Greenwich Town Hall - first
Built in 1876 to house the Greenwich Department of Works, West Greenwich House was designed by William Wallen and was officially opened on 25 April 1877. It became the first Greenwich Town Hall in...
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Stamford Hill Green Lanes Turnpike
At Harringay Online Hugh has posted this image, captioned "Turnpike Lane Toll Booth, late 19th Century (disused and soon to be demolished)" and "Our area has a long history of road pricing. In 1739...
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Manor Street Methodist Church
Designed by Waddington and Dunkerley in 1903. The 1913 map shows how the whole corner was developed, with 4 shops on Kings Road plus an entrance on Kings Road (at 155a) to the church which had it...
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Manor Street 'club'
Used by a 'club' after the war but probably built for a worthy purpose, we have been unable to identify the original function of this building. Currently marketed as follows: "The offices are app...
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Clapham Parochial School
Establish in 1812, the school moved to Macaulay Road when it outgrew its previous site at the apex of Rectory Grove and North Street. It moved out of Macaulay Road in 1974 and the Muscular Dystrop...
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St. Giles church vicarage
Searching for a map showing the site of the vicarage we were delighted to find this 1893 map which also shows the relocated church porch (top right corner of the vicarage garden).
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St Giles Camberwell
An Anglo-Saxon church on this site was recorded in the Domesday Book. It was almost certainly made of wood and was later rebuilt in stone. On the night of 7 February 1841, the church was almost com...
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Pitt House
As Rocque's 1775 map shows, the cluster of houses here is known as North End. British History Online gives the village's history and here is what it says about Pitt House: "In 1762, when North End ...
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Manor House Tavern
The area was built up during the middle part of the nineteenth century and known as Woodberry Down. The first tavern on the site was built by Stoke Newington builder Thomas Widdows, 1830-4 next t...
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East Ham tram depot
Services from East Ham started on 22 June 1901, and they were taken over by the London Passenger Transport Board on 1 July 1933. The cost of maintaining the tramways and the increasing popularity o...
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