Category: Battersea

Survey of London: Lombard Estate

Table of contents Survey of London: Battersea Bartlett School of Architecture/UCL Battersea Riverside This article appears courtesy of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/sites/bartlett/files/50.02_battersea_bridge_to_york_road.pdf Used with permission. © English Heritage 2013 West of the High Street, most of the land in the angle between the railway tracks and York and Lombard …

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Survey of London: Battersea Riverside

Lombard Estate Survey of London: Battersea Bartlett School of Architecture/UCL Battersea Park This article appears courtesy of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/sites/bartlett/files/50.02_battersea_bridge_to_york_road.pdf Used with permission. © English Heritage 2013 Redevelopment for housing of the riverside sites along Lombard Road and York Roads began in the early 1980s with Broadwell Land’s …

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Rowena Crescent, SW11

Rowena Crescent was once called Zulu Crescent.

Badric Road, SW11

Badric Road was laid out in 1868 as Urswicke Road.

The Streets of Battersea

The Streets of Battersea is a book published by the Wandsworth Historical Society and compiled in 2010 by Keith Bailey. www.wandsworthhistory.org.uk/publications.htm Dr Keith Bailey is an award-winning writer on local history with a specialist interest in the development of Victorian Wandsworth and Battersea. As a consequence, two recent books, Aspects of Battersea History 1770-1910 and …

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London – South of the Thames: Chapter X

Chapter IX London – South of the Thames by Sir Walter Besantt Chapter XI This is a digitised copy of the book London – South of the Thames by Sir Walter Besant Published in London by Adam & Charles Black (1912) This is in its raw form. Sections will be improved manually on this blog …

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Coppock Close, SW11

Coppock Close is part of the Kambala Estate.

Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station is a former power station and an Underground station on the Northern Line.

Survey of London: Battersea Bridge Road to York Road

Previous Survey of London: Battersea Bartlett School of Architecture/UCL Next This article appears courtesy of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/sites/bartlett/files/50.02_battersea_bridge_to_york_road.pdf Used with permission. © English Heritage 2013 This article will appear in due course. The original may be seen by clicking the PDF link above. Provisional text follows: The area …

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Survey of London: Nine Elms

Around Battersea Park Survey of London: BatterseaBartlett School of Architecture/UCL Park Town This article appears courtesy of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College Londonwww.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/sites/bartlett/files/50.04_nine_elms.pdfUsed with permission. © English Heritage 2013 The old hamlet of Nine Elms was the first settlement in Battersea travellers from London would encounter, after they branched off from the …

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