View of Elephant and Castle
View of Elephant and Castle
Record No
115786
Title
View of Elephant and Castle
Description
View of Elephant and Castle, Newington, looking north-east. A major crossroads since Roman times, it is named after a coaching inn set at the junction. The area suffered devastation on 10th May 1941 during World War II bombing. In the foreground is a vacant site on which was constructed the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, itself demolished in 2021 and now the site of high-rise apartment blocks. In 'streaky bacon' brickwork is 1-7 Newington Butts, a four-storey building with the attic storey missing, built in 1898. One half is the Elephant and Castle Hotel, the other apartments with shops at the ground floor: True Form shoe shop, a tobacconists, and 'Brandons'. This building was demolished and the site now forms part of the northern roundabout of the Elephant and Castle. To the rear of this a building with a cupola, and a large advertisement for Guinness is the Trocadero cinema designed by George Coles and opened in 1930 seating 3500. It housed the largest Wurlitzer Organ in Europe. These building were demolished in 1963, and on the site was rebuilt the Elephant and Castle pub and office blocks designed by Hungarian-born modernist architect Ernő Goldfinger. There are numerous buses and to the right, a tram.
Date of execution
1951
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Artist
King, Harold
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_368_72_9713
Accession No
HK002
London picture map location
Exact
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