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An oral history contribution from one of the residents from the Ashmole Estate talking about her first memories of the estate. For more on the Estate Lives Project please visit the Estate Lives Channel on Bmetv.net
An oral history contribution from one of the residents from the Ashmole Estate talking about her first memories of the estate. For more on the Estate Lives Project please visit the Estate Lives Channel on Bmetv.net
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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 ...
Added: 4178 days ago
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Vauxhall Gardens - 1751
Description: The gardens at Vauxhall were originally called the New Spring Gardens and were opened in 1661. ...
Added: 4179 days ago
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The Vauxhall Hornpipe
Description: Handel wrote this piece for the famous Pleasure Gardens at Vauxhall in 1740 - this video clip al ...
Added: 4179 days ago
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Mysterious Skeletons
Description: An oral history contribution from one of the residents from the Ashmole Estate talking about his ...
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Diverse Origins
Description: An oral history contribution from one of the residents from the Ashmole Estate talking about his ...
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An Harmonious Estate
Description: An oral history contribution from one of the residents from the Ashmole Estate talking about the ...
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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 ...
Added: 4186 days ago
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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 ...
Added: 4186 days ago
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Lambeth area map - 1802
Description: This map predates the first bridge built at Vauxhall opened on 4 June 1816 and originally called ...
Added: 4186 days ago
Description: Ashmole estate, in the Oval ward of Lambeth, is a mixture of 1930s 5-storey walk up blocks, 1970 ...
Added: 4186 days ago
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Area map 1888
Description: This map shows the area just two years before the tube station at the Oval opened but forty year ...
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Evacuation during WWII
Description: An oral history contribution from one of the residents from the Ashmole Estate talking about Ev ...
Added: 4187 days ago
Description: An oral history contribution from one of the residents from the Ashmole Estate talking about mo ...
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Description: During the Second World War, the Oval was intended for use as a prisoner of war camp, although i ...
Added: 4192 days ago
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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 ...
Added: 4192 days ago
Description: This photograph was taken by a resident who still lives on the estate, Irene Bateman. If you loo ...
Added: 4192 days ago
Description: Although this photograph has no date attached to it the only car parked up in Ashmole Street app ...
Added: 4193 days ago
Title:
The Oval Tube Station
Description: This Northern line station was originally part of the City and South London Railway when it firs ...
Added: 4193 days ago
Description: In 1844, Kennington Oval was a market garden. The Oval was then (and still is) owned by the Duch ...
Added: 4193 days ago
Description: This photograph shows a celebration ‘fly past’ of British planes over London to mark the end of ...
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19th Century Trigon Road
Description: Property prices in Trigon Road have risen astronomically since this picture was taken back in th ...
Added: 4193 days ago
Description: The grime business of searching for survivors the morning after a bombing raid the previous nigh ...
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Kennington Park Road
Description: Kennington Station was opened on 18 December 1890 as part of London's first deep level tube tran ...
Added: 4193 days ago
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Local bomb damage WWII
Description: Throughout Lambeth, as in many other areas across London, the large-scale bombing during WWII pr ...
Added: 4193 days ago
Description: This early photograph of Fentiman Road strikes us first because of its utter lack of motor vehic ...
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Title:
V1 Flying Bomb WWII
Description: The V1 Flying bomb was the worlds first cruise missile. An unmanned gyro guided plane that deliv ...
Added: 4193 days ago
Description: Flying Bomb incident. Bomb damage to Stoddart House, Ashmole Estate on Kennington Oval. 24th Aug ...
Added: 4194 days ago
Description: This photograph taken from the air shows what the area looked like prior to any tower blocks - w ...
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