View of Cornwall Road, Waterloo looking north. Cornwall Road was laid out by the time of Roque's Map in 1746 on Lambeth Marsh but with no buildings. Between 1815 and 1847 the road was developed and named after the Duke of Cornwall (Prince of Wales) on whose land it stood. On the right, on the corner with Whittlesey Street (formerly Richard Street), number 29-30 The White Hart pub. built in the 1840s, advertising Worthington E, and Bass on draught. Behind corrugated iron fencing the vacant site of numbers 31-32, this has now been developed with two modern houses. Across Theed Street (formerly Palmer Street), number 33-34 an entrance to a long commercial building. Numbers 35-38, three-storey buildings set back with shop fronts on the ground floor extending to the road. Number 36, Dutfield Brothers Ltd, Turf Accountants, number 37 a newsagents and number 38 a cafe. These buildings remain and are now wholly residential. Number 39-40 a two-storey industrial building. This has been demolished and replaced with modern housing. Next is the six storey Edward Henry House tenement block, consisting of 96 flats built in the 1920s for Metropolitan Policemen. It was designed by Gilbert Mackenzie Trench, architect and surveyor to the Metropolitan Police, and designer of the original Police Box. The next building is four-storey 123 Stamford Street. On the left, the wall and fencing of a school playground and enclosed by scaffolding, St Patricks RC Primary School built in 1897. The old school chapel is now St Patricks RC Church, by Scottish architect F.A. Walters. In the street are numerous vehicles including a van with a sign CASSELL BOOKS. Cassell's is a publishing house founded in 1848 by John Cassell and continues to trade.
