Brandon Estate

Brandon Estate is a social housing estate in London Borough of Southwark.

The Brandon Estate, Kennington (2012)
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Situated to the south of Kennington Park, the Brandon Estate was built in 1958 by the London County Council, to designs by Edward Hollamby and Roger Westman.

The estate’s initial development included six 18-storey towers - at the time, the tallest in London - a new square and other lower buildings, and the rehabilitation of some Victorian terraces.

The estate is named after Thomas Brandon, a gardener, who obtained permission by Act of Parliament to let land within the Walworth manor on building leases for 99 years in 1774.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Richard Lake

De Laune Street, SE17

Added: 28 Sep 2022 09:37 GMT

Trade Union Official
John William Lake snr moved with his family to 22 De Laune Street in 1936. He was the London Branch Secretary for the Street Masons, Paviours and Road Makers Union. He had previously lived in Orange St now Copperfield St Southwark but had been forced to move because the landlord didn’t like him working from home and said it broke his lease.
John William snr died in 1940. His son John William Lake jnr also became a stone mason and at the end of World War two he was responsible for the engraving of the dates of WW2 onto the Cenotaph in Whitehall.

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LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Mike Dowling Undercliff Road, SE13 Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT	Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply
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Paul Harris Ellen Place, E1 Added: 12 Jun 2024 12:54 GMT	Ellen Place, E1 My mother’s father and his family lived at 31 Ellen Place London E1 have a copy of the 1911 census showing this Reply
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Charles Black Middle Row, W10 Added: 24 May 2024 12:54 GMT	Middle Row, W10 Middle Row was notable for its bus garage, home of the number 7. Reply
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Theresa Penney Whites Row, E1 Added: 16 Apr 2024 18:08 GMT	1 Whites Row My 2 x great grandparents and his family lived here according to the 1841 census. They were Dutch Ashkenazi Jews born in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 19th century but all their children were born in Spitalfields. Reply

LOCAL PHOTOS

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Chartist meeting, Kennington Common. Widely thought to be the earliest London photograph depicting a crowd (1848) More info: www.wcml.org.uk/about-us/timeline/kennington-common-chartist-meeting/ Credit: William Kilburn TUM image id: 1556887885 Licence:	Demolition of the Heygate Estate and the construction of Elephant Central, May 2014. The Heygate Estate had been completed in 1974. The estate was used extensively as a filming location, due in part to its brutalist architecture. Credit: Wiki Commons/Zefrog TUM image id: 1637796469 Licence: CC BY 2.0	East Street market, Walworth in 1908 The market, in operation since the 1880s, featured in the title sequence for Only Fools and Horses Old London postcard TUM image id: 1669906466 Licence:	Amelia Street, SE11 This originally consisted of late 19th century tenement blocks built by James Pullen between 1886 and 1901. During the 1980s the buildings between Manor Place and the south side of Amelia Street were demolished. The demolition of the rest of the Pullens Estate was prevented when squatters, intent on preserving the remainder of an individual late Victorian estate, occupied some of the blocks. The south side of Amelia Street is now an open space - Pullens Gardens - created following the demolition of a tenement block. Credit: Ideal Homes TUM image id: 1536959890 Licence:	Shop on the corner of Brook Drive and Hayles Street (2013) This unobtrusive corner shop near Elephant and Castle was the filming location for ’Come On Eileen’ by Dexys Midnight Runners. It’s no longer a shop and - to my horror - my walk from Elephant & Castle to Lambeth North passes it at 7:24 and doesn’t note it as I found out only afterwards. Grrr https://youtu.be/R-e GEXb4M4 Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1689771844 Licence:
Elephant Road TUM image id: 1702056801 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Walworth Road (1930) This view looks north along the Walworth Road towards the ornate Elephant and Castle public house. Most of the buildings here were demolished as part of the London County Council redevelopment between 1958 and 1965. TUM image id: 1620670227 Licence:	Postcard depicting Walworth Road and "The King’s First Visit To South London May 1911". The king in question was George V Old London postcard TUM image id: 1621246974 Licence:	Harrison House on the Browning Estate, Walworth (1974) Credit: London Borough of Southwark TUM image id: 1637075058 Licence: CC BY 2.0	An unnamed side street off of Fitzalan Street, Lambeth (1921) TUM image id: 1608039577 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Adam West as ’Batman’ filming road safety in Denny Crescent, Kennington (1967) TUM image id: 1630068983 Licence:	The Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens in Kennington (existed 1831-1877) TUM image id: 1642180507 Licence:	The Good Intent - the last pub of East Street Market Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1669908269 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Heygate Estate (1970s) TUM image id: 1669908871 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Booth’s poverty map of Kennington and South Lambeth (1898) Charles Booth’s classification of London just before the turn of the twentieth century was thorough if opinionated. The streets marked in the darkest colour indicates inhabitants who are "vicious and semi-criminal". This section of south London has very little yellow where the "upper middle and upper classes" hung out. Credit: LSE TUM image id: 1715859998 Licence: