Comments on: Shaftesbury Park Estate – Battersea

By: Melanie Backe-Hansen

Melanie Backe-Hansen — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:21:00 +0000

Hi Anna
Your question is an interesting one and perhaps a little difficult to answer in a blog response. I can tell you that within the Shaftesbury Park Estate there were four types of houses built. The four ‘classes’ of house were primarily divided by the number of rooms provided, although the first class house was the only one to have an inside toilet. Brassey Square was originally designed to be an open park, but it was built over within a few years. The original plans show it as a park, but the 1896 Ordnance Survey map shows Brassey Square had already been built over with new houses. Thanks again for your comment – I hope my response is helpful

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:16:02 +0000

I would like to know what the styles of the houses meant ‘class wise’ I live in one of the first houses built at the entrance of the estate so more of a house than a cottage. And what was the building on Brassey Square built for?

By: Melanie Backe-Hansen

Melanie Backe-Hansen — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:31:50 +0000

Hi there
Thanks for your comment. Tracking down historic images can be rather tricky, but I would suggest the local studies library or the Wandsworth Museum first. However, they often have a limited collection, so you may need to try further afield, such as the london Metropolitan Archives or The London Museum or an image provider such as Getty.

I hope that helps a little in your search!
Thanks,
Melanie

By: lou jordan

lou jordan — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:08:57 +0000

I currently live on this estate and am trying to look for photos of ‘old battersea’ for hanging. Do you know where would be a good place to look?

By: Dave George

Dave George — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:59:53 +0000

One of the chairmen of the Artizans dwellign company was dr John Baxter Langley a notorious radical, who reported on the Burradon mining disaster, the Irish famine, and was first over the railings at the Hyde park riots in the 1800′s. He wa also a founding member of the Reform League and a compatriot of Josephine Butler’s anti-contagious diseases acts campaign (which attacked the civil rights of suspected prostitutes). Basically an all round good bloke.

By: Melanie Backe-Hansen

Melanie Backe-Hansen — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:58:54 +0000

Hi Kirsten

Thank you for your message. However, I’m not aware of any Tudor buildings in Battersea, so this could be a little tricky. In terms of ‘Tudor-style’, the most common imitation of the Tudor style that you’ll be likely to see in Battersea is ‘Mock-Tudor’, which isn’t quite right for teaching about the Tudors.

Obviously, the best examples are Hampton Court Palace or Eltham Palace, but neither are in walking distance of Battersea. I’m sorry I can’t be of more help, but it’s difficult to find a Tudor building in central London that isn’t a royal palace.

All the best – Tudor history is one of the most fun and interesting periods to learn about!

Kind regards,

Melanie

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:49:36 +0000

Hi
I wonder if you could be of any help to me. I am a teacher at a small school in Battersea, just off Battersea Park. In the next school year my class of 6 will be learning about Henry the VIII and the Tudors. Do you know if there are and Tudor style buildings in the area, somewhere within walking distance, that we could go and visit. Even if it is only to look at the outside structure.
Thanks!

By: Sue Smith

Sue Smith — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:25:03 +0000

I am very interested to learn more about the Shaftesbury Estate, Battersea as I have been researching my family tree. I was born in Birley Street, so was my father. His Aunts also lived in the road and I have recently discovered my Great Grandparents also lived there!
Any further information would be gratefully received.
Thanks!
Sue Smith

By: Roy Grant

Roy Grant — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:39:46 +0000

Dear sir
I have in my possession the actual indenture from 1879 from the Artizan, Labourers and General Dwellings Company Ltd.,” to Robert Wainer Esquire of Cripplegate and Others, for part of this estate. It is on waxed parchment and has 10 x A3 sized pages, written on both sides (making 20 sides of written text) and includes an accompanying plan showing the properties in Eversleigh Road, Holden Street, Ashbury Road, Birley Street, Tyneham Road, Morrison Street and Brassey Square. The signed Indenture has official seals and lists some 50 owners and the quarterly or monthly repayments they were making. I believe this could be worth a significant sum to a collector who has a local interest.
Roy Grant