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Tag: named after councillor/council employee

Whitlock Drive, SW19

5 April 2025 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Edward Whitlock (January 18, 1885 – 1969) was a popular and hardworking Alderman of Wandsworth Council. A director…

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Filed under: named after councillor/council employee, Putney, Wandsworth, West Hill

Thrupp Close, CR4

22 February 2025 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Miss Barbara Thrupp was the energetic former Mitcham Council housing manager who devoted her life to local authority…

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Filed under: Figge's Marsh, Merton, Mitcham, Mitcham and Morden, named after councillor/council employee, streets named after women

Lidiard Road, SW18

27 October 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name John Lidiard (1835 – March 20, 1917), was the first Mayor of Wandsworth, with his term of office…

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Filed under: named after councillor/council employee, Openview Estate, streets named after Conservatives, streets named after Tories, Wandsworth, Wandsworth and Merton, Wandsworth Common

Dawnay Road, SW18

4 October 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald Davis Dawnay (1842 -April 23, 1919) served as mayor of Wandsworth no fewer than 11…

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Filed under: Earlsfield, named after councillor/council employee, Openview Estate, social history, social housing, Wandsworth, Wandsworth Common

Bathgate Road, SW19

25 September 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Originally called New Park Road, to distinguish it from Old Park, it was later renamed sometime in the…

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Filed under: Conservative, Merton, name change, named after councillor/council employee, Scotland, Southfields, Village, Wimbledon

Coll’s Road, SE15

29 October 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Benjamin Colls (November 4, 1813 – August 25, 1878), was a painter and director who founded the building…

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Filed under: named after councillor/council employee, Nunhead and Queen's Road, Peckham, Southwark, streets named after businesses

Evan Cook Close, SE15

28 October 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Evan Cook (1865 – September 24, 1947) was born into a working class family in Greenwich but by…

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Filed under: named after councillor/council employee, Nunhead and Queen's Road, Peckham, Southwark, streets named after businesses

Furlong Road, N7

29 August 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place name Originally Albion Road when it was laid out around 1839. John Spencer Furlong (died in 1895) of 16…

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Filed under: Highbury, Islington, named after councillor/council employee

Mohmmad Kahn Road, E11

27 August 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Previously called Edgecombe Road as part of an alphabetical sequence – Aylmer Road, Barfield Road, Carlton Road, Dacre…

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Filed under: Asian, Bushwood, Leytonstone, Muslim, name change, named after councillor/council employee, Waltham Forest

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