Loughborough Road Histories

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History of the people, places and events on this south London street and the surrounding neighbourhood

The Sketch Oct 11 1899. From my collection. Ella has n high wire at Crystal Palace carrying a parasol, riding a bike across the wire, sitting on the back of a chair on the wire and with Charles Coburn on her back on the wire
Emile Pillout, wife Ada Rey and unidentified man all dressed in tennis whites holding tennis rackets - the three members of the tennis acrobatic troupe the Odellys
Art nouveau style theatre programme cover with illustrations of women in flowing white gowns sat by the sea, one playing a lute, above sepia images of the Casino theatre interior - audience and stage and staircase with men in dark suits and women in long dresses and hats
Poster photography exhibition Re:trace Hubert Grove to Longfield. A 1967 walk from Clapham north to Minet Estate revisited in 2025. Image of Longfield. The left side of the hall an image taken in 1967 the right side of the hall image taken on 2025. Together they show the complete circular hall building with conical roof. Background of the poster in orange.
Poster for Argyle Theatre Birkenhead dated September 1906. Top of the bill include Fred Karno’s Moses & Son with Fred Kitchen. Also on the bill, Billy Williams, Dainty Maggie Rimmer, Royal Bioscope and Lily Burnand. Print colours blue (cyan) pink (magenta) yellow, black. Colours more vibrant than would have been used in 1906 original and printed on thicker paper hence me feeling unlikely to be original. Alison young solved the mystery when she found the article in the BMHS Call Boy from 1987 day 6 original Argyle posters were being reprinted.
Image of the cover of the Lambeth Heritage Festival brochure 2025. A month long festival in September led by the Lambeth Local History Forum and Lambeth Archives. Sepia photo of a woman in a shawl with a basket in front of her black and white image of a man in a bowler hat in zebra draw carriage and sepia photo of a man with a mustache.
Top of a circular cake with white icing and blue piping round the edge. Written in blue icing 1975-2025 Happy 50th anniversary The Brixton Society with the Society’s logo the top of the Lambeth Town Hall tower.
Cover of book London Cemeteries An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer by Hugh Meller and Brian Parsons. Pale blue colour with etching of grave memorials and tree
Coal hole plate with a sort of flower design by Burt & Potts Westminster. Found in front of a house Pomfret Street SE5
Cover of book by Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery Their Exits: Encore a biographical list of theatrical, musical and equestrian performers and literary figures buried cremated or commemorated at Cemetery of All Souls at Kensal Green.
3 unframed watercolor paintings of single orchids by Nelly Roberts in a display case. Odontonia Leoni pink with yellow centre painted 1927, Odontonia olga var. the premiere white with pink and yellow centre painted 1930, Vuylstekeara eletior reddish pink 1927.
Postcard of Hammelton Pub and view up Akerman Road with shops on left and houses on right c. 1905. PC from Lambeth Archives
C. 1905 colour tinted postcard of the four storey Loughborough Hotel with a view down Loughborough Road showing adjacent shops with awnings above shop windows.
C. 1905 postcard of White Horse pub on Brixton Road with sign for Grand Billiard Saloon above windows and horse drawn carriages outside
4 photos of Ella Zuila on high wire first kneeling with a small cannon balanced on the wire, second sitting at a table raising a bottle in her right hand holding a balancing pole across her upper legs with left hand, third sitting at table with balancing pole holding a fan with glass and bottle on the table, forth lying on back on the wire.
Group of people leaning over a table looking maps of the Loughborough Road area at Loughborough Farm, SW9
6 photos of 3 men doing tricks on bicycles includes 2 men pedaling the when the bikes are upside down balanced on their seats, a man standing balanced on the handle bars of a bike, the bike balanced on its back wheel and a man standing balanced with his feet on the seats of 2 bikes.
Speaker with raised hand talking about aerial performers - images displayed on screen of song sheet of song ‘Wait Till I’m a Man about young Il Nino Farini and Lu Lu a blond haired woman in green leotard with arms raised flying through the air
Photo of trees and sunshine in Lambeth Cemetery with details on Women of Lambeth Cemetery Walk 29 March. Also small images representing some of the women that will be featured. An orchid for orchid artist Nelly Roberts, Shirley Pitts - Gone Shopping book cover, contortionist Ena Bertoldi, image by Toulouse Latrec of Music hall singer Bessie Wentworth, memorial to Cherry Groce disabled when shot by police, composer Madeleine Dring