This is a complete DIVERSION from the original route. The standard LBTC route crosses the ALBERT BRIDGE over to CHELSEA, immediately after exiting BATTERSEA PARK.

a small creek which was the mouth of a tiny stream related to the Falcon Brook. By the mid-1870s the site had been taken over by Allen Ransome, of the famous Ipswich-based engineering company. They already had works at Chelsea. Ransome invested heavily in extending and rebuilding the adjoining creek to form the dock that now bears his name. Excavated and constructed in 1884 by the local engineering contractors B Cooke & Company, under the guidance of the civil engineer Edward Woods, the dock was designed to take not just lighters and barges, but also coastal steamers. It was wide and deep enough to allow craft to turn, as well as allowing two rows of vessels to pass, and to leave on the lowest of tides. Underground ice wells were built for the Natural Ice Company Ltd which had premises beside the dock to store ice that was shipped direct from Norway. The date when that started is not known. It was later taken over by Slaters Ltd and, by 1902 belonged to the United Carlo Gatti Stevenson Slater Company an amalgamation of block ice trade merchants.

Designed by internationally acclaimed architects, Herzog & de Meuron, the £135 million, 15,500 sqm campus is the largest investment in transformational space in the RCA’s 185 year history.

The development marks a critical point in the RCA’s transformation into a dynamic, STEAM-focused postgraduate university (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics), expanding into computer and materials science, robotics, advanced manufacturing, complex visualisation and data science and intelligent mobility – and enabling the College’s community of postgraduate students to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our times.

Following an unprecedented grant of £54 million from Her Majesty’s Treasury announced in the Chancellor’s Spring budget in 2016, donor funding has been led by a £15 million gift from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, along with support from other national and international philanthropists and industry partners.

Foster + Partners is a global studio for sustainable architecture, urbanism, engineering and design, founded by Norman Foster in 1967. With offices across the world, the practice works as a single entity that is both ethnically and culturally diverse, with people central to all our endeavours. 

The partners, who are all shareholders, are the core of the practice. They are central to our continuing evolution and take responsibility for all projects, which are shared amongst our architectural studios.

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Unfortunately, no station nearby. You take the bus to CLAPHAM JUNCTION RAILWAY and LO STAS.

Away from the riverside now: usk rd, nantes close,  podmore rd, old york road

After the Edict of Nantes (1598) departures decreased considerably, and some emigrants even came back to France. But each crisis (+the taking of La Rochelle in 1628, the dragoon attacks in Poitou in 1681), led to new departures even though a royal edict (in 1669, renewed in 1682 and 1685, extended to “new converts” in 1686 and 1699) forbade them to “settle in foreign countries”. The number of exiles reached its peak with the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685,

John Dormay. House and works here. He opened his own gas works in the 1830s and applied for parliamentary powers. The Wandsworth Company opposed this, and in 1873 purchased Dormay’s concern for £5,000.

Wentworth House. Early 18th. Named for the engineering firm which was here.

Burroughs and Welcombe first factory was here. They had been pharmacists in the US. Set up here to avoid stamp duty on pills. In 1889 they moved to Dartford.

Taken over in July 1908 by the Biograph Theatres Circuit, operated by American born exhibitor George Washington Grant. A projection box was installed and alterations were made by architect William Hancock to convert the building into the Picture Palace. In June 1911, it was taken over by new owners and re-named Picture Palladium.

Re-named Court Cinema from 1916 (it was located adjacent to the County Court-today used as Wandsworth Museum). The Court Cinema was closed in the 1920’s.

This route allows you to cross under wandsworth bridge road

It carries the A217 road between the area of Battersea, near Wandsworth Town Station, in the London Borough of Wandsworth on the south of the river, and the areas of Sands End and Parsons Green, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, on the north side.

