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Select Place All Places BALHAM BRIXTON BRIXTON HILL BRIXTON NORTH CLAPHAM CLAPHAM PARK HERNE HILL KENNINGTON LAMBETH LOUGHBOROUGH JUNCTION SOUTH LAMBETH STOCKWELL STREATHAM CENTRAL STREATHAM COMMON STREATHAM HILL STREATHAM VALE/STREATHAM SOUTH TULSE HILL UPPER NORWOOD VAUXHALL WATERLOO WEST DULWICH WEST NORWOOD

Select Subject All Subjects ANIMALS & BIRDS Cats Cows Dogs Donkey Horses Pigeons Sheep Swans ARCHITECTURE / BUILDINGS 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Bandstands County Hall Crystal Palace Edwardian Factories Georgian Lambeth Palace Prefabs Religious Shot Tower Tudor Victorian Warehouses Windmills ARTS/ CULTURE Artworks Festival of Britain Hayward Gallery Museums National Theatre Queen Elizabeth Hall Royal Festival Hall Sculpture Statue Street Art/ Graffiti BRIDGES Lambeth Bridge Railway Vauxhall Bridge Waterloo Bridge Westminster Bridge BURIAL GROUNDS AND CEMETERIES Old Burial Ground, Lambeth High St Streatham Park Cemetery CELEBRATIONS AND EVENTS Bazaars Birthdays Christmas Funerals Lambeth Country Show Parades Protests & Rallies Street Parties Weddings COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY Advertising Banks Breweries & Distilleries Building Societies Building Society Computers & Technology Doulton Pottery Factories Waterworks EDUCATION Christchurch School, Streatham Hill Classrooms Colleges Grammar Schools Haselrigge Road School, Clapham Henry Thornton School Industrial Schools Jessop Primary School Lonesome School, Streatham Vale Norwood Technical Institute Religious Schools St Gabriel's College Stockwell Training College Streatham College for Girls Streatham Grammar School Streatham High School Sunnyhill Road School ENTERTAINMENT Actors Astoria, Brixton Brixton Theatre Cinema Circus Films & Filmmakers Kennington Theatre Music Halls & Venues Musicians & Singers Old Vic Opera Palladium, Brixton Streatham Hill Theatre Television Theatres Transport Museum, Clapham FESTIVALS Christmas Festival of Britain FOOD AND DRINK Cafes Chefs & Cooks Cookery Dining Rooms Fish & Chips Restaurants GROUPS AND SOCIETIES Children's Society HEALTH British Home for Incurables Covid Pandemic Hospices Hospitals Maternity Homes Nurses Nursing Homes South London Hospital for Women St Thomas' Hospital HOUSING 1930s 1960s 1970s 1980s Cottages Council Housing Derelict Flats Georgian Mansion Blocks Prefabs Victorian LAW AND ORDER Lawyers & Barristers Police LIBRARIES Clapham (former) Minet Tate, South Lambeth Tate, Streatham West Norwood (Former) LOCAL GOVERNMENT Mayors Registry Office Town Hall OPEN SPACES Allotments Brockwell Park Clapham Common Crystal Palace Park & Gardens Farms Gardens Jubilee Gardens Kennington Park Larkhall Park Myatts Fields Orchards Playgrounds Ponds & Lakes Rush Common Ruskin Park Squares Stangate Green Streatham Common The Rookery, Streatham ORGANISATIONS Boys' Brigage Scouts Unions WWF YMCA/ YWCA PEOPLE Arab Asian Black Children Disabled Elderly Irish Jewish Men Pakistani Portuguese Queer Royalty Suffragettes Teenagers Town Crier Women POLITICS Elections MPs Politicians Prime Ministers PUBLIC HOUSES & INNS Cock Tavern, Clapham Dorset Arms, South Lambeth Horns Tavern King's Head, Clapham Off License Plough Inn, Clapham Prince of Wales, Brixton Prince of Wales, Stockwell Rosemary Branch, West Norwood Surrey Tavern The Greyhound, Streatham The Swan, Stockwell The Windmill, Clapham Common Tulse Hill Hotel RECREATION AND LEISURE Hotels RELIGION