Badric Road was laid out in 1868 as Urswicke Road.
Urswicke Road became Badric Road in 1937 and disappeared completely during the 1960s to make way for the Badric Court Estate.
Badric Road referred to
Beaduric, the reputed Anglo-Saxon founder of Battersea.
By the early twentieth century, the area had become poor. Many houses were subdivided between two or three families with rooms sublet to lodgers to help make ends meet.
Second World War bombing damaged the area although some housing survived into the 1960s. It was eventually condemned to be replaced by Battersea Council’s York Road Stage II estate. The scheme - also known as the Badric Court Estate - was devised in 1964 while Battersea Borough Council was still in existence. At its centre, Badric Road was to be obliterated.
In 1967, William Ryder & Associates were appointed architects and produced sketches for 309 dwellings with one large quadrangular block called Badric Court and a 21-storey tower to be called Totteridge House. John Laing Construction undertook the contract between 1969 and 1971. Once the larger buildings were finished, an old people’s home, an attached day centre and a children’s centre followed to the east of Badric Court.
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Badric Road was laid out in 1868 as Urswicke Road.