The first bridge on the site was a toll bridge built by Julian Tolmé in 1873, in the expectation that the western terminus of the Hammersmith and City Railway would shortly be built on the north bank, leading to a sharp increase in the number of people wanting to cross the river at this point. The railway terminus was not built, and problems with drainage on the approach road made access to the bridge difficult for vehicles. Wandsworth Bridge was

commercially unsuccessful, and in 1880 it was taken into public ownership and made toll-free. Tolmé's bridge was narrow and too weak to carry buses, and in 1926 a Royal Commission recommended its replacement.

In 1937 Tolmé's bridge was demolished. The present bridge, an unadorned steel cantilever bridgedesigned by Sir Thomas Peirson Frank, was opened in 1940. At the time of its opening it was painted in dull shades of blue as camouflageagainst air raids, a colour scheme it retains. Although Wandsworth Bridge is one of the busiest bridges in London, carrying over 50,000 vehicles daily, it has been described as "probably the least noteworthy bridge in London".

WHO WERE THE SMUGGLERS?

Wandsworth Depot is in Jews Row and was originally opened by the South London Tramways Company on 6^th May 1883 before the LCC took it over on 22^nd November 1902.Horse trams were used there until 1906 before electric trams moved in until 30^thSeptember 1950. Trolleybuses were also housed here from 12^th September 1937 until 1950 to serve route 612. After the trams and trolleybuses moved out it was converted for further use for buses. It is now the home of Original London Sightseeing Tour buses.

The Spit/Causeway is a nature reserve at the mouth of the River Wandle. It is a small triangular site, only about 50 m long, and 20 m wide at its broadest. It was overgrown and inaccessible but a new footbridge over the river and recent renovation work has opened it up to the public.

It comprises retreated tidal terraces bisected by a wooden boardwalk. There are two small sparse areas of shrubs and an area of hard surfacing on which is sited a piece of public art, called Sail by Sophie Horton (2003).

Ecologically, three large white willow trees are the main focus of interest.

A branch of the Wandle which forms Causeway Island and which remains despite plans to fill it in in the 1950s. Grade II ecology site The sluice gate structure has been used for DELTA project. From it has been hung a bell, rung by the tides - four times in every 24 hours. Carved in stone on the gate is “Salmon, Swan, Otter, Heron, Eel”. In 1993, micro-hydro turbine was put on the sluice gate to generate renewable energy

REGENCY VILLA, built 1805-6. Two-storeys stucco. Three sash windows, the
centre bay recessed. The projecting wings have corner pilasters with incised decoration. Central bowed stucco porch with Ionic columns; entablature details
missing. Band between storeys. Cornice and blocking course with acroteria.
Right-hand bay has a small modern extension on ground floor. Right-hand return
elevation with 3-bay front, sash windows but with the decorative pilasters to
extreme outer corners only. Otherwise similar to front and with recessed centre.
Band between storeys.

A former lighterman's pub, b uilt in 1865, it was called Ye Olde House and Home, it renamed in the 1990s after a lost cat who returned. Acquired and refurbished by Harvey's in 2012 and now parading Harvey’s windows and fascia, it is Harvey's second London pub (15 years after they took over the Royal Oak in Borough, SE1) and a good addition to Wandsworth. Under new management since June 2021. There’s a garden at the back, and a function room upstairs. This pub is a remarkable survivor amidst the mass development of upmarket riverside apartments all around.

All the bric-a-brac from a previous era has gone but it still retains its warm, intimate atmosphere with comfortable sofas to help ensure an enjoyable visit. Four real ales are available from Harvey's. The 4th handpump often features Harveys Dark Mild or Olympia. The pub sometimes offers live music (mostly blues and folk), An upstairs room known as the 'Lions Den' is available for hire. From CAMRA andBEER AND PUBS blog

A lighterman is a worker who operates a lighter, a type of flat-bottomed barge, which may be powered or unpowered. In the latter case, it is usually moved by a powered tug. The term is particularly associated with the highly skilled men who operated the unpowered lighters moved by oar and water currents in the Port of London.

