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online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/the-space-between-black-and-white monthly 0.5 2022-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/27132906-18ed-4efd-98ad-63fa51346654/Esua.jpg Events - The Space Between Black and White - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/9tx2uvido1ed3y81r0uv97u60j7hk2 monthly 0.5 2022-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/5729ec33-1caf-4453-888e-046e84f0ecb4/agm.jpg Events - Battersea society AGM - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/film-night-at-the-royal-college-of-art monthly 0.5 2022-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a0721032-1936-4eb3-a2d7-f1340e6d2121/john+wayne.jpg Events - Film 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https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/an-evening-with-flanders-swann monthly 0.5 2021-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1631708388145-O0KPEIRPM8HSCSQ0OFH4/Piano.jpg Events - An Evening with Flanders & Swann - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/three-gentlemen-of-battersea-talk monthly 0.5 2021-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1631708124510-N4P1SWVA2DVKB7ZMP71N/Sculptor+Charles+Jagger.jpg Events - Three Gentlemen of Battersea Talk - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/the-st-johns-of-lydiard-tregoze-and-battersea-talk monthly 0.5 2021-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1631707738803-D3OCT4ZAXZR38UENSM0J/Lydiard+House.jpg Events - The St John’s of Lydiard Tregoze and Battersea Talk - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/my-battersea monthly 0.5 2021-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1631698884260-S13CG8V24GMMH2PAWEBJ/MyBattersea.jpeg Events - My Battersea - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/three-women-authors-of-battersea-talk monthly 0.5 2021-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1631696522400-5Y9GI14K5J2XZ5N45ASY/Battersea-Books.jpg Events - Three Women Authors of Battersea Talk - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/south-battersea-historic-plaques-walk monthly 0.5 2021-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1623665446684-ILA9V9BWLAPX4SC7FH5K/GeorgeShearing-BluePlaque.jpg Events - South Battersea Historic Plaques Walk - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/my-battersea-photography-award-exhibition-private-view monthly 0.5 2021-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1622640782053-9RNKJFLN3RBXPU0JHKBU/CAMERAS.jpg Events - My Battersea Photography Award Exhibition Private View - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/the-churchyard-of-st-marys-talk monthly 0.5 2021-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1622640014782-7KZQQL9ZMJO1MRH2YM2E/St+Marys+Churchyard.jpg Events - The Churchyard of St Mary’s Talk - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/guided-tour-round-chelsea-physic-garden monthly 0.5 2021-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1622639537299-TPGYK6TV5OIE8CMC8WJD/Chelsea+Physic+Garden.jpg Events - Guided Tour round Chelsea Physic Garden - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/annual-summer-party monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1618831815460-3XXMDT9ZO734PRMV2E9I/JustinBerman-Flickr.jpg Events - Annual Summer Party © Justin Berman https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/talk-on-four-18th-century-houses-and-their-occupants monthly 0.5 2021-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1618830043195-7DWAVFFA7XR3FQNK1CEQ/Heritage-Logo.jpg Events - Talk on Four 18th Century Houses and their Occupants https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/readings-from-london-undercurrents monthly 0.5 2021-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1618828974342-6ZY0WIPVJ3QEZLZWCW7L/London-Undercurrents.jpg Events - Readings from London Undercurrents https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/local-hero-the-story-of-john-buckmaster monthly 0.5 2021-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1618828519515-Z1XOGY699FUPNVJ8659A/John-Buckmaster.jpg Events - Local Hero: the story of John Buckmaster https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/a-brief-social-history-of-battersea monthly 0.5 2021-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1617997317766-B2CAO8HE4E1DIRUQ436D/Boys-Fishing-1950.jpg Events - A Brief Social History of Battersea https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/restoring-the-heritage-of-battersea-power-station monthly 0.5 2021-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1617995875716-VDYYB5TWKZ39VKGVP3QE/BatterseaPower-1.jpg Events - Restoring the Heritage of Battersea Power Station https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-list/oh-look-a-virtual-walk-round-locally-listed-buildings monthly 0.5 2021-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1621257058028-6FHWXEYDOWQQUVGN5D8H/TBS-ThurleighRd.jpg Events - Oh, Look: A Virtual Walk Round Locally Listed Buildings - Make it stand out No. 18 Thurleigh Road with Doulton faience https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/keeping-it-local-ethelburga-estate-community-garden monthly 0.5 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/da07375c-01ba-47d7-9d02-4f3589676e48/Tim+Graham.jpg Open Spaces - Keeping It Local: Ethelburga Estate Community Garden - Make it stand out Tim Graham, Head Gardener for the Ethelburga Estate Community Garden. © Tim Graham. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/97cf2b36-5b4d-4496-b78c-7c154e689064/Bakery+Beds.jpg Open Spaces - Keeping It Local: Ethelburga Estate Community Garden - Make it stand out Spring flowers outside Parker Bakery. © Elaine Michel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/55bd095d-3496-4794-a120-59ec15460479/lemon+tree.jpg Open Spaces - Keeping It Local: Ethelburga Estate Community Garden - Make it stand out The lemon tree. © Elaine Michel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/686bcd7d-aebd-4fa9-a38e-36679cdd6a31/Help+Yourself.jpg Open Spaces - Keeping It Local: Ethelburga Estate Community Garden - Make it stand out Help Yourself box. © Tim Graham. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ec5c844f-249c-484d-b141-bc90d6d9262b/summer+colour.jpg Open Spaces - Keeping It Local: Ethelburga Estate Community Garden - Make it stand out Summer Colour. © Tim Graham. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/db513908-e8b0-4145-b50c-af02a413168f/The+Wheelbarrow.jpg Open Spaces - Keeping It Local: Ethelburga Estate Community Garden - Make it stand out Spring colour. © Elaine Michel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/291d6249-ca75-46de-b9fe-60b5cb51d04a/The+Entrance.jpg Open Spaces - Keeping It Local: Ethelburga Estate Community Garden - Make it stand out Entrance to the garden - banner by Seabomna Choi, RCA. © Elaine Michel. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/citizen-science monthly 0.5 2026-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ee148508-e5aa-4d03-8d3c-b6552b167cc9/toad.jpg Open Spaces - Citizen Science - Make it stand out Hiding in plain sight: the Common Toads who live around the boating lake in Battersea Park will feature in citizen science surveys within the Victorian Cascades restoration project. Photo © Millie Coe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/afff2306-e0d5-4899-8a5a-87aeae4df7c7/lake+wildfowl.jpg Open Spaces - Citizen Science - Make it stand out Out in the sunshine: the lake also attracts many different species of birds. Photo © Elaine Michel. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/how-do-you-use-battersea-park monthly 0.5 2025-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/9a11383d-d5d8-4edd-a6f0-d31e03cca105/BP+Cascades.jpg Open Spaces - How do you use Battersea Park? - Make it stand out In need of restoration: the Victorian Cascades beside Battersea Park’s boating lake. Photo © the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a74353b0-4076-42b2-b939-67435e211fcf/cascade+postcard.jpg Open Spaces - How do you use Battersea Park? - Make it stand out Old colour photograph, with the Cascades still in working order. Supplied by Enable Parks. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/https/wwwbatterseasocietyorguk/blog-page-url/more-battersea-greenspace-walks monthly 0.5 2026-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/d48d2dc6-d386-4992-b30b-0c8479094384/Nature+Trails+sign.jpg Open Spaces - More Battersea Greenspace Walks - Make it stand out A Nature Trails sign in Battersea Park. All illustrations in this article © the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/6af049a3-b026-452e-9739-2906b1dc2dcf/Battersea+Park+autumn+colour.jpg Open Spaces - More Battersea Greenspace Walks - Make it stand out Autumn colour this week in Battersea Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/d75a2ab8-0bb4-4709-94be-423252a4b74f/arbutus.jpg Open Spaces - More Battersea Greenspace Walks - Make it stand out Battersea Park’s great arbutus tree: planted in the 1860s, damaged badly in 2022 by Storm Eunice, but now in recovery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e2e5c306-96d7-4a7d-a5d7-70c34ad835b8/arbutus+plaque.jpg Open Spaces - More Battersea Greenspace Walks - Make it stand out The plaque on the railings in front of the arbutus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e1b1e077-6e3f-4fb3-bbc5-a89a5c8ef51f/Heathwall+Quay.jpg Open Spaces - More Battersea Greenspace Walks - Make it stand out Heathwall Quay, Nine Elms Thames Path. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1a4abb2f-ed5f-4b51-abae-c10c899ae0b6/grapefruit+tree.jpg Open Spaces - More Battersea Greenspace Walks - Make it stand out This big grapefruit tree is certainly an unexpected sight in Queenstown Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/7a3932bf-4da9-45cc-81e1-1d26867fcf86/grapefruit+tree+plaque.jpg Open Spaces - More Battersea Greenspace Walks - Make it stand out The plaque for the grapefruit tree at 67 Queenstown Road. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/https/wwwbatterseasocietyorguk/sustainable-september monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/7015f299-09d2-4906-95a7-52233c7a1769/st+marys+Large.jpeg Open Spaces - Sustainable September - Make it stand out St Mary’s Church, Battersea. All illustrations in this article © the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/5327337c-930d-4565-a43b-2b5bad0ab599/batterseasunset+Large.jpeg Open Spaces - Sustainable September - Make it stand out A Battersea sunset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/3cb5418e-636d-4d3b-a900-f4246cb72810/from+albert+bridge+Large.jpeg Open Spaces - Sustainable September - Make it stand out View from Albert Bridge. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/our-2025-wildflower-survey monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/0ad51df7-0794-47d6-add7-aab731429bc3/ragwort.jpg Open Spaces - Our 2025 Wildflower Survey - Make it stand out Common Ragwort in Christchurch Gardens. All photos in this article © the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f47da50e-b76e-4299-928c-fb112e3da2d0/In+CCG.jpg Open Spaces - Our 2025 Wildflower Survey - Make it stand out Getting down to work in Christchurch Gardens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ef6be6fb-daf5-4716-a325-c37e6394de46/FP+1.jpg Open Spaces - Our 2025 Wildflower Survey - Make it stand out Plant-spotting in Falcon Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a12edfae-3342-4637-9c24-e9de381c0a6a/FP+2.jpg Open Spaces - Our 2025 Wildflower Survey - Make it stand out In Falcon Park, again. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/os-lboc-walk-1 monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/bc9beebf-41e4-4adc-bd0a-20b81e49d846/St+John%27s.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 1 - Start Point: St John’s Therapy Centre Start your walk in front of this modern building (2005-7, by Buschow Henley) on the site of the former St John’s Hospital. Heading East towards Clapham Junction walk down Haydons Close, the first road on your left. Amidst 1970s-80s housing some old hospital blocks survive, repurposed as flats. Take next a footpath on the right leading into Rochelle Close. Turn left onto that and head downhill, then at the bottom left again along Nantes Close. Then head right under the railway viaduct. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/6801a7d6-e77d-4654-b3c7-db8fc9ef6d13/PG+chickens.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 1 - Petergate Green On the far side is the first open space on this walk. It's just grass and trees; the many hummocks are characteristic of new open spaces created locally within slum clearance programmes, from the 1950s onwards. Underneath is rubble from the previous buildings — a quick, cheap and easy fix, also good for deterring ball games. With luck you might encounter the rescue chickens kept by one neighbouring resident, also out for a stroll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/b43d8523-d1aa-4253-a1ff-ebe807a6b55d/Tours+passage.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 1 - Tours Passage Turn sharp right on the Green, following a quiet cycle and pedestrian route between the railway embankment and the 1970s Maysoule Estate. This is Tours Passage, picturesque with hanging creepers. At the end is busy Plough Road; turn left into this, crossing over to the other side when you reach the designated pedestrian crossing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/3d5ad316-ff4a-4a76-b0bf-69024577bf38/St+Peter%27s.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 1 - St Peter’s Church and Monolith Carry on as far as St Peter's church (2019, Portal Architecture), which has a stone monolith carved by Richard Kindersley at its first corner. Turn right down the foot passage beside that, following this into the Winstanley Estate (1956-72). Together with the neighbouring York Road estate this is currently undergoing regeneration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/d9a61776-4283-4c31-b659-c99aea4e0bc5/York+Gdns.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 1 - York Gardens Soon on the left appears York Gardens (1972; Howes Jackman & Partners for Wandsworth Council). Currently partially closed and looking rather sorry for itself, this park remains a much loved and valued community space, now awaiting resiting and improvement. Walk along its railings to the corner of Newcomen Road, then enter and follow the wide path through the central wheel of flower beds and out onto York Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1c6dd082-03db-42c0-9bcc-75cc30b48c36/Sundial.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 1 - The Sundial and Harroway Gardens Cross busy York Road with care, turn right and walk on to find a low mound of greenery. Inside is an intriguing and rather mysterious 'human sundial', presumably provided during local post-WW2 redevelopment. Turn left beside it down Yelverton Road; on your left is Harroway Gardens. This small park and playground was created in the late 1970s on the site of war-damaged Victorian terraces; it has particularly extravagant hummocks. Recent improvements (2025) include new landscaping, and a new through route. Follow that and turn left as you leave the Gardens, along Gwynne Road. Then turn right along Lombard Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/7f66aea8-2ffe-4caa-b408-78b6b43b3d8f/Fred+Wells.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 1 - Fred Wells Gardens Beyond another railway viaduct and on the right lies attractively-landscaped Fred Wells Gardens, named for a popular local Councillor who died in 1982. This was the last post-war open space deficiency area park created by Wandsworth Council; here formerly had been workshops and a greyhound racing track, then some temporary prefab housing. Walk past its playgrounds and tennis court and out onto Orville Road. Once past the Katherine Low Settlement, turn right into Battersea High Street. To your left is a new paved open space beside Sphere Walk, recently created by Wandsworth Council. Bleak at present, this could be transformed into a real public asset with some seating, and some greening—we'd like to see pedestrians and cyclists encouraged to use the passage beyond too, which provides a quiet link through to Home Road and beyond that to Battersea Park Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/39573819-a2c4-4156-b6d1-48be03a59ac0/CCG.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 1 - Christchurch Gardens Walk up Battersea High Street to Battersea Park Road. Cross carefully over towards The Asparagus, then head left along Cabul Road to enter Christchurch Gardens. This site was originally intended to be a graveyard for neighbouring Christ Church (1847-9, rebuilt 1957-9) but was never used for burials. Instead it was taken on and transformed by the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, opening in 1885. After WW2 Battersea Borough Council redesigned it as a formal setting for a its striking and unusual memorial to Battersea's civilian war dead (1951, by the Borough Surveyor; listed Grade II). In front of that is a large bed of 'Peace' roses. This beautiful, vigorous new hybrid tea variety had been released in 1945, and handed out to those attending the inaugural meeting of the United Nations in the same year. It was to become hugely popular with post-WW2 gardeners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/6d60d5fa-954d-4d87-b694-216f01c8af26/Falcon+and+Shillington.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 1 - Falcon and Shillington Parks Further along Cabul Road are two more slum clearance parks, side by side. First comes Shillington Park, opened by Wandsworth Council around 1977, after being used for prefab houses and as a Travellers' site. Turn right to walk through it, and then left under a railway arch into neighbouring Falcon Park (1966, London County Council; also known as Banana Park for its curving shape). Falcon Park was once Latchmere Grove, a street of Victorian terraced housing still occupied in the 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/cbe670ea-5611-43ea-bb62-12a3807ecd87/FP+mural+detail.