Loughborough Road Histories
@roadsw9.bsky.social
History of the people, places and events on this south London street and the surrounding neighbourhood
Pleasure, thoroughly enjoyed it. Good to shine a bit of extra light on George Le Brunn’s music hall composing career, and his life in and around Brixton. Looking forward to more delving in BMHS archive in future too and not just Le Brunn’s song sheet collection
September 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Pleasure, thoroughly enjoyed it. Good to shine a bit of extra light on George Le Brunn’s music hall composing career, and his life in and around Brixton. Looking forward to more delving in BMHS archive in future too and not just Le Brunn’s song sheet collection
Re:trace going up. Opening at Longfield Hall SE5 tomorrow.
September 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Re:trace going up. Opening at Longfield Hall SE5 tomorrow.
Re:trace exhibition
📅 9-28 September
🕑 10am-6pm daily
📍Longfield Hall
50 Knatchbull Road SE5
Basil McDonald has retraced the route and reshot images taken by Brian Bloice in 1967 on a walk from Brian’s home on Hubert Grove SW9 to Lambeth Archives at Minet Library, opposite Longfield Hall.
📅 9-28 September
🕑 10am-6pm daily
📍Longfield Hall
50 Knatchbull Road SE5
Basil McDonald has retraced the route and reshot images taken by Brian Bloice in 1967 on a walk from Brian’s home on Hubert Grove SW9 to Lambeth Archives at Minet Library, opposite Longfield Hall.
September 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Re:trace exhibition
📅 9-28 September
🕑 10am-6pm daily
📍Longfield Hall
50 Knatchbull Road SE5
Basil McDonald has retraced the route and reshot images taken by Brian Bloice in 1967 on a walk from Brian’s home on Hubert Grove SW9 to Lambeth Archives at Minet Library, opposite Longfield Hall.
📅 9-28 September
🕑 10am-6pm daily
📍Longfield Hall
50 Knatchbull Road SE5
Basil McDonald has retraced the route and reshot images taken by Brian Bloice in 1967 on a walk from Brian’s home on Hubert Grove SW9 to Lambeth Archives at Minet Library, opposite Longfield Hall.
Lambeth Local History Fair in full swing at Clapham Library. Limbering up for my talk.
September 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Lambeth Local History Fair in full swing at Clapham Library. Limbering up for my talk.
Coming up #LambethHeritageFestival month.
3.30pm Sat. 6th Sept. as part of Local History Fair day I’ll be at Clapham Library talking Four-legged performers, just one of them on brochure cover.
www.lambethlocalhistoryforum.org.uk/wp-content/u...
3.30pm Sat. 6th Sept. as part of Local History Fair day I’ll be at Clapham Library talking Four-legged performers, just one of them on brochure cover.
www.lambethlocalhistoryforum.org.uk/wp-content/u...
August 31, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Coming up #LambethHeritageFestival month.
3.30pm Sat. 6th Sept. as part of Local History Fair day I’ll be at Clapham Library talking Four-legged performers, just one of them on brochure cover.
www.lambethlocalhistoryforum.org.uk/wp-content/u...
3.30pm Sat. 6th Sept. as part of Local History Fair day I’ll be at Clapham Library talking Four-legged performers, just one of them on brochure cover.
www.lambethlocalhistoryforum.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Frank James Burgoyne and his wife Mary Anne. Frank was the chief librarian for Lambeth 1887-1913. They lived in at Carnegie library @hernehillsociety.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Frank James Burgoyne and his wife Mary Anne. Frank was the chief librarian for Lambeth 1887-1913. They lived in at Carnegie library @hernehillsociety.bsky.social
Unusual memorial to William Amwell died 1881
Monument erected by the engine drivers and firemen of the London and South Western Railway Co as their last mark of respect
Monument erected by the engine drivers and firemen of the London and South Western Railway Co as their last mark of respect
August 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Unusual memorial to William Amwell died 1881
Monument erected by the engine drivers and firemen of the London and South Western Railway Co as their last mark of respect
Monument erected by the engine drivers and firemen of the London and South Western Railway Co as their last mark of respect
Visit to #LambethCemetery yesterday doing a bit of prep for the 14 Sept. guided walk Artists, entertainers and campaigners peopleoflambeth.eventbrite.co.uk
Spotted a few other interesting memorials perhaps for future walks 🧵
Spotted a few other interesting memorials perhaps for future walks 🧵
August 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Visit to #LambethCemetery yesterday doing a bit of prep for the 14 Sept. guided walk Artists, entertainers and campaigners peopleoflambeth.eventbrite.co.uk
Spotted a few other interesting memorials perhaps for future walks 🧵
Spotted a few other interesting memorials perhaps for future walks 🧵
More time to visit or revisit
@brixtonsociety.bsky.social 50th anniversary exhibition at Brixton Library. Extended to 31 August 🎂🎉
@brixtonsociety.bsky.social 50th anniversary exhibition at Brixton Library. Extended to 31 August 🎂🎉
August 12, 2025 at 7:32 AM
More time to visit or revisit
@brixtonsociety.bsky.social 50th anniversary exhibition at Brixton Library. Extended to 31 August 🎂🎉
@brixtonsociety.bsky.social 50th anniversary exhibition at Brixton Library. Extended to 31 August 🎂🎉
Reproduction 1987 but stunning and a historical piece in its own right.
