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formerly a Chrysler dealership

Now the "Underground Tunnelling Academy" which teaches the skills needed for railway workers to work below ground

From 1902 this triangle was known as "Little Ilford Sidings" and was used to store the Metropolitan District Railway stock when that line was extended to East Ham that year.

best place

This school closed and after a rebuild became an academy called City of London Academy Islington.

Sadly this shop is closing down after the owner wants to turn the flats into bedsits for the local eastern european immigrant population whilst at the same time putting the shop on rental for another Polish Delicatesan

this relatively well placed and linked borough on the river with major overground rail links. The borough's name comes from the name recorded in the Domesday book of 1066, Patricsey, and probably means Isle of Patrick (Badric) and was called such because of the early christian chapel built on the site of the current St.Mary's near Battersea bridge, which may have also been built on an early pagan site. It was once at the heart of the industrial revolution, some of the earliest horse powered railways were in use along the Wandle River, also industrialized. The current riverside docks of the Lambeth dump and Battersea Power station, now under Wandsworth management are all that remains of this industrial town west of early Victorian London that stretched from Vauxhall to Wandsworth Town, and brought entrepreneurs, laborers and skilled business classes to this area from all over Europe. It has been turned from a social, varied and forward thinking independent borough and member of Greater London, into a service stripped, class divided property and land development area for Chelsea wanna-be's, City-boys, and Yummy Mummy's. The native and migrant population (mostly working class but a genuine mix) are kept mostly to housing estates and rented accommodation as the lack of proper investment into health, education and social services have produced an ever decreasing amount of clear minded young adults, and an ever increasing price of living, with diminishing returns of investment for living in the area.

This was formerly Victoria Park Cemetery.

A private company opened Victoria Park cemetery in 1845 on 11½ a. of the Butler estate near the Regent's canal. In 1846 a superintendent's house and a small mortuary chapel by Arthur Ashpitel were built by its entrance at the western end. By 1856 burials were at the rate of 130 every Sunday and there were complaints about the cemetery, which was never consecrated. After closure in 1876 the neglected ground was used by ruffians for prostitution . The Disused Burial Grounds Act, 1884, prevented building on the site, which in 1885 became a recreation ground. Metropolitan Public Gardens Association most important acquisition in Bethnal Green was Victoria Park cemetery, whose freehold the Revd. Y. B. M. Butler agreed to hand over in 1891. It was conveyed to the L.C.C. and in 1894 re-conveyed to the association which had carried out the conversion. The tombstones were set against the wall and the converted cemetery opened in 1894 as Meath Gardens, named after the association's chairman. Also, once known as The Diary of Mary Countess of Meath.

still there

Great atmosphere and exception coffee in a relaxed and local setting

You might want to try the Southwark Local History Library: http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200161/local_history_library

does anyone have history on the area ?

"It's a cool place" ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfits_(TV_series)

London HQ of Google

Built in 1905.

I guess this is not a district.

The polygon attached to this page bears no relationship whatsoever to the boundary of (Greater) London, which instead contains all 31 Boroughs plus the Cities of London & Westminster, it is much much too small. But neither does it bear any relation to the far smaller area commonly termed 'Central London' instead, which has its own separate polygon in any event. It bears some relationship to the postal area of inner London covered by 'compass point' London postcodes and that's it. Mapping UK locations according to such 'postcode' criterion is directly contrary to the unanimous consensus of the WM community as concluded at the following forum thread: http://wikimapia.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8629 Now that there has been some increase in the maximum size of polygons which we ordinary WMians are allowed to produce, then if the AUs were prepared to unlock/unprotect this polygon (and especially if Admins were equally prepared to unrestrict the number of polygon points permitted) I'd be quite happy to have a go at making the WM Polygon for this place, as famous and important as this is, a great deal more accurate than it is at present.