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Close-up of the plaque on [[2640918]]. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Leno for more details about the Victorian English music hall comedian, whose 1880s act typically revolved around Cockney humour.
©David Anstiss
Dist:0.1km<br/>This pair of houses is on the junction of Mostyn Road and Akerman Road. On the yellow stock brick house (No 56) is a blue plaque. See [[2640944]].
©David Anstiss
Dist:0.1km<br/>Passing through Mostyn Gardens, from Mostyn Road.
©David Anstiss
Dist:0.1km<br/>As seen from Mostyn Road. In the background is the spire of [[1346968]].
©David Anstiss
Dist:0.2km<br/>On the junction of Mostyn Road (on the left) and St Lawrence Way (on the right).
©David Anstiss
Dist:0.2km<br/>Board Schools are usually very impressive buildings and Charles Edward Brooke Girls' School with its twin towers and spires is no exception. The school dates from 1897 when it was built for the London School Board and overlooks Myatts Fields Park. It is part of the Minet Estate. The Minet Estate was built up from the 1870s onwards and the Minet family provided a number of amenities, including the Minet Library and gave the site for Myatts Fields. The Minets were originally French Huguenots and the name Minet means little cat or kitten in French. A little cat was included in many of the buildings when the area was developed by the Minet family. The school will be changing its name to Saint Gabriel's College in September 2012, when it becomes co-educational. St Gabriel's College next door to the school in Cormont Road was the First London General Hospital. It was installed in August 1914 when the College emptied of young male students who had enlisted to fight in the war. The interesting history of the hospital and school can be read at http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/firstlondon.html
©Ian Yarham
Dist:0.2km<br/>Board Schools are usually very impressive buildings and Charles Edward Brooke Girls' School with its twin towers and spires is no exception. The school dates from 1897 when it was built for the London School Board and overlooks Myatts Fields Park, from which it is seen in this photograph. It is part of the Minet Estate. The Minet Estate was built up from the 1870s onwards and the Minet family provided a number of amenities, including the Minet Library and gave the site for Myatts Fields. The Minets were originally French Huguenots and the name Minet means little cat or kitten in French. A little cat was included in many of the buildings when the area was developed by the Minet family. The school will be changing its name to Saint Gabriel's College in September 2012, when it becomes co-educational. St Gabriel's College next door to the school in Cormont Road was the First London General Hospital. It was installed in August 1914 when the College emptied of young male students who had enlisted to fight in the war. The interesting history of the hospital and school can be read at http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/firstlondon.html
©Ian Yarham
Dist:0.2km<br/>Board Schools are usually very impressive buildings and Charles Edward Brooke Girls' School with its twin towers and spires is no exception. It is seen here looking across the Nature Conservation Area in Myatts Fields Park. The school dates from 1897 when it was built for the London School Board. It is part of the Minet Estate. The Minet Estate was built up from the 1870s onwards and the Minet family provided a number of amenities, including the Minet Library and gave the site for Myatts Fields. The Minets were originally French Huguenots and the name Minet means little cat or kitten in French. A little cat was included in many of the buildings when the area was developed by the Minet family. The school will be changing its name to Saint Gabriel's College in September 2012, when it becomes co-educational. St Gabriel's College next door to the school in Cormont Road was the First London General Hospital. It was installed in August 1914 when the College emptied of young male students who had enlisted to fight in the war. The interesting history of the hospital and school can be read at http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/firstlondon.html
©Ian Yarham
Dist:0.2km<br/>Home to the Lambeth Archives, the Minet Library replaced the original 1890 building given by William Minet which was bombed in the second world war. Minet also donated his personal collection of Surrey archives which now forms the core of the Lambeth Archives housed inside. (source: http://www.urban75.org/brixton/features/myatts-fields.html)
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.2km<br/>The architecture of the Longfield Hall apparently matched that of the original Minet Library whose replacement stands across the road [[1501493]].
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.2km<br/>The date as well as the road name is on a stone built into the house on the corner.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.2km<br/>A girls' school on Cormont Road, Camberwell.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.2km<br/>A splendid 1950s building, capturing that optimistic moment of welfare state modernism.
©Christopher Hilton
Dist:0.2km<br/>A splendid 1950s building, capturing that optimistic moment of welfare state modernism.
©Christopher Hilton
Dist:0.2km<br/>A splendid 1950s building, capturing that optimistic moment of welfare state modernism.
©Christopher Hilton

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