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ABBREVIATIONS

A The Architect

ABN Architect & Building News

AJ Architects’ Journal

B The Builder, from 1966 Building

Bailey 1980 Keith Bailey, Battersea New Town: A Study of local building

development 1790–1870 (Wandsworth Historical Society,

Wandsworth Paper 5), 1980

Bailey 1995 Keith Alan Bailey, ‘The Metamorphosis of Battersea 1800–1914:

A Building History’, unpublished PhD Thesis (Open

University), 1995

Bailey 2005 Keith Bailey, House building and builders in Wandsworth c1850-

1915 (Wandsworth Historical Society, Wandsworth Paper 13),

2005

Bailey 2008 Keith Bailey, The Streets of Battersea. Their Names and Origins

(Wandsworth Historical Society, Wandsworth Paper 17), 2008

Bailey 2010 Keith Bailey, Aspects of Battersea History 1770–1910

(Wandsworth Historical Society, Wandsworth Paper 18), 2010

Bailey 2012 Keith Bailey, The Development of Building Estates in Battersea

1780–1914 (Wandsworth Historical Society, Wandsworth

Paper 24), 2012

Barker and Robbins T. C. Barker and Michael Robbins, A History of London

Transport, 1963 (vol. 1) & 1974 (vol. 2)

Batten Key and Companion to the Plan of Clapham, with its Common and

Environs, printed and sold by H. N. Batten, 1827

BBC Battersea Borough Council (records in Wandsworth Heritage

Service)

BDA Battersea Drainage Applications, Wandsworth Heritage

Service and Wandsworth Borough Council, Department of

Conservation, Design & Development

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Besant Walter Besant, London South of the Thames, 1912

BL British Library

BN Building News

Booth Charles Booth, Life & Labour of the People in London, 1902–3 edn

Booth collection Original notebooks for Charles Booth’s survey, Archives

Division of the Library of the London School of Economics and

Political Science

Buildings of Clapham The Buildings of Clapham, ed. Alyson Wilson (Clapham Society),

2nd edn, 2000

Burgess The Chronicles of Clapham ... being a selection from the

reminiscences of Thomas Parsons ... with ... an introduction &

sundry additions ... by J. H. Michael Burgess, 1929

BV Battersea Vestry (records in Wandsworth Heritage Service)

CASOS Clapham Antiquarian Society, Occasional Sheets

CERC Church of England Record Centre

Colvin Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects

1600–1840, 3rd edn, 1995

Corris John Corris, ‘A Plan of Battersea Parish in the County of

Surry’, 1787 (a ‘Correct Copy’ by William Ward in British

Library, Add. Ms 78149, Vol. MMDCCCXLIX/U)

DBB Dictionary of Business Biography, ed. David J. Jeremy, 5 vols,

1984–6

DSR District Surveyors’ Returns in London Metropolitan Archives

Edwards James Edwards, A Companion from London to Brighthelmston, in

Sussex, 1801

EH English Heritage

GEC The Complete Peerage, ed. G.E.C., 1910–59

GLC Greater London Council

Goad Goad Fire Insurance Plans of London in possession of the

Survey of London and at WHS

ICE Institution of Civil Engineers

ILN Illustrated London News

IR58 Valuation Office fieldbooks (1910–15) in The National Archives

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LA Lambeth Archives, Minet Library

LCC London County Council

LMA London Metropolitan Archives

Loobey 2002 Patrick Loobey (ed.), Battersea Past, 2002

Loobey 2004 Patrick Loobey, Cinemas and Theatres of Wandsworth & Battersea,

2004

LPL Lambeth Palace Library

LT Land Tax assessments, Surrey History Centre

Lysons Daniel Lysons, Environs of London, 4 vols, 1792–6

MBW Metropolitan Board of Works

Metcalf Priscilla Metcalf, The Park Town Estate and the Battersea Triangle

(London Topographical Society Publication No. 121), 1978

ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

OS Ordnance Survey maps of London, 1:1056

PA Parliamentary Archives

Parish map Undated ms map of part of Battersea parish, c.1760 (in British

Library, Crace Maps, Portfolio XVI, no. 71)

POD Post Office and other directories

PP Parliamentary Papers

PPR Principal Probate Registry

Ramsey Sherwood Ramsey, Historic Battersea Topographical Biographical,

1913

RB Battersea ratebooks, Wandsworth Heritage Service

RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects

RO Record Office

Rocque John Rocque, Survey of London, Westminster, and Southwark and

the Country near Ten Miles Round, 1746

Roebuck Janet Roebuck, Urban Development in 19th-Century London:

Lambeth, Battersea and Wandsworth 1838–1888, 1979

SBL School Board for London

SHC Surrey History Centre, Woking

Simmonds Henry S. Simmonds, All About Battersea, 1882 edn

SLP South London Press

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Smith Eric E. F. Smith, Clapham, 1976

SOX Northants Record Office, Spencer boxes

SWS South Western Star

Taylor J. G. Taylor, Our Lady of Batersey, 1925

Tithe Tithe map and apportionment for Battersea parish, 1838 (in

The National Archives, IR29/34/9, IR30/34/9)

TNA The National Archives

VCH The Victoria History of the Counties of England

WAC City of Westminster Archives Centre

WBC Wandsworth Borough Council (records in Wandsworth

Heritage Service)

WBN Wandsworth Borough News

WDBW Wandsworth District Board of Works (records in Wandsworth

Heritage Service)

WH Wandsworth Historian

WHS Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender

Hill

WP Wandsworth Planning & Building Control records, online and

at Wandsworth Borough Council, Department of

Conservation, Design & Development

Introduction

(pp.1–##)

1. Census Reports and Decennial Supplements to the Registrar-General’s Annual

Reports, 1865 to 1914–16, listed in H. J. Dyos, ‘The Subruban Development of Greater

London, South of the Thames, 1836–1914’, PhD thesis, University of London, July

1952, Appendix: WDBW Annual Reports; WDBW Sanitary Department Reports; BV

Annual Reports

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2. European Magazine, vol.12, July 1787, p.8

3. William, James and Jacob Malcolm, General View of the Agriculture of the County of

Surrey, 1794, pp.20–1

4. Devonshire House, Chatsworth Coll., L/86/1, Baldwin to Cavendish, 30 May 1784

5. Francis Sheppard, London 1808–1870: The Infernal Wen, 1971, p.108

6. E. M. Forster, Marianne Thornton, 1956, p.34

7. W. S. Clarke, The Suburban Homes of London, 1881, p.319

8. Eric Gill: Autobiography, 1992 edn, p.108

9. WDBW Annual Reports: Bailey 1995, pp.74–9: Bailey 2005, pp.7–8

10. SLP, 16 Aug 1873: Bailey 1995, p.149

11. Report of the Select Committee on Artizans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings, 1882, VII (c.235),

ii, Minutes of Evidence, 16 March 1882, p.88

12. Bailey 1995, pp.109–10, 113

13. Dyos thesis, p.379

14. DSR: Bailey 1995, pp.110, 113, 115

15. DSR: Bailey 1995, pp.112–13, 115–16, 297–322: H. J. Dyos, ‘The Speculative

Builders and Developers of Victorian London’, in Victorian Studies, vol.11

(supplement), Summer 1968, pp.659, 660

16. Bailey 2012, p.?

17. Survey of London, vol.42, 1986, p.152: Bailey 2012, pp.??

18. Loobey, pp.34–7: Bailey 1995, pp.175, 266–73; Bailey 2012, p.??: Wandsworth

Borough Planners Service, Heaver Estate. A guide to its history and architecture,

September 1996

19. Census: ‘Report on the Charities of the Merchant Taylors’ Company’, City of

London Livery Companies Commission. Report; Volume 4, 1884, pp.363–94: Bailey 1995,

pp.190–1: John Monk, The History of the Earl Spencer Lodge No. 1420, 1873–1973: TNA,

C16/656/L112

20. Bailey 2012, pp.?, ?: Bailey 1995, pp.39, 69, 88, 145, 229–32: Booth, 3rd Series, vol.5,

p.162

21. WHS, misc. deeds: Bailey 2012, p.??: Bailey 1995, pp.180, 185–7, 233

22. Dyos thesis, p.352

23. For this subject see Bailey 1995

24. See for example: Michael Andrew Johnson, ‘The Sunderland Cottage: “The

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Favourite and Typical Dwelling of the Skilled Mechanic”’, in Vernacular Architecture,

vol.41, 2010, pp.59–74 (esp. pp.67–8): David Kroll, ‘London’s Other Architects:

Planning and Design of Speculative Housing 1870–1939’, PhD thesis, Institute of

Historical Research, University of London, forthcoming (Summer 2013)

25. WHS, Edwin Evans & Sons 1880–1980 (centenary booklet, c.1980): VCH, Middlesex,

vol. 5, pp.11–16

26. Booth, 3rd Series, vol.5, p.193

27. Ibid., p.187

28. PP 1878 (98), xvi.487, Report of the Select Committee on the Metropolis Management

and Building Acts Amendment Bill, Mins of evidence, 14 March 1878, pp.1–3

29. Ibid: B, 16 Dec 1876, p.1226; 13 Jan 1877, p.42: C. C. Knowles and P. H. Pitt, The

History of Building Regulation in London 1189–1972, p.82

30. WHS, BP1/2/1, BV Annual Report 1890, p.36; BV Annual Report 1891, p.48:

Roebuck, pp.96–7: ‘The Battersea that’s Vanished’: Reminiscences of Albert Morrish

(c.1914–33), typescript in WHS, 942.166 BAT

31. WDBW, Sanitary Department Reports, for quarter ending 28 March 1857, p.9; for

1858, pp.13–14; for 1871, p.36; for 1873, pp.51–2; for 1881, p.39; for 1883, p.38: Bailey

1995, p.40: SLP, 24 Feb 1872, p.5; 7 Nov 1874, p.10

32. Roebuck, pp.67, 69 105: WDBW Sanitary Department Report for 1882, p.34; for

1883, p.28

33. TNA, MH66/303

34. This paragraph is based largely on Census: Bailey 1995, pp.63–4, 125: WH, no.37,

June 1983, pp.4–6: Roebuck, pp.117–18

35. Booth, 1st Series, vol.1, p.292n: Wandsworth District Board of Works Sanitary

Department Report for 1886, pp.28, 29

36. Booth, 3rd Series, vol.5, pp.157–8

37. T.W. Wilkinson, ‘Van-Dwelling London’, in Living London, ed. G. R. Sims, vol.3,

1903, p.322

38. Booth, 3rd Series, vol.5, p.149

39. Roebuck, pp.147–8: Booth, 3rd Series, vol.5, pp.157–8, 165–7, 194; 1st Series, vol.1,

pp.294

40. BV Annual Report 1891, p.43

41. WHS, report of Local Government Board Inquiry on proposed separation of

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Battersea from Wandsworth and Clapham Union, 1903 pp.91–2, 95–6, 98

42. Taylor, pp.83–4: Tithe: J. Herbert Tritton, Tritton the Place and the Family, 1907,

p.256

43. BN, 30 April 1875, p.503; 4 June 1875, p.644: B, 12 June 1875, p.540; 11 March 1876,

p.252: Census: TNA, FS8/37/1872; BT31/2102/9488: John E. Yerbury, A Short History

of the Pioneer Society in Co-operative Housing, 1913: Johnston Birchall, Building

Communities the Co-operative Way, London 1988, pp.4, 22, 94–6

44. BV Mins, 24 Nov 1897; 23 March 1898; 13 July 1898; 3 March 1899

45. David Englander, ‘The Workman’s National Housing Council, 1898–1914’, MA

thesis, Warwick University, 1973: English Heritage, Blue Plaques File: Anthony S.

Wohl, The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London, 1977, p.325: BV

Mins, 10 May 1899

46. Meacham, p.62

47. Wohl, p.279: BBC Housing Committee Mins, June– July 1904: Proceedings of the

Institution of Municipal Engineers, vol.32 (1906), pp.221–53: Municipal Journal, vol.30,

1906: BBC Housing Committee Mins, 15, 29 Sept 1905

48. BBC Mins, 10 March 1909

49. Ibid., 14 Jan 1920, p.247; 25 Feb 1920, p.283

50. Ibid., 24 March 1920, p.323; 26 May 1920, pp.57–8; 24 Oct 1923, pp.148–9

51. Ibid., 28 Feb 1934, pp.224–5; 30 Jan 1935, p.199: LCC Mins, 4 Feb 1936, p.43; 16

April 1946, p.217; 30 July 1946, p.594

52. BBC Mins, 1 March 1944, p.162; 3 Oct 1945, pp.96–7; 27 Nov 1946, p.231

53. Ibid., 2 Oct 1946, pp.146–8

54. Ibid., 26 March 1947, p.359

55. Ibid., May 1952–Jan 1957 passim: Hansard, House of Commons, 9 Nov 1954,

cols.1156–68

56. BBC Mins, 25 Sept 1963, pp.116–17; 18 Dec 1963, pp.210–11; 29 Jan 1964, p.245; 25

March 1964, p.311: WBC Mins, 15 Dec 1970, pp.116–7

57. SWS, 30 March 1962, p.1

58. Ibid., 12 March 1965, p.1

59. BBC Mins, 23 Sept 1964, pp.136–7: WBC Mins, 3 Feb 1965, pp.50–3

60. WBC Mins, Feb 1965–Nov 1970 passim

61. WBN, 5 March 1971, p.15

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62. BBC Mins, Feb 1948–April 1963 passim

63. Ibid., 23 Sept 1964, pp.136-7: WBC Mins, 21 July 1965, pp.1–11; 6 Oct 1965, p.7:

Industrialised Building Systems and Components, June 1968, p.59: The Surveyor, 3 May

1968, pp.34, 34a

64. WBC Mins, 3 May 1967, pp.71–3; 26 July 1967, p.70; 26 March 1968, pp.30, 32

65. LMA, GLC/MA/SC/3/493


67. Daily Express, 25 March 1971: WBN, Feb & March 1971, passim; 15 Oct 1971, pp.1–

2: Michael Gillard and Michael Tomkinson, Nothing to Declare, 1980, pp.78–81

68. WBN, 12 March 1971, pp.1–2

69. WBC Mins, 29 April 1969, pp.33–4

70. Ibid., June 1968–Oct 1976 passim

71. Ibid., 25 March 1975, pp.15–16; 10 Feb 1976, pp.6–10; 19 Oct 1976, pp.19–22; 7 Dec

1976, pp.3–4: Living in South London: Perspectives on Battersea 1871–1981, ed. Sandra

Wallman, 1982

72. WBC Mins, 21 Dec 1971, pp.81–4; 10 Oct 1972, p.75; 14 Nov 1972, pp.11–14; 10

July 1973, p.49; 22 March 1977, pp.iii-iv: The Guardian, 14 Jan 1976

73. Time Out, 2–8 Jan 1986, pp.12–15

74. Financial Times, 3 Oct 1983, p.10; 21 Feb 1986

75. ILN, 27 Aug 1988, p.43

76. John Walsh, The Falling Angels, 1999, p.52

77. CERC, CARE 37/283

78. The subject has been covered in some detail by several writers, most notably I.

Munt, ‘Economic restructuring, culture, and gentrification: a case study in Battersea,

London’, in Environment and Planning A, vol.19, 1987, pp.1175–97: Chris Brodie,

‘Gentrification in Battersea, or will the real local people please stand up?’, Bachelor of

Town Planning CNAA Degree thesis, South Bank Polytechnic, April 1985 (typescript

in WHS, 301.441): Tim Butler, ‘Thinking Global but Acting Local: the Middle Classes

in the City’, Sociological Research Online, vol.7, no.3, 2002: S. W. King 1979, ‘The

changing face of residential Battersea North’, 1979, South Bank Polytechnic thesis

79. This and the following paragraph are based largely on WP: WBC Mins: The Times,

20 Aug 1970, p.3; 20 Jan 1972, p.13: AJ, 8 Nov 1972, pp.1048–9; 27 Feb 1974, pp.424–5:

Financial Times, 20 June 1981, p.6

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80. WBC Mins, 29 May 1973, pp.87–8; 6 Nov 1973, pp.11–12: AJ, 27 Feb 1974, pp.424–

5: Time Out, 22 March 1974, p.7; 24 Oct 1978, p.6: WP

81. SLP, 3 July 1987, p.87: ILN, 27 Aug 1988, p.46

82. The Observer, 8 Nov 2009, p.15

83. London Review of Books, 25 Feb 2010, p.34

84. House prices from SW Magazine, May 2007 – Sept 2012

85. www.telegraph.co.uk/property: The Observer, 21 Jan 2007: Evening Standard, 20

Sept 2004: www.yourhome.cs.homes

86. Brodie, p.14: Munt, p.22: Thames Community Foundation, Social Audit, North

Battersea, 2006 (available at www.thamescommunityfoundation.org.uk)

CHAPTER 1 (pp.##–##)

Battersea High Street Area

1. ‘le Towne side’ mentioned in TNA, LR2/226, f.16 (1605)

2. N. Cooke et al., ‘Excavations at Battersea Flour Mills, 1996–7, Surrey Archaeological

Collections, vol.88, 2001, p.121: Parish map: Rocque 1738: Taylor, pp.254, 255, 265

3. Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser, 3 Jan 1772: Walter Harrison, A New and Universal

History, Description and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, etc, 1776, pp.555–

6

4. TNA, PROB11/167: London Evening Post, 2–4 Sept 1760: Taylor, p.216

5. Post Man and the Historical Account, 27–29 July 1704; 19–21 April 1705: London Daily

Post, 19 Oct 1736: Grub Street Journal, 21 Oct 1736

6. Public Advertiser, 8 Aug 1766: Morning Chronicle, 30 Oct 1777 Middlesex Journal or

Chronicle of Liberty, 25–28 April 1772

7. Taylor, p.221: RB: Morning Post, 21 July 1777

8. Morning Herald, 30 August 1797: Bath Chronicle, 20 Sept 1787: Morning Chronicle, 10

March 1803

9. WHS, Spencer sales catalogues: Tithe: Frank T. Smallwood, A History of Sir Walter

Draft


St. John’s School, Battersea 1700–1986, 1998, p.117: IR58/88324/756–75; 88340/2429–57:

Census: LMA, GLC/MA/3/2161

10. Morning Post, 7 Oct 1845, p.6: The Times, 21 July 1879, p.3: The Observer, 24 Oct

1880, p.6

11. WHS, WDBW/3/101: VCH, Surrey, vol. 4, 1912, p.?

12. IR58/88340/2338–56: Diana Howard, London Theatres and Music Halls 1850–1950,

1970, p.104: OS

13. B, 28 July 1883, p.143: OS: POD: IR58/88340, 88381, 88342: BDA: WHS,

BP/6/5/87, 470, 674; MBB/3/1/25, 163: Simmonds, p.131

14. IR58/88340: Alec Forshaw and Theo Bergstrom, The Markets of London, 1989, p.36:

The Standard, 25 Nov 1881, p.8: WP

15. WHS, MBB/3/1/1; BDA/548: WP

16. The Times, 27 Nov 1930; 7 Dec 1937, p.13; 10 Dec 1937, p.12; 17 Dec 1937, p.12:

WBN, 23 Dec 1937, p.11: EH Archives, RCHME record cards

17. LMA, ACC/2181/048: IR58/88340/2412: The Times, 17 Dec 1937: OS: POD

18. IR58/88320/361, 88339/2264

19. EH Archives, RCHME record card: IR58/88230/364

20. RB: London Chronicle, 15–18 March 1760: ODNB says he died at Holloway

21. Andrew Roberts, ‘The Lunacy Commission: A Study of its Origin, Emergence and

Character’, in www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/01.htm: BV Mins: POD: OS: EH

Archives, LRS 2094/0

22. Country Life, vol. 156, 1974, p.1508

23. LMA, GLC/AR/HB/02/0530: WP: Financial Times, 21 Sept 1974, p.8: AJ, 8 Nov

1972, pp.1048–9

24. Financial Times, 13 Nov 1971, p.10; 21 Sept 1974, p.8: Adrian Turner, Robert Bolt:

Scenes from Two Lives, 1999, pp.425–8: Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Mick Wall, XS All

Areas: the Status Quo Autobiography, 2004, p.269

25. Estates Gazette, vol.212, 1969, p.1403: Investor’s Chronicle and Stock Exchange Gazette,

vol.15, 1971, p.504: WP

26. LMA, GLC/AR/HB/02/0530: WP: Observer, 8 April 1973, p.44: information

supplied by Octavia Housing

27. WP: AJ, 25 Jan 1995, p.47: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/19/1308

28. Design, 1 May 1973, p.64: WP: AJ, 8 Nov 1972, p.1048: Wandsworth & Putney

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/01.htm

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Advertiser, 17 April 1986

29. Financial Times, 10 March 1959, p.7; 3 Nov 1973, p.7: John McEwen, John Bellany,

1994, p.82: WHS, sales particulars of St Mary’s Vicarage and Church Hall, 1972

30. ODNB gives his birthplace in 1678 as ‘probably at Lydiard Tregoze’, but

Battersea, where he was baptised, was named as his birthplace when he visited the

house in 1723

31. St James’s Chronicle or the British Evening Post, 8–11 May 1762

32. Cooke et al., pp.93–131: F. T. Smallwood, ‘The Battersea Manor House’, Surrey

Archaeological Collections, vol.LXVI, 1969, pp.71–3

33. Transcript in SOX 439: www.historyofparliamentonline.org: VCH, Surrey, vol.4,

1912, p.12

34. TNA, LR2/197, 198: Cooke, pp.100, 123, 132: GEC (which incorrectly gives the

purchase date as 1607): Taylor, p.67: GEC: ODNB

35. Evening Post, 29 June–2 July 1723: London Journal, 6 July 1723: Universal Spectator

and Weekly Journal, 3 May 1729: Walter Sichel, Bolingbroke and his Times, vol. 2, 1903,

p.529: Daily Advertiser, 7 June 1731: Daily Courant, 10, 29 June 1731

36. London Evening Post, 4–6 Oct 1739: Norwich Gazette, 10–17 April 1742: History of

Parliament, House of Commons 1690-1715, vol.5, 2002, p.338

37. London Evening Post, 9–12 April 1743: London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22

Aug 1743: General Evening Post, 22–25 Oct 1743: General Advertiser, 22 June 1744:

Smallwood, 1969, p.76: Walter Sichel, Bolingbroke and His Times, vol.1, 1901, p.145

(n2); vol.2, 1903, pp.373, 576

38. RB: SOX 240

39. Morning Chronicle, 1 Dec 1775: Daily Advertiser, 2 Dec 1775: SOX 252: Morning Post,

26 Jan 1784

40. Cooke, p.124: Monthly Magazine, 1 March 1822, p.97

41. Taylor, p.68: Cooke, pp.102, 128

42. Lysons (1810 edn), vol.1, p.31: European Magazine, March 1804, p.168: Reginald

Berry, A Pope Chronology, 1988, pp.179–82: George Sherburn (ed.), The Correspondence

of Alexander Pope, vol.4, 1956, p.486

43. European Magazine, March 1804, p.168: Cooke, p.124: Sir Richard Phillips, A

Morning’s Walk from London to Kew, 1817

44. Notes and Queries, 2nd series, vol.IX, 18 Feb 1860, p.133: Thomas Macknight, The

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Life of Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, 1863, p.670

45. EH Archives, RCHME record card: The Times, 30 March 1922, p.10: AJ, 10 May

1922, p.681

46. WHS, local enquiries file: information from

www.chestnuthilllocal.com/issues/2006.05.18: www.dailypennsylvanian.com: John

Harris, Moving Rooms, 2007, p.242

47. Smallwood, 1969, pp.76–7: WHS, local enquiry files

48. OS: Taylor, p.77n: BVM, 7 April 1793: True Briton, 17 March 1798

49. Taylor, 77n, mistakenly attributes the change to the London County Council:

MBW Mins, 22 Oct 1875, p.421

50. Taylor, pp.77, 77n, 220: Morning Post, 25 Nov 1885, p.2: The Times, 8 Feb 1886, p.7;

29 Sept 1900, p.8

51. Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser, 20 March 1770: Daily Advertiser, 18 April 1772

52. Post-Boy, 5–8 July 1701: Daily Advertiser, 16 Feb 1775: Gazetteer & New Daily

Advertiser, 27 Feb 1775

53. B, 2 May 1891, pp.346–7

54. BV Mins, 31 Dec 1791: BV, Workhouse Committee Mins, 24 Dec 1791: Census: RB

55. Daily Advertiser, 16 Aug 1796: Morning Chronicle, 15 Sept 1810: The Times, 26 July

1815, 2 July 1816; 6 July 1819: RB

56. London Chronicle, 12–14 Dec 1797: Star, 21 Nov 1796: ODNB sub Thelwall: True

Briton, 17 March 1798: Morning Post, 14 Sept 1832

57. IR58/88340/2418: SOX 236, 347: Corris: RB: LT

58. Botanical Register vol.1, 1815, p.21: Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London,

vol. 3, 1820, p.91: Gardener’s Magazine, vol.3, 1828, p.191: Census: RB: POD: Frank T.

