Clapham High Street, SW4

Clapham High Street is a main thoroughfare and shopping area of Clapham. It is part of the A3.

Nearby on Clapham Common is Holy Trinity Church, which was associated with the Clapham Sect in the early nineteenth century. The Clapham Sect, whose members included William Wilberforce, helped campaign for the abolition of the slave trade.

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Sir Walter Besant

Wirtemberg Street, SW4

Added: 11 Nov 2021 18:47 GMT

Sir Walter adds....
All the ground facing Wirtemberg Street at Chip and Cross Streets is being levelled for building and the old houses are disappearing fast. The small streets leading through into little Manor Street are very clean and tenanted by poor though respectable people, but little Manor Street is dirty, small, and narrow. Manor Street to Larkhall Rise is a wide fairly clean thoroughfare of mixed shops and houses which improves towards the north. The same may be said of Wirtemberg Street, which commences poorly, but from the Board School north is far better than at the Clapham end.

Source: London: South of the Thames - Chapter XX by Sir Walter Besant (1912)

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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.
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Unknown artist’s rendering of Clapham North.
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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.
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Map of Clapham Common (1890s map) Clapham in the last years of the nineteenth century, was an area in transition. It had been an area of serious wealth with large houses "in the country" for the heads of industry in the City. With the coming of the railways, and the tube, Clapham became more accessible and land values rose. Housing covered much open land and many large houses around the Common were sold off to developers.
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