Leisure Centre / Morden

GT3 Architects, 2018. On the edge of Morden Park, includes 2 pools and sports facilities. Morden, London Borough of Merton. 

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Waterwheel / Bourne Hall

Grade II listed waterwheel under flint arch. Origins in the C19, when it was used to pump water to greenhouses belonging to Garbrand Hall (later renamed Bourne Hall). Ewell, Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK. 

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St Mary Ewell / Church Hall

Built 1894 in a vernacular style with some Tudor Revival, using red brick and cross-gabled clay tiled roof. Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK.

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St Mary / Ewell

Rebuild architect: Henry Clutton, 1848, in a Gothic Revival style using coursed Swanage limestone rubble. Castellated tower with corner pinnacles. Grade II listed. Church of St Mary the Virgin, Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK.

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Wall Bourne Hall / II

Architects: A. G. Sheppard Fidler and Associates, 1970, included in the Grade II listing. Cast-concrete openwork wall surrounds a children's play area outside the junior library. Bourne Hall, Ewell, Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK.

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Openwork Wall / Bourne Hall

Architects: A. G. Sheppard Fidler and Associates, 1970, included in the Grade II listing. Modernist wall surrounds a children's play area outside the junior library. Bourne Hall, Ewell, Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK. 

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Bourne Hall / II

 

Architects: A. G. Sheppard Fidler and Associates, 1970, Grade II listed. Library and social centre in a modern style on the site of the former Garbrand Hall. Reinforced and pre-cast concrete with aluminium windows, slate copings and mosaic cladding. Copper dome (not visible here). Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK. 

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Bourne Hall / Ewell

Architects: A. G. Sheppard Fidler and Associates, 1970, Grade II listed. Library and social centre in a modern style on the site of the former Garbrand Hall. Reinforced and pre-cast concrete with aluminium windows, slate copings and mosaic cladding. Copper dome (not visible here). Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK. 

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Bourne Hall / Arch

Known as Dog Gate, arched entrance to Bourne Hall gardens built early C19 (possibly late C18) of stucco-rendered masonry. Sponsored by Thomas Hercey Barritt, owner of a Jamaican sugar plantation and the Ewell mansion then known as Garbrand Hall. The talbot dog is from the family coat-of-arms. Grade II listed. Ewell High Street, Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK. 

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26 High Street / Ewell

Grade II listed, C17 — possibly earlier — timber-framed house. Mathematical tile (brick slips) cladding in C18. Weatherboarding to rear. The shop's past history was as a bakery. Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK.

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St Margaret of Scotland / SM5

Architect: Fr Cyril Elkington ‘with professional advisers’ (parish guide), 1978-81. London Borough of Sutton. 

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Clock Turret / SM4

Timber bell-tower incorporating a clock and a weather-vane with fish pointer. On entrance to Morden Hall's stable yard which was refurbished c.2010 (Cowper Griffith Architects LLP). The design remains relatively unchanged since Victorian times. London Borough of Merton. 

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Signal Box / SM4

Signal cabin built 1926 as part of the new Morden Station. It sits next to the tunnel portals from where points and signals were originally operated. I think this operation was automated in the 1960s so not sure of its current purpose. In recent years given this checkered over-cladding. London Borough of Merton.

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Endecotts / II

Corner detail of a 1930s modern style factory occupied by Endecotts since 1959. London Borough of Merton. 

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Screencraft / SW19

1930s light-industrial Modern Movement. 17 Lombard Rd., London Borough of Merton. 

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Heritage Park / SW17

Built late 1990s by Fairview Homes on the site of the former Tooting Bec Hospital. London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Tooting Bec Station / SW17

Architect: Charles Holden, 1926, in the Modern style using Portland stone cladding. Grade II listed. London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Colour House / SW19

Named from when this was a textile printing works owned by Liberty & Co. Built of brick and flint in 1742 according to the Grade II listing, but a notice outside claims medieval origins. Perhaps it was once part of the Merton Abbey precinct. Now a children's theatre. London Borough of Merton.

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Clock Turret / SW19

 

Apex of the bandstand at Merton Abbey Mills. London Borough of Merton. 

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Mizen Heights / SW19

Architects: Hunters, c.2017, for Quadrant Construction (now L&Q). 54 flats, ground floor retail and basement parking. Colliers Wood, London Borough of Merton. 

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Morris & Co / Plaque

Plaque commemorating the site of William Morris's workshops where textile weaving, printing and other Arts & Crafts production took place. These buildings, next to Merton High Street, did not survive WW2. London Borough of Merton. 

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Britannia Point / II

A previously dour and disliked 1966 office tower by Ronald Lyon Holdings repurposed into 182 residential flats. Architects: KDS Associates for Criterion Capital, 2017. Now less overbearing with its new glazed curtain wall. Colliers Wood, London Borough of Merton. 

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Merton Bus Garage / SW19

Built 1913 for the then London General Omnibus Company. Checking on a map it appears to be about 200m deep including the maintenance sheds. 18 Merton High St, Colliers Wood, London Borough of Merton. 

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Christ Church / SW19

Architects: F.J. Francis and H. Francis, 1874, in a Gothic revival style. Constructed of London stock brick, Bath stone dressings, slate roof and shingle spire. Restoration completed 1953 after WW2 bomb damage (V1 doodlebug). Unlisted. Colliers Wood, London Borough of Merton.

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Bandstand / Merton Abbey Mills

Cast-iron or steel columns with Corinthian capitals supporting a square hipped roof. Central clock turret with second small pantiled roof. A relative latecomer to the area, erected c.1990 when the Merton Abbey Mills heritage site was opened. London Borough of Merton. 

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Memorial Fountain / SW19

Grade II listed drinking fountain, 1907. Portland stone with Ionic columns and urn finial. Installed to mark the opening of Wandle Park and as a memorial to John Feeney. Colliers Wood, London Borough of Merton.

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Istanbul Meze Mangal / SW19

Formerly the Royal Six Bells public house, appearing in directories back to c.1878. Merton Memories Photographic Archive says that an earlier pub on this site was demolished in 1855 so the Lambeth Water Company could lay water mains. Locally listed, now a Turkish Restaurant. 222 High Street, Colliers Wood, London Borough of Merton. 

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Britannia Point / SW19

A previously dour and disliked 1966 office tower by Ronald Lyon Holdings repurposed into 182 residential flats. Architects: KDS Associates for Criterion Capital, 2017. Now less overbearing with its new glazed curtain wall. Colliers Wood, London Borough of Merton. 

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My AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8

Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.8 lens bought in 1998 for 35mm film camera but still fine for current FX DSLRs.

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Colliers Wood Station / SW19

Architect: Charles Holden, 1926, in the Modern style using Portland stone cladding. Grade II listed. London Borough of Merton. 

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