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Right before I start ....please can I make it clear (again) that I cannot help with enquiries from property speculators, film location scouts or artists wanting to get access into these buildings. I have no dealings with the owners of any derelict properties and cannot arrange access.Despite me saying this on the index page 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.
Here is a selection of new pictures uploaded to Derelict London during Summer 2009. As I take more over Summer I shall keep adding to this page. Elsewhere on the site there are quite a few more pics added from earlier in the year in their respective sections.Its all going on now as its taken ages to revamp this site.....
CATFORD - THE GEORGE (left) & RISING SUN (right)
CHARLTON - DURHAM WHARF
EDGWARE ROAD (PADDINGTON GREEN)
The left pic is of some old gates leading to a demolition site. The right pic is a redundant petrol filling station.
GREENWICH
Disused ladies wear shop
LATIMER ROAD - MALS FISH AND CHIP SHOP
This shop has been closed for just over 20 years but it is still sitting here like a time capsule as Mal's son cleans it every Monday. When open it served fish and chips wrapped in newspaper & according to one person who wrote to Derelict London it had the best fish and chips in London.
GREENWICH - SANDWICH HOUSE (left & centre) and BAKER STREET CAFE (right)
NEW CROSS
NORTH KENSINGTON
GREENWICH - THAMES FORESHORE
WOOLWICH - RIVER THAMES
NORTH GREENWICH - RIVER THAMES
GREENWICH - RIVER THAMES
CHARLTON - RIVER THAMES
The Thames is a dumping ground for everything including the kitchen sink.......
WOOLWICH - JETTIES
WOOLWICH - THE MITRE
ERITH
SILVERTOWN
EAST ACTON (left), GREENWICH (centre) and PADDINGTON GREEN (right)
KENSAL GREEN - BRIDGE OVER THE CANAL (left) & WESTBOURNE GREEN - UNDER THE WESTWAY (right)
WOOLWICH - THE OLD COOP DEPARTMENT STORE
The 1930s Co-Op building in Powis Street has been earmarked for demolition by the Council, who want to redevelop the whole "Woolwich Triangle" are with a hotel, shops & housing.
Rev. Sue Scottley ( www.welovewoolwich.co.uk ) writes: Most of the site is empty Victorian shops which have been left to rot for some years, and have taken the opportunity with glee, but the Co-Op building is a striking art deco style department store with a tower and is a one of three large 1930s buildings at that end of town. The other two are safe, being occupied by a church and a bingo hall, indeed the bingo hall was open during the London Open House weekends because it's so beautiful and well-preserved. So even though that end of town could well be described as our "Art Deco quarter" the Council insists on wanting to demolish the Co-Op. I've started petitions online and in town, and I'm getting quite a lot of support. . I live across the road from the rotting Victoriana, and am disgusted and aghast with the Council that seems determined to write off my end of town a hopeless dump, even though my side of the street is thriving and has no vacant shops! I really don't see why they can't refurbish and redevelop rather than demolish the whole "Triangle".
WOOLWICH
EAST DULWICH - THE OGLANDER
THAMESMEAD - PILLBOX
The turret in the left pic is believed to be the base of a rotating anti aircraft gun holder. This pillbox was strategically placed by the Thames to protect nearby
Woolwich Arsenal just up the Thames and the Beckton gas works just over the river.
EAST ACTON - HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL
Hammersmith Hospital is a major teaching hospital in West London. The buildings origins begin in 1902 when it was a workhouse & infirmiary.Roger Daltrey was born here on March 1st, 1944. It’s right next to Wormwood Scrubs Prison. The demolition of some existing building is to make way for erection of a 6 storey building for use as biomedical research laboratories costing £100 million.
GREENWICH - OLD VICARAGE
LADBROKE GROVE - THE COWSHED
This pub used as the exterior in the Al Murray comedy "Time Gentlemen Please"
A review on Qype says "The Cowshed is a proper filthy pub. It is grotty and dirty - it is your typical smelly old man’s pub. It’s always pretty empty and smells as though the smoking ban has never been taken into account. The benches are covered in leather which is so old it has been ripped and consequently patched up with gaffer tape."
The building is for sale with a £750,000 guide price.
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SOHO
BRENTFORD
CLAPHAM OLD TOWN
BRENTFORD
CRYSTAL PALACE
This is a shot of the opposite end (seen previously on the site & the book) of the sealed-up tunnel is on what was the Nunhead to Crystal Palace branch of the London Chatham & Dover Railway, opened in 1865 and closed in 1954. It is now used as a roost for bats. The house is the old Sydenham Station building.
DENMARK HILL
FITZROVIA - MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL
The hospital shown previously on this site and in the book in its derelict state has now been demolished and and all that remains is one facade and amazingly the chapel which was in the middle. Now the demolition has been completed, the work on the ambitious new luxury buildings have not started due to the credit crunch......
The Middlesex Hospital's history goes back 250 years. The Middlesex Infirmary opened in 1745 with 18 beds to provide medical treatment for the poor. Funding came from subscriptions and in 1747, the hospital became the first in England to add 'lying-in' (inpatient) beds.The foundation stone on the present site was laid in 1755 and in 1757, The Middlesex Hospital opened on its current site. Over the years, extra wings were added but in 1924, it was decided that the building was about to collapse and something had to be done. Huge efforts were put into a "The Middlesex is falling down" campaign to raise the necessary million pounds plus to rebuild the hospital. Finally, without ever having closed its doors, the new Middlesex was opened in 1935 and eventually closed in December 2005.
