It's titled 'Gilman's Cottages off New Park Road, on the borders of Clapham Park and Brixton Hill, dated 1911. The tower of All Saints Church, Lyham Road, can be seen on the right.'
I think it is yet another annoying typo on the Landmark site. They are referred to as
"Gilham's cottages" in another title field on that same page
; in
street indexes (which suggest they were close to the corner of Doverfield Road in 1912] and
Medical Officer of Health reports [which suggests they were condemned as unfit for habitation in 1919.]
Looking at the shape of the buildings, the angle of the row of houses behind, and the angle it views the church (which is no longer the same structure), I think the Gilham's / Gilman's Cottages buildings may be those that I've centred
Old Maps on - around where 76 / 78 Doverfield Road are now.
This shows a short road as Park Road Cottages in the 1870s, Paddy's Lane in 1895 and Doverfield Road by 1910.
(Wonder if Paddys Lane was a local term referring to a specific Patrick who lived there or owned some of the land, or if it was a local reference to Irish residents? Map makers tended at one time to go on what they were told by locals, so there can be variations. As an aside, there was a street in the East End that got marked on some maps as '
Knockfergus' in the 1600s)
Spelling on old documents can be difficult with changes in how handwriting looks. Mum-tat found a missing bit of the family by trying a few alternative spellings in census data.
These buildings on New Park Road near the junction with Brixton Hill have always intrigued me. The one nearest the camera looks very early Victorian to me but I haven't been able to find any more info on old maps.
About all I can pick up from old maps on these is that the building that's now 3A New Park Road appears to have been part of 224 Brixton Hill rather than a separate building in the way that numbers 3 and 5 are. (Although No. 3 seems to have been occupied by the same company as 222
The following are extracts from the 1911 Post Office London Suburban Directory (it's on
Leicester university's website)
Brixton Hill -
New Park Road
Mr Callaby registered freehold of no. 224 in 1920 (
London Gazette extract - opens as PDF) - I can not find further traces of Albert Bloice or of the London Vacuum Cleaning Company (other than a current company by that name in Watford who say they have 20 years experience so presumably not related.)