All Saints, South Lambeth All Saints, West Dulwich Baptist Chapel, Victoria Rise Baptist Church, Streatham Brixton Independent Chapel Chapels Chatsworth Baptist Church, West Norwood Christ Church, Brixton North Christ Church, Norwood Christ Church, Stockwell Christ Church, Streatham Hill Church of the English Martyrs Church of the Holy Spirit, Clapham Clergy Congregational Church, Brixton Hill Congregational Church, Clapham Convents Holy Trinity Church, Clapham Immanuel Church, Streatham Islamic Lambeth Mission Lambeth Palace Methodist Methodist Church, Clapham Methodist Church, Streatham Michael Church Mosques Notre Dame Convent, Clapham Nuns Redemptorist Monastery, Clapham Salvation Army Springfield Hall Methodist Church St Agnes, Kennington St Andrew's, Streatham Vale St Anselm's, Streatham St Augustine's, Stockwell St Bede's, Clapham Park St John the Divine, Brixton North St John's, Waterloo St John's. Streatham St Jude's, Herne Hill St Leonard's, Streatham St Luke's, West Norwood St Mark's, Kennington St Mary's, Clapham St Mary's, Kennington Park Road St Mary-at-Lambeth St Matthew's, Brixton St Peter's, Clapham St Peter's, Streatham St Stephen's, Clapham Park/ Balham St Stephen's, South Lambeth Trinity Presbyterian Church, Stockwell Vicarages & Rectories Vicars & Priests RIVERS AND WATERCOURSES Embankments River Thames ROADS AND STREETS Maps Roadworks Toll Gates ROYALTY SHOPS AND SHOPPING Bakery Bookshop Boot & Shoe Maker Butcher Chemists Clothing & Fashion Confectioner Department Stores Drapers Florist Furniture Greengrocers Groceries & Provisions Haberdashers & Milliners Hairdressers & Barbers Hardware Hosiers & Hatters Jewellers Markets & Arcades Newsagents Off License Opticians Post Office Pratt's, Streatham Quin & Axten Records Tailors & Dressmakers Tobacconist Travel Agents Umbrellas & Walking Sticks Watchmakers Woolworths SPORT Athletics Billiards Bowls Boxing Cricket Football Go-Karting Gymnasiums Hockey Ice Skating Rugby Skateboarding Swimming Tennis Wrestling STATUES AND MEMORIALS Streatham War Memorial STREET FURNITURE Advertising/ Billboards Bollards Clocks Drinking Fountains Drinking Trough Lamppost Pedestrian Crossings Postbox Sign Posts Stink Pipe Telegraph Poles Telephone Boxes Traffic Lights TRADE Auctioneers Builders & Decorators Carriage & Car Manufacturers Caterers Coal Merchants Dairies Fashion Fishmongers Furniture Garages & Car Dealerships Gardeners Hairdressing Hotels Ice Cream Vendor Jewellers Journalist Laundries Milkman Millers and Corn Merchants Photographers Plumbers Printers Rag & Bone Waste Merchants Refuse Collectors/ Sweepers Removals & Storage Tea & Coffee Merchants Timber Merchants Undertakers Upholstery TRANSPORT Aeroplanes & Airports Bicycles Boats Bus Stop Buses Carriages Cars Charabanc Clapham Underground Station Crystal Palace High Level Station Delivery Carts Horse-Drawn Lorries & Vans Motorbikes Prams Railway Stations Stockwell Underground Station Streatham Common Station Streatham Hill Station Taxis Trains Trams Underground Vauxhall Station Wandsworth Road Station Waterloo Station WAR AND ARMED FORCES Army ARP Bomb Damage Cadets Memorials NAAFI Navy Rationing Shelters Stockwell War Memorial Territorial Army World War I World War II WELFARE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS Children's Homes Hospices Hostel of God, Clapham Nurseries Orphanages

