DerelictLondon2010updates

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" height=115 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="832" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 1 WIDTH="237"><div> <IMG SRC="27878c5a0.jpg" border=0 width="140" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2789333e0.jpg" border=0 width="307" height="62" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:derelictlondon@yahoo.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:derelictlondon@yahoo.co.uk"><U><IMG SRC="08950190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>   <A HREF="home_page.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home Page"><U><IMG SRC="0aa50190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>  <A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London Guestbook"><U><IMG SRC="08a50190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 WIDTH="248"><div> <IMG SRC="27888c590.jpg" border=0 width="140" height="89" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=365 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Derelict London 2010 Updates</B></div> <bR> <div> Right before I start ....please can I make it clear (again) that<B> I cannot help with enquiries from property speculators, film location scouts,students, photographers &  artists wanting to get access into these buildings</B>. I have no dealings with the owners of any derelict properties and cannot arrange access. As for letting people know of what places are easily accessible I cant help there either - the situation changes constantly so if a place is easy to access one week its often boarded up the next.....</div> <bR> <div> Despite me repeating this time and time again  I still get about a dozen of these emails every week. Of course Im happy to help individuals ( with locations, etc) who are genuinely interested in seeing these sites in person or wish to share stories about a particular site.</div> <bR> <div> Apart from a few tip offs most of the locations on this site are on here because I randomly stumbled upon them when walking down the street.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="287f1f970.jpg" border=0 width="543" height="407" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <B>HOLLAND PARK</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="27c16cea0.jpg" border=0 width="364" height="490" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <IMG SRC="27c5b0ea0.jpg" border=0 width="432" height="490" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <B>BROMPTON CEMETERY</B> (left) and <B>EARLS COURT</B> (right)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="27a575180.png" border=0 width="373" height="280" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="27ab73160.jpg" border=0 width="371" height="278" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>CAMBERWELL </B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2868e41f0.jpg" border=0 width="484" height="287" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="28667a200.jpg" border=0 width="378" height="288" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>MARYLEBONE</B> - <B>MOXON STREET CAR PARK</B></div> <bR> <div> Following slum housing clearance in 1966 the site was designated for educational use however, despite a series of school proposals for the site it has remained undeveloped. The site was transferred to the City Council on the condition that the land cannot be disposed of before late 2011. The site which is a few feet below ground level is now used as a car park and a Sunday farmers market. Remains of old buildings form parts of a wall around the car park.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="286af0430.jpg" border=0 width="496" height="323" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <B>BATTERSEA - ST MARK'S SCHOOL</B></div> <bR> <div> Former St Mark's Infant School - a Church School of 1866-67 designed by Benjamin Ferrey. The building is now vacant and in poor condition with structural problems to the rear wall</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="286ea3270.jpg" border=0 width="419" height="295" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="286d7c270.jpg" border=0 width="380" height="295" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>BERMONDSEY - VALENTINE AND ORSON</B></div> <bR> <div> A pub of this name originally built in the 1850's stood just down the road and  It looks to have been re-built at this spot  in the   1960's.. The name comes from a  medieval story of two brothers separated at birth, one raised at court and the other by a bear in the forest. However in the pubs final days it was simply called Valentines.</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="2870c52c0.jpg" border=0 width="453" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>BERMONDSEY</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="28712b8f0.jpg" border=0 width="299" height="399" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <B>BERMONDSEY  - SLIPPER BATHS</B></div> <bR> <div>  Baths like this were built by local authorities from the 1860's onwards to allow poor people to wash themselves (as distinct from swimming baths). Slipper baths were bath tubs in a similar shape to a slipper, slowing the rate of cooling of hot water and considered to protect the modesty of the bather.<I>One paid and went through a turnstile to join the queue which on busy days might spill out on to the street. The front part of the queue sat on wooden benches, moving up each time the Attendant called 'Next! </I> The building is now the home of Shekinah Ministries</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="288061110.jpg" border=0 width="353" height="529" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>KINGS CROSS </B></div> <bR> <div>   <IMG SRC="27a78f780.jpg" border=0 width="399" height="376" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>CAMBERWELL</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="27a95c7b0.jpg" border=0 width="348" height="379" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></div> <div> <B>CAMBERWELL - NAGS HEAD</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="27aeff540.jpg" border=0 width="255" height="340" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="27b201560.jpg" border=0 width="257" height="342" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="27b4ec570.jpg" border=0 width="236" height="343" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <B>CAMBERWELL - THE CASTLE</B></div> <bR> <div> Local press reports that this pub is being converted into a mosque. On this site originally stood the Castle Hall Electric Theatre (late known as Castle Picture Palace)</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> <IMG SRC="2877dc420.jpg" border=0 width="476" height="322" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B><B><IMG SRC="2878ae420.jpg" border=0 width="430" height="322" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Chambers Wharf in 2007  (left) and in 2010 (right)</div> <bR> <div> <B>BERMONDSEY SE16 - CHAMBERS WHARF</B></div> <bR> <div> Chambers Wharf seen elsewhere on this website & in the Derelict London book in all its derelict glory is now sadly no more......