Labourers cottages

A unique collection of works, by veteran British sculptor ALAN THORNHILL, along Putney’s riverside from Leaders Gardens to Riverside Quarter.

The Club has a proud history dating back around 100 years, and is directly developed from the Yacht Owners Associationfounded well before the 1914-1918 war. Hurlingham Yacht Club was formed by the remaining members, with premises at the Fulham end of Putney Railway Bridge.  In 1929, the Club relocated to its current site on Deodar Road.

However, in 1939, war again struck the country and the Club became dormant, as did many others. During the war, many of our Members were on active service, with some taking part in the Dunkirk Armada.  But after those six long years, though buildings and plant had suffered badly, the members gathered round and put them in condition so that we were a fully functioning as a Yacht Club by 1945.

It was originally a 1960s office block for International Computers Limited (ICL),^[1] until A curved riverside extension, terracotta cladding and an extra four floors were added to the 1960s block to create a block of 67 two and three bed apartments. the fifteen stories was reclad in 2003 and redeveloped for residential use by Patel Taylorand St George.

There has been a centre of Christian worship on this site from at least the 13th century, and the church is still very active today. It is also noteworthy because in 1647, during the English Civil War, the church was the site of the Putney Debates on the English constitution.

parts of the existing church have survived from medieval times, such as the 15th-century tower and some of the nave arcading, and the early 16th-century Bishop West Chapel, built by Bishop Nicholas West. Most of the building, however, dates from the substantial reconstruction of 1836 to the designs of Edward Lapidge.

A shortcut: Putney>barnes common>barnes

From here, you can walk to RICHMOND and WIMBLEDON

Riverside route

The arms are portrayed in the royal colours of ermine, red and gold. As the very name Richmond is derived from King Henry VII's earldom of Richmond in Yorkshire, the principal charge in the arms is the gold portcullis. This appears to have been King Henry's favourite badge and his chapel in Westminster Abbey is decorated with crowned portcullises and roses. The border of royal red is emblazoned with another royal badge, the fleur-de-lis.

Richmond is commemorated by the portcullis in the arms; Twickenham is reflected in the crest of a swan but, instead of swimming on water as formerly, the swan now stands within the mural crown, the time honoured civic symbol and is differenced from other swans crests by the branch of red roses (another royal allusion) which it holds in its beak. The swan symbolises the river Thames whose amenities were enjoyed by all the former boroughs.

The supporters of the Borough of Barnes were two griffins, alluding to the Spencers, Lords of the Manor of Mortlake, and these, being also noble creatures symbolic of courage, strength and swiftness have been retained. The dark and light blades commemorate the fact that the University Boat Race ends at Mortlake.

Now largely given over to sporting venues. The site is split in two: the Barn Elms Sports Trust (BEST) fields,and the Barn Elms Sports Centre.

Its name is derived from the Georgian house and parkland, the original manor house of Barnes, which stood on the site, until it was burnt out and demolished in 1954.^[10] In earlier times the manor house of Barnes was in the ownership of the Archbishop of Canterbury and then of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral. The Georgian house replaced the earlier one occupied by Sir Francis Walsingham, "Elizabeth's Spymaster".^[11] Queen Elizabeth I would visit Barn Elms to see her Spymaster. Barn Elms features in English literary history from the time the royalist poet Abraham Cowley moved to the house belonging to John Cartwright in 1663.^[12]

In the 1660s Barn Elms became a fashionable destination for boating picnics. Samuel Pepys, who arranged many a Sunday afternoon or moonlit evening boating party to Barn Elms himself,

When Barn Elms was in the possession of the bookseller Jacob Tonson, the Kit-Cat Club met at Barn Elms for many years. Here the "Kit-Kat portraits" hung;^[17] Tonson's extensions to the house, c1703, seem to have been made under the general advice of John Vanbrugh, a Kit-Kat member.^[18]

John James Heidegger, the opera impresario, resided at Barn Elms, where he entertained George II, and as Heidegger's guest Georg Friederich Handel stayed here at his first arrival in England, in 1711.^[19]

The house was later remodelled or rebuilt for Sir Richard Hoare, who died at Barn Elms,

In 1891 Barn Elms for a short time played host to Queens Park Rangers.

