Chemist's shop in The Pavement
Chemist's shop in The Pavement
Record No
122813
Title
Chemist's shop in The Pavement
Description
17 The Pavement, Clapham, is an early nineteenth-century four-storey shop building facing the eastern part of Clapham Common in the Clapham conservation area of Lambeth. It was Grade II listed in 1955, listing number 1064962. This view shows the shopfront and first floor windows, its hoarding showing DEANE & CO. DISPENSING CHEMISTS. The business was founded in 1837 by Henry Deane, one of the first members of the Pharmaceutical Society, and although taken over by another chemist in the late nineteenth century, retained the name until it ceased trading in 1986. The shopfront has a central pair of doors with Doric columns to either side. The display windows are part-panelled, presumably left over from wartime air raid precautions. The goods are somewhat haphazardly displayed and there are no prominent brand names. To the right of the shop front, an impressive wooden panelled door presumably offered access to residential areas above the shop. Above the shopfront the cornice appears to incorporate awning hatches, above which an ornate cast iron balcony extends across the entire width of the shop. Four casement windows are set in arched recesses and a street sign showing ‘THE PAVEMENT’ is fixed to the brick work to the right. 17 The Pavement is now the Common café, and the street pavement appears to have since been widened allowing tables and seating to extend outside. The ornate cantilever streetlamp shown to the right of view has since been removed. The neighbouring shops at 16 and 18 The Pavement are just visible to either side.
Date of execution
1948
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Notes
- Updated 2010 10 28
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_422_F4527
London picture map location
Exact
Subjects
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