Heaver Road, SW11
Battersea Power Station view from River Thames (2012)
Credit: Alberto Pascual
Heaver Road, now a cul-de-sac, once ran eastwards to Falcon Road.

It was built in 1879 by Alfred Heaver.

Alfred Heaver, born in 1841, was an English carpenter who became a builder and property developer. He was responsible for the construction of many housing estates in south London. He was murdered in 1901 by a relative who had a grudge against him.

The Survey of London called him "the big-scale yet shadowy South London developer-builder".

Heaver Street in Battersea had two lives - one as a long Victorian street until 1971 and after that as part of a 1970s housing estate.

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