</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="2861c2510.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="337" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2863c2510.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="337" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>WEST NORWOOD</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="27ba2c900.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>MOORGATE</B></div> <div> Decaying barbers shop sign</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="27bec2520.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>CLERKENWELL - CATTLE DRINKING TROUGH</B></div> <bR> <div> Cattle troughs provided by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association  are still all over London.  The Association was set up in London in 1859  against a background of a filthy rivers full of untreated sewage, rubbish and effluent from factories, water borne cholera and generally  inadequate free drinking water. By 1885 over 50,000 horses were drinking daily from the Association’s troughs in London. These days the troughs are used as flower beds.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="27c32c900.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>ST GEORGES CIRCUS,SE1 - THE DUKE OF CLARENCE</B></div> <bR> <div> This pub has been derelict since the 1980's though in recent years there has been some building work on the block of buildings that this old pub is situated on.  The boards on the ground floor are painted to disguise the dereliction this there are posters in the windows by squatters  in protest  at the building, now owned by London South Bank University, being left empty for so long.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The Duke of Clarence was built about 1820 and is a listed building on the English Heritage Buildings at Risk Register. Shortly before its closure, the pub was known for its popular go-go dancers entertainment.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <IMG SRC="2872fe3c0.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="316" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> UPDATE -  <B> SURREY DOCKS STADIUM - FISHER ATHLETIC FC</B></div> <bR> <div> The stadium seen in the sports ground section is becoming much more dilapidated. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="27d52c900.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <B>CHELSEA  </B></div> <bR> <div> Not everybody reads warning signs............</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2874844f0.jpg" border=0 width="388" height="335" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></div> <div> <B>WEST NORWOOD - THE GIPSY QUEEN</B></div> <bR> <div> The Great North Wood once stretched from Croydon to Camberwell. Much of it was common land, used by the poor to collect timber for fuel and to graze livestock. It was also the haunt of charcoal burners  who made the main fuel for London before coal took over in the late 18th century.</div> <bR> <div> 'Norwood' is a shortened form of North Wood. The Great North Wood was common land, used by the poor to collect timber for fuel and to graze livestock. It  was also the home of gipsies. Londoners came to the area to have their fortunes told by the 'gipsy queens' and take refreshments at the taverns.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <IMG SRC="287ae2130.jpg" border=0 width="226" height="275" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="287b6f130.jpg" border=0 width="367" height="275" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="287c6e120.jpg" border=0 width="366" height="274" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>CAMBERWELL - REMNANTS OF OLD STREETS IN  BURGESS PARK </B></div> <bR> <div> Unlike most other parks in London, Burgess Park was originally a  built-up area of the city. Virtually all the land now occupied by the park was previously housing, industry and transport infrastructure and the land has been gradually assembled and landscaped over recent decades. An important stage in the construction of the park was the closure and infilling of the Grand Surrey Canal in the early 1970s.The Canal served the Surrey Commercial Docks, and the area near Camberwell was full of 19th century streets, houses and industrial buildings (including a ginger beer factory), many of which had suffered heavy bomb damage during WWII.  While some of this housing was in very poor condition, a lot of perfectly serviceable homes were demolished to build the park, and this has resulted in very strong local feelings about the park.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="27e1ce570.jpg" border=0 width="462" height="343" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>BERMONDSEY - WELCOME TO MILLWALL FOOTBALL CLUB</B></div> <bR> <div> A  "Not So Derelict London" view of the New Den seen through a railway arch</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="287d88270.jpg" border=0 width="392" height="295" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="27e4b02c0.jpg" border=0 width="432" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <B>GREENWICH</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="27eaf4450.jpg" border=0 width="244" height="325" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="27ecc9440.jpg" border=0 width="457" height="324" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>H</B><B>O</B><B>LLOWAY ROAD N7</B></div> <bR> <div>   <IMG SRC="27f1c2520.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2835c2520.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="2833c2520.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="2837c2520.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>MOORGATE (ST ALPHAGE HIGHWALK) - MIDLAND BANK, THE PODIUM AND THE PLOUGH</B></div> <bR> <div> All closed down a while back to make way for development which I believe is all on hold now due to the recession.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <IMG SRC="27f79c900.jpg" border=0 width="412" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>MORDEN - THE CROWN</B></div> <bR> <div> This depressing looking place was a quite a friendly pub according to local sources</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="27f3c25f0.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="351" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <B>DEPTFORD - VICTORIA HALL (PREVIOUSLY VICTORIA CHAPEL)</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="derelictlondon2010updates_part2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DerelictLondon2010updates part2"><U><B>(more)</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <div> <A HREF="derelictlondon2010updates_part2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DerelictLondon2010updates part2"><U><B><IMG SRC="289afae00.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="224" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>