Featured: Aftermath of bomb damage WWII
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Clearing bomb sites and looking for any survivors or victims was a painstaking and slow process. Lifting equipment was scarce as was manpower; picks and shovels were often all there was available.
Clearing bomb sites and looking for any survivors or victims was a painstaking and slow process. Lifting equipment was scarce as was manpower; picks and shovels were often all there was available.
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Description: Irene recalls her early memories of the Ashmole Estate in this interviewed video clip .......
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Vauxhall Pleasure Garden
Description: This clip shows performers at the Museum of London dancing to 'Vauxhall Pleasure Garden' - music ...
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Vauxhall Gardens - 1751
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The Vauxhall Hornpipe
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Mysterious Skeletons
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First Memories
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Diverse Origins
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An Harmonious Estate
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A Quieter Estate
Description: An oral history contribution from one of the residents from the Ashmole Estate talking about his ...
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Description: An oral history contribution from one of the residents from Ashmole Estate talking about the con ...
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Vauxhall Gardens - 1802
Description: Vauxhall Gardens is just north-east of the estate. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries it was a ...
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Lambeth area map - 1802
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Description: Ashmole estate, in the Oval ward of Lambeth, is a mixture of 1930s 5-storey walk up blocks, 1970 ...
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Area map 1888
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Evacuation during WWII
Description: An oral history contribution from one of the residents from the Ashmole Estate talking about Ev ...
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Description: An oral history contribution from one of the residents from the Ashmole Estate talking about mo ...
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Claylands Road in the 1970s
Description: This picture from the 1970s contrasts the brand new concrete parking bollards in the foreground ...
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Description: This photograph was taken by a resident who still lives on the estate, Irene Bateman. If you loo ...
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Description: Although this photograph has no date attached to it the only car parked up in Ashmole Street app ...
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The Oval Tube Station
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19th Century Trigon Road
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Local bomb damage WWII
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V1 Flying Bomb WWII
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Description: Flying Bomb incident. Bomb damage to Stoddart House, Ashmole Estate on Kennington Oval. 24th Aug ...
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