Queen elizabeth walk: entrance to the LWC and on to church st., barnes

WWT London Wetland Centre is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. The site is formed of four disused Victorian reservoirs tucked into a loop in the Thames.

The centre first opened in 2000, and in 2002 an area of 29.9 hectares was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest as the Barn Elms Wetland Centre.

The centre occupies more than 100 acres (40 hectares)

Castelnau takes its name from Castelnau-Valence, near Nîmes in France: in 1691, the 10th Baron of Castelnau and St Croix, a Huguenot, fled France for England following persecution, ^{[citation needed]} and his son, Charles Boileau, settled in north Barnes and his descendants developed parts of the area. Maurice Boileau, the other son of the 10th Baron, stayed in the Castle and his descendants still live in the castle.

Castelnau means "new castle"

Castelnau was developed after the opening of Hammersmith Bridge in 1827.^[3]

Major Charles Lestock Boileau built Castelnau Villas (now 84–122 and 91–125 Castelnau), designed by the architect William Laxton,^[3] in 1842, followed by rows of cottages called Castelnau Row, Castelnau Place and Gothic Cottages. After his death in 1889, Upper Bridge Road was renamed Castelnau.

In 1926, London County Council built a cottage estate of 640 houses, called Castelnau Estate, on the site of a market garden.^[4] In 1971 these passed to ownership of Richmond upon Thames Council. Many are now privately owned. Many of the roads in this estate are named after Deans of St. Paul's who had been Lords of the manor of Barnes between the 14th and 17th centuries: Everdon, Kilmington, Alderbury, Kentwode, Howsman and Stillingfleet

St Paul’s School was founded by John Colet, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral. Colet’s father was Sir Henry Colet, twice Lord Mayor of London. As his sole surviving child, John Colet inherited substantial wealth in 1505 to bolster his own independent means. Colet used his whole fortune to endow St Paul’s School, making it the largest school in England.

In the 16th century it was usual for school governance to be entrusted to the Church, but Colet believed that “he yet found the least corruption” in married laymen. He therefore chose “the most honest and faithfull felowshipp of the mercers of London”, the premier guild of the City of London – of which his father had been a leading member – as “patrones and defenders governours and Rulers” of his new school.

Colet intended his school to provide a Christian and humanist education. He was helped and advised in his planning by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, the most famous scholar of the day, who wrote textbooks for the school’s use and assisted in the recruiting of staff. Under Colet’s statutes, there were to be 153 scholars (a reference to the miraculous draught of fishes, St John XXI, 11) “of all nacions and countres indifferently”.

The first building, sited by St Paul’s Cathedral, was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. The school subsequently moved four times, due to growing demand, before finally settling at the present 45 acre, riverside site in 1968.

The Bull opened as a jazz venue in 1959 and, under the management of Albert Tolley,^[7] became an important venue for major UK and visiting international jazz musicians during the 1960s. The first gig was in November that year. In 1982, Dan Fleming took over the premises and the venue continued to flourish with its jazz roster. Fleming added blues and rock acts to its listings, a policy which continues to this day.

he venue featured in Martin Scorsese's History of the Blues (2003).^[1]

The music room was refurbished with sponsorship from Yamaha in 2006^[7] and was renamed "The Yamaha Room".^[1] In 2009 the Bull celebrated fifty years as a venue

East Sheen, also known as Sheen, and Mortlake together form a leafy, family-friendly suburb. The area affords easy access to Richmond Park and the River Thames, Mortlake being the closest train station to the park. Sheen’s thriving high street has a diverse range of popular and award winning independent and mainstream boutiques, shops, local pubs, restaurants, cafés and delis.

