EAW001424 ENGLAND (1946). The Gas Light and Coke Co Gas Works, Nine Elms, 1946

Shop used for external shots in Happy Family film 1952

Ponton Road Remand Centre. Previously Ponton Road School which was opened by the London School Board in 1885. The top floors became a Day Industrial School in 1902 when it was taken over from the School Board for London in 1904. The Infants’ School remained on the ground floor. In 1912 it was adapted as a remand home to replace Camberwell Green Remand Home. It was used for girls and young boys until December 1929 after which only boys were sent there. It was finally closed in 1936.

Mill Pond Wharf (aka Mill Pond Bridge Wharf)

Location of A.H. Lavers Ltd., bricks, lime, cement & whiting works in 1906.

LCC Pumping Station

Modelcraft Ltd

One of several WWII shelters in the area, stil present in 1946

Meux's Brewery Co Ltd, Horsehoe Brewery, 41 Nine Elms Lane, Vauxhall. Brewery purchased in 1841 by John Mills Thorne and eventually names Thorne Brothers Ltd. Taken over my Meux Brewery Co in 1914. Closed 1964.

Tram, it's trolley poles are down as it is drawing power from the under road "conduit" system. This link explains. http://dewi.ca/trains/conduit/ploughs.html

The Crown public house, Currie St.

Vauxhall Station on the line to Waterloo.

Vauxhall Station on the line to Waterloo.

Original Nine Elms terminus of the London and South Western Railway before the construction of the line to Waterloo.

Hovis Bakery

Dolphin Square

Pimlico works of the London Hydraulic Power Company

As per the 3-storey building to the right, this one says "T & W Farmiloe Ltd".

Lettering says "T&W Farmiloe PAINT WORKS"

Roof apex lettering says "PUBLIC BATHS & WASH HOUSES".

The lettering says "Gas Light and Coke Company".

A petrol station? It looks like a recent construction. The Church of St George sits opposite.

Vauxhall Bridge

Lambeth Palace and Grounds

Lambeth Bridge

Millbank Bridge Built c1940 as insurance against damage to Vauxhall or Lambeth Bridges Dismantled 1948