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Brixton Road
From medieval country lane and turnpike road to bustling Victorian shopping thoroughfare
Caldwell Street
Formerly Holland Street: Victorian terraces, residents, and wartime history
Clapham Road
Historic road, grand Georgian and Victorian villas, and everyday street life
Cranworth Gardens
The 16-part story of a late-Victorian mansion flat street and the people who lived there
Crewdson Road
Developed in the 1870s: origins, census records, and Victorian street architecture
Durand Gardens
The leafy Victorian square, its origins, and notable residents
Hackford Road
Home to Vincent van Gogh in 1873–74, Durand School, and Victorian terraces
Handforth Road
Late-19th-century street history, maps, and local stories
Hillyard Street
Origins, The Russell Hotel, and historic map extracts
Liberty Street
Tracing the development and wartime history of Liberty Street
Morat Street
Victorian terraces, street directories, and wartime bomb damage
Mowll Street
Formerly North Street: its renaming, churches, and residents
Offley Road
From 19th-century market gardens to Victorian residential street
Prima Road
Originally Broomgrove Road: early maps and street development
South Island Place
Cottages, yards, businesses, and residents of South Island Place
Southey Road
A lost Victorian street off Brixton Road and its history
To Whom it may concern
Hopefully you can assist me in identifying a particular terrace or building which stood or perhaps still stands today on Clapham Road. The property was mentioned in 1901 as ’14 Osborne Terrace Clapham Road’. From what I can see on old photographs and comparing them with the same locations today might I assume that No.14 in 1901 would relate to a building numbered 14 Clapham Road today. According to what I can see on Google streets, No.14 Clapham Road is presently a Coral Bookmakers on the north-west side of Clapham Road, but is this the same No.14 as mentioned in 1901. I hope you can help clarify this for me. Yours in anticipation Heather Flinders (Derbyshire)
I am trying to find out information about
Bellevue Gardens Mansions – 289-307 Clapham Road SW9 9BN.
I believe that in the early to mid 19th Century this section of Clapham Road
was known as Bellevue Gardens. Do you have any information about this?
Thank you.
The London Gazette of May 13 1873, re the will of Robert Tosswill (d 14 Jan 1842) contains the following reference:
“one undivided thirty-second part or share of and in a House and Premises situate and being No. 307, Clapham-road, in the parish of Saint Mary, Lambeth, in the county of Surrey (formerly Clapham Rise House)”.
I can’t add anything else, but hope this helps your research.
Hello, can someone help. My great-great-grandfather, Samuel March, was a coal merchant in No. 2, Moore Pla(ce), Lambeth in around 1840 (the hand written entry is available). However I cannot find Moore Place on any map. Can someone help please? With thanks, Trevor
Osborne Terrace – wouldn’t that be the south side of what is now Richborne Terrace, on the west side of Clapham Road? Osborne and Richmond Terraces were opposite sides of the road. At some point the names were combined.
I agree with Abe.
Moore Place was a row of houses on the east side of Kennington Road, just south of the junction with Lambeth Road. It was very close to the Lambeth boundary as the houses backed onto Bethlem Royal Hospital. On the 1841 census Moore Place, Lambeth is in Lambeth Church, 1st part, Enumeration District 3. The schedules for Moore Place are at HO107/1057/2 folio 4 onwards.
At the south end of Moore Place, an alley off Brook Street was called Little Moore Place. I have never seen Moore Place or Little Moore Place named on an Ordnance Survey map, so they may not have lasted long after 1841.