View of Waterloo Road, Waterloo on the corner with New Cut, now The Cut. A three-storey terrace with the upper windows boarded up and shops on the ground floor closed and empty other than the corner shop. A tobacconist, W.C.DAVIES and Co advertising Kensitas and Waverley Cigarettes, and British Oak Shag. The windows are piled with boxes of cigarettes and tobacco. Two men with bicycles are outside. A man stands on the pavement looking at the camera and in the road on a traffic island a lamppost has a sign KEEP TO THE LEFT, and another with the road number A301. On New Cut no 85 S.CHAPLIN, and next door a DAVID GREIG. Established in Hornsey in 1870 the grocers had 220 shops when it was sold in 1960 to Key Market supermarkets; next to this on the corner with Cornwall Road is the Pear Tree pub destroyed by bombing during the Second World War in 1941. In New Cut are market stalls. The New Cut street market was founded in the early 1840’s, and at one time spread along Lower Marsh, Carlisle Lane, Hercules Road, crossing Lambeth Road, going down Sail Street, then entering The Lambeth Walk and ending at the top near Black Prince Road. At nearly three miles, it was longest street market in London. The market continued until the 1950s, but the buildings were damaged beyond repair by bombing during the Second World War, and this area is now an open space Emma Cons Gardens, named after the British social reformer, strongly committed to women's suffrage.