Smallwood, A History of Sir Walter St John’s School, Battersea 1700–1986, 1998, pp.125–6

59. The Standard, 20 June 1828: The Times, 23 June 1828, p.5: WHS, D10/4: RB: DSR:

IR58/88340/2419

60. Census 1861: LA deeds

61. WP: IR58/88340: POD: BDA 2370, 5371: BEBP 564: Caius College Archive,

PPC/ESR: Survey of London, vol.49, 2013, p.??

62. BDA 547: WP: Financial Times, 6 Nov 1981, p.37

63. LMA, GLC/AR/HB/02/0530: GLC Mins, 14 Feb 1967, pp.117–18: EH, LRS

2094/0: The Times, 20 Aug 1970, p.3

http://www.chestnuthilllocal.com/issues/2006.05.18

http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/

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64. The Times, 20 Aug 1970, p.3: SWS, 17 Sept 1971, p.1: Evening Standard, 14 Oct 1979:

LMA, GLC/DG/PRB/35/013/163

65. ‘The History of Battersea Square’, n.d., among papers held at St Mary’s Church

66. Information from Nicholas Wood: Architectural Review, Jan 1976, pp.14–15 names

the job architect as Matt O’Connor: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/13/190459/01

67. EH, LRS 2094/0: WP: Financial Times, 20 June 1981, p.6: The Observer, 1 March

1981, p.24

68. RIBA Journal, vol. 84, p.177: Evening Standard, 14 Oct 1979: Concrete Quarterly, Oct–

Dec 1980, pp.10–11: The Artist, vol. 99, 1984: Deanna Petherbridge, Art for

Architecture, 1987, p.102

69. EH, LRS 2094/0 and London historians’ file, WW1: Parish map: undated late

eighteenth-century map in WHS, D72/4

70. Historical information compiled for Katherine Low Settlement by Sean Creighton,

hereafter ‘Creighton’: IR58/88340/2408–9: POD: B, 23 June 1888, p.456

71. WHS, Spencer sales catalogues: B, 20 April 1872, p.314: BDA 551: WHS,

BP/6/5/293: IR58/88340/2397: POD: Census

72. IR58/88340, 88343: WHS, BP/6/5/668: LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/860–1,

873: Census: WP

73. Taylor, p.104n: IR58/88339/2299: BDA: WP

74. RB: SHC, G25.3.1: London Evening Post, 19–20 Oct 1780: The Times, 14 Aug 1858,

p.11: The Standard, 20 Aug 1858, p.2

75. The Times, 23 Jan 1854, p.10: Cheshire Observer etc, 8 July 1865: Morning Post, 26

Sept 1868, p.7: Helen Morris, Portrait of a Chef: the life of Alexis Soyer, 1938, pp.62, 198

76. The Times, 21 July 1879, p.3; 3 Oct 1880, p.7: The Standard, 12 April 1880

77. SHC, G25.3.21: Read’s Weekly Journal, 16 June 1753: Gazetteer & New Daily

Advertiser, 14 June 1781: The Times, 17 Feb 1890, p.6: The Standard, 14 Feb 1890, p.3

78. LMA, O/026/001; P92/SAV/1517: John Duncomb, William Cooke, Morgan

George Watkins, Collections towards the history and antiquities of the county of Hereford,

1898, pp.83–4: TNA, LR2/190

79. Essex RO, D/DQ 72/23: London Evening Post, 1–3 Aug 1728: Daily Advertiser, 2

March 1743: SHC, G25.3.21: SOX 261(2)

80. Public Ledger, 2 March 1761

81. J. Herbert Tritton, Tritton the Place and the Family, 1907, pp.150, 187, 192, 246–8:

Draft


SOX 261(2): Morning Chronicle, 9 Feb 1793: Alan Champion, ‘Notes on the

relationships between the families of Worsley, Tollemache, and Hadfield in the Isle

of Wight’, n.d., at www.iowhistory.com: WH, no.82, Spring 2006, p.13: RB

82. RB

83. RB: Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, vol.2, 1861 edn, p.68: The Times, 22 April

1815: Caledonian Mercury, 27 April, 10 July 1815: Morning Post, 10 July 1815, p.1: M.

Charles-Malo (pub.), Panorama d’Angleterre, vol.2, 1815

84. John Lindley, ed., Edwards’s Botanical Register, 1839, n.s., vol.2, p.94

85. RB: Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, Jan 1907: The Teacher, 5 May 1906, p.424: The

Times, 11 July 1844, p.10: Morning Chronicle, 2 Aug 1844: Morning Post, 22 April 1844,

7 Nov 1848

86. ODNB: Simmonds, p.125n

87. Derby Mercury, 8 Feb 1860

88. Census

89. Allen’s Indian Mail, vol.XIII, Jan–Dec 1855: Census

90. Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser, 30 May 1783: Ramsey, pp.16–17

91. Whitehall Evening Post, 6–8 July 1783: Liverpool Mercury, 1 Feb 1848: Malcolm

Chase, ‘John Watkins (1808–1858) – Poet/Chartist’, at www.tweddellhistory.co.uk:

Northern Star, 12 Nov, 17 Dec 1842: John Watkins, Oliver Cromwell, the Protector. An

Historical Tragedy, 1848, dedicatory epistle

92. WHS, BP/6/5/86–88: Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 12 June 1870: Census

93. WHS, misc. deeds; BP/6/5/372: MBW Mins, 3 July 1868, p.877: Bailey 1995,

p.196: RB: POD: DSR: BDA 1347, 1805

94. BBC Mins, 18 July 1956, pp.96–7; 22 Oct 1958, pp.153, 158; 18 Nov 1959, p.183

95. Ibid., 24 April 1957, pp.6–7; 17 June 1959, pp.44–5; 15 July 1959, p.80; 24 Feb 1960,

p.268; 27 Sept 1961, pp.121, 127; 27 March 1963, p.291: WBC Mins, 9 June 1965, pp.31–

2; 9 Feb 1966, pp.89–90

96. BBC Mins, 21 Feb 1962, p.254; 19 Dec 1962, p.203; 24 April 1963, pp.2, 6: WBC

Mins, 21 July 1965, p.12

97. SWS, 23 Feb 1962, p.7: WBC Mins, 21 July 1965, p.12; 6 Oct 1965, pp.88–90; 5 Oct

1966, p.81; 14 June 1967, p.3: Mail on Sunday, 21 July 1996, p.62

98. WBC Mins, 14 June 1967: WP

99. WP

http://www.iowhistory.com/

http://www.tweddellhistory.co.uk/

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100. WP: RIBA Journal, July 1999, pp.48–52: English Heritage/CABE, Building in

Context. New development in historic areas, 2002

101. WP: www.parrittleng.com

102. WP

103. LMA, MBW/BA/33812; LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70: Ramsey, p.18: DSR:

IR58/88341: Booth collection, B366, pp.169, 171

104. Christ’s College Archives, Misc (1) Add 54, pp.171, 194, 227

105. BDA: WP: Creighton

106. SWS, 10 May 1935

107. TNA, HLG23/24264: WP: AJ, 21 Feb 1990, p.10: Financial Times, 30 June 1990,

p.XII

108. WP

109. WHS, BP/6/5/393; BP/8/8: OS

110. WHS, Spencer sales catalogues

111. IR58/88343/2661–2: POD: Creighton: WP

112. IR58/88343/2640–2657; 88344/2702–2713: WHS, misc. deeds, boxes L3, X44:

WBC Mins, 21 Oct 1975, pp.20–22

113. Morning Chronicle, 23 June 1803: SOX 261(2): General Advertiser, 3 May 1751:

Parish map: Guy Nickalls, Thomas Doggett Deceased. A Famous Comedian, Part II, 1908,

p.147: Simmonds, p.149: Morning Post, 12 June 1827

114. SOX 261(2): POD: IR58/88343/2699: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/10/BA/0416/71/BA:

Goad

115. RB: TNA, PROB11/632; C11/324/2

116. RB: Census: WHS, local enquiry files: Ramsey, p.18

117. POD: WP: GLC Mins, 2 Nov 1965, pp.730–1: LMA, ACC/2321/220: Frank T.

Smallwood, A History of Sir Walter St John’s School, Battersea 1700–1986, 1998, p.192

118. LMA, ACC/3499/EH/07/01/239–241; 07/02/071; Chadwyck-Healey PD 65

119. EH, Statutory file 530/44: WP

120. LMA, DW/OP/1808/1

121. Survey of London, vol.35, 1970, p.56

122. Wandsworth Museum, drawings of c.1815 and 1826

123. Census: POD

124. St Mary’s Church, files in Vestry: WHS, sales particulars in misc. files: WP

http://www.parrittleng.com/

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125. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/36/BA/0416/A/PW; GLC/AR/HB/02/0530: Financial

Times, 3 Jan 1975, p.10

126. WHS, MBB/82/8, F. T. Smallwood to C. M. W. S. Freeman, 19 Aug 1965: F. T.

Smallwood, ‘The Story of Terrace House, Battersea (Old Battersea House)’, Surrey

Archaeological Collections, vol.64, 1967, pp.91–112 and supplementary Devisscher-St

John pedigree; ‘Did Wren design Terrace House, Battersea?’, London and Middlesex

Archaeological Society Transactions, vol.22, pt 2, 1969, pp.33–8 (first pub. in Battersea

Booklist, Spring 1965)

127. Account based except where otherwise indicated on Smallwood 1967

128. Daily Journal, 14 Aug 1733

129. LMA, O/027/002: SOX 347: Smallwood 1967, pp.96, 100

130. Charles Evans, letter in Surrey Archaeological Collections, vol. 65, 1968, pp.149–50:

Smallwood 1967, p.104

131. Smallwood 1967, p.104: LA, I/215

132. RB: Smallwood 1967, p.107, wrongly says he was separately assessed from 1686

133. LMA, O/027/002: The Ancestor, July 1904, p.173: Post Boy, 5–8 July 1701

134. Smallwood 1967, p.104

135. Charles Evans, letter in Surrey Archaeological Collections, vol.65, 1968, pp.149–50:

Smallwood 1967, p.110: LT: TNA, PROB11/1139, will of Benjamin Doggett: W. A.

Copinger, The Manors of Suffolk. Notes on Their History and Devolution, vol. 4, p.225

136. SOX 252: Smallwood 1967, p.111: Morning Post, 13 April 1781: LT

137. See Survey of London, vol.44, 1996, pp.560–3: Henry C. Wilks, George Green’s

School 1828–1978: A History, 1979, pp.9–10

138. PA, SLF/11/7/2; SLF/11/26

139. PA, SLF/9/6: WHS, misc. deeds, box X44

140. BBC Mins, 28 Nov 1928, p.156; 29 Jan 1930, pp.209–10; 26 Feb 1930, p.236: LMA,

GLC/AR/HB/02/0530

141. TNA, WORK14/425

142. The Times, 27 Nov 1930, p.16: BBC Mins, 26 Nov 1930, pp.185–6

143. WHS, MBB/8/2/1

144. The Times, 21 May 1931: WHS, MBB/8/2/1

145. Country Life, 7 May 1932, p.518: WHS, MBB/8/2/8: The Times, 30 Dec 1931

146. WHS, MBB/8/2/7

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147. WHS, MBB/8/2/8

148. LMA, LMA/4460/01/67/009: The De Morgan Foundation at Old Battersea House,

1992: www.demorgan.org.uk/collection: WHS, D156: The Times, 8 Oct 1970, p.5

149. ILN, 4 March 1991: WHS, D156; PLANS 145

150. TNA, WORK14/425: WBC Mins, 19 Oct 1976, pp.24–5

151. BBC Mins, June 1931–Feb 1934, passim

152. WHS, PLANS/92: BBC Mins, 25 May 1932, p.33

153. WBC Mins, 19 Oct 1976, pp.24–5

154. Financial Times, 20 June 1981; 21 Feb 1986: Chartered Surveyor Weekly, 11 Nov

1982, pp.230–1: AJ, 20 July 1983, pp.56–7

CHAPTER 2 (pp.###–###)

Battersea Bridge Road to York Road

1. Richard Church, Over The Bridge, 1955, pp.13, 14

2. WHS, D72; misc. deeds: Corris

3. LMA, BC/B/33, 19 April 1844; 5 June 1845; 9 Dec 1845; 11 May 1846

4. Unless otherwise indicated this section is based largely on Bailey 2010, pp.15–30,

and Bailey 1995, pp.244–8

5. LA, I/12249

6. Census: Booth collection, B366, pp.159, 161

7. LMA, LCC/MIN/7371; LCC/AR/HS/03/003: WP: Eric Gill, Eric Gill:

Autobiography, 1992 edn, pp.118, 131, 134: Fiona MacCarthy, Eric Gill, 1989, pp.58–60:

Robert Speaight, The Life of Eric Gill, 1966, p.26

8. WHS, Morgan Crucible deeds boxes

9. WHS, misc. files: AJ, 8 Nov 1972, p.1048–9; 27 Feb 1974, pp.424–5: The Times, 25 Oct

1972, p.6; 24 Oct 1978, p.6

10. SLP, 8 May 1985, p.6

11. WPS: ILN, 27 Aug 1988, p.46: info from Morgan’s Walk Management Ltd at

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www.morganswalk.com

12. AJ, 8 June 1995, p.10

13. WBN, 18 Dec 1992, p.8; 20 May 1994, p.5; 14 Oct 1994, p.5: SLP, 8 Jan 1993, p.10

14. WBN, 20 May 1994, p.5: Independent Tabloid, 13 June 1997, pp.2–3

15. Kenneth Powell, Richard Rogers Complete Works: Volume Three, 2006, p.48: Richard

Rogers Partnership, evolution of the design concept drawing (file ref

2101/0215/1/w) at www.richardrogers.co.uk

16. Contract Journal, 14 July 1999, pp.18–19: WPS: Independent Tabloid, 13 June 1997,

pp.2–3

17. AJ, 8 June 1995, p.10: WBN, 14 Oct 1994, p.5: The Times, 13 May 1998, p.1:

Wandsworth Borough Guardian, 4 Jan 1996, p.5

18. WBN, 17 Feb 1995, pp.1, 14; 17 March 1995, p.5; 28 July 1995, p.5: SLP, 24 Feb

1995, p.16

19. The Times, 5 Sept 2000, p.16; 8 March 2001, p.7: Wandsworth Borough Guardian, 2

Jan 1997, p.2; 20 Nov 1997, p.8: AJ, 8 June 1995, p.10: 13 March 1997, pp.10–11:

Evening Standard, 8 March 2001, pp.6, 9: Sunday Telegraph, 7 Oct 2001, p.27

20. Contract Journal, 14 July 1999, pp.18–19: Building Homes, No.9, Nov 1998, pp.48–9:

Alan J. Brookes & Maarten Meijs, Cladding of buildings, 2008: Interiors for Architects &

Designers, April/May 1999, pp.4–5

21. Interiors for Architects & Designers, April/May 1999, pp.4–5: The Times, 30 Oct 1999,

p.13: Evening Standard, 7 Aug 2002, p.2

22. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/939–41: Bailey 2010, p.18: RB

23. RB: Bailey 2010, pp.17–18: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/062471

24. RB

25. RB: TNA, PROB11/2035

26. RB: Census

27. Besant, pp.167–8: Census: Bailey 2010, pp.21–30

28. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/1000–2, 1111–16; B/CHE/178, 394: IR58/88323,

88324: Bailey 1995, pp.190, 196: Census: Booth collection, B366, pp.160–1

29. LCC Mins, 6 Oct 1953, p.440; 7 Feb 1956, pp.34–5; 9 Feb 1960, pp.75–6; 17–18 July

1962, p.650: LMA, GLC/MA/SC/3/197–9, 491–3, 1575; 4/108

30. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/26/WA/H/24/BA: ABN, 25 Oct 1967, pp.691–3: LCC Mins,

17 Nov 1964, p.950: Homelife (Wandsworth Council’s housing newsletter), Jan 2008

Draft


31. Corris: Tithe: Morning Post, 5 June 1829, p.1; 9 June 1831, p.9

32. LMA, E/SPC/001–3: Bailey 1995, pp.162–3, 245: Census: WHS, misc. deeds

33. WHS, misc. deeds; BP/6/5/52, 54, 276–7, 302, 366, 798: MBW Mins, 3 April 1868,

p.542: Bailey 1995, p.196: LMA, MBW/BA/31295; AR/BA/5/218, plan 3472

34. IR58/88338: Booth collection, B366, pp.162–7: LCC Mins, 12 Oct 1897, p.1021: LA,

I/12604

35. BBC Mins, 31 Dec 1947, p.227; 2 Nov 1949, pp.173, 181; 1 March 1950, p.334; 28

Feb 1951, p.372

36. WBC Mins, 3 May 1967, p.70; 14 Nov 1967, p.34; 7 Feb 1968, pp.62–3; 24 April

1968, pp.93–5; 18 March 1969, pp.25–8: The Surveyor, 30 July 1971, pp.24–5: AJ, 11 Aug

1971, pp.290–1: Concrete, Nov 1971, pp.351–3

37. WBC Mins, 7 Oct 1969, p.19; 15 Dec 1970, pp.30–2; 23 March 1971, pp.20–2; 27 July

1971, pp.61–2; 2 May 1972, pp.20–1; 12 Feb 1973, p.33

38. AJ, 11 Aug 1971, pp.290–1

39. Rocque: Parish map

40. RB: LMA, BC/B/33, 9 Dec 1845, 11 May 1846; BC/B/045/93: B, 5 Nov 1887, p.656

41. RB: Census: LA, I/10474: York Minster Archives, W/n/p.258: BV Mins, 21 Oct

1863; WDBW Mins, 24 Aug 1864

42. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/22/TP/014448: WHS, BP/6/5/1497, 1555, 1639

43. Rocque: Parish map: RB: BDA, 4430

44. BDA, 1939, 1630, 1664, 1718

45. RB: BDA: BV Mins: WP

46. MBW Mins, 1862, pp.817, 855: 5 June 1863, p.566: RB: WDBW Mins, 9 March 1864;

BV Mins, 29 March 1864

47. Bailey 2012, p.??

48. RB: Tithe: Census

49. MBW Mins, 8 Dec 1876, p.716: WDBW Mins, 14 Nov 1877: WHS, BP/6/5/909,

1056, 1060

50. WHS, misc. deeds: Bailey 1995, p.185: Bailey 2012, p.??: The Clock Tower: The

Newsletter of the Friends of Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre, no.13, Feb 2009,

pp.39–42: Census

51. SOX 514

52. WHS, misc. deeds; BP/6/5/73–5: BDA: DSR: Census

Draft


53. Bailey 2012, pp.??: MBW Mins, 27 Sept 1878, p.356; 11 Oct 1878, p.27

54. BDA: DSR: copy of estate plan kindly provided by Keith Bailey: BDA

55. B, 8 Oct 1881, p.472

56. WHS, misc. deeds: BDA: DSR

57. Bailey 1995, pp.185–6: Bailey 2012, pp.??: WHS, BP/8/12: CERC, ECE

7/1/30935/2: IR58/book ref

58. BDA: DSR: POD: IR58/book refs?

59. SLP, quoted in Wandsworth Council Conservation Area Assessment: Census:

Booth poverty maps

60. WP: CERC, ECE 7/1/30935/3, 4

61. WBC Mins, 27 July 1966, pp.93–4; 24 April 1968, pp.91–2

62. Ibid., 17 Dec 1968, pp.30–1, 157, 166–7; 18 March 1969, pp.27, 34–9

63. Ibid., 20 May 1969, pp.43–5; 22 July 1969, pp.58–60; 18 Dec 1973, pp.11–14

64. Ibid., 13 June 1972, pp.33–4

65. MBW Mins, 15 June 1866, p.818; 13 July 1866, p.949; 13 March 1868, p.877: WHS,

misc. deeds; BP/6/5/86, 472: Bailey 1995, pp.190–1

66. MBW Mins, 23 Oct 1868, p.1189: WHS, BP/6/5/283, 472: Census

67. MBW Mins, 29 Oct 1875, p.456: LMA, MBW/BA/22038: BDA 1786: IR58/88329

68. Booth collection, B366, pp.166–7, 188–9, 192–3: Census: Booth poverty maps: BDA

2773: DSR

69. WHS, BP/6/5/1625, 1746

70. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/22/BA/020732: IR58/88333/1670

71. Account based on Duncan Hawkins et al., ‘The Archbishop of York’s Battersea

Mansion’, London Archaeologist, vol. 9, 2000, pp.129–36: Christopher Phillpotts, ‘York

House, Battersea (Price’s Candle Factory)’, Documentary Research Assessment

(Appendix 2) in Karl Hülka, ‘Assessment of an Archaeological Excavation at the

former Price’s Patent Candle Factory, York Place, London Borough of Wandsworth,

SW11’, Pre-Construct Archaeology report, May 2002: Tim Tatton-Brown, ‘ Reigate

Stone at Battersea’, London Archaeologist, vol. 9, 2000, p.160; ‘The Quarrying and

Distribution of Reigate Stone in the Middle Ages’, Medieval Archaeology, vol. 45, 2001,

pp.193–4: Surrey Archaeological Collections, vol. 90, 2003, pp.369–71

72. Henry Ellis, Original Letters, illustrative of English History, 2nd series, vol.2, 1827,

p.30

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73. ODNB: Borthwick Institute file cc Ab 9/s, cited in Hawkins et al

74. LMA, ACC/2079/F1/23: Monthly Magazine, 1 Aug 1814, p.28

75. SOX 255, 514: RB: Census

76. LMA ref?, Cubitt Lease Book No.3, p.308

77. BDA: IR58/88352, 88353: Bailey 1995, pp.154, 156

78. DSR: MBW Mins, 25 Sept 1863, p.256: LMA ref?, Cubitt Lease Book No.3, p.313:

BDA, 2843: Bailey 1995, p.156

79. Booth collection, B366, pp.202–3: LMA, LCC/MIN/07393; LCC/AR/HS/3/020:

LCC Mins, 2 Oct 1902, p.1385: SWS, 5 March 1971, p.1

80. MBW Mins, 17 April 1868, pp.567–8; 2 Oct 1868, p.1111; 22 Jan 1869, p.101: WHS,

BP/6/5/3, 4, 17, 18, 22, 395, 367; misc. deeds: TNA, C16/656/L112: Bailey 1995,

pp.183, 191

81. BDA: DSR: WHS, misc. deeds: IR58/88349–51: Bailey 1995, pp.183, 191

82. TNA, C16/656/L112

83. BDA: information kindly provided by Keith Bailey

84. SLP, 22 June 1867, p.9; 19 May 1877, p.8; 20 Oct 1877, p.8

85. Booth collection, B366, pp.190–1: IR58/883348, 88349

86. WP: IR58/3348

87. BBC Mins, 16 Dec 1964, p.207

88. WBC Mins, 18 Nov 1967, p.44; 24 April 1968, pp.74–6; 30 July 1968, pp.24–7; 22

July 1969, pp.64–5; 12 Oct 1971, p.31; 25 July 1972, pp.6–7; 27 March 1973, pp.13–15

