Derelict soap factory in Thames Street
Derelict soap factory in Thames Street
Record No
164859
Title
Derelict soap factory in Thames Street
Description
This view shows the derelict frontage of the soap and tallow works that stood on this tapering riverside site at 19 Thames Street, Hampton, apparently for over two hundred years before suffering severe fire damage and being demolished to make way for the late 1990s residential building developments that now occupy the site. The building to the left of the gateway and central yard, shown blocked by corrugated metal sheets, once had a pediment bearing a masonry roundel showing EST 1760, which can also be seen in a promotional cutaway illustration shown in John Sheaf's 'Hampton 100 Years Ago: a description of the roads and buildings in 1911-1912' (Borough of Twickenham Local History Society, 2015), depicting the building to the left as W G Smith's Soap Works, with the building to the right being the candle factory and tallow refinery. The factory is believed to have been in use by the Albion Soap Company and by the 1960s Simple Soap brand before falling into disuse. The taller building to the right had a first-floor loading door with a circular slatted ventilation port in its pediment, corresponding to the establishment date shown in its neighbouring building. The entire roof of the former tallow factory appears to have collapsed in the fire. Many of the buildings in the immediate area date back to the eighteenth-century and are now in the Hampton Village conservation area of Richmond-upon-Thames. Aladdin's Cave, a motorcycle spares shop once at 17 Thames Street also demolished since, is shown to the left of view with a young man walking past.
Date of execution
1977
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_693_77_120_618K_6
London picture map location
Exact
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