Category: Battersea

Nine Elms

Nine Elms is an area within Battersea in the far north-eastern corner of the London Borough of Wandsworth.

Rosenau Road, SW11

Rosenau Road was named after Schloss Rosenau, the birthplace and boyhood home of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became the consort of Queen Victoria.

Shaftesbury Park Estate

Shaftesbury Park was built between 1872 and 1877. It was the first major development of the Artizans’, Labourers’, & General Dwellings Company, founded by a band of working men in 1866–7. Through ‘industrial partnership’ and a unique financial model it could build better houses for less than the speculative builder, pay its workmen more than …

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Wix’s Lane, SW4

Wix’s Lane is part of an ancient footpath which became made up into a formal road.

Zulu Mews, SW11

Zulu Mews lies within the curve of a Battersea railway.

Walking the Thames: Battersea

Our long stroll down the Thames from source to estuary reached Battersea today…

Survey of London: Battersea High Street area

Table of contents Survey of London: BatterseaBartlett School of Architecture/UCL Next This material appears courtesy of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College Londonwww.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/sites/bartlett/files/50.01_battersea_high_street_area.pdfUsed with permission. © English Heritage 2013 The High Street area, encompassing the historic core of Battersea village, has a long and involved building history but little pre-Victorian fabric. The economic …

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Survey of London: Battersea

Table of contents Survey of London: Battersea Bartlett School of Architecture/UCL Battersea High Street area This eBook appears courtesy of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/sites/bartlett/files/50.01_battersea_high_street_area.pdf Used with permission. © English Heritage 2013 Chapter 1: Battersea High Street area Chapter 2: Battersea Bridge Road to York Road Battersea Riverside Chapter 3: …

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Queenstown Road, SW11

Image credit: Queenstown Road looking north towards Battersea Power Station, in 2012. (Historic England)

London – South of the Thames : Chapter XX

Chapter XIX London – South of the Thames by Sir Walter Besantt Chapter XXI This is a digitised copy of the book London – South of the Thames by Sir Walter Besant Published in London by Adam & Charles Black (1912) This is in its raw form. Sections will be improved manually on this blog …

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