89. Taylor, p.265

90. Ramsey, p.19: ODNB Archive

91. Tithe: OS, 1st edn: Census

92. TNA, LR2/190: John Willcock, A Scots Earl in Covenanting Times, 1907, pp.293–5:

Robert Chambers, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, vol.2, 1856, pp.485–6:

ODNB: information from Tom Champagne

93. Evening Mail, 18–20 April 1792: Lloyd’s Evening Post, 20–23 April 1792: J. Leifchild,

Memoir of the late Rev. Joseph Hughes, AM, 1835:

www.chesterfieldmayfair.com/company-information/history:

www.historyofparliamentonline.org: LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70: Census

94. Morning Post, 7 June 1828; 25 April 1829; 16 May 1836

95. SOX 252: Rocque: RB: BL, Add. MS 7849/G

http://www.chesterfieldmayfair.com/company-information/history

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/

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96. SOX 240: Morning Chronicle, 15 Sept 1777: Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 14

Dec 1779: London Courant, 12 Aug 1780: The World, 19 April 1791

97. ODNB: www.nantes.me.uk/henry nantes_6.html: TNA, B3/3681

98. Morning Chronicle, 22 July 1797: TNA, PROB11/1552: Margrit Schulte Beerbühl,

XIV International Economic History Congress, Helsinki 2006, ‘The risk of bankruptcy

among German merchants in eighteenth-century England’, p.18

99. LMA, COL/PL/02/H/004/j

100. Gentleman’s Magazine, March 1797, p.247: TNA, B3/3681

101. Morning Chronicle, 6 March, 1 April 1797: SOX 240

102. RB: SOX 240

103. Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London, vol.1, p 1, 1811 edn, p.22: Kathryn Cave,

ed., The Diary of Joseph Farington, vol.IX, 1982, p.3233: Royal Academy, ANG/01/1;

reference and transcript supplied by Jo Briggs

104. Survey of London, vol.35, 1970, p.95, plate 56c: Art Institute of Chicago: SHC,

LM/85/2/1/1/138: W. T. Whitley, Art in England, 1800–1820, 1928, p.212: Michael

Levey, Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769–1830, 1979, p.60: The Diary of Joseph Farington,

vol.XII, 1983, pp.4365, 4367

105. J. Knowles, The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Esq. M.A.R.A, vol.1, 1831,

pp.390–1

106. Morning Post, 1 June 1804: Morning Chronicle, 10 June 1811

107. Other copies of the view, by the same artist, G. W. Bonner, are in BL, Add MSS

25112 and LMA, D. Lysons, Environs of London, 1813, extra-illustrated copy

108. Morning Post, 30 April, 18 May 1813: TNA, B3/5207: ODNB

109. RB: Charlotte Frost, Sir William Knighton, 2010, pp.48, 62, 130–1

110. Morning Post, 17 June, 29 July, 7, 12 Aug 1822

111. Lady Knighton, Memoirs of Sir William Knighton, 1838, p.284

112. The following description is largely based on sales particulars of 1820 in SHC,

LM/85/2/1/1/138 and list of contents in Morning Chronicle, 24 May 1813

113. John Martin Robinson, ‘Carlton and the Stapletons: the history of a recusant

family’, The Connoisseur, no.202, Sept 1979, p.21: Illustrated in John Robinson,

‘Carlton Towers, Yorkshire’, The Connoisseur, no.190, Sept 1975, p.45. Carlton Towers

is only a few miles from Wombwell, the Yorkshire seat of Sir George Wombwell of

Sherwood Lodge, which may explain the acquisition

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114. ODNB: LMA, CLC/B/192/F/001/MS11936/483/972966;

MS11936/499/1010754

115. Morning Post, 22 May & 19 June 1824; 5 July 1825

116. Ibid., 16, 23 June 1827: LMA, CLC/B/192/F/001/MS11936/516/1076287

117. W. H. Wilkins, Mrs Fitzherbert and George IV, 1908, p.333: Morning Post, 26 Oct

1821; 17 June, 7 Aug 1822; 27 Sept 1824

118. ODNB: The Era, 10 Jan 1847

119. SOX 212: The Times, 31 Jan 1850, p.6; 29 July 1850, p.12; 2 April 1853, p.11

120. This section is largely based on WP, excepted where otherwise stated

121. www.ehsmithfacades.co.uk: www.hotelrafayel.com

122. www.oysterpier.com


Around Battersea Park

1. LA, I/4666

2. RB: True Briton, 6 Aug 1795, p.1: Gentleman’s Magazine, May 1855, p.551

3. LMA, MBW/OW/BP/1; MBW/OW/BP/4

4. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/0346–52: The Times, 21 May 1864, p.15: LA,

I/12244

5. LA, I/4666: BDA: TNA, IR58/88216

6. WHS, D166/1/4; misc. deeds, box B4: Survey of London, vol.37, 1972, pp.288, 292,

295: DSR

7. DSR: WHS, D166/1/3, 18; misc. deeds, boxes B4, X11, X35, X47, X49

8. DSR: TNA, WORK16/9/6

9. WHS, BP/6/5/386, 501; misc. deeds, box X6: LMA,

LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/0985 & 1513–17

10. LMA, MBW/OW/BP/1

11. The Times, 28 Feb 1879, p.10: Census: LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/820 & 1167

12. BV Mins, 27 June 1888, p.122; 26 Sept 1888, p.195; 25 Sept 1889, p.217; 9 Oct 1889,

http://www.oysterpier.com/

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p.224; 27 Sept 1893, p.233; 22 Nov 1893, p.294; 12 Sept 1894, p.227; 25 Sept 1895,

p.197: BDA 3546, 3881, 3936, 4128

13. Bailey 2010, pp.31–40

14. PP 1856 (193), lii.69, Report on Progress of Works on the Thames Embankment, Chelsea

Bridge and Battersea Park, p.17

15. 27 & 28 Vict, c.ccxxv

16. PP 1856 (193), lii.69, Report on Progress of Works

17. Ibid., p.16

18. TNA, WORK1/76, pp.5, 309; WORK16/22/6

19. PP 1876 (244), xiv.435, Report from the Select Committee on Toll Bridges (River

Thames), p.iv

20. TNA, WORK16/9/5

21. TNA, WORK16/18/10

22. TNA, WORK16/21/2: LCC Mins, 20 June 1950, pp.357–8; 10 Oct 1950, p.567

23. TNA, WORK16/9/2: MBW Mins, 4 April 1879, p.535; 9 April 1879, p.561

24. TNA, WORK16/13/21; IR58/88246/3059: BDA 1375–6

25. TNA, WORK16/19/1; WORK16/11/7: BDA

26. TNA, WORK 16/19/1; WORK16/11/7: BDA 2224, 2606

27. TNA, WORK1/76, p.154

28. PP 1876 (244), xiv.435, Report from the Select Committee on Toll Bridges (River

Thames), p.25: WBN, 3 April 1987, p.7: WP

29. WHS, D101/54

30. TNA, WORK16/18/3

31. B, 6 July 1867, p.500: TNA, WORK16/15/6: WHS, D101/84

32. Daily News, 31 Dec 1872, p.2: The Times, 31 Jan 1866, p.11

33. TNA, WORK16/19/6

34. BDA 1005, 1771

35. DSR: WHS, D101/135: ODNB

36. TNA, WORK16/19/6

37. Ibid: Census: DSR

38. Ibid

39. BDA 2633, 3168: WHS, BP/6/5/812a: Census

40. BDA 3462, 2627: BV Mins, 11 Sept 1889, p.195: TNA, WORK16/18/7

Draft


41. BV Mins, 12 Nov 1890, pp.243, 248; 14 Oct 1891, p.198

42. Glasgow Herald, 25 Aug 1880, p.36: TNA, WORK16/11/9: WHS, D101: Census

43. TNA, WORK16/11/9

44. Ibid

45. TNA, WORK16/17/3

46. TNA, WORK16/10/4

47. WHS, D101/126: TNA, WORK16/9/3

48. CERC, ECE 7/1/40813

49. BN, 29 June 1877, pp.642–3: B, 20 May 1876, p.499: SLP, 26 June 1877, p.5: TNA,

WORK16/18/8: WH, no.38, Sept 1983, pp.1–7

50. BN, 16 June 1876, p.594; 29 June 1877: TNA, WORK16/18/8

51. TNA, WORK16/11/1

52. TNA, WORK16/7/4

53. TNA, WORK16/11/1

54. TNA, WORK16/8/3, 4

55. TNA, WORK16/9/7, 8

56. TNA, WORK16/7/4

57. TNA, WORK16/7/7

58. Bailey 1995, pp.259–60: TNA, WORK16/12/11

59. Dictionary of Scottish Architects: Survey of London, vol.41, 1983, p.169; vol.42, 1986,

pp.313–14

60. TNA, WORK16/12/5; WORK16/814

61. TNA, WORK16/12/5

62. Ibid; WORK32/298

63. TNA, HO1/136/5289: PPR: The Times, 8 May 1959, p.15: information from British

Museum and Fitzwilliam Museum

64. Bailey 1995, p.260: LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19396/1

65. TNA, WORK16/12/5: Census: BV Mins, 24 May 1893: A, 13 Jan 1893, p.11

66. TNA, WORK16/12/5: The Standard, 6 Dec 1894, p.10: Morning Post, 7 Dec 1894,

p.7

67. TNA, WORK16/12/8, 9; WORK16/13/1: WHS, BP/6/5/1772

68. The Standard, 23 April 1896, p.9

69. TNA, WORK16/12/10

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70. The Times, 5 Oct 1893, p.2; 9 Jan 1894, p.4

71. TNA, WORK16/12/6

72. TNA, WORK16/12/6, 7: BV Mins, 14 Sept 1898, p.196: Hounslow Matters, Feb

2008, issue 9, p.4: EH list description (Lincoln and Washington Houses, Basil Street):

Daily News 27 March 1900, p.6

73. TNA, WORK16/10/5

74. TNA, WORK16/298; WORK16/10/5; WORK16/32/298: Pall Mall Gazette, 23 Nov

1893, p.12: information kindly supplied by Keith Bailey

75. BDA 3990: TNA, WORK16/10/5: Pall Mall Gazette, 23 Nov 1893, p.12: BV Mins, 10

May 1893, p.53

76. The Standard, 23 June 1894, p.12: Edinburgh Gazette, 9 Nov 1894, c.1241: London

Gazette, 6 Nov 1894, c.6236; 5 Feb 1897, c.751: information kindly provided by Keith

Bailey

77. Census

78. BDA 4081: TNA, WORK16/10/5

79. TNA, WORK16/12/3: BV Mins, 22 May 1895, p.76; 12 June 1895, p.109:

information from Keith Bailey

80. BV Mins, 23 Jan 1895, p.414; 9 Dec 1896, p.272; 23 March 1898, pp.302, 388: TNA,

WORK16/10/6

81. TNA, WORK16/12/8 & 10; WORK32/296, 298, 300 & 301

82. Booth collection, B366, pp.134–7

83. Ibid., p.139

84. P. G. Wodehouse, The Man with Two Left Feet, 1917

85. Philip Gibbs, Intellectual Mansions, 1910, Chapter 4

86. Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 2006 edn, p.134

87. Michael Coren, Gilbert: The Man who was G. K. Chesterton, 2001, pp.131–2: Dudley

Barker, G. K. Chesterton: A Biography, 1973, pp.118–19: Alzina Stone Dale, The Outline

of Sanity: A Biography of G. K. Chesterton, 2005, p.75

88. Mark Holloway, Norman Douglas, A Biography, 1976, p.199

89. Jad Adams, Madder Music, Stronger Wine, the Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and

Decadent, 2000, pp.90–1

90. ODNB: Census: POD

91. LCC Mins, 21 Oct 1958, p.603

Draft


92. Ibid., p.705: The Surveyor, 31 Dec 1960, p.1470

93. LCC Mins, 22 Jan 1963, pp.33–4; 16 June 1964, pp.628–9

94. Ibid., pp.615–16; 16 March 1965, p.1280: WBC Mins, 21 July 1965, pp.62–4; 30 July

1968, pp.30–1: GLC Mins, 25 June 1968, p.328

95. ILN, 27 Aug 1988, p.38: WP

96. Property Week, 23 Feb 2007: Estates Gazette, 14 May 2011

97. AJ, 15 April 2010: Evening Standard, 20 April 2010; 31 Aug 2011

98. Sunday Times, 10 March 2002, p.22: Evening Standard, 10 Oct 2001, p.4

99. Clapham News, 6 Feb 1968, p.118; 3 April 1970, p.1: information from Linda

Dunning, Victoria Dwellings tenant in the late 1960s

100. WP

101. Ibid: www.msrmrarchitects.co.uk: Evening Standard, 22 Oct 2008, p.4: The Times,

12 Sept 2008, p.12

102. WP

103. Unless otherwise stated, this account is based on David Jenkins, Norman Foster

Works 3, 2006, pp.206–31; and Works 5, 2008, pp.112–17, with additional information

kindly supplied by Foster and Partners: WP

104. AJ, 3 Oct 1990, pp.35–47

105. The Times, 5 Feb 1998, p.35: B, 25 Sept 1998, p.14; 27 Aug 1999, p.10: WP

106. Sunday Times, 4 April 2004, p.41: The Times, 8 Jan 2004, p.36

107. Concrete, March 2003, pp.16–18: Foster + Partners website: AD, Nov/Dec 2005,

pp.107–11: AJ, 30 June 2005, supplement, pp.28–9

108. AJ, 5 Feb 2007, p.?

109. AJ, 26 Nov 2009, p.?; 18 Oct 2010, p.?: www.haworthtompkins.com

110. WP

CHAPTER 4 (pp.##–##)

Nine Elms

http://www.msrmrarchitects.co.uk/

Draft


1. TNA, C112/207: Walpole Society, vol.48, 1980–2, pp.76–7

2. Edwards, pt 1, p.21: LMA, SC/PZ/BT/10/29, 37: Daily Advertiser, 8 Nov 1742:

WHS, cutting

3. SOX 270: Gazetteer & London Daily Advertiser, 24 April 1759: LMA,

SC/PZ/BT/10/29; B/NTG/1702–3, 1706–7

4. TNA, PROB11/1701

5. SOX 514: Daily Journal, 9 April 1734: Morning Chronicle, 16 April 1773

6. SOX 514: Public Advertiser, 3 June 1760: Gazetteer & London Daily Advertiser, 12 Aug

1762: Corris: LA, I/13255: The Times, 14 Aug 1858, p.11

7. LMA, B/NTG/1598, 1602–8, 1611, 1612: Lloyds Evening Post, 17–19 Dec 1792:

General Evening Post, 6–7 April 1793

8. LMA, B/NTG/1613–50

9. LMA, B/NTG/1615–23; MBW/OW/BP/1: LA, I/12229

10. LMA, B/NTG/1653–91: MBW Mins, 2 May 1862; 17 March 1863, p.336; 13 Nov

1863, p.1020

11. Booth, 3rd series, vol.5, pp.150–3

12. B, 20 Aug 1887, p.287

13. Booth, 3rd series, vol.5, p.153: Andro Linklater, An Unhusbanded Life, 1980, pp.44,

58–73: Margaret Mulvihill, Charlotte Despard, 1989, pp.36–70, 131–3: ODNB

14. LMA, GLC/MA/SC/1/10: BBC Mins, 28 Feb 1934, pp.224–5

15. WP: Brick Bulletin, Summer 1989, pp.20–1

16. TNA, WORK16/9/5

17. LA, I/13250–61: LMA, B/NTG/1709–34: WHS, BP/6/5/140, 265: MBW Mins, 2

May 1862, p.335, 13 March 1863, p.280: WH, no. 73, 2001, pp.13–14

18. CERC, ECE 7/1/430

19. Bailey 1980

20. Ibid., pp.10–11: WHS, misc. deeds, boxes S1, S3, X17, X43

21. Bailey 1980, pp.12–13

22. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes S1, S3, S4: St James’s Chronicle, 9–12 July 1796: Bailey

1980, pp.10–13

23. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/1228: LA, I/11452: Simmonds, p.10

24. Bailey 1980, pp.10–13

25. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/887–903: WHS, D2/31; misc. deeds, box X1;

Draft


BP/6/5/101–7, 429

26. B, 14 April 1866, p.276; 8 Sept 1883, p.339: Bailey 1980, p.32: Simmonds, p.11

27. BBC Mins, 31 March 1920, pp.335–7; 29 Sept 1920, p.180; 22 March 1921, p.359; 21

Dec 1921, p.210

28. LCC Mins, 30 July 1935, pp.247–8; 3 Nov 1936, p.308; 23 Feb 1937, pp.220–1; 8 Feb

1938, p.97; 29 March 1938, pp.426–7; 8 Nov 1938, pp.337–8: WBC Mins, 18 March

1969, p.51

29. LMA, GLC/AR/PL/17/4–5; GLC/AR/BR/26/BA/H/25/BA: LCC Mins, 21 Jan

1958, p.22; 21 June 1960, pp.421–2; 14 Nov 1961, pp.730–1: Industrialised Building

Systems and Components, Oct–Dec 1963, pp.27–8

30. WBC Mins, 22 June 1971, p.24; 21 Dec 1971, pp.81–4; 10 Oct 1972, p.75; 22 March

1977, pp.iii–iv (housing): WBN, 27 June 1986, p.18: Information from Roland Lloyd-

Thomas

31. WP: websites

32. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/1272–9

33. Simmonds, p.8

34. WHS, D2/1, 11; misc. deeds, Box X1: BV Mins, 12 Oct 1843: LA, I/9765: Census:

Morning Post, 3 Jan 1854, p.7

35. WHS, D2/9: MBW Mins, 27 Nov 1863, p.1080; 22 April 1864, p.450; 16 Jan 1865,

p.102: LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/83–95

36. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/26–8, 251–62, 879–86: MBW Mins, 3 May 1861,

p.332; 31 May 1861, p.398; 21 June 1861, p.447; 4 March 1864, p.284; 6 May 1864, p.513

37. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/39–48, 1272–1311

38. SOX 514: The Times, 9 Sept 1872, p.10; 30 Oct 1872, p.11

39. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/51–80, 96–110, 601–25: WHS, BP/6/5/ 335, 398,

463, 648: H. J. Dyos, Victorian Suburb, 1966, p.105

40. MBW Mins, 14 May 1880, p.713; 16 July 1880, p.100; 8 April 1881, p.647: WHS,

BP/6/5/851

41. WHS, BP/6/5/536, 1861: B, 10 March 1877, p.252

42. ABN, 20 Dec 1956, p.816

43. John O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better, 1998, p.100

44. LCC Mins, 17 Dec 1946, p.805

45. Ibid., 17 May 1949, p.304; 22 Nov 1949, p.707; 4 April 1950, p.163: AJ, 28 Feb 1952,

Draft


pp.275–9

46. LMA, LCC/HSG/PP80

47. LCC Mins, 20 June 1950, p.368; 19 Dec 1950, p.762; 19 June 1951, p.393; 23 Oct

1951, p.620; 27 May 1952, p.28; 14 July 1953, pp.360–1; 15 Dec 1953, p.656: ABN, 1

March 1956, pp.212–13

48. LCC Mins, 3 July 1951, p.422; 29 June 1954, p.391; 21 Jan 1958, p.27; 30 June 1959,

p.455; 14–15 July 1959, p.516: GLC Mins, 21 Oct 1969, p.575: GLC, Housing Service

Handbook, 1970, p.122

49. LCC Mins, 3 Nov 1953, p.545; 18 May 1954, p.320

50. Ibid., 13 July 1954, p.479; 7 Feb 1956, p.23: AJ, 12 May 1955, pp.639–40; 7 May 1959,

pp.701, 706–7: WP

51. www.thamescommunityfoundation.org.uk/…BatterseaNeedSurvey.pdf

52. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/13/171025; GLC/AR/PL/17/232: interview with Nicholas

Wood, November 2011

53. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes X7, X47

54. Keith Bailey, ‘Rabbit Hutch Row Battersea’, unpublished paper, 2010: Edward

Ezard, Battersea Boy, 1979, p.89: Census

55. WHS, misc. deeds, box X7: WH, no.73, 2001, pp.10–12

56. BBC Mins, 28 Feb 1934, pp.224–5; 2 Jan 1935, p.174; 27 Feb 1935, p.221; 24 April

1935, p.13; 19 June 1935, p.13; 19 June 1935, p.58; 2 Oct 1935, p.105; 27 Nov 1935,

p.155

57. MBW Mins, 6 Nov 1863, p.462; 8 Jan 1864, p.79; 17 July 1868, p.927; 5 March 1869,

p.295: LA, I/4685: Bailey 2012, p.??: WHS, misc. deeds, boxes G2, R1, X6, X37 & X51;

BP/6/5/95–6, 128, 374, 423, 465

58. GLC Mins, 24 Oct 1967, pp.60–8: WBC Mins, 7 Feb 1968, pp.43–4; 12 May 1970,

pp.50–1: www.henley-homes.co.uk

59. IR58/88169/108–18


Park Town and District

http://www.henley-homes.co.uk/

Draft


1. WH, no.85, 2007, pp.1–6: TNA, C5/564/72; C5/563/76

2. WHS, misc. deeds, box S1: Corris: Morning Chronicle, 8 May 1795

3. Whitehall Evening Post, 22–24 Jan 1795

4. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19413, Flower v LCDR, 9 Nov 1863: WHS, misc. deeds, box

X54: Metcalf, p.20

5. PA, HC/CL/PB/2/31/28, evidence of R. H. Tolcher, 11 March 1863

6. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19410, MS19413: 26 & 27 Vic, c.xlvi: PA,

HC/CL/PB/2/31/28

7. LMA, ACC/2937/25

8. Metcalf, p.52

9. LMA, ACC/2937/25

10. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19410; MS19412, 25, 29 Aug, 4 & 7 Sept 1863

11. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19413, Flower v LCDR, 9 Nov 1863

12. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19410

13. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19411; MS19412, 7, 12 & 17 Dec 1863; MS19413, Flower v

LCDR, 9 Nov 1863

14. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19412, 30 April 1864; MS19413, Flower v LBSCR, 14 Feb

1865; GLC/MA/SC/1/24

15. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19416, 18 June 1864; 24 June 1871; particulars of leases

16. Census: LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19416, 18 June 1864

17. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19412, 22 March 1864; MS19416, 24 June 1871, building

agreements and particulars of leases

18. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19412, 27 Feb 1864; MS19414; MS19416, 25 July 1864:

Survey of London, vol.37, 1973, p.256

19. London Gazette, 24 April 1868: ODNB

20. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19415/1; MS19416, 19 Aug 1867 and particulars of leases:

WHS, BP/6/5/47, 61: BDA 92: Metcalf, p.35: MBW Mins, 16 March 1866, p.351

21. Metcalf, pp.35, 54, 55, Plate 4b: LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19415/1

22. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19412, 2 Oct 1865; MS19416, 22 Dec 1865; 24 June 1871;

building agreements

23. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19416, 11 Feb 1869; MS19421/2, 25 Jan 1879

24. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19410, account with Muspratt & Co; MS19415/1; MS19416,

Draft


4 March 1869, 24 June 1871; MS19418, Knowles accounts, 29 June 1869: Census

25. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19412, 17 Feb 1869; MS19414/5; MS19416, 24 June 1871:

Census for Wales, 1871: DSR

26. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/12, 25 Aug 1887

27. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19415/2; MS19416, 14 March 1867 & 4 July 1867, and

particulars of leases: TNA, C16/640/F79: Census

28. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19415/2; MS19416 passim; ACC/3445/PT/05/05/01

29. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19415/1; MS19416, 29 April 1867

30. Census: Keith Bailey, ‘Park Town Estate, Battersea, in 1871’, Transactions of the

London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, vol.33, 1982, pp.392–8

