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Architects: Seiferts, c.1972, using Lytag® structural lightweight concrete and precast cladding panels. Viewed along Orbell St., Battersea, London Borough of Wandsworth.
Looks to be a locals' pub, near the park. Later renamed as simply The Union.
Address: 109 Battersea Bridge Road.
Owner: Enterprise Inns (former); Watney Combe Reid (former).
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A pub/bar space, which gets some good press. It's now called The Lost Angel, and since renamed again as Lost & Co., then The Lost Society. (It was in the Good Beer Guide as the Prince of Wales.)
Address: 339 Battersea Park Road.
Former Name(s): The George II; The Legless Ladder; The Prince of Wales.
Owner: Enterprise Inns (former); GD Leisure (former).
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Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned Grade II* (Since 2007) listed coal-fired power station, located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Nine Elms, Battersea, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It was built by the London Power Company (LPC) to the design of Leonard Pearce, Engineer in Chief to the LPC, and CS Allott & Son Engineers. The architects were J. Theo Halliday and Giles Gilbert Scott. The station is one of the world's largest brick buildings and notable for its original, Art Deco interior fittings and decor.
The building comprises two power stations, built in two stages, in a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built between 1929 and 1935 and Battersea B Power Station, to its east, between 1937 and 1941, when construction was paused owing to the worsening effects of the Second World War. The building was completed in 1955. "Battersea B" was built to a design nearly identical to that of "Battersea A", creating the iconic four-chimney structure.
"Battersea A" was decommissioned in 1975. In 1980 the whole structure was given Grade II listed status; "Battersea B" closed three years later. The building remained empty until 2014, during which time it fell into near ruin. The building's renovation was completed nearly forty years after it closed and opened to the public on Friday 14 October 2022, to visit the iconic building and the first tranche of shops, bars, restaurants and leisure venues.
Has been a pub in the past, but now has the rather ridiculous name of Bunga Bunga (as of 2011), which promises a bar, pizzeria and karaoke. Closed in 2022. (Older photo of it as The Brunel from 2008.)
Address: 37 Battersea Bridge Road (formerly Bridge Road East Side).
Former Name(s): The Brunel; The S Bar; The Earl Spencer.
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Another old fashioned boozer alongside a large estate. It has since been renamed The Magic Garden (via a period as the Secret Garden). Quite changed I imagine. (Close-up of pub sign.)
Address: 231 Battersea Park Road.
Owner: Enterprise Inns (former); Watney Combe Reid (former).
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Mandarin Oriental Hotel Hyde Park (built 1889), formerly a Gentlemen's Club, and then the Hyde Park Hotel (1902-1996), Knightsbridge SW11, London.
A pub on St John's Hill.
Address: 151 St Johns Hill.
Former Name(s): The Prince's Puzzle; The Prince of Wales; The Prince of Wales Hotel.
Owner: Woolwich Taverns; Wenlock Brewery (former).
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A former pub building, now an Italian restaurant. (It was in the Good Beer Guide as The Raven.)
Address: 140 Westbridge Road (formerly Bridge Road West).
Former Name(s): Raven OneForty; The Raven (Inn).
Owner: Courage (former).
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Seen in Windsor on 11th August 2012 is FA10 ENG, a Scania K400EB6/Irizar PB coach new to Guideline, Battersea, London SW11 in May 2010.
One of three timber shelters in Battersea Park "that may date from the interwar period" and "of historic significance to the park" (Conservation Area Appraisal). This one close to Carriage Drive South. London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Gym located in the Albion Riverside Building which was designed by Foster & Partners, 2003. Hester Road, Battersea, London Borough of Wandsworth.
Just another bar which has gone by a lot of guises, originally a pub. Now closed, I believe, and since demolished.
Address: 317 Battersea Park Road.
Former Name(s): Zonist Bar; The Hedonist Club; Circle; Galangga; The Four Chimneys; The Battersea Show Palace; The Cricketers.
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Antrim House, just off Lavender Hill, is a curious attempt to bridge the gap left by a WWII bomb with a block of two layers of two-storey flats, sitting on top of a doctor's surgery. It rather stands out as the only block of flats in the area.
I quite like the way Antrim House fits five floors into the space the neighbouring (small) remaining piece of the Victorian terrace uses for three and a bit floors. Despite the significantly different scale, the houses to the right are part of the same development as Antrim House.
Designed by L Phillips for Wandsworth Borough Council in 1971.
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.
