Pulford Street, SW1V

Pulford Street was a street between its construction in 1848 and demolition after the Second World War.

Pulford Street being demolished
Credit: Peabody Trust

Pulford Street survived for near exactly 100 years. It served the Equitable Gas Company’s Pimlico works which had opened in the 1830s and closed in the late 1920s. The houses on Pulford Street had been dilapidated and run down.

In 1932 the Pulford Street Site Committee was set up to raise funds for a new housing estate to be built.

The Tachbrook estate was built by the Westminster Housing Trust, a consortium of Westminster residents who raised £32,000 to buy the land. The estate opened in two stages. The northern half was opened in the 1930s and the southern half was opened in the late 1940s with the last phase, Harvey House, being formally opened by Princess Margaret on 22 October 1953.

Pulford Street disappeared under the new housing.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Brian J MacIntyre Dolphin Square Added: 8 Jan 2023 17:27 GMT	Malcolm Davey at Raleigh House, Dolphin Square My former partner, actor Malcolm Davey, lived at Raleigh House, Dolphin Square, for many years until his death. He was a wonderful human being and an even better friend. A somewhat underrated actor, but loved by many, including myself. I miss you terribly, Malcolm. Here’s to you and to History, our favourite subject. Love Always - Brian J MacIntyre Minnesota, USA Reply
Pauline jones Bessborough Place, SW1V Added: 16 Oct 2017 19:04 GMT	Bessborough Place, SW1V I grew up in bessborough place at the back of our house and Grosvenor road and bessborough gardens was a fantastic playground called trinity mews it had a paddling pool sandpit football area and various things to climb on, such as a train , slide also as Wendy house. There were plants surrounding this wonderful play area, two playground attendants ,also a shelter for when it rained. The children were constantly told off by the playground keepers for touching the plants or kicking the ball out of the permitted area, there was hopscotch as well, all these play items were brick apart from the slide. Pollock was the centre of my universe and I felt sorry and still do for anyone not being born there. To this day I miss it and constantly look for images of the streets around there, my sister and me often go back to take a clumped of our beloved London. The stucco houses were a feature and the backs of the houses enabled parents to see thier children playing. 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

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
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
GrahamClayton Lots Road Power Station Added: 10 Oct 2024 19:42 GMT	Armed guard during 1919 civil unrest During the 1919 civil unrest, a company of soldiers guarded the power station day and night - if it was forced to close down, a large part of London’s transport system would be inoperable. Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

Chelsea College of Art and Design Chelsea College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London.

Chelsea College of Art and Design

Dolphin Square Dolphin Square is a block of private flats and business complex built near the River Thames between 1935 and 1937.

Dolphin Square

Lillington Gardens Estate Lillington Gardens is an estate in the Pimlico area, constructed in phases between 1961 and 1980.

Lillington Gardens Estate

Pimlico Pimlico is the triangular area of land bounded by Vauxhall Bridge Road, the Thames and the railway into Victoria Station, known for its garden squares and Regency architecture.

Nine Elms station opened during 2021 on the new Battersea extension of the Northern Line Credit: Transport for London TUM image id: 1488201136 Licence:	Wood engraving showing mothers, with their children, exercising at Tothill Fields Prison Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1504357431 Licence:	Churchill Gardens street sign and layout Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1733071045 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Lillington Gardens estate Credit: Ewan Munro TUM image id: 1516208904 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Vauxhall Bridge (2010) This bridge - dating from 1906 - is Grade II listed. The first Vauxhall Bridge was opened in 1816. Credit: Wiki Commons/Paul Farmer TUM image id: 1733141215 Licence:
The sign for the "Stage Door", formerly a pub in Allington Street, SW1 Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1593785741 Licence:	Victoria coach station’s temporary base (1929) This was sited where the Tachbrook Estate is now. The open-air King’s Scholar Pond sewer is on the left - unthinkable now - and every single building that can be seen in this picture has gone. TUM image id: 1545177549 Licence:	Most of the left side of Hartington Road depicted here - the area between Hartington Road and Wandsworth Road - was demolished in 1950s slum clearance. TUM image id: 1503224152 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Regency Cafe (2013) Credit: Geograph/Shazz TUM image id: 1733063736 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Nine Elms Station map in the 1850s with the new line to Waterloo on right. Before the Waterloo extension, Nine Elms was the main London terminus for the LSWR. TUM image id: 1488210142 Licence:
Tootehill fields (Tothill Fields) around 1643 View across fields looking towards Westminster Abbey, at mid-distance a summer house enclosed by bushes, Westminster Hall and part of the parliament buildings on the right, and farther to right the church of "St Paul in London." Credit: Wenceslaus Hollar TUM image id: 1733062664 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:	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:	Map of Battersea New Town (1829) From the 1790s, the "New Town" of Battersea started to emerge just west of Nine Elms, with the aim of developing an urban but middle-class district here, amidst the fields. But progress was fragmented due to the various landowners and builders. Working-class terraces gradually filled the gaps between industrial sites. Credit: C& J Greenwood TUM image id: 1705403768 Licence:

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