LJ4D - Loughborough Junction's built history
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I'll stop posting here soon - please follow on Bluesky instead: https://t.co/Dgc6hjg5R3 (or subscribe to the mailing list linked on my website)
Lambeth, London
Joined June 2020
Follow on bluesky for some posts about Loughborough Junction station's 100 birthday - https://t.co/h0raBKZlwh
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Impressive views from the Higgs tower. I think I will make this my last post on X/twitter. Please re-follow on Bluesky if you have an account there. Alternatively join the mailing list, or follow on other social media. Links for all are in the blog post: https://t.co/rP26c2L6vA
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Yesterday I was kindly allowed up to the roof terrace on the top of the Higgs Yard tower. Here are some photos of a very familiar area, from an unfamiliar angle. You can click on the images to enl…
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A planning application has recently gone in to redevelop the "stable block" in Ruskin Park as a cafe / multi use space. @RuskinParkSE5 (Friends of Ruskin Park) have been campaigning to find a use for this neglected building for some time. https://t.co/uHWqrBB0sz
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Amongst the trees in the south-eastern corner of Ruskin Park is the “stable block” – a building that has been left unused and decaying for the past fifteen years or so. The Ruski…
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At the weekend Coldharbour Lane was closed to allow the delivery of a "Supergrid Transformer" for the National Grid. I've written a bit about this and the history of Loughborough Junction's Bengeworth Road power station. https://t.co/zHyG6EsOEn
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This weekend, the 18th/19th January 2025, a section of Coldharbour Lane was closed to traffic. This was to allow the delivery of a large electrical transformer unit to the National Grid substation…
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A look at the south end of Loughborough Road in 1910 and 1960. *I'll soon stop posting on twitter/X. Please re-follow on at @lj4d.bsky.social if you can - or add yourself to the LJ4D mailing list (via the link below) for updates https://t.co/rvLPawOLkA
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Another image that has recently appeared on Lambeth Landmark – a view down Loughborough Road in 1960. This photograph is taken soon after the construction of the Loughborough Estate – …
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Coldharbour Lane in the 1980s - and a bit about what might be one of Loughborough Junction's oldest surviving houses. https://t.co/2mbPPduyVA
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Image from Lambeth Landmark This image, taken in 1980 was recently added to the Lambeth Landmark website. It shows the row of shops opposite what is now the Tesco supermarket on Coldharbour Lane. …
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3/ When @LJActionGroup initiated a petition last year, I wrote a little bit about what might be involved in installing a lift at the station - see link below. It will be interesting to see what any feasibility study comes up with. https://t.co/7XqCa8SynQ
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A petition to install a lift at Loughborough Junction station: So, why does LJ station have such poor access? I try and explain the complicated early history of LJ station here. The station was on…
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2/ Here is some detail on those contributions, from the planning report. That they have been included is no doubt partly thanks to work by @LJActionGroup in pushing for improvements.
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1/ The Hardess/Wellfit street development was granted planning permission last week. The conditions include some financial contributions to improving Loughborough Junction station.
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Loughborough Junction & Denmark Hill entirely absent from the "Tube map" in days gone by - no longer the case.
This is what the tube map looked like when the London Overground was first announced -- and notice the Windrush line, which barely existed.
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I've written a bit about the newly renamed "Windrush Line" and why it doesn't stop in Loughborough Junction (or Brixton).
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A “Windrush Line” train passes through Loughborough Junction, crossing above Hinton Road, Nov 2024 As of this week, what we previously knew as the “London Overground” has b…
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As well as moving to https://t.co/5djrTpzHd0... To keep updated without worrying about the whims of social media platforms, you can now sign up to a mailing list on the LJ4D website: https://t.co/3r8svyUmbh
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From now on anything I post here will also be posted over on Bluesky, and I may eventually abandon Xwitter altogether - so please follow the LJ4D bluesky account here: https://t.co/5djrTpzHd0
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Another "Loobey collection" postcard recently added to Lambeth Archives' online images. Click below for more.
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Looking east along Coldharbour Lane, around 1910. From Lambeth Landmark The same view today, November 2024 Another postcard from the “Loobey collection” recently added to the Lambeth L…
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I've written a bit about the viaduct repair work that's going on at the moment in Loughborough Junction - Network Rail's buddleia problem: LJ's viaducts under attack
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Repairs underway, September 2024, viaduct at end of Wanless Rd Over the past couple of months, Network Rail contractors have been doing a large number of patch repairs to the main railway viaduct …
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a video explaining why Loughborough Junction ended up where it did. This one looks at how LJ itself developed during the same period of time (about 1860-1900). https://t.co/723L6jUgEr
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A couple of weeks ago I posted this video which tries to explain why Loughborough Junction ended up where it did, in the wider context of the devlopment of South London’s railways. The video…
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A c.1910 view of Herne Hill Road, recently added to the Lambeth Landmarks site by @LambethArchives
https://t.co/qnXBQ8FIIW
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A number of postcards from the “Loobey collection” were recently added to Lambeth Landmark and they include this one, a view up Herne Hill Road from near the junction with Wingmore Roa…
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Cormont Road school SE5 on the Top 10 list 2024. After much push back @thevicsoc and local campaigners will be getting a visit to see condition of outside of school soon. Still hopeful of getting full survey condition reports soon. New housing could be an option
Nominations for The Victorian Society’s Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 2025 are now open! Let us know about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings. The deadline is 31 December 2024. Here's how: https://t.co/vkxrC0BV24
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