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 1 - Some 1953 Coronation Graffiti In 1953 Latchmere Grove's residents marked Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation with some celebratory graffiti; the yellow paint they used is now very faded, but to find it turn right, up the path beside the artificial football pitch. It's on the railway embankment wall at the far end, directly opposite you. Afterwards retrace your steps and then follow the path across Falcon Park, back towards Cabul Road. This now becomes Latchmere Passage, a cobbled path leading under two more railway bridges and out onto Latchmere Road. Take the Pelican crossing across that, turn left and then right into Burns Road. This area was formerly Battersea’s Latchmere Common, which was enclosed and turned into allotments in the 1830s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f77d0c96-da4d-4d94-8c06-e9bf66d177bc/Latchmere+Rec.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 1 - Latchmere Recreation Ground Ahead of you lies the Borough of Battersea's pioneering Latchmere Estate, built on the allotment site in 1902-3 and now a conservation area.Look out for a plaque on a house wall to your right, summarising its history. Then turn left into Latchmere Recreation Ground, created in 1906 as the centrepiece of the Estate. Its iron gates and some of its railings are original still, though now much in need of restoration. At its centre originally too sat Brown Dog, a controversial anti-vivisection memorial; by 1907 today's peaceful neighbourhood park had become the scene of riots, with locals and radicals battling outraged medical students intent on pulling it down. The memorial survived until 1910, when a new council quietly removed it overnight. Only in 1985 would a replacement be provided, this time in Battersea Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/d986aaf7-4558-4f1c-8797-e7ed3f3a67b7/Sun+Gate.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 1 - End Point: Battersea Park Once you have finished exploring Latchmere Rec, walk down St James's Grove to Battersea Park Road. Turn left, then cross over at the traffic lights to turn right down Albert Bridge Road. When you reach Prince of Wales Drive, cross over and enter Battersea Park via Sun Gate. Walk straight ahead past the big horse chestnut tree in a raised circular bed, and along the path beyond. To your right is Putt in the Park, a mini-golf course whose friendly café is open to all park visitors and serves excellent coffee; if you're hungry it has its own pizza oven, too. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/os-lboc-walk-2 monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/22997cd3-aae2-4880-99a2-6d1aead9eb8d/Vauxhall+bus+station.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - Start Point: Vauxhall Bus Station Walk to the West end of the bus station, to find stop J. Beyond it cross over Parry Street at the lights, and turn right. Follow the pavement past a first area of landscaping and round into the Wandsworth Road; Brunswick House opposite (built in 1758, listed Grade II*) is a surprising counterpoint to the tall blocks of St George Wharf behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/386bae30-b32b-4a15-a7f5-112ec5e466dd/Linear+Park.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - Nine Elms Linear Park Cross Wandsworth Road now at the lights, and then head off to the right through Nine Elms' new Linear Park. Still in the process of creation, this will eventually provide a green walkway all the way through from Vauxhall to Battersea Power Station. Different developers are responsible for different sections, signing up to a Nine Elms Park Charter which is there to ensure consistency of design and materials—and proper public access. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/577e3c0a-5955-4ace-a2c3-2588f93a8237/Despard+plaque.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - Embassy Gardens At Embassy Gardens, the American Embassy (2018, Kieran Timberlake) has prairie-style gardens by Laurie Olin, open to all and well worth a visit. Embassy Gardens itself is a lushly landscaped public space, much changed from the days when Charlotte Despard ran a soup kitchen near here, as this Battersea Society plaque records. When you've finished looking around it, walk beneath the swagger Sky Pool and down Ravine Way. At the end turn right onto Ace Way, then left through Arch 42. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/592085ec-facc-4467-801b-a145a3c9966d/Nine+Elms+station.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - South to Nine Elms station Emerge from under the railway lines out into southern Nine Elms, amidst the redevelopment now taking place on part of the site of New Covent Garden. The market itself remains operational to your right. Walk through the colourful temporary hoardings of Merchants' Way. At Pascal Street you cross Battersea’s boundary line to enter Lambeth briefly. When you reach Nine Elms underground station (2021, by Grimshaw Architects), turn right along the busy Wandsworth Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/4f7a0aa7-1a5f-476d-bd01-29a648e7f1bc/Book+swop+cupboard.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - Crimsworth Road Next turn down Fount Street, the second road on your right. From there turn left onto Thorparch Road, then right again onto Crimsworth Road. Here is a quiet little enclave of small terraced houses: some Victorian, some rebuilt following Second World War bomb damage. Follow Crimsworth Road as it heads downhill and curves round to the left, enjoying the residents' street gardening as you go. This book swop cupboard can be found at the corner with Goldsborough Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/d10a4d90-b7d4-40e6-9801-485d38a50be4/Boundary+marker.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - Brooklands Passage At its far end Crimsworth Road merges back into Thorparch Road, which then becomes Brooklands Passage. This footpath starts out wide and green, but narrows somewhat forbiddingly as you re-enter Battersea at this cast-iron Victorian boundary marker. Carry on between high brick walls to emerge into the Patmore Estate (London County Council, 1951-60). Turn right and then left, following Belmore Street. Head straight ahead across Deeley Street and on as far as Thessaly Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/871394f9-6c1f-4494-9b6a-d620e5181e87/The+Oasis.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - The Oasis Green Space Turn left onto Thessaly Road and walk past the Yvonne Carr Centre, to visit The Oasis Green Space. This former community playground had been shut up for many years before it was reopened in 2024 by Wandsworth Council as a new pocket park. Currently it's just grass and trees, though further improvements have been promised. Even without these it's been well received by local residents, with various community gardening initiatives already in place. As you come out again, cross over to the other side of Thessaly Road and turn right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/2d800e00-8d80-4413-b3eb-87b058532eb8/Carey+Gardens.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - Carey Gardens On your left now is the Carey Gardens Estate (1969, Nicholas Wood for the Greater London Council). Cross over Blore Close, and then find a ground-level open passage through the next building on your left. Walk through this and across Carey Gardens the road, then on through the building opposite via another open passage. Beyond this lies the big green space at the heart of this estate; it's as large as a public park. Walk diagonally across it to find this mural in the NW corner by Brian Barnes, A Brief History of Time. Then head along the western side of the open space to come back out onto Carey Gardens at the corner. Turn right, then left up Stewart's Road, once more briefly leaving Battersea for Lambeth. On the Wandsworth Road turn right, passing two big 19th-century villas (listed Grade II; now the Chelsea Guest House) and walking under the railway viaduct. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/2c70b20e-bdd8-4028-991e-020f59ef5387/Heathbrook+Park+2.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - Heathbrook Park and the River Heathwall Turn right again just after the viaduct, down Portslade Road. You now re-enter Battersea at Heathbrook Park. This surprisingly large and well-hidden public park is one of a group created following WW2 within local slum clearance projects. The process could be a slow one; Wandsworth Council did not landscape Heathbrook until 1974, having by then abandoned earlier plans for an aviary, refreshment kiosk and public toilets. Still it's green and pleasant, and should you feel in need of a coffee by now, do try Café Latin Style over beyond the northwestern corner of the park. Otherwise, turn left along Heathbrook Park's main path.When you reach a circular bed of shrubs, walk a few steps left to find a big circular grille within the tarmac. Beneath this you can hear and see a buried river, flowing several metres below. This is the Heathwall, which here forms Battersea's southern boundary. We'll be following it now almost to the end of this walk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/2f4e4d9b-2efb-4b20-b8ac-5f85054b1e9e/Heathwall+grille.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - Robertson Street and Montefiore Gardens Come out of Heathbrook Park onto St Rule Street; ahead on your right is a small landscaped area with two more Heathwall River grilles. Beyond them turn left along Robertson Street. The Heathwall is flowing below and towards you; it's easy to reimagine this long straight road as the boundary ditch and sewer which the river had become well before its burial in the 1860s. The left side of Robertson Street is in Lambeth and easier walking, thanks to the kite-shaped street layout of Battersea's Park Town Estate Conservation Area, to your right after busy Silverthorne Road. Head into that down Montefiore Street to visit Montefiore Gardens, a small park and playground created from a WW2 bombsite. Walk through the Gardens and back down Tennyson Street to rejoin Robertson Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ff1b695a-e31b-4431-b13d-afcf1b2a7b1f/SPE+plaque.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - The Shaftesbury Park Estate At the end of Robertson Street, turn left onto Queenstown Road and cross over at the Pelican crossing. Look left on your way to spot a couple more Victorian cast-iron boundary markers, one for Battersea and one for Clapham. Cross over, and ahead of you are two more. Take the short foot-passage beyond them through to Ashley Crescent. Carry on along that, then turn right onto Shirley Grove and right again into Tyneham Road. Here you enter the tree-lined streets of the Shaftesbury Park Estate Conservation Area, a model development of some 1200 workers' cottages (1873-7, Artizans, Labourers and General Dwellings Company). Turn left next along Elsley Road, with the Heathwall flowing under the back gardens of the houses to your left. At Grayshott Road, detour briefly right to view this memorial stone outside nos. 65-7, commemorating the philanthropist 7th Earl of Shaftesbury's involvement with the project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/c8abb496-633c-411b-9a24-4bde9c24729a/Town+Hall+Street.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - Heathwall Street and Town Hall Street Turn left next up Eland Road, then right into Heathwall Street, named for the river once more flowing below you. Look back to your left to find the gap left for it between the last house of the Shaftesbury Park Estate, and the first taller house beyond. Turn left from Heathwall Street up Town Hall Street, an alley of attractive terraced flats built as municipal housing by the Borough of Battersea in 1903. Ahead is Battersea Arts Centre, built as Battersea's Town Hall (1891-3, by E W Mountford), and used as such until the old borough merged with Wandsworth in 1965. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/5b2d8725-027c-441e-b39a-f7535e38d35e/BAC+Garden.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 2 - End Point: Battersea Arts Centre Walk uphill through a pretty if somewhat unkempt community garden in containers, celebrating the restoration and partial rebuilding of BAC (by Haworth Tompkins, following the fire of 2015). You could finish at Tom’s Café inside; if so, do check out the mosaic flooring of the grand entrance hall, with its Battersea bees. If you would prefer to sit out of doors, Pique on the far side of Lavender Hill has outside tables and is dog-friendly. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/os-lboc-walk-3 monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/6b9185e8-454e-4fcd-8b1f-723276b4a95f/Wandsworth+Common+station.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 3 - Start point: Wandsworth Common Station The walk starts outside the station's ticket hall, next to the exit from platform 4. Look through the trees to spot The Hope pub, on the corner of St James's Drive and Bellevue Road. Make your way towards that along the station drive, or on the path through the grass. Then cross over Bellevue Road at the lights, and walk onto the Common. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/bb103877-9cbf-4dce-bc4b-864b185fa32e/Wandsworth+Common+entrance.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 3 - Wandsworth Common West Take the central path stretching away straight ahead of you. Despite its name, much of Wandsworth Common lies within Battersea; today's walk is all on what was once part of the common land of the medieval parish of St Mary's Battersea. Its boundary with Wandsworth lies over to your left, marked by the presence of an ancient oak and some cast-iron Victorian boundary markers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/9b68fe2c-f2fd-4608-bf03-298ed2868845/WC+boardwalk.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 3 - The Lake and Wetland Soon on the right you will see a lake; take the path down towards this and at its edge turn left, following the path around it and then a boardwalk across the adjoining wetland. This lake is a great place to see some of the Common's many bats on summer evenings, as they flutter and swoop over the water in search of insects. At the end of the boardwalk, turn left. To your right in a cutting are the railway lines which transverse the Common. Soon comes a steeply-humped cat's-back bridge; use this to cross over them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/72a26170-1de1-45ea-a15b-e2da878f7b39/WC+shady+path.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 3 - Wandsworth Common East On the far side of the bridge, turn sharp left to follow a long straight tarmacked path. Iron railings shield the railway cutting to your left, and to your right is a belt of trees. Eventually the path curves right, between Wandsworth Council's Chivalry Road Playground and the specialist adventure playground created by play pioneer and children's advocate Marjory, Lady Allen (1897-1976). Come off the Common beyond the playgrounds, turning right onto Chivalry Road and then left onto Bolingbroke Grove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/7f2a28ee-c7c3-4fe1-a746-a731a9137f45/Parsi+monument.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 3 - St Mary’s Cemetery Cross Bolingbroke Grove at the zebra crossing, turn left again and soon enter St Mary’s Cemetery on your right. This was laid out by Charles Lee for the Battersea Burial Board in 1860-1, after the old churchyard at St Mary's (featured on walk 6) ran out of space for new burials. Its L-shaped site was previously part of the grounds of the Bolingbroke Grove House estate, broken up in 1858. One of the twin chapels ahead of you was for use by Anglicans, the other for other denominations. This cemetery too is no longer in active use, having run out of space for new burials in the 1960s. It's now managed to encourage biodiversity, winning a London in Bloom award in 2022. Take either of the paths to your left to walk through it, admiring the wildflowers and inspecting the monuments as you go. Quite a few of Battersea's great and good are buried here, but perhaps its most striking memorial is this sculpted bowl of fire at the far end of the cemetery, near the gates out onto Battersea Rise. This marks the burial place of a young Zorastrian Parsi, Kaikhoshru Kaicobad Puntheki (1864-1890); his story is told here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/df43e949-c7d8-41ac-941e-1163c6aaf029/Battersea+Rise.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 3 - St Mark’s and Battersea Rise When you leave the cemetery, cross Battersea Rise to visit two isolated areas of Wandsworth Common on its north side. On one St Mark's Church (Anglican, 1873-4 by William White) draws the eye, with its polychrome brickwork and picturesque massing. Next, follow the left-hand pavement of Battersea Rise downhill and into the valley of the Falcon river, which has been buried since the 1860s beneath St John's and Northcote Roads. Cross their junction and continue uphill; look back for another pleasing view of St Mark's, this time set against trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a0b9acc1-ecea-4e86-880e-d43699ac0f46/CC+path.