31. SLP, 16 July 1870, p.4: LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/1, 26 July 1872;

ACC/2937/25, first schedule

32. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/25, 10 Sept 1901

33. Constance Battersea, Reminiscences, 1922, p.172

34. Ibid., p.173

35. LMA, ACC/2937/25, first schedule; CLC/B/173/MS19414/7

36. Susan Weber Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott, Thomas Jeckyll Architect and

Designer, 1827–1881, 2003, pp.48–53

37. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/3, 8 March 1875

38. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19396/3, 14 Nov 1879

39. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19418, Motley Street papers; MS19395/3; MS19395/6, 11

Oct 1878: DSR

40. LMA, SC/GL/PTE/B7

41. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19396/1, 6 July 1877

42. LMA, SC/GL/PTE/B13–15, 25, 30; CLC/B/173/MS19396/1–3: DSR

43. B, 22 Feb 1873, p.156

44. MBW Mins, 28 May 1869, p.649

45. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/4–5; MS19414/9; SC/GL/PTE/B3, 5, 18, 20–24, 26–

29, 44–5, 47, 59: MBW Mins, 18 May 1877, p.740: DSR

46. Metcalf, Plate 9: LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/4: DSR

47. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19414/7; SC/GL/PTE/B54: DSR

48. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19421/2, 16 & 27 June 1879; SC/GL/PTE/B43: DSR

49. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19421/2, 9 Oct 1879

Draft


50. DSR: BDA 2145, 2227

51. Census

52. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/7, Nov 1881: MS19396/4 passim; MS19421/2–3

passim; MS19421/4, 1 June 1881, MS19421/5, 11 Dec 1882

53. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19410; MS19416, 24 June 1871

54. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/5; MS19396/1; MS19421/1

55. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19421/2, 23 April 1879; SC/GL/PTE/B27

56. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19421/1, 1 Aug & 11 Sept 1878; MS19421/2, 20 & 26 May,

7 June 1879; MS19423/1, 8 Aug & 13 Sept 1878

57. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19396/2, 9 April 1879; MS19421/2, 22 July, 14 Aug, 17 Sept

& 25 Oct 1879

58. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19421/1, 7

59. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19421/2, 12 & 24 Dec 1879; MS19421/4, 20 Jan 1881

60. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19421/4, 28 March 1881

61. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/3, 28 July 1875; MS19395/4, 3 April & 26 May 1876;

MS19395/6, 3 & 13 June 1878; MS19421/2, 6 Aug 1879

62. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19423/1, 22 Oct 1878; MS19423/2, 5 & 7 Aug 1879

63. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19418, Robertson Street houses envelope, 12 Sept 1888;

MS19421/9, Oct 1885; MS19423/3, 14 April 1879; MS19395/23, 1 June 1899

64. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19396/1; MS19396/2, Feb 1879

65. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19396/1, 14 June 1877; MS19396/3, 21 & 28 Oct 1880;

MS19396/4, Feb–April 1881

66. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/12, 26 Nov 1887; MS19395/13, 23 Feb 1888

67. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19421/1, Feb 1879; MS19423/2, Jan 1879: MBW Mins, 7

Feb 1879, p.229

68. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19418, Montefiore Street envelope; SC/GL/PTE/B33, 36–

38, 46 & 47, C18, 24: DSR

69. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19397; MS19421/6, July 1883; SC/GL/PTE/B49: MBW

Mins, 9 Nov 1883, p.717, 30 July 1886, p.262

70. L. T. C. Rolt, Holloways of Millbank, The First Seventy-Five Years, 1958: ODNB

71. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19418, Holloway Brothers, Queen’s Road bundle; Victoria

House & Hall envelope: WHS, misc. deeds, box Q2

72. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19414/11; MS19418, Holloway Brothers bundles: B, 27

Draft


Sept 1884, p.445

73. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/11, 6 Jan & 30 March 1886; MS19395/14, Dec 1888,

Jan 1889

74. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/10–11, 13; MS19415/1; MS19418, agreements with

Walter Peacock, 1882–3; MS19421/8, July 1885: WHS, misc. deeds, box Q2

75. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/12, 18–20; MS19415/1; MS19418, agreement with

Walter Peacock, 20 June 1883; MS19421/6, Dec 1883: MBW Mins, 29 Feb 1884, p.410:

WHS, BP/6/5/861: DSR

76. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/12, 29 April 1887; MS19421/8, March–Oct 1885

77. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/12, 10 Jan 1887; MS19418, building agreements,

1897–1903

78. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/7, 26 Nov 1881; MS19421/4, 21 Nov 1881;

MS19421/5, 27 Dec 1882

79. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/7, 26 May 1881

80. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/11, Dec 1886; MS19395/12, Sept & Oct 1887;

19395/13, 27 Nov 1888; SC/GL/PTE/B36, 38 & 46

81. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19418

82. Ibid., ‘sundries, cottages and flats’ envelope; SC/GL/PTE/B39, C3

83. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19418, Robertson Street houses envelope;

SC/GL/PTE/C34 C3, 34

84. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19432/1; MS19395/25, 11 March 1901

85. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19418, 22 Queen’s Square envelope

86. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes Q1, Q2

87. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/22, Dec 1898; MS19395/23–5; MS19418, building

agreements, 21 June 1899, 1 July 1903; SC/GL/PTE/C36

88. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19432/1; SC/GL/PTE/C17, 25, 31, 37

89. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19395/12, Aug–Oct 1887

90. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19394, sale particulars: Charles S. Dunbar, Tramways in

Wandsworth and Battersea [1971], pp.3–4, 23

91. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19418

92. Census: Metcalf, p.46

93. LMA, ACC/3445/PT/05/05/01: Metcalf, p.46

94. LMA, LCC/AR/TP/2/227: LCC Mins, 30 Oct 1962, p.801

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95. BBC Mins, 25 April 1951, p.7; 28 Nov 1951, pp.235, 239; 21 Jan 1962, pp.223, 227;

24 Oct 1962, p.158

96. WBC Mins, 18 Nov 1967, pp.33–4; 15 Dec 1970, pp.29–30; 23 March 1971, pp.18–

19; 21 Dec 1971, pp.38–9; 25 July 1972, p.100; 12 Feb 1973, p.33; 11 Feb 1975, pp.18–19

97. Metcalf, pp.46–7: LMA, Acc/3445/PT/10/05/01, 18: WBN, 19 Jan 1979, p.3: SWS,

9 Feb 1979, p.57: WP

98. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes G1, G2, X20, X54, X66: Census

99. LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19423/2, 19 March 1879: DSR

100. LCC Mins, 16 Oct 1962, p.658; 30 Oct 1962, p.801


Battersea Park Road to Latchmere Road

1. LA, I/4641, 4643, 4648: WHS, misc. deeds, boxes D1, X12, X23: Bailey 2010, pp.31–

40

2. WHS, misc. deeds, box X20: DSR: POD

3. Census

4. LMA, ACC/2385/1/968

5. {need LMA ref} Cubitt leasebook, no. 3, St James’s Grove, pp.316–19: WHS, misc.

deeds, boxes S2, X20: LA, I/4671, 4677: Census

6. The Era, 5 April 1868: The Standard, 5 Jan 1870, p.1

7. AJ, 24 Nov 1938, pp.852, 868

8. Except where otherwise indicated, this list is based on WHS, misc. deeds & plans

in class BP/6/5: Bailey 2012, pp.??–? & Bailey 2010, pp.37–44: MBW Mins 1862–79:

DSR: information from Keith Bailey

9. LA, I/4680: B, 18 March 1865, p.200

10. LMA, P70/SAV/129

11. CERC, ECE 40813

12. {LMA ref needed} Cubitt leasebook no. 3, pp.358–9, 380–402

Draft


13. LA, I/4679

14. LA, I/13257: WH, no.73, Spring 2001, p.13

15. {LMA ref} Cubitt leasebook no.3, pp.316–9: LA, I/4671

16. WP

17. IR58/88266/5034–70

18. IR58/88245/2952–62

19. The Era, 5 April 1868: IR58/88245/2962; 88267/5147–66: BBC Mins, 26 Jan 1927,

p.245; 27 April 1927, p.12; 28 Sept 1927, p.122

20. BV Mins, 11 Dec 1884, 14 May 1885

21. Ibid.

22. BV Mins, 11 Feb, 13 May, 14 Oct, 11 Nov 1886

23. The Times, 21 June 1888, p.10

24. David Englander, ‘The Workmen’s National Housing Council’, MA thesis,

University of Warwick, 1973: English Heritage, Blue Plaques File no.2241

25. Anthony S. Wohl, The Eternal Slum, 1977, p.325: BV Mins, 10 May 1899

26. BV Mins, 27 July 1898: BBC Mins, 13 Feb 1901

27. BBC Mins, 21 Dec 1900: Wohl, p.278

28. BBC Housing Committee Mins, 29 Nov 1901

29. Ibid., 8 Nov 1901; 29 Nov 1901: BBC Mins, 9 Oct, 29 Nov 1901: W. Thompson,

Housing of the Working Classes with a Description of the Richmond Municipal Cottages,

1899

30. BBC Mins, 12 Feb 1902; BBC Housing Committee Mins, 7, 14 Feb 1902

31. BBC Housing Committee Mins, 29 Nov 1901

32. RIBA Journal, vol.67, 1959, p.29: RIBA, Dictionary of British Architects 1834–1914,

vol.2, pp.644, 940: Susan Beattie, A Revolution in London Housing, 1980, p.106

33. BBC Housing Committee Mins, 2 May 1902: BBC Mins, 9 May 1902: RIBA,

Dictionary of British Architects 1834–1914, vol.1, p.585: Census

34. BBC Housing Committee Mins, 2, 9 May 1902

35. B, 26 April 1902, pp.416–17; 10 May 1902, p. 474; 17 May 1902, pp.500, 503; 24

May 1902, p.522; 31 May 1902, p.542: Wandsworth Museum, Latchmere housing

estate drawings, 1903

36. ‘The County of London Electric Supply Company, Limited’, The Electrical

Magazine and Engineering Monthly, vol.3 (1905), p.557: BBC Mins, 11 Feb 1903

Draft


37. BBC Housing Committee Mins, 31 Jan 1902: Patent no.16871, August 1901: James

Cornes, Modern Housing in Town and Country, 1905, pp.45-7: Contract Journal, 30 May

1906, Supplement, p.4

38. WH, no.80, 2005, pp.1–5

39. SWS, 3 Aug 1903, p.6: BBC Mins, 27 July 1904; 11 Jan 1905

40. WHS, Latchmere Estate Opening Ceremony booklet; B, 8 Aug 1903, p.166: SWS, 3

Aug 1903, p.6: Meacham, p.62

41. BBC Housing Committee Mins, 11 Dec 1903: BBC Mins, 1903–8 passim

42. LCC, Annual Report, 1905–6, pp.74, 261: BBC Housing Committee Mins, 1919–21

passim: Wandsworth Museum, drawings for completion of Latchmere estate, 1920–2

43. Latchmere Estate: Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Strategy, 2007

44. WP

45. BBC Mins, 24 May 1933, p.45; 28 Feb 1934, pp.224–5; 28 June 1934, pp.61–2; 1 Jan

1936, p.177: LCC Mins, 4 Feb 1936, pp.43–4

46. BBC Mins, 1 March 1944, p.162; 3 Oct 1945, pp.96–7; 2 Jan 1946, pp.157–8; 27

March 1946, pp.222–3

47. Ibid., 26 Nov 1947, p.195; 23 Feb 1949, p.327; 29 June 1949, p.38; 19 July 1950,

p.128; 30 Jan 1952, p.299; 31 Dec 1952, p.215; 28 Jan 1953, p.244

48. Ibid., 29 Jan 1947, pp.298–9; 23 July 1947, p.104

49. Ibid., Nov 1947–Jan 1953 passim: Official Architecture and Planning, Dec 1953,

pp.576–80: WHS, plans of 203–217 Battersea Park Road

50. BBC Mins, March 1951–Oct 1959 passim: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/26/BA/H/4/BA/1;

GLC/AR/BR/13/170917

51. BBC Mins, 23 March 1955, pp.312–3; 23 Oct 1957, p.186; 23 Oct 1959, p.159

52. Ibid., 26 Sept 1962, p.125; 19 June 1963, p.60; 17 Nov 1965, p.72; 9 Feb 1966, p.92:

Surveyor and Municipal Engineer, 3 July 1965, p.41: AJ, 29 April 1987, p.34: LMA,

GLC/AR/BR/26/BA/H/4/BA/1

53. BBC Mins, 28 Sept 1960, pp.125–6: WBC Mins, 9 June 1965, p.39; 21 July 1965,

p.13; 6 Oct 1965, p.67; 22 Dec 1965, p.54: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/26/BA/H/4/BA/1

54. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/26/BA/H/4/BA/1: BBC Mins, 25 March 1964, pp.309–10;

24 June 1964, p.53; 23 Sept 1964, p.121; 21 Oct 1964, p.153; 16 Dec 1964, p.203

55. BBC Mins, 27 Jan 1965, p.225; 24 Feb 1965, p.265; 31 March 1965, p.281: WBC

Mins, 9 June 1965, pp.33–4; 21 July 1965, pp.58–9

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56. WBC Mins, 23 March 1966, pp.56–7; 15 June 1966, pp.69–74; 5 Oct 1966, pp.86–7:

SWS, 17 June 1966, p.7: Building, 24 June 1966, pp.109–10

57. WBC Mins, 26 July 1967, pp.59–60; 24 April 1968, pp.77–8: SWS, 10 May 1967, p.7

58. WBC Mins, 30 July 1968, p.37; 18 March 1969, p.45

59. Ibid., Feb 1970–May 1975 passim: SWS, 6 Feb 1970, p.1; 29 Dec 1972, p.1: AJ, 21 July

1971, pp.168–9: Private Eye, 15 Dec 1972, p.25: WHS, 728.2 DOD (typescript on

Doddington Estate)

60. WBC Mins, 27 March 1973, pp.35–7; 7 Dec 1976, pp.211–12, 220: SLP, 9 Sept 1977,

p.2: SWS, 6 Oct 1972, p.1: WBN, 13 July 1979, p.7: WHS, 362.7, misc: Greater London

Arts Newsletter, Feb 1974

61. WBC Mins, 24 Feb 1984, p.1: AJ, 29 April 1987, p.32

62. SLP, 11 June 1985, p.4; 21 June 1985, p.6: AJ, 29 April 1987, pp.32–5; 19 Oct 1988,

pp.81–2: WBN, 7 Dec 1990, p.4: Building, 15 March 1991, pp.12–14 (Building Homes

supplement): www.paulahaughney.co.uk

63. AJ, 29 April 1987, p.34

64. BBC Mins, 26 May 1954, p.40; 26 Jan 1955, p.260; 15 July 1959, pp.75, 80; 21 Dec

1960, p.223

65. Ibid., 16 Dec 1959, pp.208–9; 5 May 1961, p.12; 26 Feb 1964, p.275; 21 Oct 1964,

p.157: WBC Mins, 21 July 1965, p.12; 6 Oct 1965, p.7; 22 Dec 1965, p.77; 14 June 1967,

p.3; 7 Feb 1968, pp.65–6: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/26/BA/H/4/BA/1

66. WBC Mins, 25 Sept 1973, pp.12–14; 15 July 1975, p.48: LMA,

GLC/AR/BR/26/BA/H/4/BA/2: WP

67. BBC Mins, 24 June 1964, pp.54–5

68. WBC Mins, Feb 1966–July 1971 passim

69. The Surveyor, 26 July 1969, p.43: B, 1 Dec 1972, pp.67–9: International Asbestos-

Cement Review, Jan 1974, pp.13–15

70. WP: www.bailygarner.co.uk


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Falcon Road to the Poyntz Road Triangle

1. SOX 255; SOX 347; SOX 354: Sir Ronald Ross, Memoirs, 1923: London Gazette, 5 July

1788: www.oldbaileyonline

2. WHS, Spencer sales catalogues: TNA, PROB11/1976

3. Colvin, p.727

4. POD: Census: TNA, PROB11/1731: WHS, misc. deeds, box X27: M. O. James, ‘The

Glovemakers of Battersea, with particular reference to the glovers of the Fownes

Glove Company, 1777–1900’, M. Phil., Kingston University, 2004: WH, no.76, Spring

2003, pp.1–4

5. RIBA Archives, PoFam 1/5, pp.51–6: Survey of London, vol.41, 1983, pp.28–30:

Bailey 1995, pp.262–6: Loobey 2002, pp.33–4

6. Census: DSR

7. WHS, misc. deeds, box K1: Diocesan Archives, RC Archdiocese of Southwark,

Battersea West box

8. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/1060, 1075: WHS, BP/6/5/427; misc. deeds,

boxes X32, X46, X57: MBW Mins, 6 Oct 1865, p.1108: Census

9. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/219, 1013, 1026, 1037, 1041

10. RIBA Archives, PoFam 1/5, pp.51–6: LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/179, 182,

191–2, 201, 205, 213, 222, 385, 391, 400, 406, 1046, 1052, 1055: WHS, misc. deeds, boxes

X15, X26, X32; BP/6/5/887

11. WHS, local enquiry file: WP

12. R. A. Williams, The London & South Western Railway, vol.1, 1968, pp.166–7

13. DSR: Bailey 2012, p.??: Morning Chronicle, 10 Aug 1855: Simmonds, p.141: Census

14. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes L2, X6, X10, X24, X26: DSR

15. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/579, 587, 1238–9, 1249, 1251–3, 1258: DSR

16. RIBA Archives, PoFam 1/5, pp.55–6: The Times, 27 April 1923, p.9; 2 May 1923,

p.17

17. MBW Mins, 19 Nov 1869, p.1206; 1 April 1870, p.370; 29 April 1870, p.481; 27 May

1870, p.534: WHS, misc. deeds, box X24

18. Deeds of 90 Knowsley Road, communicated by Maureen Larkin: WHS, misc.

deeds, boxes B5, X24, X29: DSR

19. Poyntz Road Triangle Residents’ Association Report, April 1974, kindly

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communicated by Maureen Larkin

20. DSR: WHS, BP/6/5/1237: MBW Mins, 11 June 1886, p.1136

21. WHS, misc. deeds, box X51: MBW Mins, 23 Nov 1866, p.1458; 11 Oct 1878, p.462;

18 Oct 1878, p.469: DSR

22. WHS, BP/6/5/619, 673: MBW Mins, 5 July 1878, p.45; 22 Nov 1878, p.695: LMA,

MBW/BA/25975; LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/263–310, 317–28, 1095–1110

23. WHS, BP/6/5/316: Bailey 2008, p.34

24. WHS, BP/6/5/712, 774, 1052; misc. deeds, boxes K1, X9, X66: MBW Mins, 25

April 1879, p.597; 9 May 1879, p.665; 23 April 1880, p.575

25. LCC Mins, 21 Jan 1896, p.36: POD

26. DSR: WHS, misc. deeds, boxes K1, S3, X2, X12, X27, X31

27. SWS, 26 Jan 1973, p.1

28. LMA, GLC/MA/SC/3/421–2; GLC/HG/B/2/70; GLC/AR/PL/17/102: LCC

Mins, 10 May 1955, pp.238–9; 14 May 1957, p.261; 2 Jan 1958, p.30; 3 Feb 1959, p.57;

28 Nov 1961, p.789

29. WBC Mins, 22 June 1971, p.22

30. Ibid., 12 May 1970, pp.38–41; 22 June 1971, p.34; 14 Nov 1972, pp.15–17; 25 June

1974, p.1

31. WP


North of Clapham Junction

1. MBW Mins, 10 Aug 1866, p.1140

2. LA, I/4619, 4621: SOX 272: WHS, misc. deeds, box X45

3. CERC, ECE 7/1/48709

4. LMA, B/CHE/143, 153: WHS, MBB/3/1/3, 70, 102; misc. deeds, boxes L4, X24,

X26, X29, X45

5. Daily News, 28 Sept 1892, p.5

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6. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes X10, X30, X36, X58: DSR

7. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes I1, X12, X22, X39, X44: Bailey 1995, p.210

8. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes M1, P1, X39: MBW Mins, 10 June 1864, p.646

9. WHS, MBB/3/1/3; BP/6/5/426

10. WHS, misc. deeds, box X46: The Times, 22 May 1865, p.14

11. WBN, 25 Nov 1938, p.2; 13 Nov 1953, p.3; 10 Sept 1971, pp.1–2: WHS,

MBB/3/1/4–5, 26; misc. deeds, boxes G1, G2, X24

12. WHS, BP/6/5/117–20, 182, 439; MBB/3/1/123: MBW Mins, 25 March 1870,

p.347; 22 April 1870, pp.442–3; 27 May 1870, p.585; Aug–Nov 1875, passim; 10 Nov

1876, p.553

13. MBW Mins, 4 May 1866, p. 614: WHS, misc. deeds, Boxes L1, X5, X16, X23, X30:

SOX 261(2)

14. LMA {ref?}, Cubitt leasebook no. 3, pp.305–7, 330–5, 364–79: WHS, MBB/3/1/44;

misc. deeds, boxes I1, X2, X20, X31

15. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes K1, X21, X23, X63, X66

16. WHS, BP/6/5/780; misc. deeds, boxes X13, X18, X23, X45: DSR: B, 6 Oct 1883,

p.465

17. James Redvers Guttridge, typescript autobiography in WHS, n.d, pp.2–5, 19

18. Census: William Kent, John Burns: Labour’s Lost Leader, 1950, p.259

19. LPL, ICBS 7897: LMA, P70/PET/40

20. Booth collection, B294, pp.103–20

21. SWS, 13 April 1889, p.2

22. www.beerintheevening.com

23. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes M3, M4

24. LMA, DR/OP/12


26. BBC Mins, 22 Nov 1933, p.159; 24 Jan 1934, p.21; 28 Nov 1934, p.152; 15 July 1936,

pp.84–6; 28 Dec 1936, p.186

27. Ibid., Feb 1955–Jan 1958 passim

28. Ibid., Dec 1955–March 1961 passim

29. Ibid., 25 Jan 1956, p.275; 18 Nov 1959, p.192

30. Ibid., 17 Dec 1958, p.215; 17 June 1959, p.45; 25 May 1960, pp.48–9, 51; 22 June

1960, p.45; 20 July 1960, p.93

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31. Ibid., 5 May 1961, p.13; 31 May 1961, p.35; 26 July 1961, p.90

32. Ibid., 24 Oct 1962, pp.161–2: SWS, 12 March 1965, p.1: AJ, 30 Nov 1966, pp.1339–58

33. SWS, 22 Jan 1965, p.1: Interbuild, Sept 1965, pp.29–33; AJ, 30 Nov 1966, pp.1347,

1350: AR, xxx 1967, p.376

34. WBC Mins, 22 Dec 1965, pp.52–3

35. SWS, 30 March 1962, p.1

36. WBC Mins, June 1966–July 1972 passim: WHS, Winstanley Estate Tenants

Association Journal, 1966–7: Tony Gibson, People Power, 1979, pp.38–51: SWS, 2 May

