View of York Road
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View of York Road
View of York Road
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SC_PHL_01_260_49_274 (Collage 91668)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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View of York Road, Waterloo, looking north. In the foreground is a vacant plot with benches, planted with shrubs and trees. Across Chicheley Street, with a CAUTION ROAD UP sign on the corner, is another large vacant plot. Buildings on this site were destroyed in a V1 rocket attack on the 23rd June 1944 killing three people and injuring 48. Buildings on the east side of York Road were also destroyed and the site on the corner with York Street is enclosed by numerous advertising hoardings including for Mansfield Shoes. The area north of Chicheley Street was used for the Festival of Britain in 1951 and occupied by The National Scene and Country Pavilion, the Minerals of the Island Pavilion and The Land of Britain Pavilion. It is now occupied by high-rise retail, office and residential apartments. On the corner of York Road and Leake Street (formerly York Street) is the Duke of York pub advertising Reids Stout. The Rising Sun pub is on the corner of Jenkins Street (previously Vine Street), and York Road. In York Road are numerous vehicles including Black Cabs. A railway bridge crosses the road which carries trains from Waterloo East, formerly Waterloo Junction Station, across Hungerford Bridge to Charing Cross. In the background is the Royal Waterloo Hospital Building founded on the corner of Waterloo Road and Stamford Street in 1823. Its name was changed in 1852 to the Royal Infirmary for Children and Women, on receipt of an annual bequest on condition that the hospital admitted inpatients and treated women. The Renaissance style building dates from 1903 and is Grade II listed, listing number 1356166. Adjacent is Waterloo Bridge House built in the 1930s by architects Howard and Souster. Both buildings now form part of the Kings College London campus.
View of York Road, Waterloo, looking north. In the foreground is a vacant plot with benches, planted with shrubs and trees. Across Chicheley Street, with a CAUTION ROAD UP sign on the corner, is another large vacant plot. Buildings on this site were destroyed in a V1 rocket attack on the 23rd June 1944 killing three people and injuring 48. Buildings on the east side of York Road were also destroyed and the site on the corner with York Street is enclosed by numerous advertising hoardings including for Mansfield Shoes. The area north of Chicheley Street was used for the Festival of Britain in 1951 and occupied by The National Scene and Country Pavilion, the Minerals of the Island Pavilion and The Land of Britain Pavilion. It is now occupied by high-rise retail, office and residential apartments. On the corner of York Road and Leake Street (formerly York Street) is the Duke of York pub advertising Reids Stout. The Rising Sun pub is on the corner of Jenkins Street (previously Vine Street), and York Road. In York Road are numerous vehicles including Black Cabs. A railway bridge crosses the road which carries trains from Waterloo East, formerly Waterloo Junction Station, across Hungerford Bridge to Charing Cross. In the background is the Royal Waterloo Hospital Building founded on the corner of Waterloo Road and Stamford Street in 1823. Its name was changed in 1852 to the Royal Infirmary for Children and Women, on receipt of an annual bequest on condition that the hospital admitted inpatients and treated women. The Renaissance style building dates from 1903 and is Grade II listed, listing number 1356166. Adjacent is Waterloo Bridge House built in the 1930s by architects Howard and Souster. Both buildings now form part of the Kings College London campus.
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