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Streatham Street is a street in the London district of Bloomsbury, running between New Oxford Street and Great Russell Street. In the 19th century , the street was on the border of the "rookery" of St Giles , a slum , and became the location for new accommodation, which reformers planned would replace the slums.
For that Society, and later for the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes, Roberts designed a number of buildings that represented innovations in workers' housing, including the houses in Lower Road, Pentonville, London (1844) and the famous model dwellings in Streatham Street, Bloomsbury (1849–1851).
Abbey Orchard Street Estate [49] Victoria, London: 1880s Bethnal Green Peabody Estate [50] Cambridge Crescent, Bethnal Green, London: 1910 Coleshill Flats [51] Mozart Terrace, Westminster, London: 1871 Horseferry Peabody Estate [50] Victoria, London: 1922 Islington Peabody Estate [52] [53] Greenman Street, Islington, London: 1864–6 Langley ...
In the 1950s Streatham had the longest and busiest shopping street in south London. Streatham became the site of the UK's first supermarket, when Express Dairies Premier Supermarkets opened its first 2,500 square feet (230 m 2) store in 1951; [14] Waitrose subsequently opened its first supermarket in Streatham in 1955, but it closed down in ...
Norwood High Street, West Norwood: Church: 1822: 27 March 1981 1116506 ... 1–218 Streatham Hill, Streatham: Flats: 1933–35: 16 January 1981
Fruitcake. Step one of a fruitcake is soaking pounds of dried fruit until it's plump and filled with bourbon. That takes up to 12 hours. Step two is simple: making and baking the loaves.
Pullman Court is a Grade II* listed building on Streatham Hill, London, designed by Frederick Gibberd. [1] It was built in 1936, and commissioned from Gibberd when he was 23. [2] Pullman Court consists of 218 flats in three blocks. [2] Actress Nanette Newman lived in the block in the 1940s. [citation needed]
Streatham High Road, some 1.8 miles (2.9 km) in length, [1] is part of the main A23 road from London to Brighton, and is in the London Borough of Lambeth. It begins in the north at Streatham Hill railway station , being an end-on junction with Streatham Hill and continues south to Norbury where the A23 becomes London Road .