St. James’s Rd. Bermondsey c1910.

St. James’s Rd. Bermondsey c1910.
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Senegal Road, SE16

Added: 1 Sep 2021 16:58 GMT

Prefabs!
The "post-war detached houses" mentioned in the description were "prefabs" - self-contained single-storey pre-fabricated dwellings. Demolition of houses on the part that became Senegal Fields was complete by 1964 or 1965.

Source: Prefabs in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Mike Dowling Undercliff Road, SE13 Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT	Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply
Evie Helen Erith Added: 13 Jun 2024 00:03 GMT	Vickers Road The road ’Vickers Road’ is numbered rather differently to other roads in the area as it was originally built as housing for the "Vickers" arms factory in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Most of the houses still retain the original 19th century tiling and drainage outside of the front doors. Reply
Paul Harris Ellen Place, E1 Added: 12 Jun 2024 12:54 GMT	Ellen Place, E1 My mother’s father and his family lived at 31 Ellen Place London E1 have a copy of the 1911 census showing this Reply
Wedlake Street, W10 Added: 10 Jun 2024 19:31 GMT	Toll gate Close Did anyone live at Toll Gate Close, which was built in the area where the baths had been? Reply
Charles Black Middle Row, W10 Added: 24 May 2024 12:54 GMT	Middle Row, W10 Middle Row was notable for its bus garage, home of the number 7. Reply
Farm Place, W8 Added: 2 May 2024 16:14 GMT	Farm Place, W8 The previous name of Farm Place was Ernest St (no A) Reply
Tony Whipple Frank Whipple Place, E14 Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT	Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply
Theresa Penney Whites Row, E1 Added: 16 Apr 2024 18:08 GMT	1 Whites Row My 2 x great grandparents and his family lived here according to the 1841 census. They were Dutch Ashkenazi Jews born in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 19th century but all their children were born in Spitalfields. Reply

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Tustin Estate block, Peckham (2021) As cladding was updated on the Tustin Estate, a distinctive new colour combination - rockpanel chameleon - was used Credit: Tustin Estate Residents TUM image id: 1636634229 Licence:	The sense of dereliction present in Bolina Road, near Millwall FC’s home ground at The Den, has allowed the local film office to promote the street for use in dramas. Credit: Lewisham Film Office TUM image id: 1644248345 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Slipper’s Place, Rotherhithe (1958) Situated between Southwark Park and Southwark Park Road, this terrace was built c1850 on ground particularly unsuited to building, as the area had previously been a series of ditches and islands that fed into a mill stream. The site was cleared and new flats erected shortly after this photograph was taken. TUM image id: 1661077092 Licence:	A 2015 comparison between the cheapest and most expensive properties upon the 1930s London Monopoly board showed that the difference had lessened dramatically Credit: Ellie Flynn TUM image id: 1608830457 Licence:	The Surrey Canal, Camberwell (1935) Algernon Newton began to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy summer shows in 1923 and he continued to send paintings for several decades. His chosen subjects were views of London, mostly in the St John’s Wood, Hampstead, Kentish Town and Paddington areas. He was particularly fond of including a stretch of water in his compositions and often chose back-street views of canals, as here. He liked the slightly forlorn Regency and early Victorian terraces that faced the canals, and gave them a curiously uninhabited look. He once wrote: ’There is beauty to be found in everything, you only have to search for it; a gasometer can make as beautiful a picture as a palace on the Grand Canal, Venice. It simply depends on the artist’s vision.’ Credit: Algernon Newton (1880–1968)/Tate Collection TUM image id: 1670516567 Licence:
Mr Plumb’s shop, 57 Green Hundred Road, Peckham (1923) Credit: Daily Herald TUM image id: 1695901864 Licence:	Storks Road, SE16, looking north from the junction with Webster Road (1935) Bermondsey Borough Council had a committee - the Beautification Committee - which undertook programmes of tree planting on the area’s streets. It planted many thousands of trees, mainly poplar, as seen here. Credit: Ideal Homes TUM image id: 1644274964 Licence:	The Rennie Estate, Rotherhithe (2009) Credit: Wiki Commons/Chris Lordan TUM image id: 1653948243 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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Tustin Estate block, Peckham (2021) As cladding was updated on the Tustin Estate, a distinctive new colour combination - rockpanel chameleon - was used
Credit: Tustin Estate Residents
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The sense of dereliction present in Bolina Road, near Millwall FC’s home ground at The Den, has allowed the local film office to promote the street for use in dramas.
Credit: Lewisham Film Office
Licence: CC BY 2.0

The Rennie Estate, Rotherhithe (2009)
Credit: Wiki Commons/Chris Lordan
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