Postcard by W. H. Applebee. Click the postcard to enlarge.
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Saturday, 4 May 2013
Battersea, South London, Grayshott Road c1914
Battersea, South London, Grayshott Road c1914. This part of Grayshott Road was redeveloped in the late 1960s or early 1970s. The top of Grayshott Road was renamed Acanthus Road, a name that was previously used for a road 100 yards to the right that was also demolished for redevelopment. Grayshott Road now starts at number 45. The men and boys with their milk carts stand outside 41 Grayshott Road, the premises of James Bradbury, Dairyman.
Postcard by W. H. Applebee. Click the postcard to enlarge.
For more old photos have a look at the Sepia Saturday blog.
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Postcard by W. H. Applebee. Click the postcard to enlarge.
For more old photos have a look at the Sepia Saturday blog.
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I love everything about that old postcard: the brick, the storefronts, the corbels, the columns on the row houses, the street lamp. It looks so well-built, like it was built for permanence, but I guess not.
ReplyDeleteBlur's 'Modern Life is Rubbish' sums up the second photograph.
ReplyDeleteOh I have to agree, what a charming look back into yesterday! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMilk churns are a blast from the past for me; during WWII that's how our milk was delivered. My brother got into trouble by putting stones in one when the milkman wasn't looking! Greta pld card
ReplyDeleteA great occupational/shop photo with wonderful detail. Do you use old maps to help identify these lost addresses? Are there maps that show the areas around London destroyed by the WW2 bombings?
ReplyDeleteHi Mike, I use old-maps.co.uk to source a lot of my postcards, this one included. They have maps for this particular postcard going up to the 1960s.
DeleteThe milk carts seem to be very similar in style/design to the c.1910 grocer's trolley/cart that my grandfather's in charge of in a photo taken outside the family grocer's shop in Derby, which I wrote about in Hardy's 'Starbright' in Bottle, for Family Trade on Photo-Sleuth 5 years ago.
ReplyDeleteHi Brett, these milk carts (also used to deliver bread) were ubiquitous in the UK a century ago, probably long before that.
DeleteThat's such a beautiful photo when you enlarge it. The roof trimmings on the houses remind me of my mother's old dolls-house.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic postcard, just love all the detail and how ordered everything looks, and you can sense a feeling of pride in their work and their establishment. Then it was with shock and horror that I saw the now view!
ReplyDeleteYes that top postcard is just gorgeous and takes you back to another time.
ReplyDeleteWill people of the future look back on our buildings with such nostalgia? I don't think so!
A wonderful image! I'm fascinated by those milk carts. Never seen anything like them.
ReplyDeleteCertainly a mistake if you don't click to enlarge the postcard! I'm going to look at the map website you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteGreat detail on the postcard. I was amazed at how sharp and readable the writing on the windows is.
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