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Arches Lane, Nine Elms, Battersea, London SW11.
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Architect: T.F. Ford, 1957. Stone set in base of tower is inscribed "First built in 1849; Destroyed 1944; Rebuilt 1957". Cabul Road, off Battersea Park Road, London Borough of Wandsworth.
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)
A former temperance billiards hall, now very much a pub (formerly a brewpub). (More recent photo from 2014, and older photo of it from 2008.)
Address: 66a Battersea Rise.
Former Name(s): O'Neill's; The Faraday and Firkin.
Owner: Mitchells and Butlers [Castle]; Mitchells and Butlers [O'Neill's] (former); Firkin Pub Co. (former).
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Grand pub just near the station. Since refurbished.
Address: 2 St Johns Hill.
Owner: Mitchells and Butlers [Nicholson's]; Wenlock Brewery (former).
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Architects: Howes, Jackman & Partners, for Wandsworth Borough Council, 1969. 128 flats in 9 storeys, part of the York Road Estate. This block is likely to be demolished in the early 2020s as part of the council's redevelopment plans. Battersea, London Borough of Wandsworth.
A decent, if slightly chilly, pub on Battersea Bridge Rd, with a reasonable looking menu and serving good ales. It's closed now because the area needs a new Tesco. (Close-up on building showing original name.)
Address: 186 Battersea Bridge Road.
Former Name(s): The Settle Inn; The Rising Sun.
Owner: Enterprise Inns/Faucet Inn Pub Co. (former); Food and Fuel (former); Courage (former).
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Eighteen bus passengers were hurt today when a double decker was sent crashing over on its side by a lorry carrying 30ft steel girders.
The impact hurled girders through the windows of the C3 in Battersea which was carrying commuters and children on their way to school. Several passengers were trapped in the wreckage and had to be cut free. Some were able to crawl out of the bus to safety. Others sat on the pavement in a state of shock.
Four passengers and the bus driver were seriously injured in the rush-hour crash. Three of the most badly hurt were taken to hospital with suspected spine injuries. One witness said part of the top of the bus was torn off, adding: “My first thought was a bomb had gone off.” Another said: “Everyone was crying out and shouting.”
The crash happened as the low-loader turned out of a building yard into the side of the bus in Plough Road. Police said the driver of the lorry was arrested and was being questioned in custody in connection with dangerous driving.
Recruitment consultant Chris Bray, who came across the scene just before the emergency services arrived, said he saw some passengers still trapped on the upper deck. Mr Bray, 28, added: “There were children and other passengers sitting on the street. They all looked really shocked and shaken up by it.
“It looked so bad my first thought was a bomb had gone off. Part of the top of the bus had been ripped off.”
Eutan Jones, who manages a cafe nearby, said: “Everyone was crying out and shouting. They were cutting people out from the top of the bus, they cut the front of the bus off.
“I saw six or seven people taken away by ambulances. There was a lady who wasn't moving. I heard paramedics say she had hurt her spine. She looked smashed up a bit.
“The driver looked dead because he was just lying there not moving.”
A block of flats is believed to be being developed on the site which the lorry had been leaving. Locals said HGVs have been coming and going to the site for several months.
A motorcycle courier who saw the collision said: “The lorry driver was okay. He was standing outside and talking to the police.”
The incident, with about 25 passengers on the bus, happened at the junction of Plough Road and St John's Hill at about 8.30.
London Ambulance Service said a 27-year-old woman and 30-year-old man were taken “as a priority” to St George's Hospital in Tooting while another priority case, a 30-year-old man, was taken to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Thirteen passengers were taken to hospital suffering minor injuries. Some were taken to Chelsea and Westminster and to St Thomas' and Charing Cross hospitals. The C3, run by the Abellio company, operates between Earl's Court and Clapham Junction.
Transport for London said there would be a full investigation.
The Granada Theatre, St. Johns Hill, Clapham Junction, London, SW11 opened on 8th November 1937. Architects: H.B. Horner & Leslie C. Norton. Interior decoration by Theodore Komisarjevsky in an Italian Renaissance style. Seats: 2,475.
After closing as a 3-screen cinema in 1980. it was converted back into a single auditorium and converted into a bingo club. This closed in December 1997 and the building has remained empty and un-used ever since. Various plans have been proposed since then and the current one is to build flats 'over' the building and within the stage house, and restore the auditorium for public use (possibly as a church). The building is Grade II* Listed
Photographs above (from Telegraph.co.uk) show the original auditorium (in a distorted 'fisheye' view) as it looked before tripling and bingo use and a current view of the exterior (left) a proposed architects view of what is planned (right).
A traditional locals' pub in an area otherwise lacking in them. (More recent photo from 2014.)
Address: 102 Lavender Hill.
Former Name(s): The Crown Hotel.
Owner: Enterprise Inns/Best Place Inns (former); CC Taverns [Jack Beard's] (former); Truman Hanbury Buxton (former).
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Yet another bar for this busy stretch of road, on the Wandsworth/Battersea borders, since renamed as the Stencil Bar (itself now closed). Demolished in 2015, without permission it seems.
Address: 225 St Johns Hill.
Former Name(s): The Common Rooms; Mess; The Fishmonger's Arms.
Owner: Punch Taverns (former).
