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Can anyone tell me what happened to the Sutton Street, Lambeth
mentioned in the 1881 census? Any information appreciated. Thanks

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Can anyone tell me what happened to the Sutton Street, Lambeth
mentioned in the 1881 census? Any information appreciated. Thanks

It became renamed Sutton Walk and is still there (minus its houses) -
although now it is pretty much just a footpath leading from York Road
under the arches of the Charing Cross line towards the river (there's a
good restaurant there, called Azzurro).

Here's the location before the railway came, and long before the South
Bank rebuilding - Sutton Street is top centre.

http://www.motco.com/Map/81003/Serie...=502&x=11&y=11


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Paul Terry

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Many thanks, Paul. Much appreciated.
I also managed to find Canterbury Place, which is another ancestral
home I'm researching. Badly bombed in WW2 I think.
I'll take a look at Azzurro's next time I'm in town :-)

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Incidentally, to see Sutton Street's relationship to the railway before
the South Bank was rebuilt, look under the Charing Cross railway line
at:

http://www.umich.edu/%7Erisotto/maxzooms/sw/swf78.html

Its modern version, Sutton Walk, doesn't appear on most atlases, as it
is little more than a passageway under the railway, but it is fairly
easy to find if you go there.
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Paul Terry

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On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 Paul Terry wrote:

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Can anyone tell me what happened to the Sutton Street, Lambeth
mentioned in the 1881 census? Any information appreciated. Thanks

It became renamed Sutton Walk and is still there (minus its houses) -
although now it is pretty much just a footpath leading from York Road
under the arches of the Charing Cross line towards the river (there's a
good restaurant there, called Azzurro).

Renamed 1937-39, according to Bartholomew's London Pocket Atlas 1939.
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On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 wrote:

Many thanks, Paul. Much appreciated.
I also managed to find Canterbury Place, which is another ancestral
home I'm researching. Badly bombed in WW2 I think.

Probably so, as it was in the Bartholomew Reference Atlas 1940 but has
now disappeared. However, there is a new Canterbury Place - a little
further south, off Penton Place.
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Paul Terry wrote:
In message .com,
writes

Can anyone tell me what happened to the Sutton Street, Lambeth
mentioned in the 1881 census? Any information appreciated. Thanks

It became renamed Sutton Walk and is still there (minus its houses) -
although now it is pretty much just a footpath leading from York Road
under the arches of the Charing Cross line towards the river (there's
a good restaurant there, called Azzurro).

It's notable in my experience for two reasons:

- the walls of the arch that takes Sutton Walk under the Charing Cross
railway line are lined with what looks like a huge life-size photo of
the original brick walls, complete with road name and other signs.
(Does anyone know whether there was a reason for doing this instead of
just cleaning and renovating the brickwork? Or was it just an artistic
statement?)
Photo at
http://london.photobloggers.org/blog...16/250370.html

- that same arch used to be the site of a large travel book sale,
masterminded by one Ronald Jordan, a "latter-day Fagin", whose supply
chain was a 15-strong gang who carried out daily raids on bookshops
across London and the south east. Jordan paid the thieves £1 per book.
See http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view.php?ArtID=815

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Richard J.
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In message , Richard J.
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( Sutton Walk)

- the walls of the arch that takes Sutton Walk under the Charing Cross
railway line are lined with what looks like a huge life-size photo of
the original brick walls, complete with road name and other signs.
(Does anyone know whether there was a reason for doing this instead of
just cleaning and renovating the brickwork? Or was it just an artistic
statement?)

I'd forgotten about that - it's an Arts Council (Lottery Fund) project.
Details at

http://www.mjparchitects.co.uk/index...rid=pro jects

I suspect it was felt that many people find the dark spaces under and
around the South Bank rather intimidating, so they wanted to go for
something more than just cleaning and better lighting - a sort of
interactive installation to attract people rather than leaving them to
just scurry through.

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Paul Terry