Camberwell Road

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The Camberwell Road is a street in the London district of Camberwell in the district of Southwark .

location

The road begins in the north, where it forms the "continuation" of Walworth Road in a southerly direction and ends in the south at Peckham Road , where it continues through Denmark Hill in a southerly direction. The entire north-south connection (with Walworth Road, Camberwell Road and Denmark Hill) is part of the A215.

history

The first houses in the street, which at that time was still rural, were built around 1776 where the numbers 33 to 45 and 79 to 85 are today. In 1779, the physicist and philanthropist John Coakley Lettsom built a plot of land at the coveted and higher-lying southern end of the street, which he lived in until 1810.

When the traffic routes across the Thames to central London were improved and bridges built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries , the tree-lined Camberwell Road became a sought-after residential address.

During the 19th century, Camberwell Road developed as part of the A215 into one of the most important thoroughfares and at the same time one of the best shopping opportunities in the entire city of London. At that time the street was already populated predominantly by the lower middle class, workers and poor.

Nevertheless, the social researcher Charles Booth was able to establish in 1891 that “there is no great poverty among the working class and almost everyone is in work.” In addition, the level of education in the district was gratifyingly high.

At the beginning of the 20th century the general level of the street, where violence and drunkenness had long been the order of the day, gradually went downhill until it started to trend upwards again in the late 1960s, with Camberwell Road now on the rise again coveted addresses in London.

Representing the development of many cities is the statement of a long-time resident of Camberwell Road, who regrets that the next generation will hardly have the opportunity to buy a magnificent house like his and to lovingly restore it: “There is nowhere in London There is still the possibility of someone starting their career, in the arts or in some other field, going down some street and looking after an empty house that needs care, to buy it at a reasonable price and live there for many years . I think those times are over. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , BBC Books, London 2013, p. 300. ISBN 978 1 849 90451 3
  2. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 299
  3. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 305
  4. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 312f
  5. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 315f
  6. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 323
  7. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 327
  8. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 337f

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '52.9 "  N , 0 ° 5' 39.8"  W.