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 3 - Clapham Common: The Panhandle At the top of Battersea Rise, cross over at the lights to enter Clapham Common. As with Wandsworth Common, its name is somewhat misleading; half was again common land belonging originally to the parish of Battersea, the rest to that of Clapham. These days the Common is split geographically between the boroughs of Lambeth and Wandsworth, but managed in its entirety by Lambeth. This walk again remains within the boundaries of Battersea, and Wandsworth. Take the main diagonal path across this first western section of the Common, sometimes known as The Panhandle. Although relatively small, it manages to pack in a recently-created banked area for butterflies to your right, a playground beside that, and further on an outdoor gym. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/49cac194-0b03-4583-9131-77198747f30d/CC+wildflowers.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 3 - The Avenue and Clapham Common Westside When you arrive at the far end of The Panhandle, turn right to visit four small areas of the Common sandwiched between The Avenue and Clapham Common West Side. You can either walk through these on earth paths and across grass, or walk beside them on Clapham Common West Side (which also offers some very substantial houses to admire). The first two fragments are managed to encourage biodiversity, and filled with wildflowers in spring; the third is mown grass, with an outdoor gym. Cross Broomwood Road to find the fourth, where a tarmacked area has an information panel giving the history of the low-level WW2 air-raid shelters formerly located here. Beyond that is a second recently-created banked area for butterflies, and another outdoor gym. When you reach a fence of low iron railings, turn left to walk beside it along a tarmac path towards The Avenue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/fd50523d-03eb-4c11-8ed4-bc356cd37419/Mount+Pond.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 3 - Mount Pond and the Bandstand Cross The Avenue at the lights then walk down Windmill Drive towards Honest Tom's Snack Bar, beside Mount Pond. This pond started out as a gravel pit, but was taken over and improved in the 1740s by wealthy local resident Henton Brown. He introduced an island (the Mount), and also a long-vanished pagoda and bridge. Step down onto the boardwalk in front of the snack bar; follow that and then a path onwards, around the edge of the Pond. At the first junction carry straight on, towards the Bandstand at the centre of the Common. Local residents petitioned the newly-created LCC for a bandstand in 1889; in 1890 their wish was granted when this impressive structure went up. Designed by LCC architect Thomas Blashill, it's the largest in London. It's also located within Battersea, while the Pear Tree Café beyond is within Clapham; the boundary line runs between the two structures. Until the new café right at the end of this walk opens, the Pear Tree is a handy alternative refreshment stop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/404267e1-a44d-4db0-a695-2ee282b41cf4/The+Scrape+2.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 3 - The Scrape and Battersea Woods The walk route however remains within Battersea, as you turn left in front of the Bandstand and then take the second tarmac path on your left. Soon you will see this little fenced-off wild area, to your left ahead of a junction. It's a scrape, created relatively recently to help encourage amphibians, insects and other wildlife back onto Common. It's also done a good job of sorting out the puddles that previously plagued this particular area in wet weather. Carry straight on past it, and over the junction. To your right now are grass sports pitches, and to your left a wooded area rather grandly known as Battersea Woods. Up ahead is The Avenue again, just beyond the Common's own splendid avenue of horse chestnut trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a11e5742-f196-4aa1-97ba-35c9f753c5ca/CC+cafe.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 3 - End Point: Clapham Common's new café building Walk on towards these, past some low black weatherboarded changing rooms for the sports pitches. Just beyond those is this attractive little building and garden, situated between the edge of Battersea Woods and one end of the horse chestnut avenue. Originally built as a toilet block, this was disused and derelict for many years, but has recently been restored and converted for café use. Hopefully soon it will be let and available as the refreshment stop at the end of this walk. Meanwhile, if you turn right beside it you can walk down the horse chestnut avenue to get to Clapham Common North Side, with its bus stops. Lavender Hill beyond has more bus options, accessed via Sugden Road. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/https/wwwbatterseasocietyorguk/os-lboc-walk-4 monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/364e7268-25e5-4d31-a497-d58c93a64906/St+Philip%27s.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 4 - Start point: St Philip Square Start in the quiet, shady garden of the former Anglican church of St Philip (1869-70, architect James Knowles Jnr). Now known as St Mary's and home to an Ethiopian Orthodox congregation, it was built as the centrepiece of the Victorian Park Town Estate, a conservation area also featured on Walk 2. Cross busy Queenstown Road at the lights to visit Queenstown Green, a frankly rather bleak little open space created from a World War 2 bomb site. Back out on Queenstown Road, turn right and head south, towards Lavender Hill. Look out for a most unusual sight in the front garden of no. 67: a big grapefruit tree, recently in the news for its touching back story. Then, further on, when Queenstown Road starts to slope uphill, look out to your right and to your left for two pairs of round-topped Victorian cast iron markers, set into the pavement on opposite sides of the road. These record the parish boundaries of Battersea and Clapham (and of the modern boroughs of Wandsworth and Lambeth). In this area those follow the buried river Heathwall, again also featured on Walk 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/d91f214e-450e-4491-8fa3-f7e99a82c0b0/Ghost+signage.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 4 - Lavender Hill and Turnchapel Mews Continue uphill, briefly entering Clapham/ Lambeth. On the right is an embanked area of grass and trees at the end of Beaufoy Road, created from another pocket of WW2 bomb damage. At the junction, cross to the other side of Lavender Hill. Do take a quick look up Cedars Road on your left, to view this handsome old block on its far side. Built as livery stables and then converted into a garage, Turnchapel Mews is now housing but has had its old painted signage carefully preserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/418b5cfe-19f8-40b8-b159-2ed99759ae85/Wix%27s+Lane+sign.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 4 - Wix’s Lane Return to Lavender Hill and start walking uphill, towards Clapham Junction. Look out on your left for the entrance to a foot passage sloping steeply uphill between two buildings. Set high on the far wall is this sign, which by the look of it dates from the early years of Battersea's period as an independent borough (1899-1965). Wix's Lane is Battersea's eastern boundary; as you turn up it, look to your left to find two more cast-iron markers set up by the Victorian parishes of Battersea and Clapham. There are others further along Wix's Lane, too. After the initial climb, this widens out into a proper road; follow that past the school and on to its far end, opposite Clapham Common. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1a8df586-3509-41a5-a0f1-b6caa248d173/CC+boundary+markers.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 4 - Clapham Common or Battersea Common? Standing at the top of Wix's Lane, look across to the Common: directly opposite is what should by now be a distinctly familiar-looking iron parish boundary marker. Beyond it another is just about visible in the distance, across the grass and under the trees. These are the first in a line marching right across the Common; the parish of Battersea's common grazing land lies to their right, Clapham's to their left. Each parish in fact owned about half of Clapham Common; these days however it's managed as a single entity by Lambeth Council. Turn left now and cross over busy Clapham Common North Side at the lights. On the far side turn left again, crossing over two cycle path exits with care. Then take the straight wide path on your right. This leads you onto the Common under a fine avenue of London Plane trees; a second path to your left is reserved for cyclists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/7794a6e3-0661-4dcb-8dba-276ffdbcdbc7/Bandstand+beds.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 4 - To the Bandstand Beds Carry on straight ahead along this path, with the Common's handsome bandstand (visited on Walk 3) and Pear Tree Café to your right. Just beyond them is a junction of paths, and beyond that are the first indications of some interesting projects currently taking place on this the Lambeth side of the Common. Young trees are planted in informal groups, and new wildflower meadows draw in butterflies and other pollinating insects. Walk on between them until you reach this sign for the thriving Bandstand Beds community garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ae0ec3f7-3d45-4a95-9cfb-32bdd9ebb085/cycle+path+planting.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 4 - Community Gardening and Biodiversity Initiatives Turn left now, onto a new pedestrian and cycle path which replaces part of the former Windmill Drive. It's attractively landscaped, with many more pollinator-friendly plants. Past maintenance regimes had left Clapham Common very nature-depleted, and it's good to see Lambeth Council's new emphasis on improving biodiversity, brought about with both pressure and support from the Common's own Management Advisory Committee and Friends, and local charity Wild Clapham. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/71cdb558-db4c-441e-83a1-54f0a733a310/wetland+zone+and+eagle+pond.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 4 - The Wetland Zone and Eagle Pond At the end of the Bandstand Beds enclosure, turn right to visit the most recent and most ambitious of the Common's various new biodiversity projects: the Wetland Zone beside Eagle Pond. The pond at its centre was dug out in winter 2024-5; it also has a new boardwalk, a viewing bridge and a platform to allow pond-dipping visits by local schools. Plantings are still establishing, but it's already a hit with the local wildlife.When you've finished checking it out, head back towards the Bandstand Beds. Turn left as soon as you reach their railings, along a straight tarmac path. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/de7b8b49-e826-4f02-b229-9e7fc1cf2533/Nursery+Wood.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 4 - Nursery Wood and the Clapham South Subterranean Shelter At a junction of paths carry straight on, with a wooded area to your left. This is known as Nursery Wood, since the London County Council used to grow trees here for its parks. Just before it ends, you re-enter Battersea; the last of the Common's line of iron boundary markers is actually inside Nursery Wood. If you'd like to find it, enter the wood via an earth path at its far end, and be prepared to hunt about a bit. Otherwise, just stay on the tarmac path until you reach The Avenue. Cross over that at the lights; on the far side, look left across the grass to spot on its far side the drum-shaped entrance to a well-preserved deep-level WW2 air-raid shelter, set amidst the trees. Clapham South Subterranean Shelter first opened in 1944, and is now maintained by the London Transport Museum; it can sometimes be visited on special tours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/47289c74-d0d1-4b3f-974b-5675cafd94f6/Nightingale+Walk.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 4 - Nightingale Walk and Clapham Common West Side Walk straight down Nightingale Walk, next; to your right is this fenced-off dog-free area of Clapham Common, with tennis courts, cricket nets and the beginnings of a community orchard. At the end, turn right down Clapham Common West Side, past its rose arbour (recently restored by the Friends of Clapham Common) and disused bowling green. A former café is currently closed up too, but there are still public toilets available should you need them. Turn left roughly opposite them onto Thurleigh Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/db49b008-1ca1-4bc4-99a5-42063360c19a/St+Luke%27s.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 4 - Thurleigh Road and St Luke’s Church Leafy Thurleigh Road might just be the most desirable of all the desirable roads between Battersea's two commons; certainly it boasts some of the largest houses. It's also home to this red-brick Anglican basilica, St Luke's (F.W. Hunt, 1883-99). Should you find it open, do check out its lavish interior, dominated by an elaborate set of Edwardian electroliers. Beyond the church Thurleigh Road slopes gently downhill, then at the end slopes more abruptly up. This dip marks the valley of the Falcon River, now buried below and also crossed further downstream within Walk 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/b5cfbddd-20e6-4f46-ba5a-69fa4a0c79f6/Skylark+board.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 4 - End Point: The Skylark Café, Wandsworth Common At the far end of Thurleigh Road, turn right onto Bolingbroke Grove. Cross over it at the lights, just beyond Blenkarne Road. Follow a path straight ahead of you under the trees and onto Wandsworth Common (also visited on Walk 3). Cross over the cat's-back bridge and take the first path on the right, towards the white building. Originally a farmhouse, this is now the Common's friendly community café and the end point of our walk. On your way over, look out to your right for this information board giving some interesting details of the Common's history. It's one of a set recently put up by the Friends of Wandsworth Common. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/https/wwwbatterseasocietyorguk/open-spaces-blog/https/wwwbatterseasocietyorguk/os-lboc-walk-5 monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ab63b006-85f7-4f1d-9238-145bb22587ee/Isle+of+Effra.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 5 - Start Point: The Isle of Effra The walk starts on Lambeth's Albert Embankment behind MI6's HQ (1994, Terry Farrell), featured in the more recent James Bond films. Here beside Vauxhall Bridge and the Thames Path is the Isle of Effra, a circular open space built above the river's foreshore. Together with its downstream neighbour Effra Quay this was created as part of London's Thames Tideway (Super Sewer) project. Step onto it to enjoy views downstream to the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye. Upstream it offers a close-up of Vauxhall Bridge itself: built in 1895-1906 (by Sir Alexander Binnie, for the London County Council), this was enlivened relatively late in its design process by two sets of giant allegorical sculptures. F.W. Pomeroy's face upstream, Alfred Drury's downstream; his Science stands beside you. Through the arch to its left Battersea Power Station's four chimneys can be glimpsed. Before you head off towards those, take a look at the new terraces of intertidal planting which surround both the Isle of Effra and the piers of Vauxhall Bridge itself. Again, these were provided within the Thames Tideway project; it's a commendable attempt at beginning to restore biodiversity to this embanked and fast-flowing section of river, with its otherwise barren foreshore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/d9bb0233-537b-4a3c-9c80-237eafc9dbfb/Vauxhall+Uber+Pier.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 5 - Vauxhall Bridge and Pier Return to the Thames Path and use the nearby subway to head upstream underneath Vauxhall Bridge. Beyond that is the St George Wharf development (2001-12, Broadway Malyan) and Uber Boat Pier. The view of Battersea Power Station is opening up ahead, but at this point you are still in Lambeth. The boundary with Battersea lies just beyond the tall round Tower at the far end of St George Wharf, where the buried River Heathwall (featured within Walk 2) formerly joined the Thames. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/c90b0611-2884-4ba3-ba6b-fbed84972859/Riverside+Gardens.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 5 - Riverside Gardens Beyond the boundary, the Thames Path swells out to form Riverside Gardens (2017), the first of three small developer-funded parks along this stretch. Whatever one makes of the scale of recent riverside redevelopment in Nine Elms, without it there would be no Thames Path. Until the 1980s there was no public access to much of Battersea's riverside; it had become an industrial area, with sites built right up beside and even into the river so that they could be serviced by steam or later diesel barges. (Only upstream of Putney Bridge were there horse-drawn barges, and a towpath.) As industry gave way to luxury housing, planners seized the opportunity to create this new riverside route, to be funded by the incoming developers. The main feature of this little park is Tord Boontje's Dawn to Dusk, an installation inspired by celebrated local painter J.M.W. Turner. Swivel the seating to follow the sun, or simply take in the view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/435801c7-15c7-49cd-ac82-602bc78c47a2/Bourne+Valley+Wharf.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 5 - Bourne Valley Wharf and the US Embassy Look out next for this engraved pavement sign for Bourne Valley Wharf, once a good drawing dock and landing wharf. It's now a second small developers' park opposite the new American Embassy. You might like to detour across Nine Elms Lane here, for a walk through its beautiful gardens (also visited on Walk 2). However currently this involves traversing a political protesters' encampment which occupies most of the Wharf space as well as its colourful little community Pavilion (2018, Studio Weave and Linda Florence). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e1b1e077-6e3f-4fb3-bbc5-a89a5c8ef51f/Heathwall+Quay.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 5 - Heathwall Pumping Station and Quay Beyond Bourne Valley Wharf the riverside walk passes behind Elm Quay Court, whose rear wall has a low-relief sculpture of Father Thames (Stephen Duncan, 1988). Beyond this lies a third and final developers' park, on the site of Prescot Wharf. At the far end of this, follow a new (2025) section of Thames Path past old Middle Wharf and behind Heathwall Pumping Station to visit Heathwall Quay, another new viewing platform built out over the river as part of the Thames Tideway project. Like the Isle of Effra at the start of this walk, it offers great views both up and down stream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/58272c74-13cc-427a-9215-c556c3da1281/Riverlight+Quay+2.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 5 - Riverlight Quay and Tideway Village Beyond Heathwall Quay lies Riverlight Quay (RSHP, 2009-16), whose six colour-coded blocks stand amidst lush landscaping. This has cafés, restaurants and a pub at ground level, should you fancy a break. On the river itself is Tideway Village, an older colony of houseboats occupying former industrial moorings. Near the entrance is the Battersea Barge, an old Dutch grain barge first towed here in 1985, now a well-established entertainment venue. Beyond it lies a small inlet dock, originally built to accommodate coal barges supplying Nine Elms Gasworks nearby. That now houses three more historic vessels, whose floating gardens provide a picturesque contrast to the geometrical lines of the modern development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/fa3bdfe7-8dc5-4678-86f7-d15daa897b7f/Nine+Elms+Pier+horse.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 5 - Nine Elms Pier Carry on upstream, along Tideway Walk. To your right now is Nine Elms Pier, a very substantial concrete structure built as a coaling jetty in the late 1940s, again for the Nine Elms Gasworks.That became redundant in 1970 as North Sea gas replaced coal gas and again, houseboats then began to move in. Since 1992 it's been run by the Nine Elms Pier Company as a residents' co-operative. There are moorings for some twenty boats, and on the pier itself a small swimming pool and a larger community garden—complete with this life-size model horse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/426ad6dd-1d02-404c-ad92-6385ac15f02b/Diversion+sign+detail.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 5 - Thames Path Diversion: follow the signs Beyond Nine Elms Pier, a grey-painted wall blocks off your route beside the river. Sadly, this gap in Battersea's Thames Path seems unlikely to be filled in any time soon. Beyond the wall lie two protected riverside industrial facilities, and while Thames Tideway's Kirtling Street site is currently being rebuilt, Cringle Dock Waste Transfer Station remains an impenetrable barrier. Plans to rebuild it underground with housing and a continuation of the Thames Path on top do exist, but are not yet in development. So turn left next along the wall and out onto Kirtling Street. Here a sequence of these Thames Path diversion signs currently direct pedestrians left onto Cringle Street, right onto Nine Elms Lane again (with New Covent Garden Market visible on the far side) and then right down Pump House Lane. This route is subject to change, given the ongoing construction works throughout this area; these diversion signs should, however, be kept up to date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/917d937b-38d0-4694-8634-15b5e075bc75/BPS+Roundabout+sculpture.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 5 - Battersea Power Station Pump House Lane leads down to Battersea Power Station (Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 1929-51; Wilkinson Eyre, 2013-22). To its left, the white building with a rippled facade forms one half of Prospect Place (Gehry Partners, 2022). This white metal sculpture (2022, WEA Architects) on a roundabout is intended to suggest the smoke flumes which once rose from the Power Station's chimneys. Turn right when you reach this, to walk alongside the Power Station. Prairie-style plantings set its immaculately restored brickwork off to advantage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/86cca047-5079-4aa6-a062-d6a510e38ea7/Riverside+Park.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 5 - Riverside Park and Thames Path Around the next corner is the Thames, and the Power Station’s riverside entrance. Inside, its two massive Turbine Halls are impressive to see and offer many shops and restaurants —as well as the first public toilets on this route. Otherwise, walk through this new Riverside Park to find its old Coaling Jetty; both often host special events and installations. Then pick up the Thames Path again, following that upstream past more attractive plantings, fountains and various riverside restaurants and cafés. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f85d006f-d63a-40cf-8478-037c9c6a47e5/Batt+Pk+path.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 5 - Into Battersea Park Carry on through the wide viaduct under Grosvenor Bridge (1859-60, Sir John Fowler; widened 1865-6 by Sir Charles Fox) and on to Chelsea Bridge (1937, G. Topham Forest and E.P. Wheeler). Underneath that a curving footbridge (2004) leads you straight into Battersea Park. On its far side leave the Thames Path, following the first path on the left uphill. At the top this park map stand will be visible on the far side of Carriage Drive North. Cross over and take the tarmacked path to its right, leading back downhill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/0e33d9e4-5733-4334-b6ed-91d3147e824c/Pear+Tree.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 5 - End Point: The Pear Tree Café, Battersea Park This path meanders pleasantly through trees past the Park's tennis courts and Millenium Arena on the right, and then a pirate-themed playground on the left. Beyond that is Carriage Drive East, with the back of the Pear Tree Café opposite you, on its far side. Walk round that to find its entrance and its big terrace overlooking the Park's Boating Lake. This has plenty of outside seating and is a great place for an end stop on a fine day. Dogs are welcome both here and inside the café. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/https/wwwbatterseasocietyorguk/os-lboc-walk-6 monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/abd41723-ff33-4f5f-8811-054fa10fb27c/Chelsea+Gate+2.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 6 - Start point: Chelsea Gate, Battersea Park Battersea Park (Grade II*) replaced Battersea Fields, former parish common grazing land. By the mid-nineteenth century agriculture had given way to raffish riverside entertainment venues, cleared away to create this new central government funded 200 acre public park. Laid out by Sir James Pennethorne, it opened in 1858 and was to be much improved by its innovative first superintendent John Gibson. In 1889 the new London County Council took over the Park's care, organizing a ground-breaking public sculpture exhibition here in 1948 and a much-loved funfair within the 1951 Festival of Britain. Since 1986 it's been looked after by Wandsworth Council. Maps here and elsewhere in the Park guide you around its many attractions, but today take the first path to the right inside Chelsea Gate, which is marked with a Thames Path sign. This leads downhill to join the river at the point where Walk 5 left off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/c434dc13-a9c3-43fc-9fcc-0c9086d1f20a/Pagoda.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 6 - The Peace Pagoda Head left along the Thames Path, which soon widens out into a formal riverside terrace. At its centre is a splendid and rather surprising sight: this glittering Peace Pagoda of 1985, with its four giant gilded Buddhas. It was a gift to the people of London from the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Order and is still tended by a Buddhist monk. Controversial initially, it's become a much-loved symbol of Battersea, almost as celebrated as the Power Station downstream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ee239cc1-cb51-468f-8dd5-9ecf18f12ab4/Albert+Bridge.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 6 - The Promontory Garden and Albert Bridge Carry on upstream, looking out to your right for this Promontory Garden (2018, David Keary: no dogs) before you leave the Park. With its shady trees and benches, this is a good place to pause and appreciate the charms of Albert Bridge (1873, R.M. Ordish, modified 1884-7 by Sir Joseph Bazalgette; Grade II*). These are set off by a pink, green and blue colour scheme first dreamt up in 1992 to improve its visibility for passing shipping. (Prior to that it was painted plain yellow, and prior to 1981 plain green.) Pretty but relatively fragile, it's also sometimes known as the 'The Trembling Lady' thanks to its tendency to vibrate; surviving notices at each end warned troops from nearby Chelsea Barracks to break step as they crossed it. Outside the Park, cross over Albert Bridge Road at the zebra crossing, and reach the river again via a ramp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/d656f2dd-be33-46a2-850e-a60d5e0ed42f/Ransome%27s+Dock.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 6 - Ransome’s Dock and Albion Riverside Next a footbridge takes you across Ransome's Dock, a former creek enlarged by engineering firm Ransome & Company in 1884. On the far side are architects Foster + Partners own rectilinear offices (1986-90), and beyond those their kidney-shaped Albion Riverside development (1999-2003). In front of that is moored National Historic Ship Atrato, a steel-hulled Thames sailing barge built in 1898 in Wivenhoe in Essex and currently used as a houseboat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/9414c7fb-d4d8-4f45-87eb-0fdba423c267/Swan.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 6 - The Swan beside Battersea Bridge Beside Battersea Bridge (1890, Joseph Bazalgette; Grade II) a somewhat confusing complex of platforms, steps and a narrow ramp leads up to the road. On it stands this rather lovely Swan (1984, Catherine Marr-Johnson), about to take flight over the river. Originally it had a companion, sadly destroyed by vandals. The pair were commissioned for Glassmill, the 1980s office development behind, now itself subject to redevelopment plans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/d04184dd-ef71-4184-909f-39b0a6479c64/In+Town.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 6 - In Town and Morgan’s Walk Beyond the bridge lies a garden area with a rather less successful sculpture: In Town (John Ravera, 1983). This little public space (on the site of a former fire station) and the adjacent stretch of Thames Path came about as a quid pro quo for the development of Morgan's Walk, the low-rise red-brick estate to your left (Wates, 1983-4). Built on the site of the old Morgan Crucible factory, this was one of the first luxury housing developments along Battersea's riverside. Its unexpectedly suburban layout led to it being described at the time as 'a yuppie Brookside'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/bb5e2803-09a4-42fe-8ae4-6ca672ab40bd/St+Mary%27s.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 6 - St Mary’s After Morgan's Walk comes the raked profile of Montevetro (i.e. 'Glass Mountain'), Richard Rogers' apartment complex of 1994-2000 on the site of Battersea Flour Mills. Beyond that stands St Mary’s, Battersea's old parish church, finely positioned on a broad bend in the Thames. There's been a church here since at least 1157, though the current building is Georgian (1775-7, Joseph Dixon). It's well worth visiting should it be open; you will be welcome in any case to walk through its churchyard, ignoring Thames Path signage directing you around its boundary wall. Burials moved to a new cemetery in the 1850s (visited on Walk 3) and it's now become a public garden, with benches overlooking the river and a coffee trailer. As you leave it again, access to the foreshore is possible for once, via a slipway for small boats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/b1bfff79-e1a7-4731-a2af-5069b67da6b1/Vicarage+Gdns+view.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 6 - Vicarage Gardens and the Railway Bridge Walk onwards to discover Vicarage Gardens, a small open space with trees and beds and benches on top of an embankment beside the Thames Path. This was first laid out as a public recreation ground by Battersea's Vestry in 1896, when it reclaimed an area of Thames foreshore and built Vicarage Crescent behind you. Climb up to admire the view over the river to handsome Battersea or Cremorne Railway Bridge (1863, William Baker and T. H. Bertram; Grade II*). Plans to attach a footbridge across the Thames to this exist, but are not currently in development. Looking the other way, Fred Wells Gardens (Walk 1) are visible beyond Vicarage Crescent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/4ce3a992-2476-41f8-8b31-fac8b9cf0716/Heliport+diversion.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 6 - Around the Heliport Walk under the railway bridge and onwards. You will find yourself detouring to the left eventually, around The London Heliport. This has been here since 1959, occupying a site directly beside the river and partially built out over it. Pass by at the right moment and you may get to see a helicopter being flown in or out. Beyond this terminal building, a black Thames Path sign directs you back down to the right, and the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/993b213c-05ad-4136-8145-b45e6b1742ee/Battersea+Reach.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 6 - Towards Battersea Reach Next up to your left is the red-brick Plantation Wharf development, built in the 1980s and 1990s. To the right is its Uber Boat pier, now known as St Mary’s Wandsworth. This feels confusing, given that St Mary's Church is now half a mile back—and that we remain still within the boundaries of Battersea. Look ahead to spot the end point of this walk: the towers of Battersea Reach (St George plc, 2002 onwards). Despite its name, this development is actually situated within Wandsworth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/89d8ad03-9fc9-4465-94b1-af7269a3ac9d/artificial+estuary.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 6 - The Thames and Biodiversity The boundary between Battersea and Wandsworth is just west of Mendip Road, beside this artificial estuary edge on an otherwise-barren foreshore. As we saw at the Isle of Effra at the beginning of Walk 5, re-introducing biodiversity to an embanked and fast-flowing tidal river has its challenges. This was a pioneering effort by the developers of the adjacent residential block, back in 2005; a 2017 report concluded that, though not as well-designed as it might be, it does perform a useful role. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a19d4461-31c5-4899-9dc7-5ae7d63e2172/The+Waterfront.jpg Open Spaces - Open Spaces LBOC Walk no. 6 - End point: The Waterfront The walk finishes at this friendly all-day riverside pub, just before Wandsworth Bridge (1940, T. P. Frank). Utilitarian in design and painted blue, the bridge has been described as London's dullest—but after dark it’s now become a whole lot more interesting, thanks to a glamorous new colour-changing lighting scheme provided within Wandsworth London Borough of Culture Year. So: an appropriate place to end this last of a set of walks created to mark that. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/live-in-may monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/62ed525c-454c-4271-8ed7-9b66e43c2cb7/rose+arbour.jpg Open Spaces - Live in May - Make it stand out The newly reinstated rose arbour on Clapham Common. All illustrations in this article © the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/940b3518-f79c-4bdc-848a-bbd4344ff1a2/CC+cafe.jpg Open Spaces - Live in May - Make it stand out The newly-restored café building on Clapham Common, still to be furnished and opened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f5a2c1c1-f708-4306-8eb9-4a634e1260ae/goose+on+bank.jpg Open Spaces - Live in May - Make it stand out An Egyptian Goose stands on the bank of the new Wetland Zone on Clapham Common. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e1e5655d-ce69-4915-ac14-677c75e8f28e/CC+goose+family.jpg Open Spaces - Live in May - Make it stand out The Egyptian Goose’s partner and three goslings, on the opposite bank of the new Wetland Zone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/7d9439cc-b764-47d9-909a-f885f82ae4f3/CC+chesnut+avenue.jpg Open Spaces - Live in May - Make it stand out The horse chestnut avenue on Clapham Common. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/247fb908-5eea-4119-b11b-c2d93fe07a2e/chesnut+avenue+detail.jpg Open Spaces - Live in May - Make it stand out Inside Clapham Common’s horse chestnut avenue, looking towards The Avenue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/35a7dfd6-9102-4b6a-a710-5abacc6bea56/pink+hawthorn.jpg Open Spaces - Live in May - Make it stand out A hawthorn in flower on Clapham Common. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/d08a2cb4-7a06-43c1-90ad-1ca4c8ff1f80/white+campion.jpg Open Spaces - Live in May - Make it stand out White campion flowers on Clapham Common. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/our-thames-path monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/bbb923e4-dcbe-4fdd-9b22-6bc1178238e9/BPS+pier+and+boat.jpg Open Spaces - Our Thames Path - Make it stand out The pier at Battersea Power station, complete with an Uberboat. All photographs in this article by the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/4484655b-8fee-4647-a517-12d2db855727/Thames+Path+signage.jpg Open Spaces - Our Thames Path - Make it stand out Thames Path signage opposite Fred Wells Gardens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f0fe04c1-0ffd-4cc8-a735-8f94f64ec3ca/Vicarage+Gdns+daffodils.jpg Open Spaces - Our Thames Path - Make it stand out Daffodils on the bank of Vicarage Gardens, beside the Thames Path https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/8b4a9bc1-bc7b-410e-aa7c-8c7a909022e1/Battersea+Reach+eco+zone.jpg Open Spaces - Our Thames Path - Make it stand out The eco-zone at Battersea Reach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/32a3851c-9f75-42cf-80dd-be03c3e77c84/2022+Summer+Party+1.jpg Open Spaces - Our Thames Path - Make it stand out Our 2022 Summer Party, in St Mary’s Churchyard https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/good-parks-for-london-2024 monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/0b8f049a-d0a6-4919-88a9-3a566135c366/frosty+Falcon+Park.jpg Open Spaces - Good Parks for London 2024 - Make it stand out Battersea’s Falcon Park, on a frosty morning last month. All photos © the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/916d1f9c-6086-46bc-8673-1c3a5fcd70a4/wildflower+meadow+detail.jpg Open Spaces - Good Parks for London 2024 - Make it stand out One of the two new wildflower meadows introduced by Lambeth Council on the Battersea side of Clapham Common, partially cut back for the winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ff7c9b5f-d60b-4664-bd7b-68601a842dc8/BP+littering+sign.jpg Open Spaces - Good Parks for London 2024 - Make it stand out A striking anti-littering sign in Battersea Park, produced by Enable for Wandsworth Council. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/9a11383d-d5d8-4edd-a6f0-d31e03cca105/BP+Cascades.jpg Open Spaces - Good Parks for London 2024 - Make it stand out In need of restoration: the Victorian Cascades beside the lake in Battersea Park. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/our-open-spaces-in-october monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/812bc5cf-6f80-4c9c-83e6-275114896756/Rec+sign.jpg Open Spaces - Our Open Spaces In October - Make it stand out Consultation notice at the entrance to the Rec. Photo © the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/2e78235a-9178-455f-aa94-a0452a234753/Latchmere+Rec+plan.jpg Open Spaces - Our Open Spaces In October - Make it stand out Plan showing the proposed new path, in blue. © Enable LC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/459b4383-c3e0-47a7-a401-9486d2412d15/On+Your+Street.jpg Open Spaces - Our Open Spaces In October - Make it stand out On Your Street survey. © Enable LC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/7b2f31e0-45f3-404e-9407-dd5c5f2e47ca/Nature+Trails.jpg Open Spaces - Our Open Spaces In October - Make it stand out Nature Trails publicity image. © Enable LC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/7c32a905-c438-474b-bfc6-eb768bdedf1a/CY+tree.jpg Open Spaces - Our Open Spaces In October - Make it stand out The Battersea Society Coronation Year Tree, in Falcon Park. Photo © the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/2d5d75c6-6ccd-4ad1-8070-d66eacd2b4fe/liquidambar+leaves.jpg Open Spaces - Our Open Spaces In October - Make it stand out The tree - colouring up for autumn. Photo © the author. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/pocket-parks-in-battersea monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/5c1752f0-588b-476a-9fee-7977528fea6b/TO+view.jpg Open Spaces - Pocket Parks in Battersea - Make it stand out Thessaly Oasis, July 2024. All photos © the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e616f444-6044-4bb9-802d-d88cace7aad7/TO+board.jpg Open Spaces - Pocket Parks in Battersea - Make it stand out The board at the entrance, with the new mural and beds visible beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/962a063e-86e6-464e-886e-ab02a3721d74/SW+view.jpg Open Spaces - Pocket Parks in Battersea - Make it stand out Sphere Walk, looking east from Battersea High Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ccbb781a-f4bb-44bc-9fec-b273a511e054/SW+quiet+route.jpg Open Spaces - Pocket Parks in Battersea - Make it stand out The existing pedestrian route through to Winders Road and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a6506caf-3521-40c3-a9ad-caad73dce280/SL+car+park.jpg Open Spaces - Pocket Parks in Battersea - Make it stand out The disused car park in Sheepcote Lane, looking west. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/our-2024-wildflower-survey monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/0f4fa912-35d7-450b-b780-8c628a7f4a3b/OSC1.jpg Open Spaces - Our 2024 Wildflower Survey - Make it stand out Checking out the north end of Falcon Park. All photos © Mark Hodgkinson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/3bf89e10-e750-4051-8c8b-5c20273ee302/OSC6.jpg Open Spaces - Our 2024 Wildflower Survey - Make it stand out A sorrel, but which? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/4834760d-1c66-4e47-9f12-50ddc864ccee/OSC11.jpg Open Spaces - Our 2024 Wildflower Survey - Make it stand out Wildflowers in the grass in Christchurch Gardens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/d9901d39-373c-41b5-9d1f-639453d5c687/OSC4.jpg Open Spaces - Our 2024 Wildflower Survey - Make it stand out Apiaceae sp. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/june-is-for-wildflowers-and-more monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f9e10059-f5bb-4cd0-8ec7-90b929b9cf2c/2023+flower+survey.jpg Open Spaces - June is for wildflowers, and more - Make it stand out Starting off last year’s survey in Falcon Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/971543b7-6dda-4ff9-9956-d2abf7266e70/Thessaly+Oasis.jpg Open Spaces - June is for wildflowers, and more - Make it stand out The Oasis, viewed from Thessaly Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/6d72ca7e-d0f6-45c8-90f6-0920b9253836/SiSG+banner.jpg Open Spaces - June is for wildflowers, and more - Make it stand out Summer activities in Shillington Gardens, to take place on 9 June. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/b0109943-2625-4cb9-a450-5df74bb9a032/CC+meadow+notice.jpg Open Spaces - June is for wildflowers, and more - Make it stand out One of the signs put up to protect the new meadows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/682c92ad-68c2-4c77-8d25-c4f1a31c9fec/CC+wildflower+meadow.jpg Open Spaces - June is for wildflowers, and more - Make it stand out Evening view of a wildflower meadow on the Common, near Holy Trinity church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/8b9d6e03-5f8e-4ca3-866a-b3bddf3e71db/Thames+Path+sign.jpg Open Spaces - June is for wildflowers, and more - Make it stand out One of the new signs along the Thames Path. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/trees-in-battersea monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/4c324a14-4d08-40c3-a152-a9955c775aa0/Batt+Woods+1.jpg Open Spaces - Battersea’s Trees - Make it stand out Bluebells and green trees this week in Battersea Woods. All photos in this article are by the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/6fffd670-4a91-4906-b42c-5f5c17fcb9e3/Coronation+Tree+foliage.jpg Open Spaces - Battersea’s Trees - Make it stand out Foliage on the Battersea Society’s Coronation Year liquidambar ‘Worplesdon’ this week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1d69abf9-941d-4dcf-b98f-f3982376f0d8/Prunus+label.jpg Open Spaces - Battersea’s Trees - Make it stand out A new tree recently planted in Elsley Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/53889daf-5835-4042-bb26-ef12abd1087e/TfL+bed.jpg Open Spaces - Battersea’s Trees - Make it stand out The TfL bed on Elspeth Road with its three dead liquidambars this week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/98775b10-c405-4e67-a5ad-20a63d6d1695/tiny+oak.jpg Open Spaces - Battersea’s Trees - Make it stand out A very young English oak (Quercus robur), grown by the author from an acorn. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/batterseas-open-spaces-february-roundup monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/587f3d93-61be-4019-af37-8cff82f37d6a/P2042437.JPG Open Spaces - Early Spring Roundup - Make it stand out A clump of crocuses in Latchmere Rec. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/573fb101-58b2-4a43-a23e-00565be8f909/P2042430.JPG Open Spaces - Early Spring Roundup - Make it stand out Just part of the sheet of crocuses in Latchmere Rec. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/89925146-56c1-4a7e-b6d4-d010136e7f0c/P2052440.JPG Open Spaces - Early Spring Roundup - Make it stand out Sheepcote Lane, looking eastwards towards the cleared section. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f23081ba-9e89-4dd6-98db-238698132fee/P2052444.JPG Open Spaces - Early Spring Roundup - Make it stand out Detail of the damage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/0f828266-2332-415a-99a6-990800667922/P2052457.JPG Open Spaces - Early Spring Roundup - Make it stand out Section of the houseboat community at Chelsea Reach, viewed from Battersea. The two mega-houseboats are moored side by side, left of centre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/47d31621-f675-4c52-afbc-d9ab3e20ee6f/Workshop+poster.jpg Open Spaces - Early Spring Roundup - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/54881606-1a27-4d36-8b5c-c8cb8149d4a9/P2062467.JPG Open Spaces - Early Spring Roundup - Make it stand out The disused toilet block on Clapham Common. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/the-battersea-society-coronation-year-tree monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/fd42060e-af1d-4318-8cf9-02bea20b4638/the+new+tree.jpg Open Spaces - The Battersea Society Coronation Year Tree - Make it stand out Our new tree, near the northern end of Falcon Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ae345a7a-8c26-41cf-903e-5bbe225d36fe/planting+the+tree.jpg Open Spaces - The Battersea Society Coronation Year Tree - Make it stand out Helping plant the tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/5c690d5b-fe49-4782-b22e-f6979c948d25/Questions+for+the+Tree+Team.jpg Open Spaces - The Battersea Society Coronation Year Tree - Make it stand out Questions for the Tree Team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/251c8bea-3156-496e-ab30-b24e2d6d3da7/PC122377.JPG Open Spaces - The Battersea Society Coronation Year Tree - Make it stand out Our banner - just for the occasion. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/could-battersea-one-day-open-up-its-buried-rivers monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/6cc992a4-c7ad-425e-bf5b-5499914c0a46/WALKING+4.JPG Open Spaces - Could Battersea one day open up its buried rivers? - Make it stand out Walking the Wandle Trail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ef461f36-447a-4f33-8bd9-be73d402637c/MORDEN%7Efor+web.jpg Open Spaces - Could Battersea one day open up its buried rivers? - Make it stand out The wetland boardwalk in Morden Hall Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/b8119c2b-4382-47eb-9526-75c4f35fa73c/heron+1.jpg Open Spaces - Could Battersea one day open up its buried rivers? - Make it stand out A grey heron wading in the Wandle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/473ce743-27ed-40c7-a50d-c57fc4dc41ab/Heron+3.jpg Open Spaces - Could Battersea one day open up its buried rivers? - Make it stand out Another grey heron, perched above the Wandle. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/our-open-spaces-in-august monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/b3755101-58f3-48cb-a34c-dc5e8b8f852e/P8172101.JPG Open Spaces - Our Open Spaces in August - Make it stand out The June survey area on 17 August. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/c2dd958c-ea56-4ded-9c58-f4987bf57986/P8172098.JPG Open Spaces - Our Open Spaces in August - Make it stand out The mullein. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/66b92db0-66c0-4d9e-9c90-ab74d7af598a/P8172092.JPG Open Spaces - Our Open Spaces in August - Make it stand out Falcon Park, early morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/5a18084c-e1cb-4807-b46e-f4abefda3bed/P8202117.JPG Open Spaces - Our Open Spaces in August - Make it stand out A Comma butterfly on a bramble in Battersea Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/5e0b0e14-28fc-46a4-a549-96d9cf1df270/P8202103.JPG Open Spaces - Our Open Spaces in August - Make it stand out A London pigeon bathes in a fountain opposite Nine Elms Pier. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/wildflowers-in-falcon-park monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/c72cc7e7-1e21-45fa-af01-9ffc64624a5e/P6081967.JPG Open Spaces - Wildflowers in Falcon Park - Make it stand out The group assembles on site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/10be6585-a391-4663-b4cf-ed79ab9ff21d/P6091988.JPG Open Spaces - Wildflowers in Falcon Park - Make it stand out View of the survey site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f97535a2-80e2-4327-b9f3-4824ae2c335b/P6092001.JPG Open Spaces - Wildflowers in Falcon Park - Make it stand out Common knapweed, growing on the survey site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/0b518510-a868-40ba-82e0-36794ece9456/P6092000.JPG Open Spaces - Wildflowers in Falcon Park - Make it stand out Green alkanet, one of the borage family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ed0047ff-81ce-4bbc-a414-9203a979547b/P6081970.JPG Open Spaces - Wildflowers in Falcon Park - Make it stand out Common daisies, growing amongst grasses. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/reviewing-the-rec monthly 0.5 2025-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ba70729b-eb63-4744-9283-6c3cf82ca2c3/PC061386.JPG Open Spaces - Reviewing the Rec - Make it stand out Latchmere Rec: a pair of original entrance gates, today in need of a little love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/2d20ffd3-6340-49e2-97ac-fe27c7e173d5/Brown_Dog%2C_11_March_1910_%28cropped%29.jpg Open Spaces - Reviewing the Rec - Make it stand out "Exit the 'Brown Dog.'" Daily Graphic, 11 March 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e4e5c505-2247-4efd-b34f-a28c5d65c2c0/P5031876.JPG Open Spaces - Reviewing the Rec - Make it stand out View of the Western section of the Rec today, with the two big weeping willows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/270e863f-954b-4937-bf9b-93f44b237b23/P5031870.JPG Open Spaces - Reviewing the Rec - Make it stand out The central footpath and its safety barriers, looking South from Stanley Grove https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/spring-comes-to-batterseas-open-spaces monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/5c4775ec-f42a-4eb3-9120-8fc79b6594aa/P3121819.JPG Open Spaces - Spring comes to Battersea's open spaces - Make it stand out Cherry plum blossom in Falcon Park this morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/690bc1aa-5dee-4f54-b2bd-161d3d39965f/P2131720.JPG Open Spaces - Spring comes to Battersea's open spaces - Make it stand out Some of Latchmere Recreation Ground’s purple crocuses, back in February. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/779d8ddb-b2cd-4fef-9956-32b46605af9e/P3111797.JPG Open Spaces - Spring comes to Battersea's open spaces - Make it stand out The ongoing work in Christchurch Gardens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f30db6b1-e1f1-48c4-8899-b89cc5a98956/P3121832.JPG Open Spaces - Spring comes to Battersea's open spaces - Make it stand out The new outdoor gym, with the playground beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/61a6c4d8-8d36-482d-b7d2-dc4d4ee78210/P3121827.JPG Open Spaces - Spring comes to Battersea's open spaces - Make it stand out Some of the new playground equipment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f3910173-82f9-40ef-a98c-443a6817db76/P3111807.JPG Open Spaces - Spring comes to Battersea's open spaces - Make it stand out A new café, right beside Heathbrook Park. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/learning-from-new-york-citys-high-line monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/d133d0e0-3de8-47c1-8126-dd41c90da0a8/Highline+1.jpg Open Spaces - Learning from New York City’s High Line - Make it stand out View of a section of The High Line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/965d115a-31af-4ac8-8301-d5acf0695eb6/Highline+2.jpg Open Spaces - Learning from New York City’s High Line - Make it stand out A place to stroll - or to relax. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/df354800-58c4-4260-af2e-5205886a8f60/Highline+3.jpg Open Spaces - Learning from New York City’s High Line - Make it stand out Detail of some hard and soft landscaping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a06e213c-df3c-4728-ac82-b277d2ac928f/Highline+5.jpg Open Spaces - Learning from New York City’s High Line - Make it stand out The High Line - not just for humans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/119810c5-6be4-4d66-8b98-602c62b1e1ea/Highline+4.jpg Open Spaces - Learning from New York City’s High Line - Make it stand out Shallow water and grasses. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/down-by-the-river monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/3b70d4fc-aa25-4d5d-bf82-42c0c4f1abfa/P9241263.JPG Open Spaces - Down by the river - Make it stand out Some of the rowing boats of the Reflections flotilla, assembling at dusk below Battersea Bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e8be6800-9cb2-47ae-948f-7a6b165e5395/P9241242.JPG Open Spaces - Down by the river - Make it stand out The flotilla sets off under Albert Bridge. Beside Cadogan Pier royal rowbarge Gloriana's oarsmen, wearing the scarlet livery of past Doggett's Coat and Badge race winners, hold their illuminated oars upright in salute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/adf024b8-06c1-4683-9917-a7258adcff5d/P9261347.JPG Open Spaces - Down by the river - Make it stand out Battersea Power Station: opening soon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/6abd4bfb-6dd7-452f-91e3-0b3f7e9ce667/P9261357.JPG Open Spaces - Down by the river - Make it stand out Sprucing up the new park, ready for the opening of the Power Station on 14 October. