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By the River Wandle. 1983/4.
I think this may have been from the first film I put through this camera.
Taken at China Boulevard, Dolphin House, Riverside West, The Boulevard, Smuggler's Way, Wandsworth, London SW18 1DE. For more details, visit Chopstix.
Located in front of Wandsworth Town Hall on Wandsworth High Street is a small garden where a beautiful tree 'blazing' its red leaves close to a fountain and a canon. The building belonging to South Thames College is to the right.
Town Hall. 1935-7 by Edward A Hunt. Portland stone and brick, hipped pantiled roof Triangular plan adapted to the busy corner site; the Marble staircase must be seen, entrance from Fairfield Street London SW18.
The Abarth 124 Spider MultiAir convertible is a sporty, turbocharged Italian roadster based on the Fiat 124 Spider (and Mazda MX-5 platform) known for its fun, engaging drive with a distinctive exhaust note and powerful 1.4 litre MultiAir engine (around 170hp).
This 2018 Abarth 124 Spider MultiAir convertible SW18 ABV was seen in Gloucestershire.
The Wandle of Earlsfield, 322 Garrett Lane,Earlsfield, London SW18.
Established in the 1870s The Wandle of Earlsfield used to be called the Sailor Prince, named after William IV. More recently known as The Puzzle & then relaunched in 2010 as The Wandle. A roomy, open-plan corner pub with huge rear patio garden.
An old photograph taken on East Hill, Wandsworth, of London County Council Tramways (LCC) 'D' class tram No. 344 showing '26 - Hop Exchange via Westminster' destination indicators.
Modern day view:-
On the photo reverse is the signature of the transport photographer G. F. Ashwell, and on a small gummed label is annotated "at East Hill SW18 c1914". It is printed on 'Crown Copyright Reserved' paper which was in common use after WW2 when it was sold off as forces surplus stock, so the photo is probably a print from the latter half of the 1940s (unless someone had 'got hold of some' during the war).
Thanks to JB (KK 69521) for this comment with extra information, location maps, etc:-
www.flickr.com/photos/fred_bear/51305897387/#comment72157...
No. 344 was built as an open top car without driver vestibules in 1904 by Brush seating 28/38 and running on McGuire maximum traction side bearing trucks. It received a top cover sometime after 1906, the early covers had open balconies, but later ones like here on 344 were fully enclosed.
By the end of 1931 all this class had been withdrawn due to the arrival of new E/1 and E/3 class cars. The London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) absorbed the local London tramway 'companies' (such as LCC) in 1933.
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The Abarth 124 Spider MultiAir convertible is a sporty, turbocharged Italian roadster based on the Fiat 124 Spider (and Mazda MX-5 platform) known for its fun, engaging drive with a distinctive exhaust note and powerful 1.4 litre MultiAir engine (around 170hp).
This 2018 Abarth 124 Spider MultiAir convertible SW18 ABV was seen in Gloucestershire.
Rogue Opera's Don Giovanni “Set during Fashion Week in present day Milan, Rogue Opera’s Don Giovanni follows the famous lothario - head of the brand ‘Don G’ - as he uses his power, status and wealth to charm, seduce and deceive. His assistant, Leporello, reluctantly aids his boss’s debauchery, while being increasingly drawn into this world of celebrity. Donna Anna seeks justice... Donna Elvira hopes for reform... but will Don Giovanni truly be punished for his crimes?
In Mozart and Da Ponte’s original 18th century setting, Don Giovanni’s privilege, wealth and status enable much of his behaviour. Presenting the story against a modern backdrop of fame, popularity and hashtags, Rogue Opera brings the intricacy and power of Mozart’s music to life in an engaging and intimate production. The production examines the themes of power, attraction and seduction and explores what morality, judgement and retribution look like in today’s world.
With a cast of 8 professional singers and piano; Music Direction by Guy Murgatroyd; Choreography and Direction by Michelle Buckley and Bronwen Stephens-Harding.”
All text Copyright Rogue Opera 2019, see rogueopera.co.uk/don-giovanni for more details.
South Thames College, Wandsworth - Open Dress Rehearsal
Pictured in Prestatyn Bus Station, by my good friend Neil Jones of Gorsedd, on a murky 6th February, 2019 is this August 1994 Van Hool Alizee T8 bodied DAF SB3000 of Voel Coaches. Now a 70 seater (3+2 seating) but originally a 49 seater, one of a batch of 10 similar coaches (M571-80 RCP) new to London Coaches SW18, but acquired by Voel in 2013 from BSS Coaches Ltd. of Bolton, Greater Manchester.
