Somers Place, SW2

Somers Place is one of the streets of London in the SW2 postal area.

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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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Zebra taxi TUM image id: 1557317410 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Atlantic, Brixton (1964) Credit: Eric McAlpine TUM image id: 1693236705 Licence:	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 TUM image id: 1641296418 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
A view from the lounge of 20a Manor House Road, Stockwell. Credit: Ted Hayward TUM image id: 1627921579 Licence:	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: