11.2. KENNINGTON RD: diversion to the CINEMA MUSEUM and on to WALWORTH and BURGESS PARK

To THE CINEMA MUSEUM and ELEPHANT & CASTLE and to the birthplace of CHARLES CHAPLIN (WALWORTH)

THE CINEMA MUSEUM ELEPHANT & CASTLE. South-American eateries WALWORTH. Old SOUTHWARK TOWN HALL EAST STREET MARKET. Birthplace of CHARLES CHAPLIN WALWORTH ROAD Shops and eateries ST.JOHN’S CHURCH, by Sir John Soane SUTHERLAND SQUARE Charming Victorian ARMENS, pie and mash BURGESS PARK. ADDINGTON SQUARE Charming Georgian

THE SHIP PH

ST.MARY’S GARDENS

A rare triangular garden, developed as a square, like a mirror image of WALCOTT SQ. Named after the parish church, in land receive in trust by EDW.WALCOT. 1830s.

WALCOTT SQ.

Here, agricultural land. The main road partitions the property between ST.MARY’S LAMBETH and ST.OLAVE’S SOUTHWARK.

Haberdasher EDWARD WALCOTT donated 30 acres of land to the poor of the Parish of Lambeth, in his 1667

Again, a triangular piece of land developed by differ builders, in the Georgian period. 3 storey terraces of modest houses, .slightly raised-above basements. Stock brick, stucco, black doors, longe casement windows, ornamental cast iron balconette, anthemions.

1 & 64 missing. 68 & 95 highest

The WALCOTT FOUNDATION owns the 0.2 acre garden

BLITZ. New buildings match the old

WILL.HEN.JAMES. Vicar of. RADFORD-ON-AVON.

WILL.HOSKINS.Eng.WLRailw., Trinity Chapel, POPLAR, claimed: BM’s READING ROOM, prof. K’S COLL.

BOUNDARY STONE, predating the building of the estate.

In CH.DKS’s BLEAKHOUSE r.GUPPY lives here in a very commodious.

THE KRAYS (1990). THE WOMAN IN BLACK, ANGEL OF DEATH (2014). FANTASTIC BEASTS (and sequel)

BROOK DRIVE. A brook, here.. a river…? Nah

The source of the river NECKINGER is nearby. The stream formed the boundary between the parishes of Lambeth and Southwark.

The Neckinger's headwaters were on Lambeth Marsh, behind Waterloo stationIt drained St George's Fields, which was wet and sometimes flooded

It ran along Brook Drive, past the Elephant and Castle, and past the site of Lock Hospital

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2010/04/neckinger-i.html#:~:text=The%20Neckinger's%20headwaters%20rose%20two%20miles%20away,back%20of%20what%20is%20now%20Waterloo%20station.

https://www.londonslostrivers.com/river-neckinger.html

Short detour

Austral St

Site of the ORPHANS HOME, then Hospital, then IWM Annex, now EPR architects practice

Orphanage

https://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/LondonSharman/

ALL SAINTS HOSP. was f. in 1911 by IRISH surgeon EDW.CANNY RYALL. He improved the operating techniques for treating kidney and bladder disease. Originally at VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD (outpatients) and FINCHLEY ROAD.

By 1932had become the largest urology hospital in the UKJoined the NHS, being associated with WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL. Gynaecology wards were open. Urological beds moved to GORDON HOSPITAL. Psychiatry department open

https://imperialwarmuseum.wordpress.com/2022/01/05/imperial-war-museums-all-saints-annexes-146-year-history-a-new-era/

https://www.epr.co.uk/practice/london-studio

https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/allsaints.html

WEST SQUARE

He lived, with mother and SIDNEY here “at the back of Bedlam” at the age of 3. A happy, of short, period, after CHARLIE Sr had deserted the family. HANNAH health and voice were failing though (from 1894 the family occupied more than 50 addresses, ending frequently in the workhouse)

The largest of the plots of ground in ST. GEORGE’S FIELDS belonged to HE BARTELOTE, then, in the 18th c. to the WEST family. In 1791 the Wests granted 99 year leases to THOMAS KENDALL and JAMES HEDGER. By 1794 houses on the NEW of the sq. were completed and occupied. S was b. later, a storey higher. Rectangular door fanlights.

No.36 (E). A 4 storey wooden tower was b.here by the ADMIRALTY, for a shutter telegraph apparatus used to convey messages between WHITEHALL, via NEW CROSS, to CHATHAM and SHEERNESS.

ADM.NELSON had lived here

In no.14 lived ROBERT BARKER: owner of LEICESTER SQ. PANORAMAS. He erected a round wooden building here?. His son lived in no.13.

In no.19. J.A.R.NEWLANDS (1837-98). Born here. He discovered the periodical law for the chemical elements.

The Admiralty shutter telegraph was a line of wooden huts and stations that connected the Admiralty in London to Sheerness and Deal. The system used six shutters to represent letters, numbers, and phrases.

https://janeaustenslondon.com/2015/03/08/receiving-the-news-the-telegraph-system/#:~:text=The%20first%20line%20ran%20from,with%20its%20restored%20telegraph%20arms).&text=ting%2C%20until%201847.,care%20of%20the%20National%20Trust.

School: CHARLOTTE SHARMAN was a Christian philanthropist who f CHILDREN’S HOMES (see above)

SHIOBAN FAVOES DANCE CENTRE

https://www.siobhandavies.com

Site of the new WORKHOUSE

This is the new 1871-3, a workhouse was built by the Lambeth Parish Kennington. Designed by Thomas W Aldwinckle, its foundation stone, RENFREW ROAD, was ceremonially laid on 3rd April, 1871. Along with Madeley in Shropshire, it was one of the earliest pavilion-block workhouse designs built in England.

https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Lambeth/

OSBORNE HOUSE, WATER TOWER

This tower was built in 1867 to supply water to the adjacent Lambeth Workhouse. It lies a short distance south-west of the Elephant and Castle. The whole area was redeveloped in the 21st century and the tower site purchased by Leigh Osborne and Graham Voce in 2011. After removing 2.000 dead pigeons, It was then stunningly converted to residential and remains a spectacular local landmark to this day, having appeared on the TV program Grand Designs.

https://mymodernmet.com/leigh-osborne-graham-voce-water-tower-apartment/

https://www.osborne.house/profilego.asp?ref=2B3B37#:~:text=LAMBETH%20WORKHOUSE%20WATER%20TOWER%20(05GL17,the%20TV%20program%20Grand%20Designs.