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/are-you-happy-with-your-local-green-space monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/974fbd34-7bc6-44bc-bdf4-35c9285ad9f1/P9091099.JPG Open Spaces - Are you happy with your local green space? - Make it stand out Falcon Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/4e83197c-ed26-4a1c-b8ec-cb834ae8268f/P9091113.JPG Open Spaces - Are you happy with your local green space? - Make it stand out Battersea Park, Sun Gate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/b57dc329-0b3f-4dda-88bd-766a085139ee/P9091105.JPG Open Spaces - Are you happy with your local green space? - Make it stand out Entrance to Fred Wells Gardens https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/have-your-say-shillington-park-improvements monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/5d3ff885-3bc9-4573-aa0a-479c47ce9d25/P6150938.JPG Open Spaces - Have your say: Shillington Park improvements - Make it stand out Consultation boards on the railings of the park's playground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/6e901fa2-2b2a-48e3-a4f5-06f1b8c10b49/P6150940.JPG Open Spaces - Have your say: Shillington Park improvements - Make it stand out General view of Shillington Park. The lawn is to the right, and one of a group of new cycle stands recently installed by the Council is visible front left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f5b84457-8aa5-4804-9b55-c3a15963eda5/P6150943.JPG Open Spaces - Have your say: Shillington Park improvements - Make it stand out Some of the gym equipment currently occupying the lawn; note the tarmacked bases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/3fe72086-ce74-4339-9815-854d18728418/P6150936.JPG Open Spaces - Have your say: Shillington Park improvements - Make it stand out The proposed gym site; this will need levelling and resurfacing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/c37f09ca-3aa1-436f-9a79-43ee8bca8896/P6150945.JPG Open Spaces - Have your say: Shillington Park improvements - Make it stand out Plants are missing or struggling in this bed under the trees. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/clapham-junction-grot-spot-blooms monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/6f1be783-ded0-4ddd-9197-426a3e471eb6/flowers-1.jpg Open Spaces - Clapham Junction ‘Grot Spot’ blooms - Make it stand out Some of the new plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e7f062f5-1a0f-4083-9227-82667cefe347/streetview.jpg Open Spaces - Clapham Junction ‘Grot Spot’ blooms - Make it stand out The chosen site; we planted up part of the area at the front, and to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/edb276c9-b973-4d22-8cd0-011f9afc47db/flowers-2.jpg Open Spaces - Clapham Junction ‘Grot Spot’ blooms - Make it stand out The fininished planting: red ranunculus, blue campanula, and some variegated ivy. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/storm-eunice-and-battersea monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/8ae923be-8a5e-49ec-b84a-b15111904e26/P2280785.JPG Open Spaces - Storm Eunice and Battersea - Make it stand out This tree toppled into the lake in Battersea Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f198c4ed-9888-4a25-bcf0-360a397431b1/P2270743.JPG Open Spaces - Storm Eunice and Battersea - Make it stand out Fallen branches on Clapham Common https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/eb7af215-c8fe-40bd-8acb-33534ba82f4a/P2280774.JPG Open Spaces - Storm Eunice and Battersea - Make it stand out The damaged arbutus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/88562e4c-6e8a-45fa-bb53-533057261844/P3090803.JPG Open Spaces - Storm Eunice and Battersea - Make it stand out This very large hybrid black poplar was toppled in Heathbrook Park, damaging the adjacent railings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1f964e0a-7609-46cc-b048-b73b60abc425/P2280773.JPG Open Spaces - Storm Eunice and Battersea - Make it stand out Damaged wood from the Battersea Park arbutus https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/some-cheer-for-the-end-of-the-year monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e56da3a5-964e-47b5-98ac-cd9cf9cc3e91/PA200649.jpg Open Spaces - Some cheer for the end of the year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1846a384-7b4e-457c-aac8-520913704abe/PC220730.JPG Open Spaces - Some cheer for the end of the year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/5f5b5083-f66a-47ca-8264-a3e1715a67ef/PC200720.JPG Open Spaces - Some cheer for the end of the year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1a6b6b28-44fe-49f2-b787-b26fae5e4a47/PC200725.JPG Open Spaces - Some cheer for the end of the year - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/0a5ee66b-0287-4874-b117-e279a6e36945/PC240736.JPG Open Spaces - Some cheer for the end of the year - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/batterseas-hidden-spaces monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1633520352757-9E18WXVD56O66O85E8P0/057+Open+Spaces+walk.jpg Open Spaces - Battersea’s Hidden Parks - Make it stand out We started the tours by visiting Latchmere Recreation Ground. Illustration 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1633521060368-4RJ1KRVOH3UKD5XBPOIA/falcon+park+flowers.jpg Open Spaces - Battersea’s Hidden Parks - Make it stand out A corner of Falcon Park, en route from Latchmere Passage to Cabul Road. Illustration 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1633521525646-52XB2SSJ0TPLG6EYQERK/CCG.jpg Open Spaces - Battersea’s Hidden Parks - Make it stand out Christchurch Gardens was the last of the nine open spaces we visited on each tour. Illustration 3 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/category/news monthly 0.5 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/category/Open+Spaces monthly 0.5 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/category/LBOC+walk monthly 0.5 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/open-spaces-blog/category/walk monthly 0.5 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-blog daily 0.75 2022-07-11 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-blog/my-film-night monthly 0.5 2021-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1616774037067-G1MQCAXN2OXVVDPZ2DKO/ALFIE-1966.jpg Events - My Film Night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1616774036909-9FVT0LQNI9UCRTA5F7BO/Melody+1971.jpg Events - My Film Night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1616774039725-HIKNDYATHD9W9MBW9KS2/The+Deadly+Affair.jpg Events - My Film Night https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/events-blog/category/Events monthly 0.5 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog daily 0.75 2026-03-08 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/jpna72hs8xlg37xx2dtbesdlf5jbpy monthly 0.5 2026-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1a728788-69ca-432e-a4a2-ba238e066317/John+Nevil+Maskylene.png Heritage - The Maskelyne family and Battersea - Make it stand out John Nevil Maskelyne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1772813853673-COU7GSAVFHI6SIHUCTTX/Nevil+Maskylene.png Heritage - The Maskelyne family and Battersea - Make it stand out Nevil Maskelyne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/b97319de-20ce-4236-b294-39f3b9829934/Jasper+Maskylene+entertaining+troops.png Heritage - The Maskelyne family and Battersea - Make it stand out Jasper Maskelyne entertaining troops in Egypt Photo: the Sandhurst Trust. Used by permission https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/https/wwwbatterseasocietyorguk/blog-page-url/new-post-title-5 monthly 0.5 2026-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/b4bde512-55bf-43ee-8af4-3e3050d0f475/Embassy+Gardens+Charlotte+Despard.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 Embassy Gardens plaque to Charlotte Despard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1cda3a6d-b1a4-4ca9-a70c-821d23713c5e/Thessaly+Road+No.+115+Ramport+Studios+plaque.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/b776ddd2-d528-4559-8700-b8cd42a8e70c/Yvonne+Carr+distance.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - Yvonne Carr (1945-October 2003), 2 Thessaly Road. In February 2026, the plaque in honour of Yvonne Carr was unveiled. Carr campaigned passionately for improved community facilities and successfully raised money to fund a new community centre for residents. Following her sudden death just weeks before the facility was opened, it was named the Yvonne Carr Community Centre and officially opened by Gordon Brown, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/649bbb63-b288-465f-b321-2b79e6be2ed3/Yvonne+Carr+close+up.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - From Yvonne Carr Community Centre to Queen’s Circus Arches: Return to Corunna Road, walk through the Patmore Estate to Stewart’s Road and follow it to Battersea Park Road, reached by a flight of stairs. (To avoid the steps, turn right, and then left up the pavement on Battersea Park Road.) Turn left onto Battersea Park Road, bear right onto Prince of Wales Drive to Queen’s Circus. The arches are reached from the northeast section of the Circus.Make it stand out https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f5220a92-dda7-4e7e-a1ef-cce41f05b24e/Queen%27s+Circus+Arch+75+The+Short+Brothers.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - The Short Brothers: Horace (2 July 1872-6 April 1917, Eustace (17 July 1879-3 April 1932 and Oswald (16 January 1883-4 December 1969). Queen’s Circus, Arch 75 Eustace and Oswald Short were hot air balloon enthusiasts working out of this site who turned their attention to heavier-than-air machines. Joined by Horace, the brothers gained from the Wright Brothers the British rights to build six Wright Flyers, making them the first aircraft manufacturers in the world. The plaque was unveiled by Jenny Body, OBE, president of the Royal Aeronautical Society. In arches 79 and 82, the British Wright brothers, Howard and Warwick, were also building planes. It was a golden era for British aeronautics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/860e6d7a-7171-41c6-a8ca-d2947468d9d4/Queen%27s+Circus+Arch+75+English+Heritage+The+Short+Brothers.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - From Queen’s Circus Arches to Prince of Wales Drive, Overstrand Mansions: Return to Prince of Wales Drive and carry on to Overstrand Mansions. To the right of the entry to Nos. 46-50 is the English Heritage plaque to Sean O’Casey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e2ecf40d-7801-4da3-81fb-be1db386be16/Prince+of+Wales+Drive+Overstrand+Mansions+O%27Casey1.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - Sean O’Casey (30 March 1889-18 September 1964). 49 Overstrand Mansions, Prince of Wales Drive. The Irish dramatist wrote many plays, including Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars. He wrote about the working classes in Dublin at a time of civil conflict in Ireland and uprising against British rule. His parents were Protestants, and he was raised Protestant. As a young man he became increasingly committed to Irish nationalism, learned the Irish language and changed his first name to Sean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f6b6cb52-2bfb-4cc6-862c-b9ed23c679e0/Prince+of+Wales+Drive+No.+49+English+Heritage+Sean+O%27Casey+1880-1964.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - From Overstand Mansions to Brynmaer Road: Continue on Prince of Wales Drive to Beechmore Road. Turn left onto Beechmore Road, then right onto Brynmaer Road to No. 55. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/874b8bd8-6893-4922-adb7-3f3d8b5876fc/Brynmaer+Road+No.+55+John+Archer.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - John Archer (8 June 1863-14 July 1932). 55 Brynmaer Road. Born in Liverpool, John Archer was a politician and political activist who was elected Mayor of Battersea in 1913, making him the first black to hold senior office in London. He was a Pan-Africanist and founding president of the African Progress Union. He opposed cuts to unemployment relief and sending Battersea’s unemployed young to workhouses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/03b3c4e4-0371-438b-941c-986305e2ad0c/Brynmaer+Road+No.+55+English+Heritage+John+Richard+Archer+1863-1932+Mayor+of+Battersea.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - From Brynmaer Road to Albert Bridge Road: Continue on Brynmaer Road to Albert Bridge Road. Cross Albert Bridge Road, turn right and you will almost immediately reach 13 Albert Bridge Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e922731c-176f-4b56-83ce-432faae0791d/Albert+Bridge+Road+No.+13+Donald+Swann.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - Donald Swann (30 September 1923–23 March 1944). 13 Albert Bridge Road. Born in Wales, the son of Russian refugees, Swann was a composer, musician, singer and entertainer. He was famous as half of Flanders and Swann who wrote and performed comic songs and revues. Swann wrote the music, Flanders the words. Michael Flanders ribbed him for living in Battersea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/5306cee8-9e9b-4641-8d82-e0d7642be33b/Albert+Bridge+Road+No.+13+The+Battersea+Society+Donald+Swann+1923-1994.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - Continue along Albert Bridge Road to number 67 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/c6637640-f728-4ea1-a734-b9fd4f63ec22/Albany+Mansions+No.+67+Charles+Jagger.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - Charles Sargeant Jagger (17 December 1885–16 November 1934). 67 Albert Bridge Road. The sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger, the son of a colliery manager in Sheffield, grew up in an artistic family. Following active service in WW1 where he was wounded three times and awarded the Military Cross for bravery, he sculpted many works on the theme of war. He is perhaps best known for the Great Western War Memorial at Paddington Station and his Royal Artillery memorial at Hyde Park Corner in which he defied both convention and government edict by depicting a dead soldier as well as three standing soldiers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/7d3de1d0-68d9-428f-b3ff-b37679261158/Albert+Bridge+Road+cropped+No.+67+English+Heritage+Charles+Sargeant+Jagger2.JPG Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - Albert Bridge Road to Albany Mansions: Continue along Albert Bridge Road until you reach Albany Mansions and number 63. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e7d77550-b634-49ad-9b3b-6f1d479142da/Albany+Mansions+No.+63+Greater+London+Council+Norman+Douglas.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - Norman Douglas (8 December 1868–7 February 1952. 63 Albany Mansions, Albert Bridge Road. Norman Douglas, descended from Scottish and German aristocracy, was born in Austria. Multi-lingual and a serious student of zoology who counted DH Lawrend, Graham Greene and Elizabeth David among his friends. His best known work is the 1917 novel South Wind, set in a lightly disguised Capri. By today’s reckoning, he was a prolific serial predator of both girls and boys. He fled England for Capri to evade arrest for the rape of a 10-year-old girl. Albany Mansions to Battersea Park: At last, it’s time to enter Battersea Park. Enter via the Albert Gate. Turn right onto the path that is signposted for the Cricket Pavilion and make your way there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/43b3eeb1-f580-4507-86dd-bf4b14bd3bb0/Battersea+Park+FA+and+Marley2.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - Association Football Rules, Battersea Park Cricket Pavilion. Battersea Park was the site in 1864 of the first football match played by Association rules. Bob Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981). Battersea Park Cricket Pavilion. This Wandsworth Council Green Plaque, in partnership with Nubian Jak Community Trust, celebrates Bob Marley's link to Battersea Park and was unveiled by Marsha de Cordova MP, accompanied by Dr Jak Beula and Jeanne Rathbone of the Battersea Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/66aa0b8e-14cc-4293-a99a-ec2c90e2e836/Battersea+Park+Festival+of+Britain1.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - Cricket Pavilion to Festival Gardens: Carry on to the fountains where you will find another Wandsworth Council plaque as well as an interpretive lectern. Battersea Park, Festival of Britain James Gardner was responsible for the overall design themes of the Pleasure Gardens, the only area in the 1951 Festival of Britain that was intended simply for enjoyment rather than education or information. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ac783ebe-0548-4740-b799-06fcf5039876/Vicarage+Crescent+Wilson+long+range2.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - From Battersea Park to 42 Vicarage Crescent: Retrace your steps to the Albert Gate. Google Maps insists you must walk along Battersea Church Street, but you can follow the river or take the direct route on Parkgate Road, leading to Westbridge Road Walk straight on through Battersea Square to 42 Vicarage Crescent, ignoring Google Maps’ insistence on going the long way around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/7a9d68ff-fdb8-492c-861c-254c4cb83486/Vicarage+Crescent+No.+42+LCC+Edward+Adrian+Wilson+Antarctic+explorer+and+naturalist.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - Edward Adrian Wilson (23 July 1872–29 March 1912). 