🙏 @youngalison.bsky.social @musichallsociety.bsky.social for solving mystery.
Lily Burnand lived on Loughborough Road 1906, year of original poster and Karno had his fun factory in Loughborough Jnc.
#musichall #localhistory
🙏 @youngalison.bsky.social @musichallsociety.bsky.social for solving mystery.
Lily Burnand lived on Loughborough Road 1906, year of original poster and Karno had his fun factory in Loughborough Jnc.
#musichall #localhistory
August 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Reproduction 1987 but stunning and a historical piece in its own right.
🙏 @youngalison.bsky.social @musichallsociety.bsky.social for solving mystery.
Lily Burnand lived on Loughborough Road 1906, year of original poster and Karno had his fun factory in Loughborough Jnc.
#musichall #localhistory
🙏 @youngalison.bsky.social @musichallsociety.bsky.social for solving mystery.
Lily Burnand lived on Loughborough Road 1906, year of original poster and Karno had his fun factory in Loughborough Jnc.
#musichall #localhistory
Brixton Society 50th Anniversary Exhibition at Brixton Library until 9 August. Loughborough Road Histories featured a few times.
@brixtonblog.bsky.social has a great feature ‘stink pipes to sky streets’ brixtonblog.com/stink-pipes-...
Familiar acting char!
#oneplacewednesday
@brixtonblog.bsky.social has a great feature ‘stink pipes to sky streets’ brixtonblog.com/stink-pipes-...
Familiar acting char!
#oneplacewednesday
August 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Brixton Society 50th Anniversary Exhibition at Brixton Library until 9 August. Loughborough Road Histories featured a few times.
@brixtonblog.bsky.social has a great feature ‘stink pipes to sky streets’ brixtonblog.com/stink-pipes-...
Familiar acting char!
#oneplacewednesday
@brixtonblog.bsky.social has a great feature ‘stink pipes to sky streets’ brixtonblog.com/stink-pipes-...
Familiar acting char!
#oneplacewednesday
Lambeth Heritage Festival 2025
70 events throughout September. I’m involved in a few- cemetery walks, music hall and pub history talks and photography exhibition.
#LambethHeritageFestival #LHF2025
www.lambethlocalhistoryforum.org.uk/wp-content/u...
70 events throughout September. I’m involved in a few- cemetery walks, music hall and pub history talks and photography exhibition.
#LambethHeritageFestival #LHF2025
www.lambethlocalhistoryforum.org.uk/wp-content/u...
August 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Lambeth Heritage Festival 2025
70 events throughout September. I’m involved in a few- cemetery walks, music hall and pub history talks and photography exhibition.
#LambethHeritageFestival #LHF2025
www.lambethlocalhistoryforum.org.uk/wp-content/u...
70 events throughout September. I’m involved in a few- cemetery walks, music hall and pub history talks and photography exhibition.
#LambethHeritageFestival #LHF2025
www.lambethlocalhistoryforum.org.uk/wp-content/u...
The cake has been cut and the @brixtonsociety.bsky.social 50th Anniversary Exhibition is open at Brixton Library. Understanding the past, looking to the future. On till 9 August. A glimpse into some of the plans for Brixton that never happened, significant events and work of the Society.
July 31, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The cake has been cut and the @brixtonsociety.bsky.social 50th Anniversary Exhibition is open at Brixton Library. Understanding the past, looking to the future. On till 9 August. A glimpse into some of the plans for Brixton that never happened, significant events and work of the Society.
🙏to lovely group who joined @brixtonsociety.bsky.social Alan Piper and I on our Myatt’s Fields and Fiveways walk. We stopped to talk about Dark & Light Theatre and other Longfield Hall history. Of course there were cats, stink pipes and Music hall mentions too.
