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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
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The gas lamp in the centre of the island at New Cross Gate is a well-known landmark of the area. It doubled up as a ventilation pipe for the (now derelict) 1897-built toilets below ground. The lamp is Grade II listed for embodying the only design of Scottish architect Alexander Thomson’s work to survive in England.
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Knoyle Street looking from the Cold Blow Lane end towards Chubworthy Street, Woodpecker Road and Milton Court Road (1953). This view dates from a period before demolition took place and only the houses pictured front right remained.
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Lewisham, New Cross Road (1920s) Sure this has been colorised rather than being the original look but whoever did it (for once) has made a decent job of it
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Reservoir Road, Brockley (1904)
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