42 Vicarage Crescent. Wilson was an English physician, polar explorer, natural historian, painter and ornithologist. He read natural sciences at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, studied medicine at St George’s Hospital Medical School and carried out mission work in the slums sponsored by Caius House in Battersea. Wilson put all his skills to work on polar expeditions and there is a large collection of his artwork in the Scott Polar Research Institute. He died on Robert Scott’s 1912 expedition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/8f987a76-5162-49af-8d60-75044e75d30e/Vicarage+Crescent+No.+30+Wilhelmina+Sterling.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - 42 Vicarage Crescent to 30 Vicarage Crescent: Just a few steps further on brings you to Old Battersea House. You will see a private drive, signposted Eaton House, which borders Old Battersea House. Turn down this drive and the plaque up on the side of Old Battersea House to your right will come into view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a029f73d-3a61-4ee6-ad17-89a1152aa438/Vicarage+Crescent+No.+30+Wilhelmina+Stirling+The+Battersea+Society.jpg Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - Wilhelmina Stirling (26 August 1865-11 August 1965) Old Battersea House. Wilhelmina Sterling was an author and the founder of the De Morgan Centre, which was based at her 17C home that she saved from demolition and is now Grade II listed. She was an anti-establishment thinker and an advocate for women’s rights. Her substantial art collection featured the work of her sister Evelyn De Morgan and Evelyn’s husband William De Morgan. When Stirling died, just days shy of her 100th birthday, she bequeathed her collection for public enjoyment. Immortalised by a Ken Russell short film, Mrs Wilhelmina Stirling, according to the BBC she was one of Battersea's most eccentric and well-loved residents. Unfortunately, the De Morgan Collection has been dispersed to Cannon Hall De Morgan Museum in Barnsley, the Watts Gallery and the National Trust. From Vicarage Crescent to Battersea High Street: To reach our last stop, walk through the lovely Fred Wells Garden to Orville Road and Battersea High Street. Katherine Low Settlement is on the corner of Orville Road; the plaque honouring Katherine Mackay Low is on the Battersea High Street side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f3a39190-ec9f-4138-bfb4-ba055a442df7/BATTER%7E3.JPG Heritage - Battersea Commemorative Plaque Walk Part 1 - Katherine Mackay Low (9 July 1855-2 January 1923), 108 Battersea High Street. Katherine Mackay Low was born in Savannah, Georgia to British parents. Brought to England when her mother died, she lived as an unmarried, independent philanthropist. After her death, her many friends created Katherine Low Settlement as a memorial to her. It was opened on 17 May 1924 by the Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) and today supports children, young people and the newly-arrived and their families. Continuing along Battersea High Street to Battersea Park Road you will see several of the Battersea Society heritage decals, such as the one for sculptor Ian Walters. You will also pass several restaurants, cafes and a pub, with further options for refreshment on Battersea Park Road, Falcon Road and around Clapham Junction generally. Please send comments and point out any errors to website@battersea.org.uk https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/https/wwwbatterseasocietyorguk/blog-page-url/new-post-title-4 monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/9b182096-55e9-4481-b447-9a9a83aa6b25/Thomas+Griffin+memorial+tablet-2.jpg Heritage - Garton’s Glucose & the Battersea Smell - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/https/wwwbatterseasocietyorguk/blog-page-url/new-post-title-2 monthly 0.5 2025-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1c97eeb4-4d45-455b-9a07-26f0c8936b8e/Handbill+for+Orlando+Jones+%26+CoRice+Starch+advert.jpg Heritage - Orlando Jones & Co - Making Starch by the River - Make it stand out A handbill for Orlando Jones & Co’s rice starch https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/https/wwwbatterseasocietyorguk/blog-page-url/new-post-title-3 monthly 0.5 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f35e5aba-3c19-4b30-a4a9-1c921509696a/War+Memorial+1.png Heritage - 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London & Provincial Steam Laundry Company - Make it stand out washerwoman terracotta relief https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/https/wwwbatterseasocietyorguk/blog-page-url/new-post-title monthly 0.5 2025-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/567280de-5bf4-476e-9774-66a8699fb6d4/Emily+MacManus+photo.png Heritage - Emily MacManus, CBE - nursing pioneer - Make it stand out Emily MacManus of Battersea and County Mayo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/2b4e6bac-fb16-4590-bd6e-89ec7c3722c2/25+Spencer+Park+compressed.jpeg Heritage - Emily MacManus, CBE - nursing pioneer - Make it stand out 25 Spencer Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/017535ff-47e1-4877-9053-1e48f9e03c74/Cover_of_book_Matron_of_Guy%27s.jpg Heritage - Emily MacManus, CBE - nursing pioneer - Make it stand out MacManus’s memoir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ff142b31-3716-42bf-9f6d-c62e19dabff6/Emily+Mac+gravestone.png Heritage - Emily MacManus, CBE - nursing pioneer - Make it stand out MacManus’s gravestone https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/local-listing-your-chance-to-participate monthly 0.5 2025-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ef37f8fe-314c-4ba1-9a12-bcb4e14ee3cb/Dagnall+St.+Brian+Barnes+Mural+Battersea+in+Perspective+%28427x640%29.jpg Heritage - Local listing — put your choices on the map - Make it stand out “Battersea in Perspective” by Brian Barnes https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/walk-the-streets monthly 0.5 2025-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/835707a8-707f-4df4-8e18-f7e6f08f19b0/Enamelled+sign+Nightingale+Lane+at+Bolingbroke+Grove+%281%29.jpg Heritage - Walk the Streets - Make it stand out Historic Borough of Battersea street sign https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/df3c44da-6389-4919-a6e2-ecb53fdfbd7a/Harbut+Road+at+Plough+Road+-+Copy.jpg Heritage - Walk the Streets - Make it stand out Blue enamel street sign https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/growing-together-with-battersea-100-years-of-the-katherine-low-settlement monthly 0.5 2024-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/b592f88a-a714-4d0d-8cf7-85d9be7d024a/Katherine+Low+plaque.jpg Heritage - Growing together with Battersea: 100 years of the Katherine Low Settlement - Make it stand out Battersea Society blue plaque on the Katherine Low Settlement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f47f1c01-1624-413a-8774-3a8afc003486/Katherine+Low.jpg Heritage - Growing together with Battersea: 100 years of the Katherine Low Settlement - Make it stand out Katherine Low https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/13d484bb-3d4a-4e58-a3d3-fb49c45a2f1a/Central+News+Photo+2+-+QM.jpg Heritage - Growing together with Battersea: 100 years of the Katherine Low Settlement - Make it stand out Opening of Katherine Low Settlement; photo courtesy of Katherine Low Settlement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/8b82a58a-0afc-4a24-848b-97fd60f323ab/Boxing+Class+1950.JPG Heritage - 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Used by permission. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/tom-taylor-and-laura-barker-honoured-with-blue-plaque monthly 0.5 2024-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a2244bbc-a5f4-4f14-93d9-4c1c1c724d0f/Lavender+Sweep+House+fan+light+now+at+84+Lavender+Sweep.jpg Heritage - Tom Taylor and Laura Barker honoured with blue plaque - Make it stand out Lavender Sweep House with the fanlight now at number 84 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/bf1964f4-3e23-4685-977a-5b326d1c7e8f/Lavender+Sweep+no.84+fanlight+%28640x360%29.jpg Heritage - Tom Taylor and Laura Barker honoured with blue plaque - Make it stand out 84 Lavender Sweep with the original fanlight from Lavender Sweep House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/2b7302fe-b418-4e55-b02a-9d84b955b632/Tom+Taylor+and+Old+Stagers+.jpg Heritage - Tom Taylor and Laura Barker honoured with blue plaque - Make it stand out Tom Taylor and the Old Stagers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/494883d3-8136-487a-a174-ee1f43b4f237/Laura+Barker+painting+of+Ellen+terry+On+a+garden+seat+now+at+Smallhythe+.JPG Heritage - Tom Taylor and Laura Barker honoured with blue plaque - Make it stand out Laura Barker's portrait of Ellen Tracy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/40ba84b8-6867-444e-b6d8-68998231a5aa/Lavender+Sweep+garden+Taylors+.JPG Heritage - Tom Taylor and Laura Barker honoured with blue plaque - Make it stand out Lavender Sweep House from the garden https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/honouring-isabella-gilmore monthly 0.5 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/bffc2eac-3ab4-46ee-96cb-27d458a88dde/Gilmore+unveiling.jpg Heritage - Honouring Isabella Gilmore - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/the-zoroastrian-parsi-in-battersea monthly 0.5 2024-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/521b896b-3f72-44c7-9593-667ef6c3470c/320+Bluebells+Visit+Puntheki%E2%80%99s+Grave+Every+Year.jpeg Heritage - The Zoroastrian Parsi in Battersea - Make it stand out Photo by Dorothy Hintze https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/7g2dgnm1vhsmz95oesfei84j2oxj9d monthly 0.5 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1423a783-97a9-4b6a-9c3d-0720fba8ecb2/group+photo.jpg Heritage - Beating the Bounds - Make it stand out Finding and documenting boundary markers. 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Photo by Carol Rahn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/382fe9a3-0a2d-4b4a-bccd-ca56daf88988/Windmill+drive+marker.jpg Heritage - Beating the Bounds - Make it stand out Nearly buried boundary marker on Windmill Drive Photo by Stephen Midlane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/bc1d128c-af10-4a5c-b96a-666c994362ee/map+%281%29.jpg Heritage - Beating the Bounds - Make it stand out Surprising southern extent Google map https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/batterseas-forgotten-trams monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/765a5dab-17ec-403c-a817-b57ccf186348/Laying+tram+tracks+on+York+Road%2C+c1900.jpg Heritage - Battersea’s forgotten trams - Make it stand out Laying tram tracks on York Road, ~1900. Wandsworth Heritage Service; used by permission. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/penelope-fitzgerald-honoured monthly 0.5 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a157efdd-ac5e-4fe7-8cbb-d52c6ec43d33/unveiling.jpg Heritage - Penelope Fitzgerald Honoured - Make it stand out Jeanne Rathbone, Terence Dooley, Hermione Lee, Alan Hollinghurst, Marsha de Cordova MP , Emma Anthony, Hilaire and Cllr Rex Osborn at the unveiling of the plaque commemorating Penelope Fitzgerald https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/0e280664-4abc-4c79-a6be-b8d2cbf19e23/young+Fitzgerald.jpg Heritage - Penelope Fitzgerald Honoured - Make it stand out Young Penelope Knox https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/90ad6e8f-eef7-45dd-b1f4-b65aa94111c7/Penelope+wedding.jpg Heritage - Penelope Fitzgerald Honoured - Make it stand out Wedding of Desmond and Penelope https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/cae0f87e-2e4f-4894-9564-50f275e3f212/Hermione+Lee+biography.jpg Heritage - Penelope Fitzgerald Honoured - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e8ffd1c5-f257-47c8-b328-2ef50971a00e/penelope_fitzgerald_offshore_first_ed1-600x600.jpg Heritage - Penelope Fitzgerald Honoured - Make it stand out Booker prize-winning novel https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/nvpmag3a9g2uav2ipkg2v3wjaf9cme monthly 0.5 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/c87c0bb8-a52d-468c-a254-55767792696e/Emily+and+Ernest+with+Gurney%2C+Barbara%2C+Elsie+and+Norah%2C+Lavender+Sweep+c.+1904.jpg Heritage - The Extraordinary Diederichs Duval Family - Make it stand out Emily and Ernest with Gurney, Barbara, Elsie and Norah (in front), c. 1904 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/9461417e-bf50-4053-b4df-22f75c463109/Emily+standing.jpeg Heritage - The Extraordinary Diederichs Duval Family - Make it stand out Emily Duval https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/cbb6f827-2172-4749-a50d-c0e69a8628ff/Elsie+and+Hugh.jpg Heritage - The Extraordinary Diederichs Duval Family - Make it stand out Wedding of Hugh and Elsie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/91aeaea4-bedf-4dbb-9c86-8cbb0a908e05/Emily+Cert+signed+Mrs+P.jpg Heritage - The Extraordinary Diederichs Duval Family - Make it stand out WSPU Certificate awarded to Emily Duval https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/73f86234-b505-47c2-ab7a-2fb256e820ad/Diederichs+Family+and+meJPG.JPG Heritage - The Extraordinary Diederichs Duval Family - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/the-female-blondin-wows-the-crowds-in-battersea monthly 0.5 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/9b77dbaf-2088-4b6b-bd03-f3a136e829c8/the-female-blondin-crossing-the-thames-from-battersea-to-cremorne-on-a-tightrope-79d4b6-640++ILN+1858.jpg Heritage - “The Female Blondin” Wows the Crowds in Battersea - Make it stand out Illustrated London News 28 August 1861 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/english-heritage-blue-plaque-for-marie-spartoli monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/33c213ee-df5e-4e34-934f-99ed34c05d6f/Marie_Spartali_Stillman_-_Self_Portrait.jpg Heritage - English Heritage Blue Plaque for Marie Spartali - Make it stand out Marie Spartali Self-portrait https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/64092cce-6def-4deb-9b79-303eb863e172/English+Heritage+logo.jpg Heritage - English Heritage Blue Plaque for Marie Spartali - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/r4g5npihm9p374oipwrti18bagz8nf monthly 0.5 2024-03-10 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/the-life-and-work-of-brian-barnes-in-battersea monthly 0.5 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/67c38c0e-743f-4cc5-a1f3-21fa0e04245d/Brian%27s+self+portraits.JPG Heritage - The Life and Work of Brian Barnes in Battersea - Make it stand out Self portrait https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/9578c07e-6047-4093-acc0-f851fa456274/Battersea+the+Good+the+Bad+and+the+Ugly%2C+1976-78.jpg Heritage - The Life and Work of Brian Barnes in Battersea - Make it stand out The Good, the Bad and the Ugly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/eeb94404-1dc7-4883-bd9e-1b7a2e26936e/Stockwell+Memorial.jpg Heritage - The Life and Work of Brian Barnes in Battersea - Make it stand out Stockwell War Memorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/b9d41f49-8234-4692-8168-8a09347dafbf/Battersea+In+Perspective.jpg Heritage - The Life and Work of Brian Barnes in Battersea - Make it stand out Battersea in Perspective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/6adaff29-e0d1-4d57-9560-6f9b8447b077/Carey+Gardens+mural.jpg Heritage - The Life and Work of Brian Barnes in Battersea - Make it stand out A Brief History of Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/37d45b0e-61c6-46b3-9324-2af40f863962/Brian-Barnes-Mural-talk.jpg Heritage - The Life and Work of Brian Barnes in Battersea - Make it stand out Recent walk incorporating A Brief History of Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/da64b06b-ae09-4915-85f9-0c04644b2720/Brian+Barnes+with+image+of+Chesterton.jpg Heritage - The Life and Work of Brian Barnes in Battersea - Make it stand out Brian Barnes with the image of GK Chesterton on the Chesterton school mural https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/832da73d-0866-430e-bcef-7f6c16420f8c/Brian+and+BPS+poster.jpg Heritage - The Life and Work of Brian Barnes in Battersea - Make it stand out Brian Barnes https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/whats-in-a-street-name monthly 0.5 2023-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/9228783d-61cb-43c5-93b6-f42028bd3a5f/Nine+Elms+Lane.jpg Heritage - What’s in a street name? - Make it stand out Nine Elms Lane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a47addc8-ac9d-47da-be4e-4f067e4a7518/Thessaly-Road-sign_1200px-1024x683.jpg Heritage - What’s in a street name? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/5472e6f4-d9aa-4e16-86ba-8e9943802ad0/South-Western-District-_Charles-Booths-poverty-map_1280px.jpg Heritage - What’s in a street name? - Make it stand out Railways, industry and housing in Charles Booth’s poverty map. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/lady-battersea monthly 0.5 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/33e072f6-c04d-4ad2-8c26-366c68f63e54/The+Pleasaunce.jpg Heritage - Lady Battersea - Make it stand out The Pleasaunce, Overstrand, Norfolk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/6873857a-b265-4b44-8d95-754d15d82f7a/JAPGWAnnualReport.jpg Heritage - Lady Battersea - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/4fd33b84-019d-46f2-960a-8c80d2ec166b/Secret2.jpg Heritage - Lady Battersea - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/southwark-and-vauxhall-water-company monthly 0.5 2022-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1664729673691-9YFUSTUI9QB2LNB0YZH2/Southwark+and+Vauxhall+Water+Co..jpg Heritage - Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company - Make it stand out Brass plaque of Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, courtesy London Museum of Water and Steam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1664729178978-LZEFY320WAJTWGVQTBWW/Southwark_and_Vauxhall_Water_Works_Reservoirs_1897.jpg Heritage - Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company - Make it stand out Stanford’s map of central London 1898 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1664804974736-0O9BKEQQ62F7KVKT8VIL/Southwark+and+Vauxhall+standpipes.png Heritage - Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company - Make it stand out Waterworks standpipe and chimney, 1914, courtesy London Museum of Water and Steam. