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Wandsworth Common

Group photographs of shops

along Bellevue Road




Day and night panoramas. Dates?

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There is an even larger version of the black and white panorama here (12Mb). I can see the name "Bake A Cake" in the black and white image - this should help date the picture.



The Hope end of Bellevue Road, probably March 1945

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Some of the boards outside Stanley Bouts Newsagent (no.7) are legible, suggesting this photograph was taken in March 1945 - I can see "Daily Telegraph: Russian March on Danzig" on the left, and the word "Warsaw" on the board second from the right. A close look at the original in the Wandsworth Heritage Centre may be even more forthcoming.

Notice e.g. the bell sign with the word "telephone" above Stanley Bouts newsagent and stationer.

Is the pillar box the same now as then?

Notice the parapet with urns above nos. 4 and 5 [?]? "? Willett Grocery Stores" and "Post Office". The parapet and urns have gone, but part of the [pediment?] is still visible on the left-hand house [no.?].

    1 - Hope
    2 - Miller?, butcher
    3 - ? [still a draper? or was it already the French Cleaning and Dyeing Co.?]
    4 - [Thomas?] Pooley, fishmonger]
    ? - Post Office [left - is it a separate door?]
    ? - M.A. Orton, grocer, off-licence?
    6 - [? and] J Minnard, shoes/li> 7 - Stanley Bouts, newsagent and stationer/li> 8 - Geo. Pike, "High Class Confectionery"/li>
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Lower end of Bellevue Road, June 2019 [Google Street View]

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Needs work

    1 - Hope
    Bennet Court
    2 & 3 - Chez bruce, restaurant
    4, James Pendleton, estate agent
    5 - Caffe Nero
    6 - Lucy's, dry cleaning
    7 - Pizza Da Valter
    8 - Shonamac


Slightly up Bellevue Road, probably March 1945

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[PB: It would be good to identify and number all the other shops in this picture (which should also help us to date the photograph).

Needs work...

    9? - "A Builders?
    10? - Pascall's? chocolates and confectionery shop [no?],
    11? - Venables ?
    12 - Cope's grocer
    13? -
    14? - Bussell?
    15? - ?, butcher?
    16? - D&M?, photographer?

Mid-1950s?



Bellevue Rd on a grim day. Date still to be determined, but probably mid-1950s. Notice Waitrose at no.12 (took over from Cope's in 1945) in the centre of the picture. It would be good to identify and number all the other shops in this picture (which should also help us to date the photograph).

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Needs work...

    8 - ? newsagent/tobacconist
    9 - ?
    10 - ? restaurant
    11 - ?
    12 - Waitrose Stores
    13 - ["Bessell"?]
    14 - United Dairies
    Bradley Mews? = Kelso?
    15 - Goodwin's cycles
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Date?



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Needs work...

    12 - ? with the white hanging cloth [what's the word?]
    13 - ? grocer
    14 - ?
    15 - ? Butcher - another branch of Miller's the butcher? Notice the white house with fancy wrought iron pillars and balcony that appears to be the same design as Chez Bruce's today - which was inherited from Miller's original, I imagine? Probably. Didn't Miller keep his horses and carts somewhere here - in the yard behind the arch next door?]
    16 - Dorrett & Martin photographer

More images to work on...



Probably mid-1950s. There are just two vehicles parked on this section - both I think vans. Compare this view with with today's.

Notice the circular Mac Fisheries logos above no.4? Also the wrd "Illustrated" under the eves of "Mocks" (no.?), and the "Restaurant" sign, right. (This sign can also be seen in the "Waitrose" image above.) See also the "EKCO" in the shopfront, right. EKCO was a British electronics company producing radio and TV sets from 1924-1960. The name appears to be something like K.M.Hub... Was this a TV and radio repair shop?



Mac Fisheries enamel sign, based on the Scottish saltire - possibly the same as the signs hanging above no.4.

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[Wikipedia: Link.]

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Robert Trindle, estate agent, promotional flyer - Lower end of Bellevue Road, [2017? - we should be able to date by the presence of the American Dry Cleaning Co.(no.6) and Rotisserie (no.7).]

For many years, Robert Trindle had a shopfront at the top of Bellevue [number?]. he briefly went into partnership as "Rymer ? Trindle". By 2017? had set up as a private agent.

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The top end of Bellevue, before the construction of the building which now [2020] houses Sainsbury's Local, but originally a bank.

A panel from Jennifer Penny's original U3L presentation in 2017. Naturally she wanted to take her photograph from the same position, but she feared for her life.

This image is a photocopy of an original. It would be good to scan a better copy.

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This pub has sometimes been numbered as if on Trinity Road at no.172, as in the image above, rather than 35, Bellevue. For example, during WWII, the number 35 was given to the first of thirty or more Bellevue Prefabs. It has also been numbered 226, Trinity Rd [CHECK: Is it currently [2020] 226, Trinity Rd?]

Here is St James's Drive . . .

Here is Althorp Road . . .

Here is Wiseton Road . . .

Here is Trinity Road . . .