House in The Pavement
House in The Pavement
Record No
122713
Title
House in The Pavement
Description
Beyond the modern ground floor front extension shown as the shopfront of ‘THE OUTSIZE HOUSE – DIVISION OF EVANS THE OUTSIZE SHOP’, the three-storey brick fronted house with casement windows at 5 The Pavement in the Clapham conservation area of Lambeth was the home of Zachary Macauley (1768-1838). During his time in Sierra Leone and Jamaica, he saw for himself the horrors of slavery. He became a leading abolitionist, contributing statistical evidence and eyewitness accounts that were critical in winning Parliamentary debate that led to the passing of the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807, and its subsequent enforcement. A stone plaque set in the 1930s shown in the upper-storey brickwork commemorates Macauley and his son Lord Thomas Babington Macauley (1800-1859). The building is listed locally, and its shop windows show some female manikins dressed in various early-seventies designs. 4 The Terrace, shown to the right as ‘FINE FARE – BRITAINS LEADING SUPERMARKETS’ [sic], is less remarkable, the pattern of the windowless upper-storey brickwork suggesting it is probably a post-war building. A few pedestrians are shown including a woman in a white coat and a suited man reading a newspaper, presumably waiting for a bus outside Evans. In front of Fine Fare, two small children sit in a perambulator while their older sister stands by holding onto its handlebar. Another girl dressed in a distinctive checked cape and peaked hat stands by the shop door as a woman with a shopping trolley enters, while on the pavement a telephone engineer crouches looking into an open service hatch.
Date of execution
1972
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_422_72_3221
London picture map location
Exact
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