Sancroft Street, SE11

Sancroft Street is one of the streets of London in the SE11 postal area.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

BB Saunders Street, SE11 Added: 19 Sep 2024 12:41 GMT	Saunders Street, SE11 My grandfather (and presumably my father, uncles and aunts) all lived in 3 Saunders Street. I’m slowly researching my Family Tree. Does anyone know when this street was demolished, what were the properties like (I’m assuming extremely poor). My grandfather’s surname was HILKIN. Reply
Richard Lake De Laune Street, SE17 Added: 28 Sep 2022 09:37 GMT	Trade Union Official John William Lake snr moved with his family to 22 De Laune Street in 1936. He was the London Branch Secretary for the Street Masons, Paviours and Road Makers Union. He had previously lived in Orange St now Copperfield St Southwark but had been forced to move because the landlord didn’t like him working from home and said it broke his lease. John William snr died in 1940. His son John William Lake jnr also became a stone mason and at the end of World War two he was responsible for the engraving of the dates of WW2 onto the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Reply
Johnshort Hurley Road, SE11 Added: 7 Oct 2017 21:07 GMT	Hurley Road, SE11 There were stables in the road mid way - also Danny reading had a coal delivery lorry. Reply
Robert smitherman Saunders Street, SE11 Added: 23 Aug 2017 11:01 GMT	Saunders Street, SE11 I was born in a prefab on Saunders street SE11 in the 60’s, when I lived there, the road consisted of a few prefab houses, the road originally ran from Lollard street all the way thru to Fitzalan street. I went back there to have a look back in the early 90’s but all that is left of the road is about 20m of road and the road sign. Reply
Hurley Road, SE11 Added: 17 Dec 2023 21:57 GMT	Hurley Road, SE11 I remember Danny reading we lived opposite him at number 15 he used to give us rides in his lorry and a bottle of cola if he was carrying it on the lorry x Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Parkers Row, SE1 Added: 9 Jan 2025 18:51 GMT	Parkers Row, SE1 My great great grandmother, and her soon to be husband, lived in Parker’s Row before their marriage in St James in June 1839. Thier names were - Jane Elizabeth Turner and Charles Frederick Dean. She was a hat trimmer and he was a tailor. Reply
Lindsay Trott Lockside, E14 Added: 1 Jan 2025 17:55 GMT	Lockside not on 1939 Register I have the Denby family living in Lockside in 1938 but it does not appear on the 1939 Register. Reply
Janelle Robbins Blossom Place, E1 Added: 27 Dec 2024 18:47 GMT	Harriet Robbins Please get in touch re Harriet Robbins Reply
Dave Hinves Bacon Street, E1 Added: 27 Nov 2024 03:55 GMT	he was a School Teacher Henry sailed from Graves End 1849 on ’The Woodbridge’ arrived South Australia 1850. In 1858 he married Julia Ann Walsh at Burra, South Australia, they had 3 children, and 36 grand children. Died 24 June 1896 at Wilmington, South Australia. He is my 1st cousin 3x removed. Reply
Kevin Pont St George’s Square, SW1V Added: 23 Nov 2024 17:03 GMT	St Georges Square This is rather lovely and well worth a visit! Reply
Simon Chapman Blossom Place, E1 Added: 22 Nov 2024 17:47 GMT	Blossom Place My Great Great Grandmother, Harriett Robbins lived in 2 Blossom Place in 1865 before marrying my Great Great Grandfather. They moved to 23 Spitall Square. Reply
Mark G Skidmore Street, E1 Added: 26 Oct 2024 21:54 GMT	Skidmore Street, E1 Skidmore Street was located where present day Ernest Street and Solebay Street now stand. They are both located above Shandy Street and Commodore Street. Reply
Alan Russell Cheshire Street, E1 Added: 26 Oct 2024 14:36 GMT	Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969 Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969 Reply

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Vauxhall Gardens Vauxhall Gardens was a pleasure garden, one of the leading venues for public entertainment from the mid 17th century to the mid 19th century.

Vauxhall Gardens

NEARBY STREETS

Adam Court, SE11 Adam Court can be found on Kennington Lane (Kennington)

Adam Court, SE11

Ado Place, SE11 Ado Place was a small courtyard off Whitgift Street which seems to have arrived on the map in the 1850s (Lambeth)

Ado Place, SE11

Albert Embankment, SE1 Albert Embankment was reclaimed from the Lambeth foreshore (Lambeth)

Albert Embankment, SE1

Arden House, SE11 Residential block (Lambeth)

Arden House, SE11

Ashton House, SE11 Ashton House is a block on Cornwall Square Kennings Way (Lambeth)

Ashton House, SE11

Auckland Street, SE11 Auckland Street is a continuation of Glyn Street (Vauxhall)