SHOREDITCH - POLICE STATION & MAGISTRATES COURT
Built 1903-8 to the design of John Dixon Butler in an Edwardian Baroque style. One of the finest Edwardian civic buildings in London according to English Heritage. Planning permission and listed building consent granted in 2008 for conversion to a hotel but work not yet started on site.
I bet this building could tell a few stories. For starters I heard that Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell were there, charged with stealing books from Islington library & the Krays were charged here in 1965 for demanding money with menaces.
STAINES
TOOTING
MARYLEBONE - THE BARLEY MOW
. Built in 1791 and a listed building.:It was originally a farmer’s pub. The landlord must have been short of funds as part of the bar was converted into a licensed pawnbrokers. The two small cubicles to the side of the bar which were used as the pawnbroker’s shop are the remaining evidence of this.Thanks to Danny Michelson for this information
CHISWICK
Another closure of a small local Post Ofiice
FROGNALL
GROSVENOR SQUARE
These telephones were linked directly to the local police station allowing patrolling officers to keep in contact with the station, reporting anything unusual, requesting help if necessary, or even to detain suspects until a vehicle could be sent to transport them to the station or to jail. A light on top of the box would flash to alert an officer that he/she was requested to contact the station. Members of the public could also use the phone to contact a police station in an emergency. Police boxes played an important role in police work between 1928 and 1970, when they were phased out following the introduction of personal radios.
EARLS COURT
In 1997, a new police box was erected outside the Earl's Court tube station equipped with CCTV cameras and a telephone to contact police. The telephone ceased to function in April 2000 when London's telephone numbers were changed, but the box remained despite the fact that funding for its upkeep and maintenance had long since been exhausted. In h 2005, the Metropolitan Police resumed funding the refurbishment and maintenance of the box (which is something of a tourist attraction due to the Doctor Who association)
HAMPSTEAD
KILBURN
PECKHAM
MARBLE ARCH BATTERSEA
A couple of derelict restaurants
STREATHAM - REGAL CINEMA (aka ABC & Cannon)
Opened as The Regal in 1938 with Ginger Rogers in "Vivacious Lady" with seating for nearly 2000 people.The side walls of the circle had backlit niches in the sidewalls which contained Art Deco style figurines. Re-named the ABC in 1977 then later Cannon Cinema then back to ABC just before closing in 2000. It had been given a Grade II Listed building status but only the front not the auditorium.
Squatters moved in and caused several fires and there were raves in the vacant building. Unfortunatrly in 2004 the auditorium was demolished & apartments were built on the site, with theoriginal cinema facade and foyer retained as an entrance.
STREATHAM - MECCA BOWLING CENTRE
Built originally as the Gaumont Palace and opened in 1932 to hold a cinema audience of nearly 2500. Constructed between the two World Wars this building represents a extravagant display of cinema building before the Second World War and television changed the nations viewing habits for good. The building suffered bomb damage during the war and was used thereafter as a factory. The cinema re-opened in 1955. & closed again in 1961,. The building reopened as Top Rank Bowl in 1962 with 40 lanes, the largest bowling alley in Europe. It had been a bowling alley ever since until closure in 2008.
Plans are to demolish the building and retain the facade and constructing a mixed use development including a theatre space.
ACTON
ARCHWAY
BATTERSEA PARK
A wild parakeet in the park. These are birds usually associated with the tropics but there are quite a few living in South-West London. Although you frequently hear their squawks, it’s very difficult to spot them.
Either these have bred from escaped pets or were from a group escaped from Shepperton Studios during the filming of The African Queen. The film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn (in 1951). Another story is that Jimi Hendix released a pair in Carnaby Street in the Sixties as a symbol of peace & the parakeet population grew from those 2 birds!
The government is said to be developing a strategy for dealing with the growing numbers of non-native species in the UK. In the meantime, it is unproven that parakeets are directly responsible for the demise of other birds.
BOROUGH - THE WHEATSHEAF
This is the first time that I have seen a pub with a "we have moved" sign. The Wheatsheaf pub in January 2009 as work on the long-awaited Thameslink viaduct through Borough Market gets under way. Over the next few years a new viaduct will be built through Borough Market to relieve congestion at this longstanding rail bottleneck as part of the expansion of the north-south Thameslink rail network.
The scheme's impact on Borough Market has been the subject of two public inquiries and much debate and now work is finally beginning.
EAST DULWICH
This "Help Point" is not very helpful
CLAPHAM
SIDCUP, DA14 - THE BLUE ROSE (AKA THE BLACK HORSE)
In the latter few years in this pubs life nobody seemed to have a good word to say about this place. Alternating between the two names, various landlords and even incorporating an Indian restaurant just before the end together with numerous tales of "attitude" & fighting....
LEE GREEN,SE12 - THE NEW TIGERS HEAD
The public house was built in the 18th century to service travellers moving from the Kent coast to Central London via Blackheath. The pub was frequently the centre of a frozen lake during the early 1800's when the River Quaggy regularly broke its banks and froze from January to June. Its busiest time was just before the Battle of Waterloo when for 3 weeks troops moved continuously from London to Dover via Lee Green.
SIDCUP, DA14 - VARIOUS EMPTY SHOPS
The credit crunch comes to Sidcup.........
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