EAW049385 ENGLAND (1953). Battersea Gas Holder Station, Power Station and environs, Nine Elms, 1953

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home

Watney Combe Reid Brewery. Known as the Stag or Pimlico Brewery, it closed in 1959.

Former GWR Pannier Tank. The goods depot here was a GWR one pre-British Railways.

Victoria Dwellings. Known locally as "The Dwellings"

Roydon Street (renamed Southolm Street after the demolition of streets north of the viaduct)

Roydon Street

Southolm Street

Goding Street prefabs, Uni-Seco Mk3 type

St Mary's RC Primary School

4 COR [corridor] leads a 12 car formation. Built for the Portsmouth line, known (obviously) as Pompey stock, but nicknamed 'Nelsons' because the non drivers side across the corridor connection held the route number, thus making it look one eyed.

Line to Stewarts Lane Depot. Loco shed and carriage sidings for the Chatham lines.

South London Line running from Victoria round to London Bridge. Part of the Brighton.

Chatham lines running into Victoria. Originally London Chatham & Dover Railway which merged with rival company South Eastern Railway in the 1890's to form the London South Eastern Railway. Under the Southern Railway known as the Chatham lines but under British Railways became the Eastern Section of the Southern Region.

Brighton Line running into Victoria. Originally London Brighton & South Coast Railway. At the grouping of 1923 it became the Brighton line of the Southern Railway, and under British Railways the Brighton Section.

SR South Western route into Waterloo. Originally LSWR [London & South Western Railway], Then Southern Railway Western Lines, and finally Southern Region BR Western Section.

Battersea Park Station

Loyal sign celebrating the coronation of Elizabeth the second that year.

Battersea Wharf

Battersea Park station on the line between Victoria and Clapham Junction

Queens Road station on the ex-LSWR line to Waterloo

Chelsea Embankment

Westminster Cathedral

Victoria Railway Station

Battersea Park

Railway Bridge

Chelsea Bridge

Battersea Power Station