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Very interesting, boundaries always have back stories. Lovely set of photos too.
It’s a fascinating corner of Lonodn, so quietly residential in many places.

I have spent a fair few weekends ambling around there back in the day.
Great read, like a wards of London but then South of the Thames.
It is a curiously residential and relatively featureless area - presumably a legacy of the Luftwaffe.

About 13 years ago I worked in Paris Garden for a week - in no 4 judging from its description as Availability Services. We were locked out of our usual office after a neighbouring building collapsed. At the time, relocating to a nearby office was the only option if we were to continue working. That now seems like a very long time ago.
As ever, you've come up with lots of detail and history in one trip that I failed to notice in ten years of a twice-daily trip through the area to and from work, first by foot and later by hire-bike, following the realisation that it was quicker than the circuitous bus services between Waterloo and the St Pauls area, which all run via Waterloo Bridge rather than direct.

Southwark station really is a poor misnomer - part of it isn't even in the right borough and I've lost count of the number of people I've had to tell not to use it to get to Southwark Cathedral.
All good stuff.
I tend to do a bit of research before I go otherwise I'd completely miss everything of interest!
I love this post DG - this was my old stamping ground. No need to explore the boundary beyond the Denmark Hill/Coldharbour Lane junction, as from that point south the division follows main roads and is completely obvious. Mind you, historically this portion was the boundary between Lambeth and Camberwell parishes, not Southwark.
Interesting stuff. Ufford Street is a surprising anachronism, reminding me vaguely of houses on the Noel Park estate in Wood Green, N22
Great summary! Slum clearance had its effects on Hatfields too. Tait and Benson were built in the late '20s on the site of a notoriously crime ridden patch of alleyways and decrepit buildings. The stretch of former Broadwall that is now Hatfields Green was targeted in the '30s but the case for clearance was less convincing. There are great photos of these in Southwark's local history library filed under Broadwall.










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