Estate pub, now made over as a Serbian pub. (Older photos of it from 2009 and as The Chelsea Reach from 2008.)
Address: 181 Battersea Park Road.
Former Name(s): The Chelsea Reach.
Owner: Admiral Taverns (former).
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Phoenix Cycles, Parkgate Road, Battersea. This shop has now been demolished, a new larger shop has been built on this site and Phoenix Cycles reopened for business in August 2007.
Chain bar on upmarket Northcote Rd. Since renamed as The Red Setter under new ownership.
Address: 32-38 Northcote Road.
Owner: Mitchells and Butlers [All Bar One] (former).
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A nice pub, with theatre space (Theatre 503) upstairs. It's since changed owners as of 2014.
Address: 503 Battersea Park Road.
Former Name(s): The Latchmere Hotel.
Owner: Bramwell Pub Company [Smith and Jones] (former); Barracuda Group [Smith and Jones] (former).
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Nice looking place by lovely Battersea Park. Since taken over by Young's.
Address: 85 Albert Bridge Road.
Owner: Geronimo Inns (former); Punch Taverns [Spirit Group] (former).
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Probably dating from the late 1860s or very early 1870s, this terrace of plain red brick houses is found on Northcote Road, Clapham, London SW11; the heart of what is often known as "Nappy Valley".
From an examination of maps of the period and information from English Heritage, it seems they formed most of Swaby Road, a development promoted by a local barrister James Lord, who went bankrupt shortly afterward. Swaby Road became absorbed into Northcote Road within a decade or so. The terrace certainly caught my eye as of a much less elaborate design than most of the later housing in the neighbourhood.
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Another bar for this busy part of town, since closed and become a bar/restaurant called Ben's Canteen, itself since closed.
Address: 140 St Johns Hill.
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Once a pub, still with its Watney's lamp and logos, but now an Indian restaurant. Happily, it has since returned to being a pub, though it closed, then reopened as a wine bar called Aspen & Meursault.
Address: 96 Westbridge Road (formerly Bridge Road West).
Owner: Wellington (former); Phoenix Inns (former); Watney Combe Reid (former).
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Perfectly decent pub by Clapham Junction station. Since taken over by Greene King. (It was in the 1991 Good Beer Guide under its old name.) (Older photo of it as The Windsor Castle from 2009.)
Address: 36 St Johns Hill.
Former Name(s): The Windsor Castle.
Owner: Spirit Pub Company [Taylor Walker] (former); Spirit Pub Company [Original Pub Company] (former); Punch Taverns [Spirit Group] (former); Scottish and Newcastle (former); Courage (former).
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A bar on trendy Northcote Rd. Renamed in 2019 as Archer Street SW11.
Address: 3-7 Northcote Road.
Former Name(s): Significant Half.
Owner: Faucet Inn Pub Co. (former).
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Sign on a 1961 block of maisonettes designed by George, Trew & Dunn, which Battersea Council named ‘in recognition of the rocket flight round the earth on the 12th April, 1961, by Major Y.A.Gagarin of the Soviet Union’. London Borough of Wandsworth.
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22nd July 2014 at the Clapham Grand, London SW11 (Los Lobos gig).
The Jarana Jarocha (a different instrument from the Jarana Huesteca) is small fretted string instrument from the south of Vera Cruz state. Traditinally carved from a single piece of wood, it usually has 8 strings in 5 courses (the double strings in the middle). The Jarana is played percussively with up and down strokes. It is played in the traditional music of the region. The Jarana Jarocha comes in at least five sizes ranging in size from 50 cm to 100 cm and sound from the shrill to the deep: the Chaquiste, Mosquito, Primera, Segunda and Tercera.
The instrument in the photo is made by Candelas Guitars of Los Angles, CA.
Jaranas are assigned the number 321.322-5 in the Hornbostel Sachs classification of musical instruments indicating:
3 = Chordophone. Instruments where the sound is primarily produced by the vibration of a string or strings that are stretched between fixed points.
32 = Composite Chordophone. Acoustic and electro acoustic instruments which have a resonator as an integral part of the instrument, and solid body electric chordophones.
321 = Lutes. Instruments where the plane of the strings runs parallel with the resonators surface.
321.3 = Handle Lutes. Instruments in which the string bearer is a plain handle.
321.32 = Necked Lutes. Instrument in which the handle is attached to, or carved from, the resonator, like a neck
321.322 = Necked Box Lutes. Instruments in which the resonator is built up from wood.
321.322-5 = Instruments where the strings are vibrated by bare hands and fingers.