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/batterseas-river-crossings monthly 0.5 2022-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1664275699417-KD2W61BV506TA3WAARPR/Battersea+Shield+British+Museum.jpg Heritage - Battersea’s river crossings - Ancient crossings Probably the first bridge across the Thames around London was a wooden Roman one. Excavation work for the foundations for Chelsea Bridge revealed objects of Roman origin, making it very possible that this was where Julius Caesar crossed. Yet there may well have been a much earlier walkway across the Thames near this site. The exciting discovery of the Battersea Shield suggests there was an Iron Age crossing here. This exquisite bronze shield-facing is now held in the British Museum. Battersea Shield, now at the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1664275808851-T47MJH9UJ07YUIX6OIEW/Nocturne+in+blue+and+gold.++James+Whistler%27s+painting+of+Old+Battersea+Bridge.jpg Heritage - Battersea’s river crossings - Make it stand out Nocturne in Blue and Gold. James Whistler’s painting of Old Battersea Bridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1664275754943-VJ1VMK3M0PSQB84NHUFD/Albert+Bridge.jpg Heritage - Battersea’s river crossings - Make it stand out Albert Bridge https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/evelyn-dove-a-tribute-in-black-history-month monthly 0.5 2024-03-10 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/on-this-day-20-september-2021 monthly 0.5 2022-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1663664772186-WCNH2D160RIBOTGKWSMK/BPS+Tube+sign.jpg Heritage - On this day, 20 September 2021 - Make it stand out TFL logo for the new station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1663664839754-ESD020BOFXRJGEAIPRDJ/June+Nine+Elms+walk%2C+Battersea+Park+-+Copy.jpg Heritage - On this day, 20 September 2021 - Make it stand out Approach to the new station https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1663665173679-91HBOTJVZIU3E0IX769R/022+line+of+light.jpg Heritage - On this day, 20 September 2021 - Make it stand out Line of Light Festival https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/on-this-day monthly 0.5 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1663428589355-RVM6EUF6FHWSXC995PB1/Caroline++poster.jpg Heritage - On this day, 16 September 1879 - Make it stand out Caroline Ganley’s winning campaign to become MP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1663428674601-1Z3ZC349JI1H5NA5SCY2/caro-plaque-e1548268992383.jpg Heritage - On this day, 16 September 1879 - There is a Battersea Society plaque honouring this extraordinary woman on her home at 5 Thirsk Road. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/on-this-day-24-august monthly 0.5 2022-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1661276305268-OI4XSLBALHGTDSO19053/Cook+sisters.jpg Heritage - On this day 24 August 1904 - Make it stand out Photo courtesy of the V&A https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/on-this-day-13-august-1919 monthly 0.5 2022-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1660397395008-80KDAMI16U2WRF29KKT3/George+Shearing+13+August.jpg Heritage - On this day 13 August, 1919 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/exploring-the-history-of-the-battersea-barge monthly 0.5 2022-07-18 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/on-this-day-26-june monthly 0.5 2022-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1656254643936-PYUCXJZA5SHCX4BRFENT/NCGM+The+Queen+at+New+Covent+Garden+Market+June+26%2C+1975+compressed.jpg Heritage - On this day… 26 June - Make it stand out Official opening of New Covent Garden Market https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/whistler-and-battersea monthly 0.5 2022-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1651247173011-LA4IZTJBKHLQEBX00KCO/James_Abbot_McNeill_Whistler_006.jpg Heritage - Whistler and Battersea - Make it stand out James McNeil Whistler https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/arch-42 monthly 0.5 2022-04-08 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/the-glorious-albert-bridge monthly 0.5 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1644171019544-3C6CX252FNQLRVWLEZ9M/Mike+Rolls+Albert+Bridge+at+Night.jpg Heritage - The Glorious Albert Bridge - Make it stand out Albert Bridge at night; photograph by Mike Rolls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1644171441182-66IYL64XMSAY6HMW2D0M/Illuminated+colour+of+Albert+Bridge.++Photo+by+Ian+Wylie.jpg Heritage - The Glorious Albert Bridge - Make it stand out Illuminated Albert Bridge; photograph by Ian Wylie https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/batterseas-reach-how-one-extraordinary-woman-fell-in-love-with-our-finest-product monthly 0.5 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1643221516164-9MXGZNETHHQHK9THQ0HS/Lady+Charlotte+Guest+bookcover.jpg Heritage - Battersea’s Reach: How One Extraordinary Woman Fell in Love with our Finest Product - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1643221629898-PAO6PKZSDDVR76512MZ4/Lady+Charlotte+Guest+Mabinogion.jfif Heritage - Battersea’s Reach: How One Extraordinary Woman Fell in Love with our Finest Product - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1643221944567-BQRQ9VZN7S2E719B0FJL/dealer_grahamsmith_highres_1578417560844-6938065844.jpg Heritage - Battersea’s Reach: How One Extraordinary Woman Fell in Love with our Finest Product - Make it stand out Example of a Battersea Enamel snuff box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1643222131494-5BANM3EYH6Z5APCTB3O8/Lady+Charlotte+Schreiber+journal.jpg Heritage - Battersea’s Reach: How One Extraordinary Woman Fell in Love with our Finest Product - Make it stand out Journal of a collector https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/blue-plaques-of-south-battersea monthly 0.5 2022-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1640280800189-P1RK1RP4QRY27MMYAP70/compressed+Lord+Wandsworth+memorial.jpg Heritage - Blue Plaques of South Battersea - There is a blue plaque and stone memorial here to Sydney Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth, JP 1844-1912. Educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Stern was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1874, worked in his father’s merchant bank, Stern Brothers, and was elected Liberal MP for Stowmarket in 1891. In 1895 he was made a peer, served as a Justice of the Peace and was made honorary colonel 4th battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. In 1907 he gave the home and grounds of Ferndale for the establishment of the Home for Aged Jews Nightingale Lane. Unmarried, he left over £1M for the establishment of a new school in Stowmarket, now Lord Wandsworth College, for the children of agricultural workers who lost parents. Memorial to Lord Wandsworth, 105 Nightingale Lane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1640281650021-3QFD07XH6RSWEA89C2RY/064+Blue+Plaque+walk.jpg Heritage - Blue Plaques of South Battersea - Deserving of a plaque are sisters Ida Cook, 1904-1986 and Louise Cook, 1901-1991 who lived at 24 Morella Road. They helped rescue 29 Jews from the Nazis during the 1930s and in 1965 were honoured as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in Israel. The two civil servants became avid opera lovers and began following their favourite performers to the US, Austria and Germany. Ida Cook also became an author, writing 112 romance novels as Mary Burchell for Mills and Boon. Her earnings from the books and their opera-related travels provided the means for the rescue missions. Ida was the second president of the Romantic Novelists Association and in 1950 wrote her autobiography, We Followed Our Stars, later re-edited as Safe Passage. At the former home of Ida and Louise Cook https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/heritage-blog/feeding-london-the-market-gardens-of-battersea monthly 0.5 2021-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1638636420769-B29PDFKU4DIPRWM4YEE2/Map+of+Battersea+Fields.jpg Heritage - Feeding London: The Market Gardens of Battersea - For most of the 17th and 18th centuries at least 300 acres of the area between Nine Elms and Battersea village, known as Battersea Fields, was used to grow cash crops for sale in London markets. This area of market gardens was divided into ‘small-holdings’ of about one acre where the fertile soil and access to the river made it possible to make a good living supplying fruit and vegetables for the growing city. According to a Battersea Parish registration book, by 1695 – 1705 gardeners and labourers were the commonest trades in the area. However, the introduction of the railways made transport of fresh food from farther afield much easier and later the noxious vapours of chemical works and smelting furnaces caused further problems for those that remained. Yet the main reason for the disappearance of the Battersea Market Gardeners by the mid-nineteenth century was probably the higher value of building land, so eventually even the most successful sold up. ‘An ever present whiff of manure’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1638633732142-EHY8M9ECSQLM5T3ZJ5SI/John+Hunt2.jpg Heritage - Feeding London: The Market Gardens of Battersea - Notes by James Theobald, probably around the 1750s, give a positive impression of the successful yield of these market gardens. ‘having plenty of dung, both by water and land, the lands are fruitful beyond most others…the common field, called Battersea Field, is constantly cropped with peas, beans wheat etc., and great numbers of Welshwomen … are employed all the summer season by the gardeners.’ The 18th century botanist Richard Bradley mentioned the Battersea Bean and Battersea Cabbage in his New Improvements of Planting and Gardening. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f0679430-ed9f-4c31-8f94-e14a729e08eb/Youth+Mayor+Millie+Quinn+and+Mayor+Cllr+Sana+Jafri+with+Jeanne+Rathbone.jpg Community - Wandsworth Civic Award for Jeanne Rathbone - Make it stand out Youth Mayor Millie Quinn and Mayor Cllr Sana Jafri with Jeanne Rathbone https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/community-blog/battersea-hustings monthly 0.5 2024-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/f65a87d0-cf0c-4080-bf02-f8165838825c/GEH1+comp.jpg Community - Battersea Hustings - Make it stand out Stephen Taylor, chair; the candidates; Michael Jubb, Battersea Society chair https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a1976c2d-7ffb-4521-ad5e-6e3d238d1e21/GEH8+comp.jpg Community - Battersea Hustings - Make it stand out The candidates, L-R: Marsha de Cordova, Labour; Joe Taylor, Green party; Tom Pridham, Conservative party; Francis Chubb, Liberal Democrats; Barry Edwards, Reform UK; Tom Meek, representing Rejoin EU; Dan Smith, Worker’s Party of Britain https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/community-blog/st-johns-hill-festival monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/45caaa42-45e8-4d36-a8c8-24877b54a17c/St.+John%27s+Hill+Festival%2C+11+May+2024.jpg Community - St. John’s Hill Festival - Make it stand out Battersea Society stall at the St. John’s Hill Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/2abce561-4cf6-477d-8188-2c8b7bdc16d6/St.+John%27s+Hill+Festival.jpg Community - St. John’s Hill Festival - Make it stand out Enticement for the Maverick Bar Company https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/a7303879-02bd-44bc-a0a5-fb7673e75187/St.+John%27s+Hill+Batman.jpg Community - St. John’s Hill Festival - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/community-blog/early-may-battersea-f5ab9 monthly 0.5 2024-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1714833254817-VOP3GAR66BYH1H0GQHHX/Battersea+High+Street+bin.jpg Community - Early May, Battersea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1714833254313-852CBXM7QWGCY7IWDN9Q/Battersea+High+Street+bollard.jpg Community - Early May, Battersea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1714833256574-0NKH45H2WLJ327IPUTF8/Battersea+High+Street+security+door.jpg Community - Early May, Battersea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1714833608848-DH27U6IK7WGJFVUGGAS9/Northcote+Road+wagtail.jpg Community - Early May, Battersea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1714833623831-2WY2M8J3LJM3P39W9SDX/Wandsworth+Common+heron.jpg Community - Early May, Battersea https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/community-blog/battersea-question-time monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/dd2071e3-b631-44ce-a8da-32bbcc2c7511/BatHust5.jpg Community - Battersea Question Time - Make it stand out Sue Bixley, LD; Leonie Cooper, Lab; Julia Bott, co-chair; Eleanor Cox, Cons; Pippa Maslin, Greens. Photo by Mark Hodgkinson https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/community-blog/3ika36kop5jj7t7sh2ifwgvmrersgu monthly 0.5 2023-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/dd6cde1e-f530-4832-b15e-6180a1ea91f6/One+Clapham+Peabody+-+602x800.jpg Community - Battersea denied - Make it stand out Signage on St. John’s Hill for the new building https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/community-blog/new-neighbourhood-get-togethers monthly 0.5 2023-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/65039e0c-e832-4e31-beed-cd67bd0140cd/compressed+Battersea+map+with+Northcote+focus.jpg Community - New: Neighbourhood Get-togethers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/community-blog/shillington-park-festival monthly 0.5 2023-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/ca2e6e56-6dd3-4cbc-b39e-01a700ce595b/compressed+Shillington+Park+9+September+2023.jpg Community - Shillington Park Festival - Make it stand out Battersea Society at Shillington Park Festival https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/community-blog/blog-post-title-one-8ezrz monthly 0.5 2023-11-21 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/community-blog/category/Community+Committee monthly 0.5 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/community-blog/tag/%23Borough+of+Culture monthly 0.5 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/community-blog/tag/%23Wandsworth monthly 0.5 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/community-blog/tag/%23Battersea monthly 0.5 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/blog-1 daily 0.75 2022-06-19 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/blog-1/battersea-society-trustees-role monthly 0.5 2022-06-19 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/blog-1/clapham-junction-grot-spot-blooms-pmzdp monthly 0.5 2022-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1652439907396-LC5TSROXZ0W8F6FCG27F/Falcon+Rd+Festival+2019.jpg Who We Are - The Life of a Battersea Society Trustee… highlights and hairy bits! - Make it stand out On the left, Sue at Falcon Road festival, 2019; on the right, new trustee Jenny Boehm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/1652439960709-NLRPBMM9VBSHITF39UV0/Sara+and+Maureen+2019.JPG Who We Are - The Life of a Battersea Society Trustee… highlights and hairy bits! - Make it stand out Maureen Larkin on the left, with Sara in 2019 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/blog-1/category/Who+We+Are monthly 0.5 https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/home daily 1.0 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/7420dbd7-37dc-461c-8f92-e34f0550429e/71-Battersea-Park-Road.jpg Home - WHO ARE WE? Battersea Society members are local residents and former residents, businesses and even visitors who fell in love with this vibrant part of South West London. Through our work we investigate and honour Battersea’s rich heritage, promote and protect our open spaces, and ensure community is at the heart of development across the historic borough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/97054e35-ed9c-4814-83e3-2b9463a39bae/TBS-GROUPMember.jpg Home - A Part of the Community Like the bee which once pollinated the area’s lavender fields, we are part of a thriving community of local organisations working across Battersea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/223d949d-6696-4a27-84de-b65b7ae2d982/WorldHeart-Beat-Happy-Street-SQ.jpg Home - Do You Love Battersea… By becoming a member you will not only receive our quarterly magazine, Battersea Matters, and invitations to our talks and events, you’ll also join a community of likeminded people celebrating a great place to live and work. https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/vision-mission-values daily 0.75 2026-03-28 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https://www.batterseasociety.org.uk/battersea-matters daily 0.75 2025-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/71616512-0f64-45e1-b223-7b2eb8b7efff/01spring2021.jpg Battersea Matters SPRING 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/e8c9d219-678d-46c2-9dfc-e1cf91fbe02a/thumbnail_BM_AUTUMN_25_FINAL_WEB_p1+copy.jpg Battersea Matters Autumn 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/0d46f338-307f-48fc-b7f3-296a94a6c7c6/02summer2020.jpg Battersea Matters SUMMER 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/8bc4b2fd-f8ed-48ab-b2d6-20c50c7d346a/01spring2020.jpg Battersea Matters SPRING 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff72e7918e1c634fbaf9027/fcb0d2f1-951b-418e-a518-b40e3b1a5106/02summer2021.jpg Battersea Matters SUMMER 2021 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