Minnie_the_Minx
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School of Building - now 140 Ferndale Road
New Brixton 'Then and Now' pics
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Minnie_the_Minx
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In 1874, the Surrey County Club had been erected as a private venture on open land at the west end of Shepherd's Lane (now 140 Ferndale Road). The buildings included a swimming pool, but the venture failed in 1881, and the premises were next used for Lambeth Polytechnic School, orgaised by a local committee. By 1892, this too had closed and the site was acquired by Lambeth Vestry, for new baths and washhouses, but the proposed scheme was too expensive, so the premises were still on the market in 1897, when the London County Council took up the idea of a technical school for the building industry.
In 1874, the Surrey County Club had been erected as a private venture on open land at the west end of Shepherd's Lane (now 140 Ferndale Road). The buildings included a swimming pool, but the venture failed in 1881, and the premises were next used for Lambeth Polytechnic School, orgaised by a local committee. By 1892, this too had closed and the site was acquired by Lambeth Vestry, for new baths and washhouses, but the proposed scheme was too expensive, so the premises were still on the market in 1897, when the London County Council took up the idea of a technical school for the building industry.
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
Check out the spectral figure standing in the middle of Effra Road on page six of the EU link - the pic with the ferris wheel.
You can see right through him!
You can see right through him!
Minnie_the_Minx
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corporate whore said:Check out the spectral figure standing in the middle of Effra Road on page six of the EU link - the pic with the ferris wheel.
You can see right through him!
Maybe he's a soldier who died in the First World War. He looks like he's got a uniform on
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
1900ish? That building looks later than that......sufilala said:
just missed this one, it was pulled down last month
another lambeth school gonethere's still a plaque from 1900ish when that school was opened
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
Does this remind anybody else of Brazil?
Yeah,
I guess the school was inaugurated in 1900ish, then this entrance was added in the modernist era...
if you're quick you could get a snap of the enormous, school-size pile of bricks & rubble for 'the&now' before it's moved to make way for .... yuppy apartments...
i got a photo of the plaque somewhere..although it's survived the demolition & is still in situ, along with the school toilets where they caught my kid smoking!!
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Actually no, Justin. It reminded me of The Daily Mail's entry at the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, but without the little lake and the boat........
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Bob said:
The excessively tidy appearance compared to the other photos of construction in the hall made me think "Royal Visit".
editor
hiraethified
I've just posted up one new 'Then and Now' from the fresh batch of archive images discovered by lang rabbie! (shame they're a bit lo-res, though)
Brixton Fire Station (Ferndale Road)
One thing: at first I thought that the tower in the back was a training platform for firemen, but it appears to be still intact in the 2005 image (but now covered).
Maybe it was the fire escape for the soon-to-be-built Bon Marche building (although it would be odd to build that before the rest of the building!).
Any ideas?!
Brixton Fire Station (Ferndale Road)
One thing: at first I thought that the tower in the back was a training platform for firemen, but it appears to be still intact in the 2005 image (but now covered).
Maybe it was the fire escape for the soon-to-be-built Bon Marche building (although it would be odd to build that before the rest of the building!).
Any ideas?!
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
editor said:
[daily mail editorial mode] It is a secret short wave radio transmitter, run by those scoundrels at the Refugee Council who now occupy the building, by which messages are broadcast to Albania on the ready availability of welfare benefits to bogus asylum seekers. [/daily mail editorial mode]
editor
hiraethified
Two more:
Sussex Arms, Loughborough Park (now Moorlands estate) and
Loughborough Hotel
Also more old pics in the all-new, under-development Lost pubs of Brixton section.
Sussex Arms, Loughborough Park (now Moorlands estate) and
Loughborough Hotel
Also more old pics in the all-new, under-development Lost pubs of Brixton section.
editor said:
The comparison between the Sussex Arms where the government tried to improve a whole area by demolishing it and the Loughborough Hotel (nice old building still intact) is something I'll point out to the next person who shows me a grandiose public project with the architects drawings showing people happily chatting in the streets.
Edited to add: My serious point is that the pubs that have been converted to flats still look like nice old buildings - in other words the planning system is doing a good job of making the area look nice.
PS nice work on the pictures.
It's not really Brixton but if you go up to Kennington to the Ethelred & Vauxhall Gardens estates (and indeed pretty much all of the estates round there) the only nice old buildings left are the pubs / ex pubs - the rest were demolished in the orgy of rebuilding from the 1930s - the 1980s when councils routinely demolished victorian housing and put up bad council housing.
It's not really Brixton but if you go up to Kennington to the Ethelred & Vauxhall Gardens estates (and indeed pretty much all of the estates round there) the only nice old buildings left are the pubs / ex pubs - the rest were demolished in the orgy of rebuilding from the 1930s - the 1980s when councils routinely demolished victorian housing and put up bad council housing.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Bob said:
Is there a danger of Potemkin village syndrome?
Whenever I bring visitors from the States down from central london by bus (no longer alas on the top deck of a Routemaster) they are enchanted by the carefully preserved townscape of the 19th century facades of the northern end of Brixton Road. But they hide the other Brixton of the Myatts Fields North estate from view.
editor
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Two updates to the Brixton Hill collection:
246 Brixton Hill
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/246brixtonhill.html
New Park Road (Tuson's Corner)
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/brixtonhill5.html
(Does anyone call it Tuson's Corner?)
246 Brixton Hill
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/246brixtonhill.html
New Park Road (Tuson's Corner)
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/brixtonhill5.html
(Does anyone call it Tuson's Corner?)
Minnie_the_Minx
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editor said:
Although I recognise the shop on Brixton Hill, I don't recognise above it, probably because I rarely walk on the other side of the Hill.
The bookies is still there, but I can never remember the name of it. It's not one of the biggies obviously, and it's not Paddy Power. I'm sure someone will remember. Oh, and before it was the bookies, I'm pretty sure it was an office of London & Quadrant
Tuson's Corner - NEVER heard of it
Minnie_the_Minx
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Meerkat said:
We need more. If Ed thinks he's gonna shut the Brixton Hillites up with two pictures he's wrong
editor
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Err.. there's now *13* carefully researched scenes in the Brixton Hill section.Minnie_the_Minx said:We need more. If Ed thinks he's gonna shut the Brixton Hillites up with two pictures he's wrong
That's more than double the size of the Effra Road collection and that's much closer!
Minnie_the_Minx
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editor said:
yeah well, there's nothing of interest in Effra Road
Can we have some pictures of all the arches around Loughborough Junction. My grandfather used to have one there but I get confused as they all look alike
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