The Hop Poles

The Hop Poles dated from at the latest 1871.

The Hop Poles was finally, after rebuilding, situated at 60 Upper Tulse Hill, SW2.

Here it is in a previous incarnation (photographed in 1965) at no.50 in the same street. It disappeared for good in 2012.
Credit: Lambeth Archives

The Hop Poles was situated at 50 Upper Tulse Hill until the 1960s when it was rebuilt and moved to no. 60 Upper Tulse Hill.

The shop to the left was a car spares company whose owner used to enter the London to Brighton vintage car rally. The shop next to that was a butchers.

After moving its site along the road, the pub’s luck ran out in 2012 and the site was redeveloped,

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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
Evie Helen Erith Added: 13 Jun 2024 00:03 GMT	Vickers Road The road ’Vickers Road’ is numbered rather differently to other roads in the area as it was originally built as housing for the "Vickers" arms factory in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Most of the houses still retain the original 19th century tiling and drainage outside of the front doors. Reply
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Tony Whipple Frank Whipple Place, E14 Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT	Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply
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

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Zebra taxi TUM image id: 1557317410 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Atlantic, Brixton (1964) Credit: Eric McAlpine TUM image id: 1693236705 Licence:	Milkmen at Welfords Dairies shop in Abbeville Road, Clapham (1907) Dairies - involved in the distribution of milk sourced by a company’s own farmland - were a common site on suburban streets until well after the Second World War. Credit: Welfords Dairies TUM image id: 1622823673 Licence:	Acre Lane, Brixton (1883) TUM image id: 1550000898 Licence:	The Atlantic pub, Brixton (1964) Credit: Eric McAlpine TUM image id: 1660649093 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Tramway Electrification, Brixton Hill c.1904 Credit: Lambeth Archives TUM image id: 1660579085 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Due to the steepness of Brixton Hill, it was difficult for two horses to pull a tram full of passengers. As a result, an Act of Parliament was obtained in 1890 to allow the London Tramways Company (formerly known as the Metropolitan Street Tramways Company) to build a cable line. This cable line would replace the existing horse tram service from Kennington to Brixton Water Lane and continue all the way up to Telford Avenue at the top of Brixton Hill. The concept of cable traction was already in use in San Francisco, and it was first implemented in the UK on Highgate Hill in North London in 1884. The cable was composed of steel wire strands wrapped around a one-inch diameter rope, which extended almost six miles in length. This was twice the length of the actual route. The cable ran underground between the tram lines within a concrete conduit that had a small open slot along the rope. The small human-operated tractor or "gripper" car utilised this slot to grip onto the cable and pull the passenger tramcar. If a tramcar was traveling from Brixton Hill to Westminster Bridge, the gripper car would be detached at Kennington and replaced by a pair of horses. Passengers remained in their seats during this transition. The cable moved continuously at a maximum speed of 8 miles per hour. A special depot was constructed on Streatham Hill, opposite Telford Avenue, to house the cars, horses, and steam-powered winding gear for the cable. The cable service began operating in December 1892. In 1894, another Act was obtained to extend the cable line southwards to the Tate Library on Streatham High Road, and this section was operational by the end of 1895. The cable cars ran until 1904. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1682856950 Licence:	Coldharbour Lane seen from Acre Lane (2007) Credit: Wikicommons/Claret TUM image id: 1604061379 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Electric Avenue, Brixton, c.1900 TUM image id: 1510061901 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Unknown artist’s rendering of Clapham North. Credit: Unknown artist TUM image id: 1683206164 Licence:
Rosendale Road, SE24 consists of a mixture of flats and cottages, built between 1902 and 1908. A community hall was added in 1913. A “Jubilee concert” took place there in March 1914 to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the first Peabody estate in Spitalfields. The blocks of flats resemble earlier Peabody estates, except that red brick was used instead of yellow. Block F included a communal bathhouse. For the final phase of building a new architect was selected to design 64 of the cottages. He was Victor Wilkins, who remained as Peabody’s architect until his retirement in 1948. Credit: Peabody Trust TUM image id: 1627664904 Licence:	Mumford Road, SE24 Despite this being the tiniest of cul-de-sacs, Mumford Road once had a different name. A householder needed an outflow pipe to be installed causing the Mumford Road sign to be moved down and revealing a sign with the older name. TUM image id: 1622545093 Licence:	Wirtemberg Street is a lost street of Clapham. At the time of the First World War, the street was probably renamed as a result of anti-German feeling. Mirroring the royal family’s own rebranding, the Wirtemberg Arms pub was renamed the Windsor Arms at the same time. Credit: Wandsworth Archives TUM image id: 1636642614 Licence:	In December 1951, a London-bound 48 tram passes a near-deserted strip of small shops in Milkwood Road, SE24. Further down the road, there’s a southbound tram waiting to traverse the single track. Credit: John H. Meredith TUM image id: 1589376154 Licence:

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Tramway Electrification, Brixton Hill c.1904
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Due to the steepness of Brixton Hill, it was difficult for two horses to pull a tram full of passengers. As a result, an Act of Parliament was obtained in 1890 to allow the London Tramways Company (formerly known as the Metropolitan Street Tramways Company) to build a cable line. This cable line would replace the existing horse tram service from Kennington to Brixton Water Lane and continue all the way up to Telford Avenue at the top of Brixton Hill. The concept of cable traction was already in use in San Francisco, and it was first implemented in the UK on Highgate Hill in North London in 1884. The cable was composed of steel wire strands wrapped around a one-inch diameter rope, which extended almost six miles in length. This was twice the length of the actual route. The cable ran underground between the tram lines within a concrete conduit that had a small open slot along the rope. The small human-operated tractor or "gripper" car utilised this slot to grip onto the cable and pull the passenger tramcar. If a tramcar was traveling from Brixton Hill to Westminster Bridge, the gripper car would be detached at Kennington and replaced by a pair of horses. Passengers remained in their seats during this transition. The cable moved continuously at a maximum speed of 8 miles per hour. A special depot was constructed on Streatham Hill, opposite Telford Avenue, to house the cars, horses, and steam-powered winding gear for the cable. The cable service began operating in December 1892. In 1894, another Act was obtained to extend the cable line southwards to the Tate Library on Streatham High Road, and this section was operational by the end of 1895. The cable cars ran until 1904.
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