What used to be where Tesco is now?

[TeeJay]

That looks almost tropical

 

[Mr Retro]

Even with a Tesco Metro down the road?

I was hoping it might become a Primark!

I didn't know there was one down the road, where is it?

I may be wrong and it could just have could have closed because of economic reasons but that shop (was it "Homecare") seemed busy and it supported a fair amount of employees. I doubt it would have closed unless they were bought out.

Might have been bought out by Primark Enid!

 

[gaijingirl]

again about spelling mistake

Sorry Ling Robbie...

 

[newbie]

I just took this with my colour time-travel camera:

very good.

I think the last short building on the right is 52 AL in which case Tescos is directly opposite that.

I vaguely remember what was there before as being tall and dark- there was more light in 52 after it was knocked down- which would fit.

 

[PacificOcean]

If that is looking down Acre Lane from the Town Hall - why is it all hilly in the background? That would be looking towards Clapham Junction and Putney that way wouldn't it?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I was talking to my aunt recently & it transpired she worked in Brixton just after the war, listing bomb sites.

Having read so many of these types of threads, & read up on WW2 stuff near me, I said 'That must have been really interesting!'

'No' she said, 'it was really bloody boring!'

To her it probably was as she was living through it.

We're interested. Tell her we want to know every single bomb site

Oh, and if there was a munitions factory, where exactly it was?

 

[Pip]

I didn't know there was one down the road, where is it?

It's on Brixton Road, between the church and Bar Lorca.

Might have been bought out by Primark Enid!

It's just wishful thinking

 

[wiskey]

 

[gregk]

Tesco in Acre Lane

I remember that the site of Tesco & its car park were delapidated old housing, probably the site or the artist "colony." They were squated before being demolished for the benefit of Tesco.

 

[prunus]

If that is looking down Acre Lane from the Town Hall - why is it all hilly in the background? That would be looking towards Clapham Junction and Putney that way wouldn't it?

Presumably that's Richmond Hill?

 

[Ol Nick]

If that is looking down Acre Lane from the Town Hall - why is it all hilly in the background? That would be looking towards Clapham Junction and Putney that way wouldn't it?

That's the hill that is Lavender Hill in Battersea. Hills in London change name depending on which way you approach them.

 

[story]

I remember that the site of Tesco & its car park were delapidated old housing, probably the site or the artist "colony." They were squated before being demolished for the benefit of Tesco.

Thanks gregk. (Nearly said "grekg" there....)

I suppose they were the houses that are in the photo taken from the Town Hall roof.

Anyone here involved with that squat?