1982, p.5

37. WBC Mins, 22 March 1967, pp.65–70; 4 May 1971, pp.1–2; 8 Feb 1972, pp.8–9; 25

July 1972, p.100: SWS, 2 Feb 1968, p.7

38. B, 12 Oct 1973, pp.111–13

39. SLP, 11 June 1985, p.4: B, 2 May 1986, p.12: The Guardian, 7 June 1986

40. BBC Mins, 25 Sept 1963, p.107; 18 Dec 1963, pp.208–9; 25 March 1964, p.304

41. Ibid., 27 Jan 1965, p.232: WBC Mins, 21 July 1965, pp.69–70

42. WBC Mins, 6 Oct 1965, p.7; 22 March 1967, pp.65–70; 4 Oct 1967, p.2; 18 Nov 1967,

pp.4–5: WBN, 10 Nov 1967, p.2: SWS, 3 May 1968, p.5: The Surveyor, 3 May 1968,

pp.34, 34A: Industrialised Building Systems and Components, June 1968, p.59

43. WBC Mins, 11 Nov 1969, pp.18–20; 15 Dec 1970, pp.85–6; 21 March 1972, pp.13–

14; 25 July 1972, p.100; 14 Nov 1972, p.17: WBN, 23 Oct 1970, p.2

44. WBN, 23 Oct 1970, p.2

45. WBC Mins, 9 Feb 1971, pp.8–9; 23 March 1971, p.4; 27 July 1971, pp.7–8; 27 March

1973, p.8

46. Ibid., 16 Nov 1971, pp.22–4

47. Ibid., 29 May 1973, p.51; 7 Dec 1976, pp.4–5; 19 July 1977: SLP, 26 Aug 1977, p.41

48. WP

49. Besant, p.165

50. SLP, 28 Jan 1983, p.3: WBN, 26 Feb 1988, p.7

51. This list is based on: SLP, 6 Dec 1988, p.3: WBN, 10 March 1989, p.2: WP: SW

Magazine, Feb 2008, p.128

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West of Plough Road

1. Taylor, p.265: SOX 198

2. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes X33, X47: LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/1518, 1523,

1530: DSR

3. This paragraph is based largely on WHS, misc. deeds: LMA,

LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70 passim

4. WHS, misc. deeds, box X58: WBN, 27 July 1990, p.6: WP

5. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes P1, P2: MBW Mins, 2 July 1858, p.461; 31 July 1863, p.770

6. J. Herbert Tritton, Tritton: the Place and the Family, 1907, pp.256, 272: MBW Mins, 27

Sept 1867, p.1131: WHS, BP/6/5/235, 253; misc. deeds, boxes H1, X35, X55: DSR

7. BBC Mins, 24 March 1920, p.323; 21 Jan 1922, p.61; 25 April 1923, pp.12–13; 18 July

1923, p.90; 24 Oct 1923, pp.148–9: BBC, Housing Committee Mins, 2 Feb 1923; 29 June

1923; 1 Feb 1924

8. B, 23 Dec 1927, pp.974, 982: BBC Mins, 22 Jan 1924, p.225

9. BBC Mins, Oct 1924–May 1928 passim: B, 23 Dec 1927, pp.974, 982

10. Ibid., 23 March 1927, p.295; 22 June 1927, p.64; 20 July 1927, p.94; 2 Jan 1929, p.192

11. Ibid., June 1927–April 1937 passim

12. Ibid., 1 Jan 1955, p.43; 25 Jan 1956, p.274; 18 July 1956, p.98; 26 Sept 1956, p.133; 20

July 1960, p.114; 25 Oct 1961, p.157

13. LCC Mins, 2 Nov 1937, p.249; 14 Dec 1937, pp.603–4

14. Ibid., 30 July 1946, p.504; 3 Dec 1946, p.738; 17 Dec 1946, p.810; 16 Dec 1947, p.792;

13 July 1948, p.458: B, 3 June 1949, pp.680–5

15. Information kindly provided by David Walker

16. WHS, misc. deeds, box X33: WP: EH Archives, Aerofilms photographs

17. LCC Mins 6 April 1955, p.170: GLC Mins, 24 Oct 1967, p.609

18. LCC Mins, 4 July 1939, pp.36–7; 28 May 1946, p.321; 30 July 1946, p.502; 13 April

1949, p.229; 21 Nov 1950, pp.668–9

19. LMA, GLC/MA/SC/3/1669–70: GLC Mins, 11 March 1969, pp.116–17: WBC

Mins, 21 March 1972, pp.43–6; 10 July 1973, p.51: Clapham & Lambeth News, 28 March

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1975

20. GLC Mins, 13 May 1975, p.298: WP

21. WBC Mins, 16 Nov 1966, pp.67–70; 7 Feb 1968, pp.64–5; 24 April 1968, pp.72–4; 4

Feb 1969, pp.23–4; 9 Feb 1971, pp.42–3

22. SWS, 22 March 1974, p.1: WBC Mins, 25 July 1972, pp.129–30; 26 March 1974,

pp.38–9; 21 Oct 1975, p.17: Baumeister, Dec 1976, pp.1070–1

23. WP: www.higginsconstruction.co.uk: www.bptw.co.uk

CHAPTER 10 (pp.###–###)

Lavender Hill: Introduction

1. Daily Advertiser, 1 July 1774

2. John Hill, The Virtues of Honey, 1760 edn, p.40

3. The Times, 6 Oct 1819, p.1; 18 Jan 1820, p.1; 26 Feb 1829, p.3: Morning Post, 6 June

1820, p.1: Morning Chronicle, 25 Feb 1822, p.1: Census

4. Public Advertiser, 26 Sept 1785: James Malcolm, A Compendium of Modern Husbandry,

1805, vol.2, p.83

5. Morning Post, 21 Nov 1842

6. R. P. Ward, Sterling; or the Knight of St Swithin’s, 1839, pp.120–1

7. Ibid., p.183

8. ODNB: Sybil Oldfield, Jeanie, An ‘Army of One’, 2008, p.61

9. Daily News, 22 July 1859: Oldfield, p.77

10. RB: LA, I/IV/122/324: Batten, p.31

11. Essex Standard, 10 May 1850: Daily News, 21 May 1850: LA, I/IV/122/324: ODNB:

Census

12. Morning Post, 10 March 1815: TNA, PROB11/960: CASOS, no.164, Sept 1961:

Edwards, pt 1, p.21: RB

13. The Times, 25 March 1829, p.4; 15 Sept 1851, p.6; 22 June 1872, p.15: The Standard,

14 July 1837; 27 Sept 1839

http://www.higginsconstruction.co.uk/

http://www.bptw.co.uk/

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14. Morning Post, 23 June 1886, p.1: The Standard, 12 Feb 1887, p.8

15. Edwards, pt 1, p.21: The World, 9 Dec 1790: Public Advertiser, 8 Dec 1790: RB: The

Times, 1 April 1820, p.4

16. TNA, PROB11/1383, 1859: Morning Chronicle, 12 April 1802: RB

17. Sheffield & Rotherham Independent, 5 Sept 1871: Census: ODNB: Jill Allibone, George

Devey Architect 1820–1886, 1991, pp.133–4

18. The Era, 3 July 1897, 11 June 1898

19. LA, I/5537, 5538

20. European Magazine, vol.43, 1803, p.38: Census: RB: The Times, 9 May 1854, p.1:

Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 26 Jan 1856: ODNB

21. LA, I/13545, 15540: The Times, 9 May 1854, p.1: RB: POD

22. G. N. Wright, The Life and Reign of William the Fourth, 1837, p.228: John Watkins et

al, A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland, 1816,

p.362: Sporting Magazine, vol.25, 1805, p.345

23. www.christies.com: European Magazine, vol.43, 1803, p.38; July 1806, p.7:

Edwards, pt 1, p.22: Morning Chronicle, 7 Feb 1803

24. Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society of London, vol.1, 1831, p.138: RB: Census:

Morning Chronicle, 7 May 1859, p.5: POD: TNA, BT31/3469/21002

25. LA, 1/15537: David Laing, Plans of Buildings Public and Private, 1818, p.32

26. RB: www.historyandsocialaction.co.uk, ‘Slavery Profits & Compensation, Wealth

Creation and Land Ownership’

27. Buildings of Clapham, p.206: Ramsey, p.17: Taylor, p.289 (n.87)

28. TNA, J77/151/3499; C16/984/B25: Standard, 15 May 1875, p.6: General Register

Office: The Era, 10 Dec 1898, p.15: South Australian Register, 15 May 1868, p.3:

Birmingham Daily Post, 19 Jan 1877

29. WHS, WDBW/1/2/3, 17 April 1872: The Times, 28 April 1880, p.16

30. DSR: Census: Buildings of Clapham, p.206: WP

31. TNA, PROB11/960

32. LA, I/8817: Middlesex Journal, 25–27 July, 21–24 Sept 1771: Gentleman’s Magazine,

30 Oct 1771 {check page}; II{check date}, 1787, p.1128: Arthur Young, Annals of

Agriculture, and other useful arts, vol.40, 1803, p.507

33. Daily Advertiser, 13 May 1775: LA, I/8822

34. LA, I/8823

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35. TNA, PROB11/1116: Nottinghamshire Archives, DD/CW/7/3, 4

36. Morning Post, 9 May 1789: TNA, PROB11/1194

37. WHS, D41/2: ODNB: The Standard, 2 June 1849: Morning Post, 14 Feb 1866: RB:

Census

38. Andrew Saint, ‘Whatever Happened to Jonathan Carr?’, London Journal, vol.12,

no.1, Summer 1986, p.67: POD: Census

39. Morning Chronicle, 1 May 1828: RB: Examiner, vol.9, 1815, pp.717–18: The Standard,

7 Nov 1828: TNA, PROB11/1748: ODNB

40. WHS, D41/2

41. The Standard, 9 Aug, 6 Sept 1833; 8 Sept 1838, p.1: The Times, 31 Sept 1838, p.8:

LMA, MBW/BA/24355

42. LMA, MBW/BA/39263: WHS, BP/6/5/1684: TNA, BT31/7536/53683;

BT34/1366/53683: Morning Post, 2 Dec 1896, p.1; 9 Dec 1896, p.1

43. WHS, D41/2: Morning Chronicle, 26 Aug 1833: The Times, 8 Sept 1860, p.1

44. John Henry Brady, A New Pocket Guide to London and its Environs, 1838, p.145:

Census: St Luke’s Parish Magazine, May 1909

45. Daily Advertiser, 3 & 25 April, 10 & 13 May 1775: Gazetteer and New Daily

Advertiser, 5 April 1779: The Times, 28 Aug 1824, p.4; 7 Nov 1829, p.2: Morning Post, 8

July 1808: Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 13 July 1816: Edwards, pt 1, p.22

46. The Times, 9 March 1867, p.16: LMA, MBW/BA/29792: POD

47. WHS, BP/6/5/1684

48. Daily Advertiser, 28 February 1777

49. Morning Chronicle, 14 April 1802

50. Ibid., 12 April 1802: RB: London Gazette, 1–5 July 1788: Oracle & Public Advertiser, 16

Sept 1795: TNA, PROB11/2228: Morning Post, 28 June 1845; 3 June 1868: The Times, 15

Oct 1851, p.1: Census

51. The Standard, 24 Nov 1847, p.8: The Times, 15 May 1849, p.11: Census

52. Standard, 31 May 1890, p.8

53. Morning Chronicle, 12 April 1802; 26 June 1843; 7 Nov 1844: M. C. M. Simpson,

Many Memories of Many People, 1898, p.96: TNA, PROB11/1899: Daily News, 25 March

1847

54. The Times, 5 Sept 1865, p.8

55. Anny Thackeray Ritchie, ‘In My Lady’s Chamber’, Cornhill Magazine, June 1907,

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p.763, republished in From the Porch, 1913, pp.261–2

56. The Law Reports: Chancery Division, vol.2, 1891, p.144: Census

57. Census: WHS, misc. deeds, box X2(1): The Times, 26 Dec 1883, p.1; 8 Aug 1888,

p.12; 22 Feb 1895, p.13: Morning Post, 3 July 1893, p.4: Judy Middleton, A History of

Hove, 1979

58. Percy Melville Thornton, Some Things We Have Remembered, 1912, p.314: WHS,

misc. deeds, box X2(1)

59. The Times, 11 March 1848, p.10: LMA, MBW/BA/32843: IR58/88289/7359: WP

60. Corris: Jane Loudon, The Ladies’ Companion to the Flower-garden, 1849 edn, p.129

61. The Times, 28 Nov 1844, p.12: University of Wales, Bangor, online catalogue of

Pamplin Papers: Gardener’s Magazine, vol.7, 1831, p.98

62. The Times, 28 Nov 1844, p.12

63. Ibid., 10 March 1838, p.1: Census

64. Census

65. The Times, 6 Oct 1819, p.1: WHS, misc. deeds, box B1

66. The Era, 23 March 1851, p.6; 28 March 1852, p.7

67. Census: Morning Chronicle, 13 Sept 1848, p.8: BN, 12 Feb 1864, p.108

68. [W. S. Clarke], The Suburban Homes of London, 1881, p.319

69. Ibid., p.321

70. The Times, 8 June 1877, p.1

CHAPTER 11 (pp.###–###)

Development north of Lavender Hill

1. Morning Post, 15 Nov 1887, p.5: WH, no.71, Spring 2000, pp.3–4: Walter Crane, An

Artist’s Reminiscences, 1907, p.332: Bernard Shaw: the diaries, 1885–1897, ed. Stanley

Weintraub, 1986, p.??: The Era, 3 Dec 1887

2. WHS, misc. deeds, box B1: RB

3. Notes and Queries, 2nd series, VIII, 9 July 1859, p.36: Joseph Hunter, Familae

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Minorum Gentium, ed. John W. Clay, Harleian Society, vol. 37, 1894, MSS 9, 163: MBW

Mins, 13 July 1866, p.949; 27 Sept 1867, p.1133: WHS, BP/6/5/127, 258

4. OS of c.1874: The Standard, 1, 6 Nov 1872: IR58/88296

5. Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser, 4 Dec 1869, p.7:

Reynolds’s News, 13 Nov 1870

6. IR58/88295, 88296: B, 29 June 1878, p.683: LMA, MBW/BA/25547, 26267, 28357,

28461

7. WHS, misc, deeds, box B1: IR58/88295–7, 88308–9

8. LMA, B/THB/D/029: B, 24 May 1879, p.586; 31 Jan 1891, p.97

9. The Times, 4 Aug 1868, p.11; 13 May 1869, p.16: Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 22 Nov

1868: WHS, BP/6/5/817: RB

10. WHS, BP/6/5/127; misc. deeds, box B1: WP

11. Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 20 Dec 1868: The Times, 8 June 1877, p1; 1 Jan 1878, p.5;

18 Sept 1878, p.15; 26 April 1879, p.19; 28 Aug 1880, p.16: WHS, BP/6/5/817: Census:

Buildings of Clapham, pp.201–2

12. RB

13. LMA, B/BFY/074, ‘Some account of the old-established firm of Beaufoy & Co’,

nd, [1897–8], p.14: Simmonds, p.143: Tithe

14. Daily News, 29 April 1850, p.8: LMA, CLC/B/173/MS19410, p.1

15. Charles L. Graves, The Life and Letters of Sir George Grove, C.B., 1903, p.5

16. DSR

17. LCC Mins, 8 Nov 1893, p.1027: WHS, BP/6/5/1002

18. WH, no.68, Autumn 1997, pp.3, 5

19. DSR

20. WH, no.68, Autumn 1997, pp.6, 7: Pountney, p.3: IR58/88312, 88313: WHS, misc.

deeds, box B1: LMA, SC/GL/PTE/C31: DSR

21. IR58/88308/9295–9

22. WDBW, Building and Drainage Notices, Battersea, 3/11, 15; 4/69: DSR

23. DSR

24. Buildings of Clapham, p.201: POD: Census

25. Buildings of Clapham, p.201: DSR

26. POD: IR58/88290

27. WP: BBC Mins, 30 Dec 1949, p.250; 10 Oct 1953, p.133; 28 Oct 1953, pp.150–4

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28. TNA, HLG23/22279: WP

29. BBC Mins, 29 May 1946, p.41; 26 March 1947, p.359; 1 Oct 1947, p. 128; 23 June

1949, p.98; 29 March 1950, p.352: ABN, 30 July 1948, p.99

30. WBC Mins, 26 July 1967, pp.89–90; 18 Nov 1967, p.34; 12 Nov 1968, p.5; 18 March

1969, p.33; 7 Oct 1969, pp.20–1; 15 Dec 1970, p.34; 22 June 1971, p.17; 25 June 1974,

pp.17–20

31. Deed belonging to the Shaftesbury Club: The Times, 9 June 1866, p.16: WHS,

BP/6/5/186: MBW Mins, 18 Oct 1867, p.1232

32. WHS, BP/6/5/186, 219: for other street names and derivations see Bailey 2008

33. B, 26 March 1870, p.254

34. The Times, 26 Feb 1868, p.14

35. DSR: IR58/88294/7857–69; 88295/7958–72: WHS, misc. deeds, box G2

36. RB: Buildings of Clapham, p.202: Deed belonging to the Shaftesbury Club

37. LMA, DR/OP/4: RB

38. Bailey 1995, p.173: Census: RB: WHS, BP/6/5/942; misc. deeds, box X63

39. IR58/88289: WHS, BP/6/5/1491: POD

40. The Times, 26 Feb 1868, p.14: DSR: LMA, MBW/BA/27191: B, 28 June 1879, p.728

41. SLP, 25 Sept 1886: LA, Acc/IV/122/82, 20 Jan 1885: POD: IR58/88289/7373

42. ODNB

43. BBC Mins, 20 June 1951, p.86; 26 Sept 1956, p.136; 30 Jan 1963, p.235, 25 Sept 1963,

p.107, 26 Feb 1963, p.157; WBC Mins, 9 Feb 1963, p.93

44. WBC Mins, 18 Nov 1967, pp.32–3; 21 July 1970, p.81; 23 March 1971, pp.15–16; 27

July 1971, pp.16–18; 13 June 1972, pp.32–3; 26 March 1974, pp.1–7

45. LMA, MBW/BA/32843: Buildings of Clapham, p.202: DSR: POD: WHS, misc.

deeds, box X55

46. WP

47. BV Mins, passim, 1893–6; 27 April 1898; 25 Jan 1899: WHS, BP/1/1/27, 26 July

1899; BP/1/1/28; BBC Housing Committee Mins, 1901: Census

48. BBC Housing Committee Mins, 29 Jan 1901

49. Ibid., 11 Dec 1903; BBC Mins, 22 Feb 1905: DSR

50. BBC Mins, 22 Feb 1905: BBC Housing Committee Mins, 1991–21 passim

51. DSR: IR58/88290

52. Census: WHS, BP/6/8/1, 12 Aug 1863: MBW Mins, 25 Sept 1863, p.859: OS of

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c.1870

53. WHS, BP/6/5/599, 830: The Standard, 8 July 1879: MBW Mins, 9 Jan 1880, p.50:

Census

54. WP

55. WHS, BP/6/5/830: DSR: The Standard, 15 June 1895, p.15: IR58/88286: DSR

56. Census: IR58/88286/7089: TNA, J77/455/3859: Morning Post, 19 Oct 1888, p.3

57. IR58/88286/7090: WP: information from Peter Lavery

58. The Standard, 1 May 1888, p.8

59. DSR: WHS, D41/1, 2; misc. deeds, boxes D1, K1, L1, L3, X27, X36, X40: LMA,

LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/0362, 0363

60. IR58/88285: DSR

61. LMA, MBW/BA/38619, 38972

62. IR58/88288/7202

63. LMA, MBW/BA/39255

64. Census: LMA, MBW/BA/39255: DSR

65. LMA, MBW/BA/39255: B, 16 March 1889, p.213

66. WP

67. The Times, 30 March 1889, p.13

68. SWS, 20 Sept 1890, p.6

69. TNA, BT31/7119/50221: Reynolds’s Newspaper, 6 Dec 1896: BT Archives,

TPF/2/13/10

70. WP

71. Buildings of Clapham, p.206

72. IR58/88284: LMA, MBW/BA/39255: WP

73. WP: LCC Mins, 22 April 1890, p.335

CHAPTER 12 (pp.###–##)

Shaftesbury Park

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1. Census: Booth, B366, p.151: Artizans’ Dwellings Co. (hereafter ADC), 23rd Annual

Report, 1890, pp.13–14

2. John Hinshelwood, ‘Coleraine Park and Tottenham’s forgotten housing estate’,

2008, in Civitas Tottenham, www.tottenhamcivicsociety.org.uk/CivitasSpring2009.pdf

3. Social Review, 1 Aug 1876, p.93

4. Lewis H. Edmunds, The Artizans’, Labourers’, and General Dwellings Company,

Limited. A short account of its origin, development, and estates, 1883, p.6

5. LMA, ACC/3445/PT/10/05/21: information from Christine Wagg, Peabody Trust

6. Companies House file 00003413: the following account is based largely on ADC

directors’ minutes, LA, Acc/IV/122/1–4

7. Artizans’ and General Properties Company Limited, Artizans Centenary 1867―1967,

1967, p.7

8. SLP, 11 Sept 1886, p.5: Artizans Centenary, pp.6–7: Richard Rodger, Housing in

Urban Britain 1780―1914, p.46

9. Census

10. Companies House file 00003413: Annual Register, 1877, p.190

11. LA, Acc/IV/122/1, 26 Feb 1867: The Observer, 31 March 1867, p.3: Social Review, 1

March 1876, p.iv

12. BN, 24 Jan 1868, p.viii

13. Hansard, House of Lords Debates, 14 May 1906, vol.157, c.104

14. E.g. in the Battersea Labour History project film Red Battersea (2008), and

Wandsworth Borough Council’s Conservation Area appraisal

15. Social Review, 1 Feb 1875, p.22

16. ADC, Unhealthy Houses, “The Terror of Europe and the Disgrace of Britain”. The

Remedy, 1870, p.16

17. ADC, 9th Annual Report

18. ADC, Report of fifth Annual Soiree, held at the Westminster Palace Hotel, March 20th,

1872 (Goldsmiths’ Library, University of London)

19. BN, 24 Jan 1868, p.viii: Report by Davis & Emanuel in Staffs RO,

D615/P(P)/4/3/3/1

20. Daily News 24 April 1873: shareholder lists in Centre for Buckinghamshire

Studies, D-FR/149/14

21. Dictionary of Labour Biography: The Commonwealth, reprinted in The Colonist

http://www.tottenhamcivicsociety.org.uk/CivitasSpring2009.pdf

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(Nelson, NZ), 8 Jan 1867

22. Industrial Review, 11 Aug 1877, p.6: Detlev Mares, ‘Alfred A. Walton and mid-

Victorian working-class radicalism’, MA thesis, University of Warwick, 1993; Alfred

Armstong Walton (1816–1883): Working-Class Reformer and Parliamentary Candidate, at

www.holtmann-mares.de/Walton2.html

23. Artizans Centenary, p.11: Census: PPR, will of Robert Austin

24. Staffs RO, D615/P(P)/4/3/3/1

25. Ibid: University of Southampton, Broadlands Papers, SHA/PD/10

26. John Ruskin, Fors Clavigera, Letter LXXX, 1877: London Metropolitan University,

Women’s Library, 3JBL/27/30: British Medical Journal, 27 April 1878, p.602: online

Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism

27. LA, Acc/IV/122/4, 16 Oct 1877: William Swindlehurst, The Artizans’, Labourers’,

and General Dwellings Company, Limited: its past and present management and policy,

1879, and printed letter dated July 1879 inserted in copy at Centre for

Buckinghamshire Studies, D-FR/149/14

28. ADC, Report of a Committee of Investigation appointed at an Extraordinary Meeting of

the Shareholders on the 2nd of June, 1877 (copy at BL)

29. ADC, 16th Annual Report, 1883, pp.3–4: Swindlehurst, p.22

30. ADC, 26th Annual Report, 1893, pp.7–8

31. ADC, 19th Annual Report, 1886, p.4; 20th Annual Report, 1887, p.13: LA,

Acc/IV/122/82, 15 March 1883

32. ADC, prospectus, 19 Feb 1889; 16th Annual Report, 1883, p.6

33. ADC, 8th Annual Report, in Social Review, 1 March 1875, p.48; 10th Annual

Report, in Social Review, 1 March 1877, p.31; 12th Annual Report

34. S. Martin Gaskell, Model Housing from the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain,

1987, pp.142–3: Survey of London, vol.26, 1956, pp.13, 138

35. TNA, BT31/1276/3166: B, 24 Feb 1866, p.144; 30 March 1867, p.231; 26 Dec 1868,

p.947: Survey of London, vol.26, 19956, p.138

36. Staffs RO, D615/P(P)/4/3/3/1

37. Daily News, 13 Oct 1871: Manchester Guardian, 13 Feb 1872

38. Corris: Tithe map: RB: Railway Magazine, March–April 1944

39. WHS, Spencer sales catalogues: Census

40. LA, 1/12230: TNA, C16/656/L112: SLP, 16 Jan 1875: WHS, BP/6/5/7, 9, 16, 78

http://www.holtmann-mares.de/Walton2.html

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41. SHC, 5316/4: LA, 1/12230: www.oldbaileyonline.org, t18771022-761: The

