Sands End: The Queen Elizabeth public house
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Sands End: The Queen Elizabeth public house
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 22 Jun 2008
This Victorian public house is at 58 Pearscroft Road, SW6. Comparing the 1874 and 1896 Editions of the Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 scale mapping shows the great change that took place in Sands End between those two dates. In 1874 there were virtually no houses but lots of orchards, but by 1896 certainly the whole area from Bagley's Lane (in the foreground here) westwards had been developed for housing. The pub would have stood at the edge of that development. Curiously the 1896 map shows Pearscroft Road to be Victoria Road, but by the time the 1920 Edition was published it had changed to its present name.
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Image Location
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