.

The high roofed building in the background of the picture is the LCC block at the north west corner of New Park Road/Streatham Place - there is a kink in the road just south of the junction, which is why you can't see the cottages that still survive [north of the new block containing the Tescos]

I found a pic of Streatham Place last night. Totally unrecognisable from what it is today.

Will dig it out again

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I don't seem to be able to post pictures from there so here's the link

http://landmark.lambeth.gov.uk/display_page.asp?section=landmark&id=8993

and another

http://landmark.lambeth.gov.uk/display_page.asp?section=landmark&id=3804

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Oh, don't think I've seen this one before. Brixton Hill from Elm Park.

I assume those adverts are where Renton Close was eventually built


http://landmark.lambeth.gov.uk/display_page.asp?section=landmark&id=8432

 

[paolo]

As part of this, I expect a full and detailed explanation of the history of Brixon tile entrepreneurs, and their historically significant residences on Brixton Hill. Minnie. Yes you. You specifically.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Why?

I don't live on Brixton Hill, I live in Elm Park

 

[paolo]

Why?

I don't live on Brixton Hill, I live in Elm Park

You don't remember do you? There was me, all new to Brixton, asking about the big houses on the hill, with the very generous gardens. When *someone*, ahem, piped up about them being built by tile merchants.

I haven't forgotten.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You don't remember do you? There was me, all new to Brixton, asking about the big houses on the hill, with the very generous gardens. When *someone*, ahem, piped up about them being built by tile merchants.

I haven't forgotten.

Oh right, yeah, Tile Magic built them all

Here's a tram near to Dumbarton. I take it you know where Dumbarton Road is don't you?

 

[paolo]

Oh right, yeah, Tile Magic built them all

Here's a tram near to Dumbarton. I take it you know where Dumbarton Road is don't you?

I can - with a catapult - throw stones at it. And someone at work lives there. In fact, I'm surprised I'm not mayor of Dumbarton Road, with my connections.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I can - with a catapult - throw stones at it. And someone at work lives there.

I know

Have you shown him pictures of Dumbarton Road bombs during the war?

 

[boohoo]

Have got a bit obsessed with the Lambeth Archive website recently. New Park Road (my road) looked completely different 55 years ago!

 

[brix]

View attachment 11464

*smacks forehead*

Of course! I can see it now. They've done a good job of covering up what's left, haven't they?

 

[miss minnie]

*smacks forehead*

Of course! I can see it now. They've done a good job of covering up what's left, haven't they?

Those are the same buildings I linked to a couple of pages ago

click here to see them