July 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
🙏to lovely group who joined @brixtonsociety.bsky.social Alan Piper and I on our Myatt’s Fields and Fiveways walk. We stopped to talk about Dark & Light Theatre and other Longfield Hall history. Of course there were cats, stink pipes and Music hall mentions too.
Rainy day reading lined up @musichallsociety.bsky.social @brixtonsociety.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Rainy day reading lined up @musichallsociety.bsky.social @brixtonsociety.bsky.social
New images added to my blog about a, formerly, mystery building on Brixton Road. loughboroughroadsw9histories.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/m...
🙏 @brixtonsociety.bsky.social for sharing the images and publishing my articles about the Pettman furniture warehouse building in your newsletter.
🙏 @brixtonsociety.bsky.social for sharing the images and publishing my articles about the Pettman furniture warehouse building in your newsletter.
July 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
New images added to my blog about a, formerly, mystery building on Brixton Road. loughboroughroadsw9histories.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/m...
🙏 @brixtonsociety.bsky.social for sharing the images and publishing my articles about the Pettman furniture warehouse building in your newsletter.
🙏 @brixtonsociety.bsky.social for sharing the images and publishing my articles about the Pettman furniture warehouse building in your newsletter.
Been scratching around grave stones in Streatham Cemetery and looking at burial plans I had handy. @oispooky.bsky.social
Sadly no headstone remaining to John Bannochie. He is in between the graves with dilapidated memorials in the foreground.
Sadly no headstone remaining to John Bannochie. He is in between the graves with dilapidated memorials in the foreground.
June 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Been scratching around grave stones in Streatham Cemetery and looking at burial plans I had handy. @oispooky.bsky.social
Sadly no headstone remaining to John Bannochie. He is in between the graves with dilapidated memorials in the foreground.
Sadly no headstone remaining to John Bannochie. He is in between the graves with dilapidated memorials in the foreground.
Visit to another of the magnificent 7 today, Brompton Cemetery. Entertaining theatre tour by the Friends. And not all ‘legit’ theatre, Tom Foy and Charles Coburn to start @musichallsociety.bsky.social.
June 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Visit to another of the magnificent 7 today, Brompton Cemetery. Entertaining theatre tour by the Friends. And not all ‘legit’ theatre, Tom Foy and Charles Coburn to start @musichallsociety.bsky.social.
Found a couple more designs wandering down other streets in the last few weeks. Both these #loughboroughjunction
May 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Found a couple more designs wandering down other streets in the last few weeks. Both these #loughboroughjunction
My coal hole cover spotting continues. A whole row of coal hole covers I’ve not spotted before outside shops on Clapham Road, Oval. Photographers George and Herbert Tear, who lived on Loughborough Road, had their studio shop till 1917 where Foxtons is now, so passed many times 🤦♀️
#OnePlaceWednesday
#OnePlaceWednesday
May 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
My coal hole cover spotting continues. A whole row of coal hole covers I’ve not spotted before outside shops on Clapham Road, Oval. Photographers George and Herbert Tear, who lived on Loughborough Road, had their studio shop till 1917 where Foxtons is now, so passed many times 🤦♀️
#OnePlaceWednesday
#OnePlaceWednesday
Timely then that saw his grave and memorial at Kensal Green Cemetery today
May 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Timely then that saw his grave and memorial at Kensal Green Cemetery today
Search aided by excellent Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery book.
May 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Search aided by excellent Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery book.
2nd of Magnificent 7 in one weekend. 1st visit to Kensal Green Cemetery. #circus and #musichall royalty and stunning memorials. Blondin, Ducrow, Cooke and Collins.
May 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
2nd of Magnificent 7 in one weekend. 1st visit to Kensal Green Cemetery. #circus and #musichall royalty and stunning memorials. Blondin, Ducrow, Cooke and Collins.
The chapel looks stunning and fantastic tour by Andrea @fownc1837.bsky.social
Still chance to go and see St Stephen’s chapel tomorrow
Still chance to go and see St Stephen’s chapel tomorrow
May 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The chapel looks stunning and fantastic tour by Andrea @fownc1837.bsky.social
Still chance to go and see St Stephen’s chapel tomorrow
Still chance to go and see St Stephen’s chapel tomorrow
Loughborough Road orchid artist Nelly Roberts. 5 of her paintings now on display and in the collection of The Garden Museum. So glad I tipped them off they were on sale.
May 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Loughborough Road orchid artist Nelly Roberts. 5 of her paintings now on display and in the collection of The Garden Museum. So glad I tipped them off they were on sale.