Mortlake is a largely residential historic part of the borough, particularly known for its pubs and the finishing line of the Oxford & Cambridge University Boat Race. It is also the burial place of the Victorian explorer Richard Burton.

Look  out for the weeping willow opposite a substantial brick building with Romanesque arched windows. Pop into the alley beside this building and you'll receive a fine view of Mortlake church with its Tudor tower. You'll also find a couple of plaques. A slab of granite to your left marks the site of the LOWER DUTCH HOUSE, a 17th century centre of tapestry making. To the right, someone's pinned up the least impressive plaque in the Kingdom, a laminated memorial to JOHN DEE that looks like a deglorified tax disc.

The first recorded church in the village of Mortlake was erected in (or shortly after) 1348 under licence from Edward III. The church stood near the Manor House, on the site of the present brewery, and served the spiritual needs of the villagers for nearly two hundred years. The Manor belonged to the see of Canterbury until 1536, when Archbishop Cranmer transferred it to King Henry VIII in exchange for other lands. During Henry’s occupation of the house, the land on which the 14th Century church stood was apparently required for other purposes, and in 1543 it was replaced by a church on the present site. This 1543 building has undergone many alterations and enlargements during its long history, and of the original Tudor church, only the tower remains.

It is believed the tower was constructed using stone from the first church, supplemented with other stone and brickwork to the upper tiers and staircase. The fourth tier was given its current form in 1796, when the belfry was refaced in stock brick with a plain parapet.

The cupola, on the top of the tower, is thought to be original, though it would have been repaired many times over the centuries. The weathercock on top dates from 1678. Inside the cupola is a bell on which the hours are struck. It bears the date 1712, and was presumably installed with the first tower clock. The present clock was made by John Moore & Son of Clerkenwell, in 1838.

The Parish began as what would have been known as a Mission in 1849.  It could not be called a Parish yet, as Catholic Emancipation in this country had only begun in earnest in 1829, leading to the restoration of the Bishops of England and Wales in 1850.

​As a number of Catholics lived and worked in this area, the life of the Parish had already begun beforehand, but work on the church building began in 1851 and was completed in 1852.  Two years later, in April 1854, Canon Wenham, the first Parish Priest, began a school which was built at the north end of the ground next to Church Path, and a strip of ground was subsequently added to the burial-ground on the east side, with a brick wall built around the whole.

Canon Wenham's dwelling was at first a plain, square, brick and slated house facing the east, near the church door on the south-west side.  This was pulled down and the present stone Presbytery was built to connect with an entrance to the church.

The most interesting tomb in St. Mary Magdalen's churchyard is the mausoleum in the shape of an Arab tent where the coffins of Sir Richard Burton and his wife Isabel Arundell can be seen through a window at the back.

Thinking about how to provide protection to civilians in the event of an enemy attack began in the 1920s. Development stalled as no design could provide protection against both blast and gas.

The Munich Crisis forced action. War may have been postponed but no one believed it had gone away.

With a widespread view that the bomber would always get through and the stories of air attacks on civilians in Spain and China solutions had to be found to provide at least some protection against blast.

Here in 1938, the builders of a new residential block of flats must have sensed which way world affairs were going, because they decided to build just such a shelter under the lawn of St Leonard’s Court. The architect, F.G. Fox, was prescient: the shelter was soon in active service as the Blitz saw London bombed nightly, with railway lines, one right next to the flats, a particular target.

Erected by the Surrey & Sussex turnpike trust in the 18th century. Two of the sides read "IX miles from the standard (in Cornhill?)" One reads "V miles 3 quarters from Hyde" (Park Corner) and the fourth side reads "VII miles 3 quarters from Hampton Court".

