Clapham and Brixton Tour

 

 

 

SITES

Imperial War Museum

Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park. Piece of Berlin Wall, Soviet Army Memorial, Tibetan Garden.

Lambeth Walk. A former commercial  street

Henry Moore Sculpture Studio, former parochial Mission Hall, now arts school.

China Walk Estate. All the buildings bear a name of a China manufacturing locality

Lupino Court. Ida Lupino

Shopping parade: artwork

The former Jolly Gardeners Pub became the Zeitgeist, German restaurant

Site of the 18th c. Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

Vauxhall City Farm.
The Old Dairy Cafe.

St.Peter's Church.

The Tea House Theatre.

Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
MI6 Support Building (?)

Bonnington Square. Cafe. Harleyford Community Garden

The Oval Cricket Ground

Calvary Church of God in Christ

St.Stephen's Church

Little Portugal: on South Lambeth Road. Cafes, restaurants and shops.

The Canton Arms PH

Alongside Lansdowne Gardens

Stockwell. Sir Roger Moore was born in the Jeffreys Road maternity hospital.

Alongside Larkhall Lane

Larkhall Park. It reminds us of the old mansion Lark Hall.

Alongside Larkhall Rise

Alongside Rectory Grove. 18th c. Houses

St.Paul's Church. Eden at St.Paul's Community Garden

Clapham Old Town. Shops, cafes, restaurants, pubs.

The Polygon area. The Rose and Crown PH.

Alongside the North Side

The Pavement

The Clapham Common. 

Holy Trinity Church.

Cock Pond.

Temperance Memorial

Old Milestone

Recovery Kitchen Cafe

Long Pond

The Windmill PH

Alongside Narbonne Avenue

Abbeville Road Village. Shops, restaurant, cafes and pubs

Alongside Elms Crescent

St. Saviour's Church

Blenheim Gardens PO Sorting Office

Brixton Windmill.

Rush Common

St./Matthew's Church

Brixton

Black Cultural Archive. Exhibions & Cafe

Ritzy Cinema.

Electric Avenue Market

Brixton Village & other Shopping Arcades

Tunstall Road. David Bowie mural

POP Brixton

Alongside Pope's Road

Church of St. John the Evangelist

Angell Town

Alongside Overton Road

Alongside Loughborough Road

Site of The Loughborough Hotel. 

Alongside Bramah Road

Myatts Field Community Centre. Cafe.

The Camberwell Submarine, on Akerman Road

Plaque in memory of Cherry Dorothy Groce: shot here by police. This event sparked the 1985 Brixton Riots

Mostyn Gardens

Regency  stuccoed terrace on Cowley Road

Holland Park Estate

Cranmer Road: Kennington Park Businness Centre.

Kennington. Shops, restaurants, cafes on Brixton Road

Holy Redemeer Church

Glenshaw Mansions. Plaque in memory of Charlie Chaplin

(he lived here the years prior to his departure to the USA)

Christchurch

St.Marks' Church. Farmers' Market (Saturdays, on churchyard)

 

Kennington Park. Prince Albert Model Dwellings &

other monuments.

Inside the Brandon Estate, sculptor

Henry Moore's Two Piece Reclining Figure 

Off the Clapham Road, Hanover Gardens,

Georgian development

Alongside Harleyford Road. The Oval. Ovalhouse.

Plaque in memory of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

(born here, 1887)

Alongside Kennington Oval (street)

Gasholders

Alongside Vauxhall Street.  Gasholder Art Gallery.

Oval Village & Beefeater Gin Distillery nearby

Shops and Cafes

Alongside Jonathan Street

Alongside Vauxhall Walk

Alongside Black Prince Road.

Site of Queen's Head PH. Charlie Chaplin inspiration.

Nearby, Beaconsfield and Newport Art Galleries

Site of Doulton

Site of the London Fire Brigade HQ

Alongside Lambeth High Street.

Site of St.Mary's  Parish Church of Lambeth. Now, the Garden Museum.

Lambeth Palace 

Thames Embankment (beautiful views of the Houses of Parliament)

Archbishop Park.

Hercules  William Blake Road Estate. "Passport to Pimlico" film location.

The Hercules Public House

Christchurch

Imperial War Museum