Category: History - British
London, Chatham and Dover Railway--Battersea Park Station--York Road Station (Brighton Line).--West London Commercial Bank. London and South Western Bank.--Temperance and Band of Hope Meetings.--South London Tramways in Battersea--Fares. 180-181
London, Chatham and Dover Railway--Battersea Park Station--York Road Station (Brighton Line).--West London Commercial Bank. London and South Western Bank.--Temperance and Band o...
2. Part 2NINE ELMS LANE it is said derived its name from nine Elm Trees which stood in a row facing a small mansion known as "Manor House"--on the site there has recently been erected, p...
3. Part 3In England when caught in the Thames within the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor of London it is a _Royal Fish_ reserved for the Sovereign. The flesh is white, delicate, firm and...
4. Part 4On the 31st of October, 1865,[1] a terrible gas explosion took place, when ten men were killed and many others injured. At that time the houses in Haward Street being contiguous...
5. Part 5"This section was exposed on a piece of ground recently acquired by the London Gas-light Company for a Gas-holder Station. It is situated to the north of the Prince of Wales' Ro...
6. Part 6[Footnote 1: An alteration has been made in the Diocesan arrangement. Since 1877, Battersea together with other parishes in East and Mid-Surrey has been added to the See of Roch...
7. Part 7[Footnote 1: "Among other branches of industry introduced by the Flemings at Sandwich, that of gardening is worthy of notice. The people of Flanders had long been famous for the...
8. Part 8"Ring out the old year's evil, The world, the flesh, the devil; Let them go! let them go! And ring in the Prince of Peace, Messiah's gentle reign. And let war and bloodshed ceas...
9. Part 9It is thought that as the former Church was built of brick that probably it was not very ancient. A church is mentioned in Doomsday, a most ancient record, made in the time of W...
10. Part 10On the site where stood York House, Tudor Lodge, and Sherwood House, stands a great hive of industry known as Belmont Works or Price's Patent Candle Factory. Price's Patent Cand...
11. Part 11The history of the Ferry prior to the erection of the OLD WOODEN BRIDGE at Battersea can be traced back some two or three centuries. It was much used as a means of transporting...
12. Part 12Twenty carriages were devoted to the Members of Parliament, Members of the Metropolitan Board and the Officials the twentieth containing Sir James M'Garel Hogg and some ladies a...
13. Part 13On the Lammas land, in the summer months, gipsies pitched their encampments. On Sundays the place presented the aspect of a pleasure fair, lawlessness, Sabbath desecration, immo...
14. Part 14The two Circular Engine sheds, about 90 yards in diameter, belonging to the London, Brighton and South-Coast Railway Company, adjacent to the East-end of the Park, Victoria Road...
15. Part 15_Extracted from the Kensington News._--Amidst the various styles of ecclesiastical architecture which our modern amalgamation of various civilizations has produced, none strikes...
16. Part 16He has gone to his rest--the journey is o'er, And safely he lands on that bright, blissful shore, Where banished for ever is sorrow and pain, 'Mid the harps that are tuned to a...
17. Part 17"The new church is a plain Gothic structure built of red and stock bricks, and is 90 feet long by 70 feet wide. It consists of a nave, chancel, and two aisles, surmounted with a...
18. Part 18UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCH, Church Road, Battersea.--The Memorial Stone was laid by James Wild, Esq., May 25th, 1858. Another stone was laid by Mrs. Bowron, Sept. 22, 1864, wh...
19. Part 19WESLEYAN CHAPEL, QUEEN'S ROAD.--The following is a brief account of the rise and progress of Wesleyan Methodism in this neighbourhood. In the year 1871, in the order of God's pr...
20. Part 20CHRIST CHURCH NATIONAL SCHOOLS, Grove Road, Falcon Lane, were erected from designs of Mr. C. E. Robins, selected in competition, and were built by Messrs. Lathey Brothers at a c...
21. Part 21[Footnote 3: The scheme thus proposed has been abandoned. The temporary Hall has been taken down and seven houses with shops erected on the site, also a Temperance Hall. The Sha...
22. Part 22Situated on Wandsworth Common and overlooking the London Brighton and South-Coast and South-Western Railways are the Royal Victoria Patriotic Schools for Boys and Girls, childre...
23. Part 23Adjoining are the Citizen Steamboat Company's Works and Dock, whose steamboats leave Battersea to London Bridge and intervening piers every ten minutes from 8 a.m. till dark. En...
24. Part 24The Romans had their places of interment in the suburbs and fields especially the highways; hence the necessity of inscriptions. We have a few exceptional instances of persons b...
25. Part 25Here is another stone erected by loving hands. In memory of Sarah Appleton who died June 5, 1860, aged one month. Also of Minnie Appleton who died March 10, 1864, aged 13 months...
26. Part 26LAVENDER HILL END _to_ BRIGHTON RAILWAY STATION, OF QUEEN'S ROAD, BATTERSEA PARK ROAD. First Car leaves 8.10 a.m. First Car leaves 8.25 a.m. Last Car do. 10.0 p.m. Last Car do....