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That spot in Lambeth West was famously where (Conservative flagship at the time) Wandsworth and (Labour, and at the time really struggling) Lambeth used to have media face offs about the different levels of Council Tax and service provision on the two sides of the Queenstown road.

The somewhat fortified 1980s flats at the most western accessible point are an unexpected re-engineering of an early 1970s care home (which clearly didn't last long).

I wonder if this fairly clever conversion if an old car park site may be Lambeth's most Western house - given it has a somewhat hidden lower level that runs right up to the lane?

David | Homepage | 14.10.23 - 9:05 a.m. | #

Agreed, that 'fairly clever conversion' (or the grass in front of it) is actually Lambeth's westernmost most accessible point, so I've completely rewritten the second Lambeth West paragraph. Thanks!

On the downside it means the blogpost no longer references Queenstown Road, as mentioned in your first paragraph, and I've taken down the photo of the 'somewhat fortified 1980s flats'.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 14.10.23 - 9:34 a.m. | #

I wonder how many borough extremes you can reach with timetabled boat services.

Toby | 14.10.23 - 9:38 a.m. | #

As an erstwhile resident of Lambeth borough, this has been compelling reading! Unsuprisingly, only the northern and eastern limits refer to the pre-1965 boundaries, based on the medieval parish. Bizarrely, at the western limit what was Wandsworth pre-1965 is now Lambeth, and what was beyond it is now Wandsworth.

cau1khead | 14.10.23 - 9:40 a.m. | #

I'm now wondering how many London boroughs you could do this for without repeating a boundary point.

dg writes: almost all of them.

ap | 14.10.23 - 12:05 p.m. | #

Rare cases where borough extremities match:

» Lambeth East = Southwark South
» Barnet South = Camden West
» Haringey South = Hackney West

diamond geezer | Homepage | 14.10.23 - 3:59 p.m. | #

I enjoyed this and I hope it becomes a series

Ian | 15.10.23 - 9:36 a.m. | #

I agree with Ian

Anders | 16.10.23 - 1:21 p.m. | #











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