Observer, 30 March 1879, p.7: information from Keith Bailey

42. Social Review, 1 Sept 1875, p.vi; 1 Nov 1875, p.130: TNA, BT31/2143/9891: ADC,

12th Annual Report: LA, Acc/IV/122/4, 17 June 1878

43. The Times, 5 Aug 1872, p.6

44. University of Southampton, Broadlands Papers, SHA/PD/10, 5 Aug 1872

45. Census: DSR: The Standard, 4 Nov 1873, p.2

46. Report by Davis & Emanuel in Staffs RO, D615/P(P)/4/3/3/1

47. ADC, 10th Annual Report, in Social Review, 1 March 1877, pp.32–3

48. The Times, 20 July 1874, p.14: Morning Post, 4 Nov 1873, p.6: Staffs RO,

D615/P(P)/4/3/3/1: BN, 23 Oct 1874, p.483

49. DSR: Social Review, 1 Jan 1875, p.10

50. Social Review, 1 Feb 1875, pp.16–17; 1 July 1876, p.82

51. ADC, 3rd Annual Report, 1870: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, D-

FR/149/14; ADC, List of Shareholders to 1 Jan 1875

52. RIBA, Nomination papers: LA, Acc/IV/122/4, 7 Jan 1878

53. Social Review, 1 Jan 1875, p.7: BN, 30 Oct 1874, p.534

54. The Times, 20 July 1874, p.14: LA, Acc/IV/122/3, 4 Aug 1874

55. The Times, 14 Nov 1874, p.14: BN, 23 Oct 1874, p.482

56. TNA, AT62/10: LMA, ACC/3445/PT/09/066; ACC/3445/PT/10/05/21: Staffs

RO, D615/P(P)/4/3/3/1

57. B, 21 March 1874, p.232; 16 June 1877, p.599

58. Staffs RO, D615/P(P)/4/3/3/1, Report by Davis & Emanuel, and letter from

Joseph Hornsby Wright to Lord Lichfield: B, 21 March 1874, p.232: The Times, 14 Nov

1874, p.5

59. LA, Acc/IV/122/82, 27 April 1885

60. Staffs RO, D615/P(P)/4/3/3/1: ADC, 26th Annual Report, 1893, p.7: LA,

Acc/IV/12231, 26 April 1892

61. Social Review, 1 June 1875, p.82: BN, 23 Oct 1874, p.482

62. ADC, 23rd Annual Report, 1890, p.6; 27th Annual Report, 1894, p.9: LA,

Acc/IV/122/82, 2 June 1885

63. ADC, 11th Annual Report, 1878, p.1; Reports of Annual Meetings, 1870s–90s

64. ADC, 19th Annual Report, 1886, p.12

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65. LA, Acc/IV/122/31, 22 Jan 1896, 8 Feb 1899; Acc/IV/122/82, 24 Jan 1882

66. The Times, 14 Nov 1873, p.5

67. Social Review, 1 June 1875, pp.67–8

68. J. Ewing Ritchie, Days and Nights in London, 1880, Chapter 6

69. This paragraph is based largely on reports in Social Review

70. The Observer, 6 June 1875, p.3

71. Swindlehurst, p.22

72. Social Review, 1 Oct 1875, p.120; 1 Aug 1876, p.93

73. ADC, 23rd Annual Report, 1890

74. Social Review, 2 Aug 1875, pp.94–5

75. The Times, 14 Nov 1873, p.5: B, 25 Oct 1873, p.853

76. LA, Acc/IV/122/82, 25 July 1881: ADC, 17th and 20th Annual Reports, 1884,

1887

77. Census

78. MBW Mins, 16 Jan 1874, p.105

79. ADC, Report of fifth Annual Soiree, held at the Westminster Palace Hotel, March 20th,

1872 (Goldsmiths’ Library, University of London)

80. DSR: ADC, 9th Annual Report

81. SLP, 16 Dec 1997, p.31: ADC, 11th Annual Report

82. Andrew Prescott, ‘Freemasonry and the history of the Labour Party in London:

some approaches’ (lecture of 2002, at www.freemasons-

freemasonry.com/prescott08.html

83. Bishopsgate Institute, Holyoake/3/8 (pt 1), nd: SLP, 18 July 1888, p.7: LA,

Acc/IV/122/8, 25 Oct 1888

84. ADC, 13th Annual Report, 1880, p.3

85. DSR: LA, Acc/IV/122/4, 29 April 1878: WHS, MBB/4/1/3/5

86. ADC, Report and Accounts, year ending 31 Dec 1956: LA, Acc/IV/122/83–7

87. ADC, 26th and 27th Annual Reports, 1893, 1894: LA, Acc/IV/122/31, 31 Oct

1893, 26 June 1894

88. LA, Acc/IV/122/82, 7 June, 8 Sept 1882

89. WHS, WDBW/3/101: ADC, 23rd Annual Report, 1889: MBW Mins, 5 Aug 1887,

pp.229–30: Percy J. Edwards, History of London Street Improvements, 1855–1897, 1898,

p.189

http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/prescott08.html

http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/prescott08.html

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90. LA, Acc/IV/122/82, 14 March 1883: LMA, GLC/AR/DS/01/00010

91. LA, Acc/IV/122/82, 26 June, 21 Nov 1883, 14 Oct 1884; Acc/IV/122/83, 7 & 14

July 1955

92. LA, Acc/IV/122/26, p.97

93. ADC, 11th Annual Report: Simmonds, p.180

CHAPTER 13 (pp.###–###)

Clapham Common to Lavender Hill

1. LCC Inspectors’ Report on Wix’s Lane School, 2 July 1937 {better ref says AJS?}

2. TNA, C12/376/6: SOX 240, 514

3. LA, I/8818: TNA, PROB11/960: Corris: RB: Edwards, pt 2, p.10: Batten, p.49

4. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/006: LA, I/1114: TNA, PROB11/1446: RB

5. LMA, MBW/514, Nov 1879, item 57; MBW/530, April 1881, item 101: Falconet,

written 1881, first published in three instalments in The Times, 20, 21 & 23 Jan 1905:

Booth 1900, p.192

6. These paragraphs based largely on RB: LT: TNA, PROB11: POD: CASOS: Burgess,

pp.68–70: Smith, p.45: ODNB: GEC

7. Zuzanna Shonfield, The Precariously Privileged, 1987, pp.195–6, 205–7

8. This account based largely on LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/001–25

9. Burgess, p.68

10. TNA, PROB11/1681: RB: Tithe: Memorials of the Families of Newsom and Brigg, ed. J.

E. Brigg, 1898, pp.16–21

11. BDA

12. TNA, PROB11/1837: RB

13. RB: Jehan Wake, Kleinwort Benson, 1997, pp.111–12

14. BDA 4100, 4103, 4105: DSR

15. RB: LT: Batten, p.49: Edwards, pt 2, p.10

16. RB: LT: TNA, PROB11/1483: Noel Annan, ‘The Intellectual Aristocracy’, in

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Studies in Social History: A Tribute to G. H. Trevelyan, ed. J. H. Plumb, 1955, p.248

17. RB: POD: Tithe: LMA, DW/OP/70/3

18. WDBW Mins, 11 Sept 1867, 3 June 1868: OS 1st and 2nd edns: POD: CASOS, nos

493–4, Sept–Oct 1989

19. RB: LT: Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, HASMG:903.2.614–16

20. LMA, CLC/124/MS 24516: RB

21. Ibid: LT: CASOS, no.142, Nov 1959

22. Burgess, p.67: RB: LT: Census: POD

23. RB: LMA, CLC/B/192/F/001/MS 11936: EH, Historians’ file WW52

24. Auction particulars in possession of Roger Armstrong

25. RB: Census: LA, photo 5103: WP

26. LCC Mins, 29 July 1913, p.399; 10 Dec 1918, pp.1172–6; 26 Feb 1919, p.96:

Illustrated War News, 26 Sept 1917

27. RB: LT: TNA, PROB11/1363, 1794

28. RB: CASOS, no.271, Feb 1971

29. LCC Mins, 16 Oct 1923, p.416; 22 Jan 1925, p.51; 7 July 1925, p.65: LCC Education

Committee Mins, 21 May, pp.333–4: WP

30. This paragraph is based largely on RB: LT: TNA, PROB11: POD: Census:

Edwards, pt 2, p.10

31. Gentleman’s Magazine, vol.59, pt 2, p.673; vol.176, 1844, p.439: LA, I/8818

32. TNA, PROB11/1446, 1546, 2003: History of Parliament. The House of Commons:

1790–1820, iv, Members G–P, 1986, pp.48–9

33. TNA, PROB11/1446: LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/006: LA, I/1114: RB: POD

34. Info from ms diary of Eliz. S. Davenport, 1780–3, kindly provided by Patrick Baty:

LA, IV/4/178: Grove Dictionary of Music

35. TNA, PROB11/2003: W.T. McIntire, writing in the Cumberland News, 1939:

Gentleman’s Magazine, vol.176, 1844, p.439: LA, IV/4/178: CASOS, no.352, July 1977

36. Reginald J. Graham, Eastbourne Recollections: Magisterial and Personal, 1888, p.11:

Cumberland News, 2 July 2010

37. SOX 270

38. Marcus Binney, Sir Robert Taylor. From Rococo to Neo-Classicism, 1984: information

from Richard Garnier

39. Main sources for residents are RB: LT: TNA, PROB11: POD: CASOS, nos 187–8,

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Aug–Sept 1963

40. EH, Blue Plaque file LD/SG/BP1859: CASOS, no.358, Jan 1978

41. Gentleman’s Magazine, vol.100, 1807, p.185: WH, no.75, Autumn 2002, p.11

42. Gentleman’s Magazine, vol.98, 1805, p.681: WHS, HOW/7; local enquiry file

43. OS of c.1870: WHS, BP/6/8/1, Dec 1861: ODNB

44. LPL, Davidson papers, vol.281, f.96

45. RB: WHS, misc. deeds: TNA, C15/502/H137: CASOS, no.188, Sept 1963

46. DSR: CASOS, no.188, Sept 1963: POD

47. These paragraphs based largely on Janet Grierson, Isabella Gilmore. Sister to

William Morris, 1962: ODNB: Frank C. Sharp, ‘Isabella Morris Gilmore’, Journal of

William Morris Studies, vol.11, no.4 (Spring 1996), pp.31–8

48. LPL, G4423.R6, Deaconess Institution, Fifth Annual Report, 1891, 1892, p.3; MS 3463;

Davidson Papers, vol.281, ff.96–111

49. WP: WH, no.5, June 1972, p.7; no.6, Oct 1972, p.8

50. WP: The Times, 24 July 2009

51. Grierson, p.138: Deaconess Gilmore. Memories collected by Deaconess Elizabeth

Robinson, 1924, p.23

52. CASOS, no.358, Jan 1978: WP

53. These paragraphs based largely on BAL, Drawings Coll., PB WEBB {31}: Grierson,

pp.141–9: Sheila Kirk, Philip Webb, 2005, pp.258–61

54. The Sign, March 1924, pp.33–4

55. DSR: BDA

56. John Brandon-Jones, ‘Philip Webb’, in Victorian Architecture, ed. Peter Ferriday,

1963, p.260

57. Grierson, p.145: see collections.vam.ac.uk

58. A. Charles Sewter, The Stained Glass of William Morris and His Circle—A Catalogue,

1975, p.193: LPL, MS 3463: Grierson, pp.141–9

59. WHS, MS9, f.109: Burgess, p.70

60. Corris: LA, 1/8818: LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/001–2: RB: LT: Batten

61. WHS, misc. deeds: IR58/88385, 88386: Census

62. DSR: BDA: IR58/88382/001–24

63. Deeds in possession of Kate McDowall: Census: info from Dulwich Society

64. WHS, BP/6/5/285, 287, 321, 390: WDBW Mins, 17 April 1872: MBW Mins, 26

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April 1872, p. 613: LMA, street-naming plans 5630, 5679. For the earlier street names

see Bailey 2008

65. WDBW Mins, 15 May 1872: DSR: BDA

66. BDA: DSR

67. WP

68. LA, Report of 16th Annual Meeting of Artizans’ Dwellings Company (ADC), 7

March 1883, pp.12–13: Manchester Guardian, 11 July 1877, p.6

69. LA, Acc/122/IV/82, passim: LMA, MBW/BA/30753: WHS, BP/6/5/825–7: DSR

70. BDA 2822, 2866–7: LA, ADC Reports of 17th Annual Meeting, 5 March 1884, p.4;

18th Meeting, 11 March 1885, p 7; 19th Meeting, 9 March 1886, p.7: Census

71. The Times, 22 June 1872, p.15: Bailey 1995, p.179: POD: information kindly

supplied by Roger Armstrong

72. WHS, misc. deeds: DSR: MBW Mins, 8 Aug 1873, p.226; 3 Oct 1873, p.274

73. Census: IR58/88394/1202–36

74. DSR: WHS, BP/6/5/820: BDA, 699–700: DSR

75. Information kindly supplied by Roger Armstrong

76. Morning Post, 23 June 1886; Standard, 12 Feb 1887: BDA: WP: Buildings of Clapham,

p.200

77. WHS, misc. deeds; BP/6/5/944, 1315: info kindly provided by Roger Armstrong:

ODNB: DBB

78. BDA: Marmion, verses XL, XXIII: Bailey 2008, pp.41, 54

79. LCC Mins, 19 June 1894, p.683: BDA: WP

80. WHS, BP/6/5/1430, 1486: Buildings of Clapham, p.192: Bailey 1995, p.228

81. BDA: DSR: LMA, CLC/124/MS24517: IR58/88389, 88390: Bailey 1995, p.228

82. CASOS, no.493, Oct 1989: WHS, BP/6/5/2229

83. IR58/88394: WP: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/36/BA/0093/A/IV

84. BDA, 707–9: DSR: Census: IR58/88383

85. LMA, ACC/2998/53; N/LCU/01/024/012

86. BDA, 1851: DSR

87. Census: BDA, 1320, 1851: DSR: IR58/88395/1372–3

88. Ancestry, death records: LMA, ACC/2998/53: WHS, misc. enquiry file: SWS, 2

March 1984, p.43

89. DSR

Draft


90. Bailey 1995, pp. 200–1: WHS, BP/6/5/1313

91. LCC Mins, 10 April 1894, p.382; 4 Dec 1894, p.1255: WHS, BP/6/5/1393

92. WHS, misc. deeds: Buildings of Clapham, p.209

93. MBW Mins, 8 May 1868, p.670; 10 July 1868, p.898: WHS, BP/6/5/152: Census

94. LMA, MBW/514, Nov 1879, item 57; MBW/530, April 1881, item 101: MBW Mins,

21, 28 Nov 1879, pp.698, 725; 20 April 1881, p.693: WHS, misc. deeds; BP/6/5/901

95. BDA: DSR: IR58/88395–7: Census

96. LCC Mins, 2 Oct 1894, p.48

97. WHS, BP/6/5/1276, 1288–9: BDA: LCC Mins, 11 July 1893, p.738; 3 Oct 1893,

p.937; 14 Nov 1893, p.1115

98. BDA: Bailey 1995, p.192: OS of c.1896

99. BDA 4157, 4163, 4169: DSR: Census: WHS, misc. deeds

100. WHS, misc. deeds: LMA, O88/3: Census

101. WHS, BP/6/5/505-6, 563, 564: RB

102. BDA: DSR: LMA, O/088/001–3: MBW Mins, 9 Aug 1878, p.303

103. WH, no.47, Winter 1986, pp.23–5

104. Census: POD: WHS, electoral registers: London Argus, 1887, quoted in the Timaru

Herald

105. WH, no.47, Winter 1986, pp.24–5: IR58/88399

106. WHS, misc. deeds: IR58/88382/95: BDA: DSR

107. WHS, misc. deeds: Bailey 1995, p.232: WP

108. WHS, BP/6/5/1343, 1351, 1358; BP/1/1/23, passim: BDA: LCC Mins, 16 Oct

1894, p.1006: DSR

109. WHS, BP/1/1/24, p.337

110. BDA 4246

111. Census: DSR: WHS, electoral registers: 1910 US census

112. BDA 4193, 4201: Census: POD: ODNB: DBB: Sir Basil Bartlett, Jam Tomorrow.

Some Early Reminiscences, 1978, pp.62–3

113. WHS, electoral registers: Census: Mins of Proceedings of ICE, vol.189, 1912, p.353:

IR58/88382/78

114. ODNB: Daily Chronicle, 10 April 1914: WBN, 15 Dec 1922: Manchester Guardian, 22

Oct 1928, p.8: CASOS, no.443, March 1985

115. William Kent, John Burns: Labour’s Lost Leader, 1950, p.295

Draft


116. EH, Blue Plaques file 781

117. BDA: WP

CHAPTER 14 (pp.###–###)

Lavender Sweep Area

1. Census: The Record, 5 April 1895

2. RB: Evening Post, 5–7 Dec 1721: Daily Courant, 6 April 1726

3. SOX 240: BL, Add. Ms 75750

4. TNA, C12/376/6: SOX 240: RB

5. Edwards, pt 2, p.10: WHS, BP/6/5/1346

6. RB: LT: TNA, PROB11/1223: The Times, 3 Oct 1792, p.4: WP

7. RB: Ada Earland, John Opie and his Circle, 1911, p.309: John Opie, Lectures on

painting, delivered at the Royal Academy of Arts, 1809: Morning Chronicle, 19 Dec 1792

8. Census: PPR, wills of Margaret Maria Railton (1867); William Railton (1877);

Caroline Lovett (1886)

9. Ford K. Brown, Fathers of the Victorians: The Age of Wilberforce, 1961, pp.236, 342,

358, 389

10. Gentleman’s Magazine, vol.167, Dec 1839, p.655: TNA, PROB11/1918: RB

11. WHS, St Luke’s Parish Magazine, Dec 1909, p.3: WH, No.87, Spring 2009, p.3: RB

12. ILN, 10 Oct 1863, p.378: Andrew Alexander, Eminent Tallow Chandlers: John

Humphery (Tallow Chandlers Company Historical Group Occasional Papers 5), 1995:

Aytoun Ellis, Three Hundred Years on London’s River: The Hay’s Wharf Story, 1952,

passim: LMA, DR/CP/003/A

13. PPR, will of John Humphery

14. David B. Elliott, A Pre-Raphaelite Marriage: The Lives and Works of Marie Spartali

Stillman and William James Stillman, 2006, pp.10–14: Angela Thirlwell, Into the Frame,

2010, p.107

15. Diaries of Jeanette Marshall, quoted in Zuzanna Shonfield, The Precariously

Draft


Privileged: A Professional Family in Victorian England, 1986, p.86: Charles Hallé, Notes

from a Painter’s Life, 1909, quoted in Elliott, p.15

16. Clapham Society Newsletter, July/Aug 1985: CASOS, no.445, Sept 1985: Morning

Post, 11 June 1885, p.1: Elliott, pp.132, 136

17. The Standard, 7 May 1885: Ancestry, probate records

18. The Standard, 7 May 1885: B, 27 June 1885, p.918: LMA, DR/OP/115/B,

DR/CP/003/A

19. ‘List of members’, Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, of Philosophical

Society of Great Britain, 19, p.361: St Barnabas’s church, misc. papers: WHS, St Luke’s

Parish Magazine, Dec 1909, p.4: WHS, BP/6/5/1346

20. St Barnabas’s church, misc. papers: CERC, ECE 7/1/52601: LMA, DR/CP/3A;

DR/OP/15/B

21. OS 1938 (LCC revision): LMA, P70/BAN/297

22. CASOS, no.15, Aug 1948: Clapham Society Newsletter, July/Aug 1985: LMA,

P70/BAN/160, 192–7, 280, 299–308, 312–24: WH, no.87, Spring 2009, pp.1–5: WP

23. RB: SOX 270: LT

24. Edwards, pt 2, p.10: RB: LT: The Times, 24 Sept 1796, p.4: James Picciotto, Sketches

of Anglo-Jewish History, 1875, pp.247–9: Cecil Roth, The Great Synagogue, London 1690–

1940, 1950, Chapter 13

25. RB: Batten

26. RB: POD: Journal of the House of Lords, vol.39: 1790–1793, pp.543–55: Tithe:

Lincolnshire Archives, papers of Nixon and Jefferson families, 3-WD/18-21

27. DSR

28. RB: Census: Anthony Powell, The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, 1: The Infants of the

Spring, 1991: The Times, 27 Dec 1853, p.10

29. PPR: WHS, misc. deeds, box L4: Journal of the Society of Arts, 9, 15 March 1861,

p.267

30. WDBW Mins, 6 June 1860: OS c.1870

31. The Times, 28 Sept 1867, p.16

32. The Times, 5 May 1877, p.19: WHS, misc. deeds, box L4

33. London Gazette, 19 May 1874, p.2683: Liverpool Mercury, 19 April 1876: The Times,

11 April 1878, p.12; 11 July 1878, p.12; 28 July 1878, p.12: RB: Census: CERC, ECE

7/1/30935, Pt I

Draft


34. Ben Macintyre, The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real

Moriarty, London, 1998, pp.153–9: WHS, St Luke’s Parish Magazine, Dec 1909, p.3:

North-Eastern Daily Gazette, 9 Nov 1892: DSR

35. WHS, BP/6/5/1346, 1405: CERC, ECE 7/1/30935, Pt I

36. TNA, C12/376/6: WHS, St Luke’s Parish Magazine, Dec 1909, p.3

37. RB: PPR: John Entick, A New and Accurate Survey of London, 1766, p.321

38. Morning Post, 8 July 1786: Corris: European Magazine, vol.12, July 1787, p.8

39. Morning Post, 9 Feb–24 April 1793, passim; 14 June 1814, p.1

40. ODNB: Wellcome Library, Corbyn papers, 5458/2

41. Wellcome Library, Corbyn papers 5458/2/3, 21 & passim: BMD Registers online:

RB

42. WHS, St Luke’s Parish Magazine, May 1909, p.11

43. RB: Tithe: Census: Wellcome Library, Corbyn papers, 5458: Anne Ogden Boyce,

Records of a Quaker Family: The Richardsons of Cleveland, 1889, p.284

44. RB: Census: PPR: Daily News, 2 Aug 1854: B, 6 May 1876, p.447: OS c.1870

45. The Times, 26 Jan 1881, p.16

46. WHS, St Luke’s Parish Magazine, May 1909, p.11; BP/6/5/2059

47. Ancestry: Morning Post, 8 July 1786; 9 May 1821, p.1: Corris: RB: Tithe: WHS,

BP/6/5/834: OS c.1870 The Times, 4 Aug 1819, p.3

48. Annals of British Legislations, ed. Loene Levi, vol.3, 1864, p.232: Percy Melville

Thornton, Some Things We Have Remembered, 1912, pp.314–15: Census

49. PPR: RB: POD

50. John Seely Stone, A Memoir of the Life of James Milnor, DD, 1848, pp.341–2

51. RB: Tithe: TNA, PROB 11/1950: LMA, CLC/B/192/F/001/MS

11936/479/964707: Ancestry, baptisms and marriages

52. DSR: RB

53. Information kindly supplied by Mel Davies: National Library of Australia,

Australian Joint Copying Project, M373–6, microfilm copy of the diaries of John

Benjamin Graham 1848–51 (private collection)