Established 1890, since run by 5 generations of the Child family. Part of the town conservation area. 106 - 108 Wandsworth High Street, London Borough of Wandsworth.
Posted to Guess Where London on 12-06-22.
GWL284: Street art on Marcilly Road, the A3 at Wandsworth, SW18
On the near, southern, side of the Thames, the block of buildings between Battersea Park and the iconic, long-derelict Battersea power station (just off the right of the image), is Chelsea Bridge Wharf, a luxury 600-apartment complex in the Borough of Wandsworth but advertised as "located just 0.75 miles from Sloane Square". It was developed from 2001 on Battersea Fields, the location of a 1829 duel between the Duke of Wellington – then Prime Minister – and the Earl of Winchilsea and, at the turn of the 20th Century, the location of pioneering balloon and helicopter flights.
The current, Grade II Listed, Chelsea Bridge occupies the site of an ancient ford (unless dredged, the Thames becomes very shallow here) and a previous suspension bridge built 1851-8 to link the town of Chelsea with the then-new Battersea Park. Narrow and structurally unsound, that bridge was replaced in 1937 by Britain's first self-anchored suspension bridge, constructed solely using materials from the British Empire: steel from Scotland and Yorkshire, granite piers from Aberdeen and Cornwall, deck timbers from British Columbia and asphalt from Trinidad; because of the wood, the 213m-long bridge was opened by William L Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister, who happened to be in London for the coronation of George VI.
Known as the Victoria Railway Bridge when it was built as central London's first Thames rail crossing, the Grosvenor Railway Bridge serves the London Victoria rail terminus, London's (and hence the UK's) second-busiest, in the background. It's therefore unsurprising that it has seen considerable widening, from an initial two lines in 1860 to seven in 1866 and nine in 1907, before being completely rebuilt 1963-67 as ten parallel bridges sharing the original piers (a technique keeping eight tracks open throughout construction), each 'sub-bridge' crossing the river as four 50 m spans. The result retains the original's open-spandrel arch profile and general elevation, and the overall impression that the bridge is an unaltered Victorian structure.
At the northern end of the bridge is the Grade II Listed Grosvenor Road Station building, which operated (with a resident stationmaster) 1867-1911. Note the long train sheds to its left, each about twelve modern carriages long.
To the left of the rail bridge is Western Pumping Station, built in 1875 as part of Sir Joseph Bazalgette's great sewerage scheme (~160 km of interceptor sewers, fed by ~725 km of main sewers and ~21,000 km of local sewers): four steam engines (note the large chimney) lifted effluent 6 m for the next stage of its otherwise gravity-driven flow eastward. Using diesel engines since 1936 (one now electric), it's still in use.
Facing the northern end of Chelsea Bridge is the Grade II Listed main building of the private Lister Hospital, designed by Alfred and Paul Waterhouse and built 1894-8 for the UK's first medical research charity. Named the 'Jenner Institute' in 1898, it was renamed the 'Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine' in 1903, though neither scientist had a personal association with the building. In 1905, the Institute became a School of the University of London, conducting research into infectious disease and vaccines until financial problems in the 1970s forced its closure; the assets were sold to fund the (ongoing) annual endowment of research fellowships. The private hospital opened in 1985.
The wooded area to the left of the Bridge is Ranelagh Gardens, behind Chelsea Embankment; the Royal Chelsea Hospital is off the left of the image.
To the right of the approach to London Victoria, at the top left corner of the image, the high-rise Glastonbury House is visible beside Ebury Bridge over the railway, marking Abbots Manor, at the edge of Pimlico. To the immediate right, behind, is the tree-lined Eccleston Square; the next green area to the right is Warwick Square, with St. Gabriel's church at the south-western end.
Pimlico was laid-out 1840-60 by Thomas Cubitt for the Marquess of Westminster; the Grade II* Listed parish church of St. Gabriel was designed by Cubitt's 'foreman', Thomas Cundy (a surveyer and architect in his own right), and built 1851-3 in ragstone, though the 49m-tall spire was rebuilt in Portland stone in 1887 and the building was expanded and elaborated in the 1890s, funded by wealthy parishioners.
