Place Name Industrial heritage. In 1907 a German company formed the Tandem Smelting Syndicate, setting up close to the railway…
Place Name This is a private road that was once the back garden to the Jacobean building Eagle House. It…
Place Name A large brewery – featured on Nicolas Lane’s map of the area from 1636 – stood to the…
Place Name Laid out in the 1890s it is named after John Smeaton (June 8, 1724 – October 28, 1792),…
Place Name Industrial heritage. The name recalls the Wandsworth Flock Company, described in a Post Office directory of 1870 as…
Place Name Industrial heritage. Despite its unpromising boggy ground this small corner of Wandsworth sitting at the mouth of the…
Place Name Dunt’s Hill was first recorded in the 17thCentury and later became the site of Duntshill Mills calico printing…
Place Name Stanford’s map of 1864 clearly shows how marshy and wet the Wandle Delta used to be. North of…
Place Name Although not featured on any Ordnance Survey map this was originally Brickfield Lane, a clue to its industrial…
Place Name Industrial heritage. A mill is said to have stood on the spot from 1782, when George Ansell, a…