View of Prince's Buildings
View of Prince's Buildings
Record No
90599
Title
View of Prince's Buildings
Description
View of Prince's Buildings, Lambeth, looking south east towards York Road. A narrow flagstoned passageway with two-storey terraces on either side. Women and children are standing in the doorways looking at the camera, and a small boy looks around the gas lamp post in the centre of the passageway. At the end of the passageway an arch with a gas lamp leads on to York Road, and the building opposite is the Duke of York pub. In 1810, in view of the building of Waterloo Bridge and its approaches, an Act of Parliament was passed to enable the Prince Regent to grant leases of Prince's Meadows for 99 years from October, 1815, for the purpose of building a “town” to be called “Prince's Town.” The whole property was leased to Thomas Lett and John Lett of Narrow Wall, timber merchants, for a fine of £55,100. They developed some parts of the estate themselves but let the greater part on building leases in small plots and Princes Buildings was built in the mid 1800s. It was completely destroyed by bombing in World War II, and then formed part of the 1951 Festival of Britain site. It is now the site of a modern high-rise of offices and retail units.
Date of execution
1930
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_253_A6571
London picture map location
Exact
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