Theatre Street is a road in the SW11 postcode area
Austin Road, SW11 Austin Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Belleville Road, SW11 Belleville Road runs from Bollingbroke Grove, across Northcote Road, to Webb’s Road. Berber Road, SW11 Berber Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Bridge Lane, SW11 Bridge Lane is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Burns Road, SW11 Burns Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Chatto Road, SW11 Chatto Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Eland Road, SW11 Eland Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Este Road, SW11 Este Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Ethelburga Street, SW11 Ethelburga Street was named after Saint Æthelburh (Ethelburga), founder and first Abbess of Barking. Falcon Lane, SW11 Falcon Lane is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Gideon Road, SW11 Gideon Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Hafer Road, SW11 Hafer Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Juer Street, SW11 Juer Street is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Kersley Mews, SW11 Kersley Mews is a rare survival of a local mews and built to serve the residents of Foxmore Street and Kersley Street. Kyrle Road, SW11 Kyrle Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Marney Road, SW11 Marney Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Mysore Road, SW11 Mysore Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Northcote Road, SW11 Northcote Road is a shopping street between Clapham and Battersea, which stretches over half a mile. Park South, SW11 Park South is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Petworth Street, SW11 Petworth Street was laid out in the late nineteenth century linking two bridge approaches - Albert Bridge Road and Battersea Bridge Road. Poyntz Road, SW11 Poyntz Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Rosenau Road, SW11 Rosenau Road was named after Schloss Rosenau, the birthplace and boyhood home of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became the consort of Queen Victoria. Sabine Road, SW11 Sabine Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Sugden Road, SW11 Sugden Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. The School, SW11 The School is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Webbs Road, SW11 Webbs Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Wisley Road, SW11 Wisley Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area.
Lavender Hill is an area based around a hill near Clapham Junction in South London.The geographical feature is named
Lavender Hill due to the commercial cultivation of lavender there in the pre-industrial era. Several other smaller streets including
Lavender Gardens and
Lavender Sweep (
Lavender Gardens was the former home of Sarah, Duchess of York where she lived in a flat before her marriage) also bear the reference and can be seen on 18th century maps as being largely farmland, with the earliest reference to the still-existing Falcon public house at the west end of the street in 1767.
The opening of Clapham Junction railway station in 1863 led to rapid residential and commercial development along the street and by 1885 it was such a busy commercial district that Arding and Hobbs (now Debenhams), the largest department store south of the River Thames, was built. The street also features the imposing
Church of the Ascension, built in 1883 to cater to the growing population of the neighbouring Shaftesbury Estate, as well as a Welsh Methodist chapel (on
Beauchamp Road) reflecting what was once a significant Welsh population.
The street is known in popular culture thanks to the Ealing comedy The
Lavender Hill Mob (so-named because the lead character lived in a seedy boarding house on the street). It is also featured with a chapter of its own in the historical novel London by Edward Rutherfurd, with descriptions of it in the 18th century from the pre-industrial era. English group The Kinks made a song entitled
Lavender Hill, which appeared on several collections of material not from albums including The Great Lost Kinks Album.
Lavender Hill has featured as a site location for many British TV shows, including ’On The Buses’ and ’The Sweeney’, in the 1970s.
Lavender Hill is now principally a shopping street along much of its length, starting from the landmark Arding and Hobbs building (now part of Debenhams), a number of specialist food and music outlets, a large supermarket, many estate agents. There is a larger concentration of restaurants and bars along the flatter section atop the hill, where
Lavender Hill police station and the Battersea Arts Centre are to be found and towards the eastern end of the street.
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