Damaged by a flying bomb in 1944, St Gabriel's was also apparently the model for the church in Barbara Pym's 1952 novel 'Excellent Women'.
To the right, the north bank of the river is occupied by the huge Churchill Gardens estate, the result of the ambitious Abercrombie Plan to redevelop streets of bomb-damaged Victorian terrace "on more 'efficient' lines" following the Second World War. Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, then 25 and 26 years old respectively, won an international competition with a design built between 1946 and 1962 to eventually accommodate 1,600 homes in 32 blocks.
The 9-storey brown 'slabs' at the right of the image, Chaucer House and Coleridge House, were the first to be completed, opening in 1951, offering 104 flats (and an office) and 72 flats respectively and, with two other blocks, sharing Britain's first district heating system. At the other, western end of the complex, Gilbert House (10 storeys, 80 flats) and Sullivan House (60 flats) were built 1951-4 at the start of Phase II, on land already cleared by bombs.
Overall, the scheme won numerous awards, and as recently as 1981, when high-rise, high-density developments had fallen out of fashion, Churchill Gardens was still being praised as the most successful project of its type in London. It was designated a conservation area in 1990, with six blocks and the heating system's accumulator tower Grade II Listed in 1998.
Architect: Rhode Hawkins, 1859, in "Scottish baronial style with Jacobean and French elements" according to the Grade II* listing. Using yellow brick and Yorkshire stone dressings, with slate roofs and turrets. Originally as a school for widows and orphans of the Crimean war. Now mixed-use including offices, retail and residential. John Archer Way, London Borough of Wandsworth.
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)
Grade II listed pair of C18 cottages, brick-built with tiled gambrel roofs. London Borough of Wandsworth.
Rogue Opera's Don Giovanni “Set during Fashion Week in present day Milan, Rogue Opera’s Don Giovanni follows the famous lothario - head of the brand ‘Don G’ - as he uses his power, status and wealth to charm, seduce and deceive. His assistant, Leporello, reluctantly aids his boss’s debauchery, while being increasingly drawn into this world of celebrity. Donna Anna seeks justice... Donna Elvira hopes for reform... but will Don Giovanni truly be punished for his crimes?
In Mozart and Da Ponte’s original 18th century setting, Don Giovanni’s privilege, wealth and status enable much of his behaviour. Presenting the story against a modern backdrop of fame, popularity and hashtags, Rogue Opera brings the intricacy and power of Mozart’s music to life in an engaging and intimate production. The production examines the themes of power, attraction and seduction and explores what morality, judgement and retribution look like in today’s world.
With a cast of 8 professional singers and piano; Music Direction by Guy Murgatroyd; Choreography and Direction by Michelle Buckley and Bronwen Stephens-Harding.”
All text Copyright Rogue Opera 2019, see rogueopera.co.uk/don-giovanni for more details.
South Thames College, Wandsworth - Open Dress Rehearsal
A bar just beyond Southfield shopping centre on the way south to Earlsfield. Renamed as The Garratt Tavern in 2017.
Address: 89 Garratt Lane (formerly South Street).
Former Name(s): The Waggon and Horses.
Owner: Punch Taverns (former); Wenlock Brewery (former).
Links:
London Pubology (The Garratt Tavern)
Acanthus LW Architects, 2009. Up to 23-storey, curved residential tower, book-ending Southside Shopping Centre. Photographed from King George's Park. London Borough of Wandsworth.
Shepherd Neame pub in Wandsworth. (Close-up of pub sign.)
Address: 64 Putney Bridge Road.
Owner: Shepherd Neame.
Links:
Five bedrooms, sauna and hot-tub on the roof terrace. Seen on the market a few years ago at GBP2.25M. London Borough of Wandsworth.
Found photographs /Berlin 2020:
Brighton, Hove & District (CPM61) trolleybus, a 1936 AEC661T/Weymann is seen leaving LT's Wandsworth Garage. After withdrawal it was an exhibit at the erstwhile Museum of British Transport in Clapham in the early 1960s. The Museum was closed in 1973. It is most likely seen here on its way from Clapham to Reading. Later, it was on loan to the East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville and it is now dry stored at the Science Museum's Wroughton, Wiltshire site.
It is being towed by a 1949 Smith's of Reading Dennis Lancet (KJH 900) with a Duple C35F bodywork. This vehicle has sadly not survived.
Photo found in a Berlin Junk Shop - Photographer Unknown.