54. DSR: Graham diaries, Oct 1850–March 1851

55. Graham diaries, March–May 1851

56. The Standard, 15 Aug 1858: DSR: LA, 1/4284–5

57. ODNB: John Coleman, Players and Playwrights I have Known, 1888, vol.2, pp.117–

Draft


39: Ellen Terry, The Story of My Life, 1982 edn, pp.68–75

58. Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 18 June 1879

59. The Times, 18 Oct 1880, p.16: Coleman, p.139

60. Morning Chronicle, 23 April 1801: LMA, CLC/B/186/Ms23835: OS c.1870:

European Magazine, vol.12, July 1787, p.8

61. Gentleman’s Magazine, 1811, p.91: POD: RB: Census: Royal Cornwall Gazette, 29 July

1815: PPR: PROB11/1875, 2099: Philippe Chalmin, Négociants et chargeurs: la saga du

négoce international des matières premières, 1983, pp.25, 255: LMA,

CLC/B/186/Ms23835

62. MBW Mins, 23 July 1869, p.880; 24 Sept 1869, p.1010; 8 Oct 1869, p.1050: The

Times, 15 Jan 1881, p.16

63. Census: The Times, 15 Jan 1881, p.16

64. Morning Chronicle, 15 Sept 1845

65. TNA, C16/903/W59: WHS, BP/6/5/99: MBW Mins, 13 March 1868, p.448: WHS,

St Luke’s Parish Magazine, Dec 1909, p.3

66. TNA, C16/903/W59: WHS, BP/6/5/100

67. Census: IR58/88384/267: Morning Post, 9 March 1888, p.1

68. CERC, ECE 7/1/30935, Pt I

69. DSR: WHS, BP/6/5/99: Bailey 1995, p.42: TNA, C16/903/W59

70. TNA, C16/903/W59

71. Ibid: Census: William J. Stillman, The Autobiography of a Journalist, 1901, vol.2, p.60

72. Census

73. CERC, ECE 7/1/30935, Pt I: WHS, misc. deeds, box L4

74. TNA, IR58/88384/268–72: DSR: LCC Mins, 13 June 1893, p.614

75. WHS, St Luke’s Parish Magazine, Dec 1909, p.3: Census: TNA, MEPO2/192, 578

76. The Standard, 6 Nov 1897, p.8

77. WHS, BP/6/5/1346; misc. deeds: IR58/88382/99–105: DSR: Bailey 1995, p.178:

Ancestry, probate records: Census

78. The Era, 27 May 1899: Census

79. Ancestry, wills: POD: advertising postcard: Denis Evinson, Catholic Churches of

London, 1998, p.45: DSR: WHS, BP/6/5/1553, 1579

80. WHS, BP/6/5/1512, 1534–5, 1549; D105/1/349–50: WP

81. WP

Draft


82. DSR: LMA, MBW/BA/34876: WHS, St Luke’s Parish Magazine, Dec 1909, p.3

83. Wandsworth Borough Planner’s Service, Heaver Estate. A guide to its history and

architecture, September 1996

84. DSR

85. DSR: The Standard, 2 Feb 1888, p.8; 18 April 1888, p.8; 5 Nov 1888, p.8; 25 Feb 1890,

p.8; 6 Aug 1890, p.8

86. RB: Goad: IR58/88384/260–1: Census

87. LMA, DR/OP/115/B

88. Census: ODNB: information kindly provided by Ann J. King, Henty’s biographer

89. The Observer, 26 Aug 1906, p.6

90. CERC, ECE 7/1/52601, Pt II

91. LMA, DS/OP/1925/001: WP

92. CASOS, no.456, April 1986: WP

93. The Times, 15 Jan 1881, p.16

94. LMA, MBW/BA/29894: WHS, BP/6/5/834

95. B, 3 Sept 1881, p.317: DSR: Bailey 2012: Buildings of Clapham, pp.197, 203–4, 207:

TNA, HO45/9632/A26445

96. LMA, MBW/BA/29828

97. DSR: RB: WHS, BP/6/5/915: B, 19 Nov 1881, p.651: Buildings of Clapham, pp.203–

4

98. LMA, MBW/BA/31874

99. DSR: MBW Mins, 5 Oct 1883, p.461: Buildings of Clapham, p.195

100. B, 6 July 1901, p.14: LCC Mins, 2 July 1901, p.896; 8 Oct 1901, p.1186: Goad: OS

1916: WHS, BP/6/5/1692, 1892

101. WHS, BP/6/5/834: LMA, MBW/BA/29720: WHS, St Luke’s Parish Magazine,

May 1909, p.11

102. The Standard, 11 Sept 1883, p.1

103. DSR: Buildings of Clapham, p.196: Daily News, 29 Nov 1882: The Standard, 30 Jan

1883, p.7

104. DSR: Buildings of Clapham, pp.196, 198

105. DSR: Buildings of Clapham, p.201: WHS, BP/6/5/2059

106. DSR: POD: IR58/88384: The Standard, 15 Jan 1892, p.2

107. Bailey 1995, pp.267, 272: WHS, misc. deeds, boxes X36, X65

Draft


108. Ancestry: Census: WHS, BP/6/5/1523

109. WHS, BP/6/5/1904: Wandsworth Borough Council Conservation Area Statement 23:

West Putney (d) Westbury Estate: B, 15 March 1890, p.201; 3 May 1890, p.330; 26 Nov

1890, p.760: Denis Evinson, Catholic Churches of London, 1998: DSR

110. DSR: WP

111. Ibid: POD: Goad: Nigel West, A Matter of Trust: MI5 Operations, 1945–72, 1982,

p.172: The Times, 20 June 1968, p.1

112. WP

CHAPTER 15 (pp.###–###)

West of St John’s Road

1. William Evill, Rambling Records of a Long and Busy Life, 1904, p.75

2. LT: RB: Corris: SOX 255, 347, 357

3. Public Advertiser, 24 Dec 1766: London Gazette, 7 July 1788: SOX 261(1), 357:

Ancestry, probate records: Census

4. SOX 212, 255, 272: Census: Peabody Trust, lease CLA.01: Tithe

5. PA, SLF 11/6/6: SOX 255: WHS, D60/4: Tithe

6. St James’s Evening Post, 25–27 Jan 1733: London Evening Post, 31 Oct–3 Nov 1747: Old

England, 7 Nov 1747: Penny London Post, 2–4 Nov 1747

7. European Magazine, vol.8, 1785, p.390; vol.40, Sept 1801, pp.167–8: Edward Trapp

Pilgrim, Poetical Trifles, 1813 edn: RB: Notes & Queries, 8 Dec 1883, pp.453–4:

Simmonds, pp.146–8

8. SOX 261(1), leases of 1808–10

9. PA, SLF/11/6/6a: Tithe: The Era, 25 May 1862, p. 7: WHS, Spencer sales

catalogues; D60/2, 5, 11–13: DSR

10. Notes and Queries, 1 Dec 1883, pp.421–2

11. SLP, 3 Feb 1883, p.10: WHS, D60/8, 9, 11–13: Ancestry

12. WHS, BP/6/5/776: B, 28 Jan 1882, p.119; 1 Sept 1883, p.305: DSR

Draft


13. DSR: Census: WHS, D60/2, 17: WBN, 10 June 1921, p.2

14. Census: RB

15. Ibid: OS, 1st edn

16. WHS, D90/9/20: Daily News, 4 July 1859: The Standard, 23 May 1860: Peabody

Trust, lease CLA.09: Journal of the Society of Arts, 9 & 15 March 1861, p.267

17. Census

18. Ibid: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/015819

19. Census: Goad: RB: WHS, MBB/3/1/161

20. WHS, MBB/3/1/161: Corris: RB: The Era, 23 March 1851

21. B, 15 June 1861, p.420: ODNB: Goad, 1907

22. Census: Keith Booth, His Own Enemy: The Rise and Fall of Edward Pooley, 2000

23. DSR

24. Corris: RB: WHS, MBB/3/1/161: Rocque: WDBW Mins, 16 Sept 1857: Goad: POD

25. BBC Mins, 25 June 1952, pp.73, 83; 24 Feb 1954, pp.249, 256

26. WHS, misc. deeds, box X67: DSR: Census: Ancestry, wills: RB: POD: Goad: WP

27. WP

28. Bailey 1995, pp.271–2: Peabody Trust, lease CLA.027: LMA, MBW/BA/34730,

36001: B, 13 Feb 1886, p.250

29. Peabody Trust, lease CLA.027: LMA, MBW/BA/34730: Bailey 1995, p.271

30. Peabody Trust, lease CLA.027

31. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes X19, X27: DSR: Buildings of Clapham, p.197: Bailey 1995,

pp.271–2

32. DSR: Buildings of Clapham, p.196

33. Census: POD: Goad

34. WP

35. Census: RB: Tithe: OS of c.1870

36. DSR: SHC, QS6/8/433/1, 2: Peabody Trust, lease CLA.02, 11, 12: WHS photos;

PLANS/9: Census: Ancestry

37. ODNB: POD: Census: RB

38. WHS, D60/1–3, 18: SHC, QS6/8/433/1, 2: Census: Ancestry

39. WHS, D60/4: RB: Census

40. WHS, BP/6/5/1626: DSR: PPR

41. RB: The Times, 9 Nov 1872, p.16: Census: DSR

Draft


42. Census: Peabody Trust, leases, CLA.10 & 11

43. Douglas A. Simmons, Schweppes: The First 200 Years, 1983, pp.39–42: William Evill,

Rambling Records of a Long and Busy Life, 1904, p.65: Peabody Trust, leases CLA.01, 03,

08: oldbaileyonline: Census

44. Evill, pp.67, 79, 117–19: B, 10 July 1875, p.632

45. RB: Peabody Trust, leases CLA.01, 015: SOX 212: DSR: Census: WHS, PLANS/9:

POD

46. SOX 255

47. Bailey 2010, pp.31–40: LA, I/4650–7, 4681–2

48. LA, I/4640; C140A: Bailey 2010, p.34

49. LA, I/4660–4; C140B: DSR

50. LA, I/4662–5: Census: RIBA, biog. file

51. Census: Evill, p.127

52. LMA, MBW/BA/36001: DSR: WHS, misc. deeds: LA, I/4704–5: Census: POD

53. WHS, BP/6/5/1877; D60/24: DSR

54. WP: architectsjournal.co.uk, 19 May 2009; 31 May 2012; 28 Sept 2012

55. POD: Census: SWS, 28 Aug 1970, p.5

56. WP: interview with Kirby’s daughter Gwen (2000) accessed at

www1.somerset.gov.uk: LMA, ACC/2305/18

57. W. Bentley Capper, Licensed Houses and their Management, 3 vols, 194? edn: WP

58. WP: A Short History of the London and South Western Bank, Limited, 1862–1912, 1912:

B, 24 Nov 1888, p.403

59. Albert Larking, History of the 4th V.B. East Surrey Regiment ... Now the 23rd Baltn.

the London Regiment, 1912: ILN, 14 Aug 1875, p.162: Census

60. SHC, ESR/12/4/1, 2: RB: Census: LA, I/4704: WHS, BP/6/5/1703: DSR

61. Goad: SHC, ESR/12/9/1–3: www.gcompany.org.uk/History

62. John Nelson Tarn, ‘The Peabody Donation’, Architectural Association Quarterly,

Winter 1968–9, p.41

63. LMA, ACC/3445/PT/01/07/02; ACC/3445/PT/01/15/5–8

64. Tarn, pp.36–41: LMA, ACC/3445/PT/01/07/02

65. LMA, ACC/3445/PT/08/003: Information kindly supplied by John Nelson Tarn

who interviewed Victor Wilkins, c.1960

66. LMA, ACC/3445/PT/06/002; ACC/3445/01/07/03, 04: Report by Cyril Richert,

Draft


Clapham Junction Action Group, accessed at http://cjag.org/

67. Information from the Peabody Fund: Cyril Richert report (as above): WP: info

from www.hawkinsbrown.co.uk: AJ, 2 Dec 2009, p.8: architectsjournal.co.uk, 24 July

2012

CHAPTER 16 (pp.###–##)

St John’s Hill Area

1. Simmonds, p.148: Taylor, pp.104 (n.62), 265: WHS, local enquiry file

2. WHS, BP/6/5/356, 369, 550: MBW Mins, 25 June 1875, p.778: DSR: LMA,

GLC/AR/BR/07/0384

3. Helen Osborn, Inn and Around London: A History of Young’s Pubs, 1991, p.34: SWS,

12 Dec 1958, p.9: WP

4. Loobey 2002, p.11

5. SOX 240, 270

6. SOX 24, 240, 255, 357: TNA, PROB11/1418: RB

7. RB: WHS, misc. deeds, box S2: TNA, ED27/2733, sale particulars; C16/288/M202

8. SOX 212, 240, 255, 261(1), 357: RB

9. TNA, PROB11/1032: Gentleman’s Magazine, Dec 1823, p.574

10. SOX 240, 255, 261(1), 514: RB

11. SOX 514: RB: Census: WHS, misc. deeds, box L3: Solicitors’ Journal & Reporter, 19

Feb 1870, p.348

12. SOX 212, 240, 252: Corris: LMA, B/MMN/13/4–5: Gloucestershire Archives,

D3798/7/5: RB

13. RB: J. Herbert Tritton, Tritton the Place and the Family, 1907, p.256.

14. Tritton, p.256

15. Tithe: Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1841, p.88: Census

16. BDA 3842

17. LMA, ACC/2321/6: WHS, misc. deeds, box S2: TNA, C16/871/H231

http://cjag.org/2010/01/27/meeting-with-peabody-trust/

http://www.hawkinsbrown.co.uk/

Draft


18. TNA, C16/288/M202

19. Ibid: LMA, ACC/2321/6: London Gazette, 29 Sept 1865, p.4664: WHS, misc. deeds,

box S2

20. TNA, C16/288/M202; C16/871/H231; ED27/2733

21. ODNB

22. TNA, C16/871/H231

23. Ibid; C16/656/L112

24. TNA, C16/871/H231; ED27/2733

25. Census

26. SOX 216: WHS, Spencer sales catalogues

27. LMA, LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/1475–86

28. LCC, London Housing, 1937, pp.69–74; LCC Mins, March 1934–Nov 1938 passim:

LMA, GLC/MA/SC/1/11

29. WBC Mins, 21 March 1972, pp.43–6, 10 July 1973, p.61: WBN, 14 June 1974, p.1; 24

May 1985, p.19

30. DSR

31. The Times, 3 Aug 1852, p.7: Stanford’s Library Map: OS 1st edn

32. The Times, 29 May 1849, p.3: Census: RB

33. Solicitors’ Journal & Reporter, 19 Feb 1870, p.348: WHS, BP/6/8/1, 2: BDA 1187

34. WHS, misc. deeds, box H4: Census: RB

35. DSR: WHS, misc. deeds, box X52

36. WHS, misc. deeds, box L3

37. WHS, BP/6/5/27

38. BDA 1183: RB: WP

39. RB: WHS, BP/6/8/1, 2; misc. deeds, box O1: ODNB: The Correspondence of Dante

Gabriel Rossetti, ed. W. E. Fredeman, vol.3, 2003, p.173n

40. WHS, misc. deeds, boxes B3, O2, X13: RB

41. WHS, BP/6/8/1; misc. deeds, boxes C1, X23, X38: Census

42. Solicitors’ Journal & Reporter, 19 Feb 1870, p.348: Census: RB: B, 26 Dec 1874,

p.1082; 1 April 1876, p.326; 29 July 1876, p.748: WHS, misc. deeds, boxes C1, X45:

DSR

43. WP

44. WHS, misc. deeds, box X27

Draft


45. Census: RB: The Times, 19 June 1882, p.4; 10 March 1888, p.14: Morning Post, 10

April 1888, p.6

46. LMA, MBW/BA/28159

47. Census: DSR

48. SWS, 14 March 1975, p.1

49. WBC Mins, 7 Dec 1976

50. Sandra Wallman (ed.), Living in South London: Perspectives on Battersea 1871–1981,

1982, esp. pp.84–101

51. Census: WHS, WDBW/4/1/12 (2260); WDBW/4/1/13 (2320) (2382) (2282); misc.

deeds, boxes P, X38 (1): DSR

52. Census

53. LCC Mins, 4 March 1902, p.343: WHS, BP/6/5/1685

54. LMA, B/MMN/13/4–5: BN, 15 June 1854, p.193

55. WHS, MBB/3/1/60: S. M. Gaskell, ‘Yorkshire Estate Development and the

Freehold Land Societies in the Nineteenth Century’, in Yorkshire Archaeological

Journal, vol.43, 1971, pp.158–66

56. WHS, BP/6/8/1; MBB/3/1/60: information kindly supplied by Mrs Towler

57. LMA, B/MMN/13/4–5: BN, 15 Sept 1854, p.337: RB

58. See e.g. B, 10 Nov 1860, p.728; 16 Feb 1861, p.116; 26 Oct 1861, p.744; 22 March

1862, p.214; 5 July 1862, p.488; 30 July 1864, p.572: RB

59. WHS, MBB/3/1/60; BP/6/8/1, 2: RB

60. Ibid: B, 26 Oct 1861, p.744: BDA

61. RB: Census: ODNB

62. Census: Electoral Registers

63. RB

64. Census: Ancestry: RB: Patent Office

65. RB: WHS, BP/6/8/1, 2; MBB/3/1/166; misc. deeds, box X13: MBW Mins, 21 Feb

1868, p.350: DSR: POD

66. BL, Add. MS 77134, letters of May & June 1868

67. Except where noted otherwise, the following list is based on RB: POD: Census:

WP

68. Lloyds Weekly, 7 Nov 1858, p.4

69. Information kindly supplied by Mrs Towler

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70. add ref for 1872 sale: B, 10 Nov 1860, p.728; 22 March 1862, p.214

71. B, 16 Feb 1861, p.116

72. William Alexander, The Annual Monitor … or, Obituary of the Members of Friends in

Great Britain and Ireland, 1911

73. SWS, 4 Feb 1983, p.14; 11 Feb 1983, p.47: South Lambeth, Battersea and Wandsworth

Times, 14 June 1873: WHS, local enquiry file

74. LMA, AR/BA/5/207: Census: RB

75. BBC Mins, 31 May 1961, p.34; 27 Sept 1961, pp.121, 127; 26 Sept 1962, p.124: WP

76. LMA, B/MMN/13/4–5: J. Gloag, Mr Loudon’s England, 1970, pp.112–15

77. ODNB

78. BN, 8 Aug 1862, p.116

79. RB

80. WP: Eileen F. Lebow, Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation,

2003, pp.111–15

81. WHS, MBB/3/1/60: Census

82. WHS, BP/6/5/888: DSR

83. RB: WHS, BP/6/5/791, 888

84. WHS, misc. deeds, box X56: DSR: WP

85. POD

86. WP

87. DSR: BDA 1165–7

88. WP

89. WHS, BP/6/5/1677

90. WHS, MBB/4/1/1/10

91. BDA 1172

92. BDA 1173

93. BDA 1175

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Between the Commons 1

1. Rocque: SOX 198, 255, 270: LMA, E/BOL/14, 17: TNA, PROB11/404, 531

2. RB: TNA, C12/376/6

3. SOX 514, 240, 347: LMA, E/BOL/7–15

4. RB: Taylor, p.256

5. Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach, Cavendish, The Experimental Life,

1999, p.326

6. Chatsworth House, Devonshire Coll., L/86/1; L/31/45: Christa Jungnickel and

Russell McCormmach, Cavendish, 1996, p.238 (n.124)

7. Chatsworth House, Devonshire Coll., L/38/78; L/31/45

8. Ibid., L/38/78: TNA, PROB11/1579; IR58/88450/2131–3

9. RB: Chatsworth House, Devonshire Coll., L/38/78: Burgess, pp.8, 60: The Times, 14

Dec 1909, p.10: TNA, PROB11/1586; IR58/88450/2119

10. Chatsworth House, Devonshire Coll., L38/78

11. www.oldbaileyonline.org: www.snodlandhistory.org.uk: Survey of London, vol.44,

1994, p.656: Library & Museum of Freemasonry, FMH PAP/21; FMH PAP/24a–b: Sir

John Soane’s Museum, SM, 63/7/1–2

12. RB: POD: PP 1808 (327), The sixth report of the Commissioners of Military Enquiry

appointed by act of 45 Geo. II, cap. 47, pp.340, 539: WHS, local enquiry file: Sunday

Telegraph, 18 April 1999, p.29

13. CASOS, no.232, May 1967: marriage record on Ancestry: POD

14. RB: TNA, C12/376/6: Chatsworth House, Devonshire Coll., L/38/78: SOX 240

15. Royal Society of Arts, Museum Rusticum et Commerciale: or Select papers on

Agriculture, Commerce, Arts and Manufactures, vol.6, 1766, pp.258–63: Robert Dossie,

Memoirs of Agriculture and other Oeconomical Arts, vol.2, 1771, pp.1–15: Chatsworth

House, Devonshire Coll., L/38/78

16. Chatsworth House, Devonshire Coll., L/86/1: Jungnickel and McCormmach,

Cavendish, p.240: CASOS, no.232, May 1967; no.504, April 1992: Professor Charles

Tanford, Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves: An Informal History of Pouring Oil on Water,

1989, p.71

17. Burgess, Plate 11: LA, IV/188/4/4/411NG

18. Chatsworth House, Devonshire Coll., L/86/1: TNA, PROB11/1436: RB: CASOS,

http://www.snodlandhistory.org.uk/

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no.232, May 1967: Burgess, pp.10, 63: POD

19. The Law Times Reports, vol.68, 1893, p.672: B. Oakley, Letters on miscellaneous and

domestic subjects, 1823, passim: Tate Gallery, Turner studies, vols 10–11, 1990, p.34: John

Britton etc, Autobiography of John Britton, 1849, p.176: Hermione Hobhouse, Thomas

Cubitt Master Builder, 1970, pp.64–5

20. RB: LT: Morning Chronicle, 6 April 1812: SHC, K/62/1/131: CASOS, no.239, Dec

1967; no.381, Dec 1979

21. LA, I/13689: RB: CASOS, no.128, Sept 1958: ODNB: RB: POD: SHC, 498/1 passim

22. RB: Corris: Tithe: Alexander Wedderburn, The Wedderburn Book, vol.1, 1989 edn,

pp.lxvii–lxxii, 288–328

23. RB: Gentleman’s Magazine, vol.84, Pt 2, 1814, p.503: Evangelical Magazine and

Missionary Chronicle, vol.13: Burgess, pp.61–2

24. SOX 347

25. TNA, PROB11/1103: William Vassall, Vassall Pedigree, 1500 to 1890, 1890, passim:

Morning Post, 29 April 1794: Morning Chronicle, 3 March 1802: Sheffield Archives, MD

2047/1, Vassall letterbook 1769–1786, ff.105, 107, 146, 166–7

26. Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Burton notebook, HAMSG, FAM 8/30: East

Sussex RO, A49 11/1

27. Ibid: RB

28. ’83 West Side, Clapham Common, London. A Description’, report by Dan

Cruickshank and Caroline Marsden, April 2006, pp.4–10

29. RB: Morning Chronicle, 4 March 1793: Morning Post & Daily Advertiser, April 1794:

London Directory: The Times, 31 Jan 1794, p.4

30. POD: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/069827: WP

31. WP

32. MBW Mins, 18 Sept 1857, p.680: RB

33. LA, I/15342–3: WHS, misc. deeds, box C1: information kindly provided by Peter

Jefferson-Smith: The Times, 12 June 1857, p.14; 18 Nov 1858, p.5

34. RB: Census: POD: WP

35. Robert Isaac Wilberforce and Samuel Wilberforce, The Life of William Wilberforce,

vol.1, 1838, p.149

36. Rocque: TNA, PROB11/832: Andy McConnell, The Decanter, An Illustrated History

of Glass from 1950, 2004, p.74

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37. SOX 198

38. SOX 270

39. European Magazine, vol.12, July 1787, p.8: e-mails and discussions with Richard

Garnier, Oct–Nov 2010

40. SOX 240, agreement between Lovelace and Akerman, 9 June 1764; SOX 514, sale

of 3 April 1765: Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 14 May 1787

41. Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 3 Nov, 6 & 16 Dec 1780; 14 May 1787: Taylor,

pp.276–7

42. William Peacock, The Polite Repository, Jan 1790: CASOS, no.147, April 1960;

no.346, Jan 1977: John Campbell Colquhoun, William Wilberforce: His Friends and His

Times, 1866, p.343. It is commonly stated in error, following a mistake by Percy

Thornton, that Lubbock bought the house from Hamilton

43. Wilberforce & Wilberforce, vol.1, 1838, pp.237, 303, 373

44. John Pollock, Wilberforce, 1977, p.117

45. RB: Wilberforce & Wilberforce, vol.2, p.35: CASOS, no.147, April 1960: Royal

Bank of Scotland Archives, PT/2/64: Henry Morris, The Life of Charles Grant, 1904,

pp.168–9, 223

46. Morris, pp.168–9: Wilberforce & Wilberforce, vol.1, pp.304, 363: General Evening

Post, 7 July 1792

47. Colvin, p.434: ODNB

48. Edwards, pt 2, p.10

49. Dorothy Pym, Battersea Rise, 1934, pp.60–1

50. John Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, 1996, p.85: Manchester Guardian, 15 June 1907

51. E. M. Forster, Marianne Thornton, 1956, p.17

52. Sir James Stephen, Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography, vol.2, 1849, pp.298–9:

Colquhoun, pp.306–7

53. Thornton Papers, Cambridge University Library, Add.7674/1/N, pp.143–4, 184,

391; Add.7674/1/J, letters of 15 May 1852, and of 1882

54. Pym, p.127, also pp.4–58, 117, 229, 236–69

55. Wilberforce & Wilberforce, vol.2, p.65

56. Ibid., pp.292–3

57. The Diary of Joseph Farington, ed. Kathryn Cave, vol.8, 1982, pp.218–30: Pollock,

p.117

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58. CASOS, no.420, April 1983

59. WHS, misc. deeds, box C1: Percy Melville Thornton, Some Things We Have

Remembered, 1912, pp.287, 291

60. The Times, 24 June 1907, p.6; 10 July 1907, p.3; 22 July 1907, p.19; 25 Sept 1907, p.4;

21 Nov 1907, p.9; 8 Feb 1908, p.5: WHS, Sale Particulars of Battersea Rise House

Estate, 20 June 1907; Battersea Scrapbooks, 1907

61. RB: ODNB: WHS, St Luke’s, Battersea, Parish Magazine, July 1907

62. RB: Forster, pp.120–1

63. RIBA Drawings Collection, PB1320/PAP{170}1–3: WHS, misc. deeds, box X38

(Wroughton Road): Burgess, p.63

64. Lloyd’s Evening Post, 28 Sept 1763

65. TNA, C12/376/6: SOX 240

66. St James’s Chronicle, 9 June 1796; Morning Chronicle, 24 Aug 1796; Daily Advertiser,

16 Dec 1796

67. ODNB: William Keane, The Beauties of Surrey, 1849, pp.78–9

68. LA, I/4818

69. RB: Oxford Magazine, Jan 1770, p.40: VCH, Wiltshire, vol.5, 1957, p.195: The Times,

10 April 1775

70. RB: LT: POD

71. The Times, 12 June 1875, p.19: TNA, C16/466/W306

72. TNA, PROB11/1094: LMA, ACC/1128-1-2

73. RB: LMA, E/BOL/14–15: LA, I/10727, 10731

74. Daily Advertizer, 18 Nov 1777

75. Colvin, pp.708–9: Kerry Bristol, ‘James Stuart and the London Building Trades’,

Georgian Group Journal, vol.13, 2003, p.11

76. LA, I/10732, 10736: LMA, B/CHE/363: TNA, PROB11/1054: Daily Advertizer, 18

Nov 1777; 3 March 1778

77. Edwards, pt 1, p.25: LA, I/10735–6: WDBW Mins, 2 April 1856, pp.137–8

78. LA, I/10732, 10736: RB: LT: TNA, PROB11/1745, 1792

79. RB: The Times, 13 July 1858, p.16: LMA, B/CHE/367: Census: death records on

Ancestry

80. LMA, SC/PPS/93/5

81. LA, I/10732, 10736

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82. TNA, PROB11/1495; PROB11/1877: Census

83. LMA, B/CHE/363: RB

84. WDBW Mins, 1855–6, pp.137–8, 142, 176, 201: LMA, P70/MIC/47/3;

P70/MIC/46/001, 003: Roger Logan, Between The Commons, p.9: TNA,

C16/656/L112; C16/871/H231

85. RB: LT: Whitehall Evening Post, 4–7 May 1782: Parker’s General Advertiser and

Morning Intelligencer, 6 July 1782: TNA, PROB11/1583

86. Sir John Soane’s Museum, Day Book 1792, pp.36, 58–62, 66, 71, 73, 74, 140; Journal

No. 2, 1793, 13 April, 2 May, 18 July; Ledger C, p.95

87. Tithe

88. Daily News, 4 May 1868

89. TNA, PROB11/1668: Timothy Walker, Twixt the Commons, 2010, p.182

90. Daily News, 4 May 1868

91. CERC file D695669/1, 6: LMA, MBW/BA/30000

92. Kendal Archive Centre, WD DF/BOX 14

93. LA, I/10737: SLP, 31 March 1866; 7 April 1866

94. TNA, PROB11/1422: Walker, p.185

95. RB: LT: LA, I/10737: Lancaster Gazette & General Advertiser, 5 Sept 1812: The

Literary panorama, vol.12, 1813, p.334

96. RB: LA, I/10737: SLP, 31 March 1866; 7 April 1866: Walker, pp.186–7, 261–9

CHAPTER 18 (pp.###–###)

Between the Commons 2

1. Information kindly supplied by Simon Leech

2. In several places the text makes use of Bailey 1995 and recent studies by local

historians, which are credited in the references. These include Roger Logan, Between

the Commons: South Battersea’s Formative Years (Wandsworth Historical Society,

Wandsworth Paper 15), 2007: Roger Armstrong’s chapter on the area in Buildings of

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Clapham, pp.159–87: and Timothy Walker, Twixt the Commons, 2010

3. LMA, B/CHE/363: WHS, MBB/3/1/86: British Land website

4. Bailey 2008, p.18: Logan, p.10: RB: Census

5. RB: LMA, B/C/CHE/363; LCC/CL/GEN/08/C/70/0986–7: MBW Mins, 5 Feb

1864, p.175; 15 Dec 1865, p.1381: RB

6. TNA, C16/656/L112; C16/871/H231: MBW Mins, 15 June 1866, p.818; 7 June 1872,

p.789: LMA, P70/MIC/46/001, 47/3: DSR

7. WHS, St Luke’s Parish Magazine, Sept 1909, p.11: TNA, C16/656/L112: BDA

8. Census: Malcolm Chase, ‘Out of Radicalism: the Mid-Victorian Freehold Land

Movement’, in English Historical Review, April 1991, pp.329–31

9. MBW Mins, 15 June 1866, p.818; 20 March 1868, p.480; 9 July 1875, p.82: BN, 18 July

1879, p.xvi: DSR: BDA

10. BDA: B, 15 March 1890, p.201

11. Census: Booth collection, B369, p.233: IR58/88439: WHS, MBB/3/1/86

12. The Times, 14 June 1858, p.15; 13 July 1858, p.16

13. MBW Mins, 23 Oct 1863, p.954; 6 April 1866, p.433: Logan, pp.16, 19

14. BDA 63–5, 159, 871–3

15. RB: Census: IR58/88432/340–79: Buildings of Clapham, p.170: ODNB

16. House of Commons Select Committee on the Wandsworth Common Bill, 21 April

1871, p.2: LA, I/4702: Bailey 1995, p.159

17. Clapham Gazette, Sept 1867, pp.123–5: WHS handbill: LMA, OS/W/5/9: RB

18. BDA 1513, 1678, 1708, 2674: LA, I/4702: DSR

19. Census: BDA

20. BDA: BBC Mins, 28 Nov 1900, p.30; 26 June 1901, p.132: IR58/88431/236–43

21. WP: BDA

22. LMA, B/CHE/367

23. SLP, 9 May 1868, p.8: Chase, pp.337–8

24. WDBW Mins, 29 Sept 1868; 10 Feb 1869: MBW Mins, 19 Feb 1869, p.238; 2 July

1869, p.798.

25. WHS, BP/6/5/30: Logan, p.21

26. SLP, 5 Oct 1872, p.8; 6 March 1875, p.16: BDA

27. BDA: POD: Census

28. Buildings of Clapham, p.180

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29. BDA 221, 2566; BV Mins, 31 Oct 1894, p.303: DSR: LMA, P70/MIC/72, 74–5: Old

Bailey online

30. MBW Mins, 6 Aug 1875, p.303

31. Ibid., 12 April 1878, p.626: LMA, MBW/BA/22519: WHS, BP/6/5/716

32. Census

33. LCC Mins, 18 March 1890, p.228: WHS, BP/6/5/974, 1215

34. BDA 3712, 3719, 3720, 3727, 3743: Bailey, 2012, p.?

35. BV Mins, 23 Oct 1895, p.243: BDA 4079, 4138, 4148, 4227

36. WHS, St Luke’s Parish Magazine, Dec 1908, p.16

37. LMA, MBW/BA/38427: Bailey 1995, p.273: Census

38. Bailey, 1995, pp.273–4: Bailey 2012, p.??: LMA, MBW/BA/28341: BDA

39. Census

40. WHS, misc. deeds, box X39

41. BDA: IR58/88451

42. WHS, misc. deeds, box X64: LCC Mins, 3 May 1892, p.384: Buildings of Clapham,

pp.165, 175

43. WHS, local enquiry file, sub Attwood, Llewellyn: Putney & Wandsworth Boro’

News, 5 May 1888, p.5

44. LMA, MBW/BA/38437: LCC Mins, 3 Dec 1895, p.1124: Bailey 1995, p.232: RIBA,

Biog. File: John B. Hattendorf, The Two Beginnings: A History of St George’s Church,

Tanglin, 1984, pp.37–8

45. BV Mins, 12 June 1895, p.103: BDA

46. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/26/BA/0173/RC/BA: LCC Mins, 9 March 1897, p.272: BV

Mins, 28 March 1900, p.13; 9 May 1900, p.61; 12 Sept 1900, p.200; 24 Oct 1900, p.258

47. Bailey 1995, p.15

48. Booth collection, B369, pp.224–7: Census

49. BDA: Bailey 1995, pp.15, 16

50. BDA: WP

51. IR58/88469/4001–94: BV Mins, 11, 25 July 1900, pp.146, 179; 26 Sept 1900, p.224:

BBC Mins, 28 Nov 1900, p.30: Bailey 2012, p.??

52. BDA: BBC Mins, 13, 27 April 1904, pp.15, 41; 25 Jan 1905, p.342; 22 March 1905,

p.429: IR58/88464/3545–52: EH, Blue Plaques file no.154

53. CERC, file D695454/1, 3

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54. Ibid: WHS, BP/6/5/90, 92: The Times, 5 April 1866, p.16

55. C. H. Spurgeon, The Early Years, 1897, p.498: B, 15 June 1867, p.439: The Times, 27

March 1869, p.16; 1 May 1869, p.14

56. BDA: B, 14 Nov 1868, p.850; 19 Dec 1868, p.936: RB

57. BDA 907, 910, 1124–8, 1626, 1697, 1924

58. Census

59. B, 19 Dec 1868, p.936; 28 Dec 1878, p.1372: BDA 917, 1900: Census

60. BDA 2464, 3085, 3139, 3267, 3270, 3339: B, 11 June 1881, p.750: Census

61. BDA 3062, 3491: IR58/88460

62. CERC, file D695454/3: LMA, MBW/BA/38033: MBW Mins, 27 April 1888,

pp.731, 914: WHS, misc. deeds: Walker, p.263

63. B, 15 March 1890, p.201: WHS, BP/6/5/939

64. BDA: WHS, misc. deeds: LMA, MBW/BA/37262: Census: EH, Blue Plaques file

ref?

65. OS of c.1894–6: IR58/88479/5073–4

66. BDA: BBC Mins, 31 Dec 1902, p.329: Buildings of Clapham, p.185: POD

67. BBC Mins, 26 June 1901, p.136; 27 Nov 1901, p.330; 8 Jan 1902, p.399; 29 April

1903, p.41; 28 Nov 1906, p.225: LCC Mins, 16 July 1901, p.969: BDA: Buildings of

Clapham, p.186

68. IR58/88479/5072: BDA

69. BDA

70. Ibid: Buildings of Clapham, pp.180, 183

71. LMA, GLC/AR/DS/1/00011

72. Land Registry documents in the possession of Mr Colin Beswick: BDA: London

Gazette, 19 Sept 1865: Census: B, 2 Oct 1870, p.854

73. POD: Census: Mary O’Connor, Our Roots Under The Rock, 2006, pp.17, 18, 31, 35,

281

74. The Times, 16 April 1897, p.1: Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 29

June 1897; 19 Oct 1898

75. DSR: BV Mins, 10 May 1899, p.66; 12 Sept 1900, p.200: IR58/88460/3106

76. IR58/88460/3106: Census: POD: Probate records on Ancestry: info from

www.seamusjking.com

77. POD: WP

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78. B, 28 Aug 1869, p.676: John Culme, The Dictionary of Gold and Silversmiths, vol.1,

1987, p.297: other information kindly provided by John Culme: Survey of London,

vol.38, pp.29–32; vol.42, p.130: TNA, HO 1/157/6224

79. RIBA, Biog. file

80. WHS, local enquiry file

81. BBC website: WP: WHS, local enquiry file

82. WP: EH, Historians’ file WW99: www.dinmac.co.uk: worldarchitecturenews.com

83. Robson and Appleby family birth, marriage and death records on Ancestry:

Census

84. POD: CERC, file D695669/1, 6

85. WHS, BP/6/5/342: LMA, MBW/BA/21757: MBW Mins, 6 Aug 1875, p.261

86. CERC, file D695669/6: BN, 23 June 1876, p.620

87. The Times, 22 Nov 1879, p.14

88. MBW Mins, 21 Jan 1876, p.97: LMA, MBW/BA/21757: BDA 213: Hull City

Archives, DBHT/9/417; DBHT/5/617

89. LMA, MBW/BA/31118: CERC, file D695669/6: BDA 2802, 220

90. BDA 211–13, 219, 220: DSR: CERC, file D695669/6

91. Hull City Archives, DBHT/9/417; DBHT/5/617

92. SLP, 14 May 1881, p.16: The Times, 20 May 1881, p.15; 18 June 1881, p.16; 6 Aug

1881, p.14; 13 Aug 1881, p.15: CERC, file D695669/6

93. CERC, file D695669/6: POD: info from www.calstock-

history.org.uk/brickworks.htm: The Times, 7 Oct 1890, p.1

94. CERC file D695669/6: Census: information from Timothy Walker

95. LCC Mins, 19 Dec 1911, p.1494: LCC, London Statistics, vol.24, 1915, p.253: British

Journal of Inebriety, vol.13, 1916, p.48: WHS, local enquiry file

96. BDA: LMA, MBW/BA/21757

97. Buildings of Clapham, p.166: BDA

98. CERC, file D695669/6: LMA, MBW/BA/30000: BDA

99. LMA, MBW/BA/31118; B/CHE/363: WHS, St Luke’s Parish Magazine, Dec 1908,

p.16: Bailey 2008, p.43

100. BDA: CERC, file D695669/1: IR58/88460, 88461

101. BDA 3025, 3341

102. LMA, MBW/BA/37262

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103. BDA 2777, 2873, 2955, 3015, 3343: CERC file D695669/1, 6, 7

104. BDA 3031, 3056, 3067, 3170, 3180, 3183: Census

105. WHS, BP/6/5/438, 442, 464

106. BDA 151–4, 738–9, 1654–5; WHS, misc. deeds: Bailey, 1995, pp.228–9

107. MBW Mins, 2 May 1884, p.748: WHS, BP/6/5/924

108. BDA

109. Census

110. B, 28 Feb 1885, p.326: BDA

111. WHS, BP/6/5/758–60, 801, 891, 925: MBW Mins, 13 March 1885, p.526; 17 April

1885, p.707

112. BDA: DSR: Bailey 2012, p.??

113. LCC Mins, 28 Oct 1902, p.1550: BBC Mins, 12, 26 July 1905, pp.112, 136; 25 Oct

1905, p.206; 28 March 1906, p.404; 25 July 1906, p.134; 12 Dec 1906, p.249; 11 Sept

1907, p.165; 11 Dec 1907, p.301; 8 April 1908, p.12

114. WP

115. The Times, 21 June 1907, p.10: Deeds formerly in the possession of the late

Patricia Spencer-Silver

116. WHS, BP/6/5/1784; Battersea Rise House auction particulars: BBC Mins, 23 Dec

1908, p.358; 28 April 1909, p.46; 14 July 1909, p.163; 28 Sept 1910, p.212; 13 Sept 1911,

p.135

117. BDA: BBC Mins, 1908–1915 passim: Bailey 2012, p.??

118. WHS, BP/6/5/1857: BBC Mins, 9 Dec 1914, p.248

119. Deeds at house: LCC Mins, 20 Jan 1914, p.94: Death record on Ancestry: WHS,

electoral registers

120. BDA: WHS, BP/6/5/1893, 1894, 1900: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/22/BA/045916

121. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/22/BA/045916: WHS, BP/6/5/1894

122. WHS, BBC Mins, 21 Nov 1923, p.178; 26 March 1924, p.266; 28 May 1924, p.43; 23

July 1924, p.93: BDA

123. BDA: WHS, BP/6/5/2121

124. CERC, files D695568/15; D695568/17: information kindly supplied by Paul

Hadley

125. Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd (1947)

126. BBC Mins, 24 July 1946, p.100; 21 July 1948, p.115; 30 Nov 1949, p.220

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127. Ibid., 24 July 1946, pp.99–100; 26 Feb 1947, p.322; 2 Nov 1947, p.195; 1 June 1949,

p.24; 30 Dec 1949, p.249; 4 Oct 1950, p.167; 3 Oct 1951, p.156: AJ, 1 Feb 1951, p.150

128. BBC Mins, 28 Jan 1948, p.257; 26 Jan 1949, p.287; 30 March 1949, pp.378–9; 30

Nov 1949, p.219; 28 March 1951, p.409

129. Ibid., 31 Dec 1947, p.227; 21 July 1948, p.131; 29 March 1950, p.362; 27 Feb 1952,

p.332

130. Ibid., 1 Dec 1948, p.226; 23 Feb 1949, p.32; 10 Aug 1949, pp.117–8; 30 Nov 1949,

p.214; 1 March 1950, p.334; 28 Feb 1951, p.372; 26 March 1952, p.369

131. Ibid., 21 Dec 1960, p.222; 31 May 1961, p.34; 26 Sept 1962, pp.116, 124; 16 Dec

1964, p.207

132. Ibid., 29 Sept 1954, p.136; 27 Oct 1954, p.174; 24 Oct 1954, p.219; 26 Jan 1955,

p.259; 23 Nov 1955, p.212; 26 July 1961, p.90

133. B, 24 March 1967, pp.69–71

134. BBC Mins, 26 Feb 1964, p.279; 25 March 1964, p.304; 24 June 1964, pp.53–4; 23

Sept 1964, p.123: WBC Mins, 6 Oct 1965, pp.82–3; 15 June 1966, pp.68–9

135. WBC Mins, 26 July 1967, pp.83–6; 20 March 1968, pp.46–7; 209 April 1969, pp.33–

4; 7 Oct 1969, pp.12–14; 15 Dec 1970, pp.23; 25 July 1972, p.12

136. Ibid., 10 July 1973, pp.11–13, 49; 23 March 1976, p.2

CHAPTER 19 (pp.###–###)

South of Wandsworth Common

1. Clapham Gazette, Jan 1856, p.32

2. Ibid., May 1866, p.80: LMA, BC/B/18: BV Mins, 19 May 1825: Tithe

3. BV Mins, 5 June 1827: Thomas Milne, Land Use Map of London & Environs in 1800,

1801: WAC, D1743a/49

4. WAC, Mins of the Governors and Directors of the Poor of St James’s, vol.34, p.186;

D1743a/2; D1743a/49

5. WAC, D1743a/49: LCC, Names of Streets and Places in the Administrative County of

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London, 1955 edn

6. WAC, D1743a/9; D1743a/19

7. Tim Sherwood, Change at Clapham Junction, 1994, pp.44–6

8. WHS, ‘Wandsworth Common Preservation’, 2 vols of cuttings etc., collected by

Edwin R. Ransome

9. The Times, 3 Sept 1863, p.8

10. SOX 212: The Times, 14 Feb 1863, p.16: Daily News, 13 July 1863

11. WDBW Mins, 2 Dec 1863; 27 Jan 1864: MBW Mins, 11 Dec 1863, p.1125; 2 Jan

1864, pp.116, 117: The Times, 2 July 1864, p.16

12. RB: IR58/88454, 88455: BDA

13. RB: BDA: MBW Mins, 19 Dec 1883, p.54

14. BDA 2996, 3356: DSR: POD

15. B, 4 Sept 1869, p.715: DSR: RB: POD: BDA 1148, 1157, 2005, 5191

16. RB: BDA: IR58/88454, 88455: MBW Mins, 21 June 1878, p.946

17. WHS, BP/6/5/2199

18. WDBW Mins, 29 June 1864: WAC, D1743a/49

19. WAC, D1743a/19: MBW Mins, 26 Nov 1875, p.606: Supplement to the Manchester

Weekly Times, 23 March 1878, p.96: WHS, misc. deeds

20. MBW Mins, 25 Oct 1878, p.527; 15 Nov 1878, p.622: WHS, BP/6/5/893: LMA,

MBW/BA/26101

21. LMA, MBW/BA/28537; LMA/4456/06/02/007–9

22. WDBW Mins, 22 Oct 1879, pp.10, 12: BBC Mins, 8 June 1904, pp.76, 80: BDA: DSR

23. WHS, BP/6/5/893: BDA 2105

24. BDA: IR58/88458

25. BDA: WP: SWS, 9 Jan 1892, p.6

26. WHS, BP/6/5/859: BDA 2492, 2693

27. DSR: BDA: IR58/88457, 88458

28. BDA 2435: LMA, WaBG/62/1, p.464: SWS, 18 Dec 1908: POD

29. BDA: DSR

30. LCC Mins, 15 July 1890, pp.648–9: LCC, Names of Streets and Places in the

Administrative County of London, 1912 edn

31. WHS, Wandsworth drainage applications, ST22, 3512; ST24, 3807, 3842: BBC

Mins, 10 April 1901, p.16; 24 July 1901, p.193: POD

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32. BDA: WHS, BP/6/5/1683: IR58/88456/2711–12

33. A. Stuart Gray, Edwardian Architecture, p.218: B, 22 Jan 1943, p.95: WH, no.40,

March 1984, pp.16–21: BDA: LMA, P95/TRI2/57–60

34. BDA: WHS, BP/6/5/2074, 2076

35. WHS, ‘Wandsworth Common Preservation’, 2 vols of cuttings etc., collected by

Edwin R. Ransome; Wandsworth Common Protection Association, ‘Wandsworth

Common, 1891’; BP/6/5/1314

36. BDA: IR58/88458, 88459: BV Mins, May 1895–March 1899, passim: LCC Mins, 1

Aug 1899, p.1235

37. BDA: IR58/88459: BV Mins, 27 Sept 1899, p.197: BBC Mins, 12 Dec 1900, p.52; 1

Feb 1902, p.430

38. LMA, LCC bomb damage maps; GLC/AR/DA/01/00018: WP

39. WP

40. These paragraphs are based mainly on WHS, misc. file

41. Census: POD

42. The Times, 9 Dec 1876, p.6: WAC, D1743a/49

43. Census: IR58/88456, 88457

44. IR58/88458, 88459: Census

45. Census: POD: ODNB

46. IR58/88454, 88455: POD

47. The Times, 22 Jan 2010: New Statesman, 5 June 2000: info from

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