Notable people interred here:

• Sir Edwin Chadwick (1800–1890), social reformer
• Rear Admiral Lord William FitzRoy (1782–1857), Royal Navy officer and Member of Parliament. His grave is marked by an obelisk^[
• Charles Dickens, Jr. (1837–1896), writer, editor, and eldest son of the famous novelist
• Georgina Hogarth (1827–1917), sister-in-law, housekeeper, and adviser of novelist Charles Dickens and the editor of two volumes of his collected letters after his death

Founded at the near-by Manor House in the 15th Century.

Acquired by Charles James Phillips in the 1840s. Registered in June 1888 as More & Co. Ltd.

Acquired by Watney & Co. Ltd. in 1889. Watney amalgamated with Combe's and Reid's in 1898 to form Watney, Combe, Reid & Co. Ltd.

The Mortlake brewery was renamed the Stag Brewery in 1959 after the closure of Watney’s Stag Brewery in Pimlico.

After further changes of ownership (Elders XL 1990, Courage brewing 1991, ABInBev 2002), ABInBev closed the Mortlake Brewery and sold the site to developers in 2015.

In the 90s this brewery  was leased to Anheuser-Busch for brewing Budweiser lager. The brewery closed in 2015. More information

Mortlake has a rich historic past. It is important that the development of the brewery site is sympathetic to Mortlake’s heritage, preserving key features and reflecting its historic character.

The following documents have been given by the community  to the site’s architects to help them understand Mortlake’s past.

Together with the striped 'University Post' opposite, mark the finish line of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.

It replaced a ferry, which closed when it opened. It is a reinforced concrete deck arch bridge faced with Portland Stone. It was designed by architect HERBERT BAKER  and County Engineer Alfred Dryland. It was opened in 1933 to relieve traffic congestion west of London and carries the A316 which was a new ARTERIAL road built in the early 1930s. under the same act as Twickenham Bridge as part of the GREAT CHERTSEY arterial road scheme agreed between Middlesex and Surrey County Councils, and designed to relieve pressure on Hammersmith Bridge and in Richmond. It was formally opened by the Prince of Wales, the future KING EDWARD VIII, in 1933. It was built by the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company. When it opened the central span was the longest concrete span over the Thames.It remains a major transport route.

Now in KEW, but historically in North Sheen, Surrey. It was also known as Hammersmith New Cemetery as it provided burials for the then Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith when Margravine Cemetery was full.The cemetery opened in 1926 and is still in use.  It is now managed by Hammersmith and Fulham Council.

Open to the public for visits, events and exhibitions.

The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. They originated in the garden of Kew Park formed by Lord Capel John of Tewkesbury. They were extended by Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales and further enriched by King George III, aided by William Aiton and Joseph Banks. Its most recognisable building, The Palm House was built by architect Decimus Burton and iron-maker Richard Turner. This was the first large-scale use of wrought iron. The gardens were made a World Heritage Site in July 2003.

The first Church on this site was built in 1714 on land given by Queen Anne, and largely at her expense. It contained twenty-one pews and an upper gallery. The attractive little brick building was three bays long, entered from west and south, and measured 64 feet by 27 feet. A shallow east projection contained the altar and east window: the steep roof culminated in a clock tower with an octagonal bell turret. has been extended several times since, as the settlement of Kew grew with royal patronage. The church became a parish church in its own right in 1788. In 1805, a new south aisle, designed by Robert Browne, was added, along with a gallery for the royal family's own use. Under King William IV it was further extended in 1837 by Sir Jeffry Wyattville.A mausoleum designed by the architect Benjamin Ferrey was added in 1851 and an eastern extension, including a dome in 1882/84, to the design of Henry Stock. Further extensions occurred in 1902, 1979 and 1988.

An 18th-century landmark building with Victorian expansion and improvements. It was further enlarged in 2000 to the side and back, providing 31 modern hotel bedrooms. It has been a Young’s  (remember WANDSWORTH’s former RAM’S BREWERY) house since 1831.