Largest

This was the first statue of a black woman to be on permanent display anywhere in England. 3m high, based on a poem, written in about 1960, of the same name by Guyana-born Cecile Nobrega, who lived in Stockwell and campaigned for 10 years for this statue.

Ian Walters died after making the model for the statue. Aleix Barbat finished the work.

The 2001 film Last Orders was filmed in The Larkhall Tavern after it's closure.

Created in 1974, by clearing poor housing

BEST’ S BREWERY CO. succeeded the Larkhall Brewery Ltd in 1892 and registered in 1910.

Acquired by Mann, Crossman & Paulin Ltd. 1924 with 6 tied houses.

Striking building, open in 2007, providing health and community services

Rebuilt by the council in the 80s. Low rise and partly pedestrianised

The HIGH STREET and CLAPHAM ROAD junction  is not far away.

250 years ago the main road linked the area to London, lined with large houses and villas with gardens . Fields, nurseries and market gardens filled the land. By 1849 this area joined up with London spreading outwards. By the First World War the land was completely built-up. Houses, churches, schools, factories, shops. In the 20th older housing was replaced by local authority estates. More recently, a new infill for housing has replaced small industrial sites, and older housing has been refurbished and replaced.

BATTERSEA POWER STATION, BROMPTON ORATORY to CRYSTAL PALACE transmitter 

A bit of a diversión…

Back to the route. Alongside CUBITT TERRACE

B.1861. The Strict and Particular Baptists, are a group of evangelical churches found mostly in England. Rooted in the older Particular Baptist tradition, they emerged as a distinct body early in the 19th century, because of their opposition to the idea that it is the duty of every person to repent and believe the gospel. Nowadays many are known as ‘Grace Baptists’, because of their adherence to ‘the doctrines of grace’.

The term Strict refers to their practice of ‘restricted communion’. Many evangelical churches in the West invite ‘all who love the Lord Jesus Christ’ to take the bread and wine at the Lord’s Table. Strict Baptists, like many other groups of Baptist churches elsewhere in the world, believe that this privilege should be offered only to those who have been baptised by immersion as believers. (This was the practice of most Baptist churches in Britain during the 17th and 18th centuries.) Some go further and invite only those belonging to Baptist churches, or to churches holding the same understanding of Christian faith and church order.

Ebenezer is traditionally a name for males. It comes from a Hebrew phrase that means “stone of help.” The name appears in the Biblical story told in the Book of 1 Samuel, in which the Hebrew prophet Samuel sets up a stone to commemorate the help that God had given the Israelites.

Victorian

Developed in 1846-51 by an Irish militia Captain, Thomas Ross. The smaller houses, Nos. 1-3, were there when he started, and Ross incorporated them in his scheme. He built the tall flamboyant terraces, round a central garden, more typical of Kensington than Clapham.

At the far side of the square, by a red pillar box, Belmont Road leads to Clapham Manor School. It is worth a detour to see the ultra-modern extension to the school, by architects dRMM, shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2010.

B. 1852 for the STRICT BAPTISTS, as GARNER CHAPEL.

Sold in 1863 to the BIBLE CHRISTIANS.

In 1908 purchased by the PRIDE OF CLAPHAM LODGE OF THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS, who still owns the building and holds meetings here.

Originally, fraternities were create by the Israelites under occupation, and by Jewish prisoners after the fall of Jerusalem. They were taken to Rome, recognized by the Emperor and extended along the Roman Empire.

In England: when the old Trade Guilds were in decline ,  many fraternal societies took their place and became firmly established to support workers with benevolence should they fall on hard times. This included the Odd Fellows – a society representing fellow craftsmen from an assortment of trades.

The building is used, as well, by this peace a b meditation organisation 

Manse attached to the chapel 

The People's Church in Grafton Square was designed by William Nevin and opened in 1889 for the Baptists, who moved from their chapel on South Side, Clapham. Imposing classical, altered c1910, renovated 1959, becoming The People’s Chapel. After the roof collapsing and becoming run down, it was sold out and  converted in 2007 into housing and a GP surgery.

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