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Select People All People AARON- Adelaide ADAMS- Elizabeth ADAMS- Ella AITKEN- Margaret ALLEN- Emily ANDERSON- Arthur ARTHUR- Robert ARUNDEL- Archbishop Thomas ASHMOLE- Elias ASTLEY- Philip ATKINS- Elizabeth ATWELL, Winifred BANKS- Eliza BANKSY BARKER- Clara BARKWORTH BARLOW- Hannah BARRY- Charles BAYLIS- Lilian BEAUFOY- Henry BEETON- Mrs BELL- O. Eric BLACK PRINCE- Edward BLAKE- William BLIGH- William BLONDIN BONZAI BOWIE- David BRACEWELL- Ethel BROWN- Henry BROWN- Rev. James Baldwin BROWNLESS- George BRUNO- Frank BY- John CARON- Sir Noel CAVENDISH- Henry CHAPLIN- Sir Charlie CHARLESWORTH- Rev. V.J. CHICHELEY- Archbishop Henry CHURCHILL- Winston COADE- Eleanor CUBITT- Thomas D'EYNCOURT- Charles Tennyson DOULTON- Frederic DOULTON- Henry DOULTON- John DUCAREL- Andrew DYCE- William FAWCETT - Millicent FAWCETT- Henry FAWKES- Guy FINCH- Margaret GEDGE- Rev. Paul GOWERS- Ernest GRACE- W.G. GREATHEAD- J.H. HAMBLING- Maggi HANNA- John HAWES- Sir Benjamin HELPS- Sir Arthur HIDE- P.H.R. HOLLIS- James HOOK- James HOWLAND John HUGHES- Thomas JACOBS- Harry JAMES- C.L.R. JOHNSON Dr. Samuel JONES- Claudia KNIGHT- Ted LAMMING- George LANE- Lupino LAWRENCE- Sir James Clarke LENO Sr.- Dan LINDA- Bellos LIPTON- Marcus LIVINGSTONE- Ken LOCKYER- William MACAULAY- Thomas Babington MAJOR- John MALLETT- Mrs MANDELA- Nelson MARTIN- Gertrude MAUDSLAY- Henry McARTHUR- William McCALL- Annie McKENZIE- Della MINET- William MONTGOMERY MORRIS- Bill MORRIS- Olive MORRISON- Herbert NESBITT- Mary NIGHTINGALE- Florence OAKEY- John PAGANINI- Signor PANKHURST- Sylvia PAXTON- Joseph PEARSON- Charles PEPYS- Samuel PILE- Frederick PISSARO- Camille POLE- Cardinal Reginald PORTER- W.H.A. ROBERTS- O. L. ROLFE- Alan ROUPELL- William Palmer RUSKIN- John SANDERS- Sidney SEACOLE Mary SIMPSON- C.H. SNELL- Rev. Bernard.J. SOLO ONE SPURGEON- Rev.C.H. STANLEY- Henry STORACE- Nancy SULLIVAN- Sir Arthur SZABO- Violette TAIT- Archbishop Campbell TATE- Henry TEGETMEIR- Florence THORNTON- Henry THRALE Hester THURLOW- Edward TINWORTH- George TIPLADY- Rev.Thomas TOPOLSKI- Felix TRADESCANT- John the Elder TRADESCANT- John the Younger TYERS- Jonathan TYSON- Leonora VAN GOGH- Vincent VENN- Henry WALDRON- Rev. A.J. WARD- Sir John WEIR- Benjamin WELLINGTON- Duke of WESLEY- Rev. John WILBERFORCE- Rev. Samuel WILBERFORCE- William WILKINSON- William WILLIAM- Williams WOOLLEY- Charles

Select Collection All Collections 1st Surrey Rifles Astleys Awdry Collection Beckett Postcard Collection Bovril British Railways Board Carlton Mansions Archive Civil Defence Clapham Antiquarian Society Conservation Area Photographs Cuttings and Ephemera Delamotte Department of Town Planning Drainage Records Enzo Peccinotti Photographer Frith Gedge Graham Gower Collection Harry Jacobs Photographer Home Front Project 2005 Horst Friedrichs Photographer Imperial War Museum James Walker John S Webb Johns Keith Holdaway Photographer Linskey Postcard Collection Local History Library Loobey Postcard Collection Manning & Bray Manning Photographers Museum Collection Newspaper Archive Norwood Technical Institute Olive Morris Collection Penelope Gretton Photographer Phillips Volumes 1-4 /SURREY ILLUSTRATIONS Photographic Survey and Record of Surrey Postcard Albums Public Relations Photographs Punch Magazine Sale Catalogue Collection Slide Collection Spurgeon's Homes Streatham Antiquarian Society Street Renumbering Files Strudwick Photographer Stutchbury Surrey Surrey Pamphlets Surrey-ana Val Wilmer Photographer Vauxhall Gardens W.Ward Warwick Wilson Woolley

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