Auckland Street, SE11

Aulton Place, SE11 This is a street in the SE11 postcode area (Kennington)

Aulton Place, SE11

Aveline Street, SE11 Aveline Street is a road in the SE11 postcode area (Kennington)

Aveline Street, SE11

Averline House, SE11 Averline House is a building on Aveline Street (Kennington)

Averline House, SE11

Baltimore House, SE11 Baltimore House is a block on Hotspur Street (Lambeth)

Baltimore House, SE11

Beaufoy Walk, SE11 Beaufoy Walk is a road in the SE11 postcode area (Lambeth)

Beaufoy Walk, SE11

Beet Court, SE1 Beet Court was also known as Lemon Court before 1895 (Lambeth)

Beet Court, SE1

Bishop Brown Memorial Building, SE11 Bishop Brown Memorial Building is sited on Harleyford Road (Vauxhall)

Bishop Brown Memorial Building, SE11

Black Prince Road, SE1 Black Prince Road is named after Edward, the Black Prince, the son of King Edward III (Lambeth)

Black Prince Road, SE1

Black Prince Road, SE11 Black Prince Road’s origin is derived from Edward of Woodstock (Edward the Black Prince) who lived in Lambeth during the 1300 (Lambeth)

Overflow of the Thames at Lambeth Stairs on Tuesday 29 January 1850. Lambeth Stairs was near to Lambeth Palace. Poor river wall maintenance meant that the area was flooded whenever there was an unusually high tide. Credit: Illustrated London News TUM image id: 1623706174 Licence:	Chartist meeting, Kennington Common. Widely thought to be the earliest London photograph depicting a crowd (1848) More info: www.wcml.org.uk/about-us/timeline/kennington-common-chartist-meeting/ Credit: William Kilburn TUM image id: 1556887885 Licence:	Shop on the corner of Brook Drive and Hayles Street (2013) This unobtrusive corner shop near Elephant and Castle was the filming location for ’Come On Eileen’ by Dexys Midnight Runners. It’s no longer a shop and - to my horror - my walk from Elephant & Castle to Lambeth North passes it at 7:24 and doesn’t note it as I found out only afterwards. Grrr https://youtu.be/R-e GEXb4M4 Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1689771844 Licence:	Fentiman Road, SW8 (2017) The road is named after local mid-19th century Vauxhall developer John Fentiman. TUM image id: 1544889021 Licence:	Gladstone Street showing Albert Terrace in the background (1977) Credit: Ideal Homes TUM image id: 1513443941 Licence:
Children among the rubble of a bombsite playground at Lollard Street, Lambeth (1957) Children’s rights campaigner Lady Allen of Hurtwood formed a movement for the building of playgrounds. Originally known as ‘junk’ playgrounds, they were renamed adventure playgrounds in 1953 and the movement grew. Credit: London Borough of Lambeth TUM image id: 1625154491 Licence:	South Lambeth Place Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1575382850 Licence:	Vauxhall Cross (1930s) In this view only the railway bridgework remains the same. Everything else is gone, even the road layout. TUM image id: 1605010188 Licence:	Vauxhall Mansion and Vauxhall Walk in Lambeth about to be redeveloped, September 1953. Credit: Mirrorpix TUM image id: 1691059432 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Victoria Mansions with tram, South Lambeth Road on the corner of Old South Lambeth Road Paul O’Grady lived here when Lily Savage was a feature of both the Vauxhall Tavern and Vauxhall’s Elephant and Castle pub. Albert and Atholl Mansions on the left were demolished around 1975 to make way for the Mawbey Estate TUM image id: 1704976189 Licence:
Lambeth Telegraph Tower in 1810. At a short distance west of the Fishmongers’ Almshouses, near to West Square, on the south side of St George’s Road, formerly stood this tall boarded structure. It served for some time the purposes of a semaphore telegraph tower Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1680371586 Licence:	Catherine Street, Vauxhall looking South (1930) Catherine Street, as Worgan Street, became part of the Vauxhall Gardens Estate. Credit: London Metropolitan Archives TUM image id: 1643826581 Licence: CC BY 2.0	"The old man, seen Lambeth Walking at the top of one of the side-streets is a Lambeth institution. He is popular in the Walk, and there are usually a few to give him pennies." Taken from ’Life in the Lambeth Walk’, Picture Post, 31 December 1938 Credit: Picture Post TUM image id: 1688482346 Licence:	Pelham Mission Hall, Lambeth Walk (2005). A curious building with an outside pulpit. It closed as a church sometime around 1970. Credit: Wiki Commons/Stephen Craven TUM image id: 1674229859 Licence:	An unnamed side street off of Fitzalan Street, Lambeth (1921) TUM image id: 1608039577 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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