Ives Street, SW3
Royal Hospital
Credit: MykReeve
Ives Street dates from the 1820s.

Thomas Birks of Marlborough Road (later Draycott Avenue), tallow chandler, in 1828 let ground formerly part of the Warton estate with 2 brick houses, stables, and workshops on the east side of Marlborough Road and the north side of Green Lettuce Lane, on which Smith (later Ives) Street was built.

Further leases were made 1829-30, and 12 houses in Smith Street were let in 1836.

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