Alleyway and buildings in Portslade Road
Alleyway and buildings in Portslade Road
Record No
122649
Title
Alleyway and buildings in Portslade Road
Description
This view shows an alleyway leading off Portslade Road serving a terrace of three-storey shop buildings which once stood at 396-406 Wandsworth Road, the rear of which are shown to the left of view. The near end of this terrace has a single-storey outbuilding on the corner of the alley with a pair of timber doors signed with ‘NO PARKING’ and a corrugated sheet roof, its side elevation sloping steeply with the descending ramp of the alleyway. To the right, a three-storey brick end of terrace building with a stucco parapet has a plain door and a pair of timber driveway doors with signs showing ‘NO PARKING PLEASE’ and ‘ENQUIRIES: TOOL DEPT LABORATORIES SILVERCROWN LTD GONSLAVA ROAD 1st LEFT’. A traditional streetlamp occupies a small corner of the pavement between the alleyway and driveway, the approaches of which have setts. The adjoining building at 3 Portslade Road has a stepped approach to an elevated entrance, suggesting a semi-basement level below, and a pitched roof. It was one of a terrace partly enclosing the works of Silvercrown Ltd, formerly the Chelton chemical works. All these buildings were cleared in the 1960s and the redeveloped site incorporated into the Westbury estate.
Date of execution
1956
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_422_56_3970
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