The Grove Vale urinal

[edhistory]

This is the only decent photo I've seen.

It's now a block of flats.

John K

[KidKruger]

Good to see the post box was there, almost the only recognisable feature, besides the bridge/station buildings.

[ratty]

Any idea what year this was taken?

[Jeremy]

Great photo.

Judging by the routemaster bus and the man in a bowler hat, I'd say 1955-1965. I'm sure John could be more specific.

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[Jeremy]

OK, I didn't realise there were pre-routemaster double deckers in London. So the late 40s/early 50s?

[billybiro]

This is not the only public urinal in ED-there is one i often use on the way home from TGE after being loud and rowdy and get caught short. Its the HSBC car park Ashbourne Gr-very busy from midnight onwards :-)

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[Huguenot]

I believe that's a narrow body 9.6 litre Associated Equipment Company (AEC) Regent III RT bus. Very similar to a Routemaster.

They were notable for their shit suspension and drunken lean.

Look at these pissed bar stewards:

That means it could be wartime (post 1938), but that would be quite a fluke - only 150 were produced before 1946.

So probably late 40s.

[Huguenot]

Edited to add...

The railway sign is promoting Southern Electric, but the railways were nationalised on January 1st 1948, whereupon Southern Electric branding was dropped in favour of British Rail (Southern).

So the percentage odds for the date on this is between 1946 and 1947, with a bias to the latter end of that period (based on the odds of a Regent III RT making it to East Dulwich).

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[Huguenot]

I'm not sure that accounts for the Southern Electric branding that ended in 1948. It could be an overhang - but by 5 years? Not sure.

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The Accident on Dog Kennel Hill

http://www.londontramways.net/articles/dog_kennel_hill.php

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I don't think I'm needed here.

John K

[ianr]

I'm not sure there would have been any hurry to replace the Southern Electric wording. It was still accurate and informative after Southern Railway became Southern Region. I think I may remember the phrase myself, from the 50s or even later. And here's a photograph of Reading Station, said to have been taken in the 60s, that still has Southern Electric. http://www.semgonline.com/location/reading_01.html

[Willard]

This picture features in the book East Dulwich Trough Time by John Beasley. The picture was taken in 1952.

[Willard]

The tram lines are actually being removed in the picture....

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They don't seem to be working in line with the tracks & the area of works does seem to stretch on back under the bridge, to where the bus stop is now.

But judging by the high tech kit & the large number of chaps beavering away, I still recon they will be finished far far quicker than the wastes of space & leisurely set of sloths currently working at the lights by Alleyn's.

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[Jeremy]

Shorty, is that photo from the 1920s then?