Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

SE London photo archives?

YouSir

Retired from Urban
I'm looking for some pictures (90s onwards) of really specific shops/spaces in SE London, anyone know of an archive/resource that might be of use? Tried social media and Google but a hell of a lot disappears without ever being noticed.

For reference I'm looking at Lordship Lane in Dulwich and the following...

Lordship Lane Job Centre
Lordship Lane Iceland
Magdalla Pub (+ whatever it was just after that, before it became The Lordship, can't remember the name)
Crystal Palace Tavern (as was)
Tyre Shop that was where the greengrocers is now
Car dealer that was where the barbers is now
North Cross Road Market (in the early 2000s)
Thomas Moore Hall (pre-Picture House)
The Irish Shop
General shots of Lordship Lane or surrounding streets.
Kitchener Fried Chicken
 
Here's a couple of places to try:


They mainly have older photos, but both collections have newer ones as well.

Flickr might be worth a search as well:


The Magdala pub was variously the Patch, the Mag, the Magnolia, the Lordship.
 
Last edited:
I'm looking for some pictures (90s onwards) of really specific shops/spaces in SE London, anyone know of an archive/resource that might be of use? Tried social media and Google but a hell of a lot disappears without ever being noticed.

For reference I'm looking at Lordship Lane in Dulwich and the following...

Lordship Lane Job Centre
Lordship Lane Iceland
Magdalla Pub (+ whatever it was just after that, before it became The Lordship, can't remember the name)
Crystal Palace Tavern (as was)
Tyre Shop that was where the greengrocers is now
Car dealer that was where the barbers is now
North Cross Road Market (in the early 2000s)
Thomas Moore Hall (pre-Picture House)
The Irish Shop
General shots of Lordship Lane or surrounding streets.
Kitchener Fried Chicken
you might find some pictures on ebay too, dk what your budget is
 
I'm looking for some pictures (90s onwards) of really specific shops/spaces in SE London, anyone know of an archive/resource that might be of use? Tried social media and Google but a hell of a lot disappears without ever being noticed.

For reference I'm looking at Lordship Lane in Dulwich and the following...

Lordship Lane Job Centre
Lordship Lane Iceland
Magdalla Pub (+ whatever it was just after that, before it became The Lordship, can't remember the name)
Crystal Palace Tavern (as was)
Tyre Shop that was where the greengrocers is now
Car dealer that was where the barbers is now
North Cross Road Market (in the early 2000s)
Thomas Moore Hall (pre-Picture House)
The Irish Shop
General shots of Lordship Lane or surrounding streets.
Kitchener Fried Chicken
and have you tried the local authority archive (southwark, lambeth or greenwich i suppose, south of the river so outside my comfort zone)
 
This chap may be worth a look on Flickr

There's a few people I follow on tweeter who post historic photos (and by that they go up to the 90s) but they tend not to go as far west as dulwich
 
Thanks all, have had to re-evaluate really, too much is just lost to the mists of time. Not that someone, somewhere doesn't have pictures but it's a long shot that I'll be able to find enough of them. Google Streetview has filled the gap a bit though, unfortunately doesn't go too far back (only 2008) but there's a lot in there at least.
 
Back
Top Bottom