LJ4D - Loughborough Junction's built history

22/03/2026

A look at a short sequence filmed on Shakespeare Road in 1965, when it still ran alongside the Herne Hill railway sidings.

Currently available to watch (for free if you sign up for an account) on Talking Pictures TV’s streaming site is a short film called “One for the Road”. This is part of a series …

15/01/2026

The Padfield Road corner: Part 2

Part 1 covered the history of Padfield Road (outlined in green above) in general. This post will look at the triangular site (outlined in red above) that sits on the corner specifically. This small site, having quietly spent centuries as a piece of pastoral or farmed ground, entered a period of quite intense turmoil in the 1860s. In that sense it's a kind of microcosm of Loughborough Junction in general. Serious development came first with the construction of Wanless Road, and the houses along its north side, two or three of which would have been at least partially within the site....

Part 1 covered the history of Padfield Road (outlined in green above) in general. This post will look at the triangular site (outlined in red above) that sits on the corner specifically. This smal…

08/01/2026

The quite complicated history of how Padfield Road came to be.

In October 2025 demolition work began on the building on the corner where Padfield Road turns at a right angle to go under the railway bridge. This quite characterful building had a number of sign…

05/10/2025

A close look at a painting of Loughborough Junction in the 1950s.

I have shared images of this painting before, but in the meantime its original creator kindly sent me a good quality print of it, which means I can now show it in a bit more detail. The painting d…

04/10/2025

A look at some of the details that survive from Loughborough Junction station's 1925 rebuild.

10/07/2025

Loughborough Junction station (in its current form) is 100 years old this weekend! I have written a bit about it here -

The advert above was placed in the “Camberwell and Peckham Times” 100 years ago on the 11th of July 1925, by the Southern railway company. It advertises a major change to services acro…

01/03/2025

At the link below - some photos taken yesterday from the top of the "Higgs Yard" tower in the middle of Loughborough Junction. The view is as impressive as you might expect.

Yesterday I was kindly allowed up to the roof terrace on the top of the Higgs Yard tower. Here are some photos of a very familiar area, from an unfamiliar angle. You can click on the images to enl…

24/02/2025

I've written a bit about some recently discovered images showing the aftermath of a WW2 bomb strike at Loughborough Junction station.

For some time I have wondered why, visible here at the end of Rathgar Road, there is this concrete-framed structure inserted into the viaduct underneath Loughborough Junction station: Looking towa…

24/01/2025

A planning application has gone in for the refurbishment of the decaying "stable block" in Ruskin Park.

Amongst the trees in the south-eastern corner of Ruskin Park is the “stable block” – a building that has been left unused and decaying for the past fifteen years or so. The Ruski…

21/01/2025

At the weekend Coldharbour Lane was closed to allow the delivery of a "Supergrid Transformer" for the National Grid. I've written a bit about this and the history of Loughborough Junction's Bengeworth Road power station.

This weekend, the 18th/19th January 2025, a section of Coldharbour Lane was closed to traffic. This was to allow the delivery of a large electrical transformer unit to the National Grid substation…

14/01/2025

A look at the south end of Loughborough Road, as it was in 1910 and 1960.

Another image that has recently appeared on Lambeth Landmark – a view down Loughborough Road in 1960. This photograph is taken soon after the construction of the Loughborough Estate – …

10/01/2025

Coldharbour Lane in the 1980s - and a bit about what might be one of Loughborough Junction's oldest surviving houses.

Image from Lambeth Landmark This image, taken in 1980 was recently added to the Lambeth Landmark website. It shows the row of shops opposite what is now the Tesco supermarket on Coldharbour Lane. …