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Another imposing piece of modern architecture adorning/besmirching the London landscape. The Albion Riverside development in SW11, reflected in the Royal College of Art's Dyson Building.
A very good pub/bar with good ales, wines, cocktails and food. I'd recommend it. (It was in the Good Beer Guide as the Prince of Wales.) Now called Lost & Co. and subsequently The Lost Society. (Older photo of it as Dusk from 2008.)
Address: 339 Battersea Park Road.
Former Name(s): Dusk; The George II; The Legless Ladder; The Prince of Wales.
Owner: Lost Group; Enterprise Inns (former); GD Leisure (former).
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A Fuller's pub on St John's Hill, the nearest that brewery gets to the Young's stronghold of Wandsworth.
Address: 197 St Johns Hill.
Owner: Fuller Smith Turner.
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Architect: William White, 1881, in Victorian Gothic style using yellow stock brick with red-brick and stone dressings. Stepped gables and timber louvre on roof ridge. This south hall possibly a former school built in parallel to church directly to north. Grade II listed. Cobham Close, London Borough of Wandsworth.
Late C17 3-storey building with Dutch gables to Westbridge Road and to Battersea Church Road. For most of its life this was the Raven Inn public house, but now trades as Melanzana Italian restaurant. Grade II listed. London Borough of Wandsworth.
It is still open, I perceived light and people through the dim glass. Not welcoming, though there's been a pub on this site for quite some time. (More recent photo from 2015.) Since renamed as The Flag.
Address: 103-105 Culvert Road.
Former Name(s): Carey's 5; The British Flag.
Owner: Watney Combe Reid (former).
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A bar under Jongleurs comedy club, now closed but since acquired by Antic and reopened late-2011 as The Battersea Mess and Music Hall. As of early-2014, acquired by InnBrighton (later Laine Pub Co.) and closed for refurb. Reopened as Four Thieves (and entered the Good Beer Guide under that name), and then shortened to The Thieves.
Address: 49 Lavender Gardens.
Former Name(s): Bar Risa; Walkabout; The Cornet; Cornet of Horse.
Owner: Enterprise Inns (former); Regent Inns (former).
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Architects: Burland TM, c.2006. Apartments and hotel on south bank of the river Thames at Battersea. London Borough of Wandsworth.
(CC BY-SA - credit: Images George Rex.)
The very definition of estate pub, though it's now closed. It has since reopened as a cafe called Tonico, and then a tapas bar and restaurant called Taberna Andaluza, then The Grove once again, and now South West Eleven. (Close-up of pub sign.)
Address: 279 Battersea Park Road.
Owner: Enterprise Inns (former).
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A nice bar/pub with decent beer and cocktails and good (if pricy) food. Since renamed as The Powderkeg, then as the St John's Tavern.
Address: 147 St Johns Hill.
Owner: Lost Group (former).
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Despite the name, more of an estate pub, opposite the Sambrook's brewery. It has closed since this photo was taken, and now demolished.
Address: 58 York Road.
Former Name(s): The Chopper.
Owner: Admiral Taverns (former); Taylor Walker (former).
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Not too busy, given its location right by Clapham Junction station, but not great either. Renamed as The Junction in late-2013 (under which name it re-entered the Good Beer Guide) and later taken over by Greene King.
Address: 36 St Johns Hill.
Owner: Punch Taverns [Spirit Group] (former); Scottish and Newcastle (former); Courage (former).
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A very fine pub with plenty of great ales and a good beer garden. It's right opposite the rather less glamorous Gardener's Arms. (Close-up of pub sign.)
Address: 104 Chatham Road.
Owner: Enterprise Inns (former); Whitbread (former).
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According to Buses on Screen, this vehicle, new to Q-Drive of Sw11 (formerly Limebourne) , appeared briefly in the film The Very Thought of You (US) its english title being Martha, meet Frank , Daniel and Laurence with Joseph Fiennes, with the fleetname The Glider. at Stansted Airport. The Glider was the name applied to the executive class coaches with tables etc. of Limebourne,in a dark red and cream livery, with 27 seats. Operator - D.Ashby (Silverline) E17,vehicles based at Patch Park, Abridge.
Any more info. welcome.
One of Fuller's bar-type pubs. Unsurprisingly, this used to be a bank. Since renamed as The Old Bank, then closed to become a restaurant.
Address: 31-37 Northcote Road.
Former Name(s): Fine Line.
Owner: Fuller Smith Turner (former).
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Moderately tasty, good value but popular Malaysian/Thai place near Clapham Junction.
Address: 75-79 Battersea Rise.
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A fine old building housing an arts centre, with live performances, music, theatre and comedy, amongst other things. Opened in 1893, and has occasionally screened films in the past.
Address: 176 Lavender Hill.
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Venue just opposite Clapham Junction, which used to be a major gig venue, but is now mostly a nightclub (though it still does some music). Built as a music hall in 1900, it screened films from 1901 and became a full-time cinema in 1931. Wetherspoon's bought it in 1997 but couldn't get permission to turn it into pub (and held onto it for years).
Address: 21-25 St Johns Hill.
Former Name(s): Essoldo; Grand Theatre; Grand Theatre of Varieties; The New Grand Theatre of Varieties.
Owner: (website); Mean Fiddler (former).
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