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Harleyford Road, LONDON, SE11 5AY

A plaque between the nearer pair is inscribed, "The Parade 1821", while the far group is named "Olum Terrace 1826" in the parapet. Grade II listed.

Clun Terrace, the nearer row, is dated 1826. The Parade, further along, has an 1821 datestone. This is the way from Vauxhall Station to The Oval Cricket Ground, one of whose floodlights shows above the trees on the extreme left of the picture.

Picture taken from Bonnington Square

Rather a grand doorcase, fluted columns and decorative fanlight, though the columns lack an entablature.

Victorian houses in the north-eastern corner of the square.

A little early C19th group, the arched ground floors a common motif of the time. Grade II listed.

In earlier times, a Georgian Terrace with long back gardens fronted onto Harleyford Road, but the majority of the houses were demolished in the early 1970s. The chance to site a community garden here was realised in 1984 by the Vauxhall Housing Co-operative, who formed the Harleyford Road Garden Association to carry out a feasibility study with the help of a small grant. Most of the land belonged to the Greater London Council and when this was abolished in 1986, lease negotiations became protracted. The land finally came under the Borough Council's Housing Department, from whom the Garden Association now hold a management lease. Work on the design and layout of the site began in 1986 and Harleyford Road Community Garden was officially opened two years later. It had already started to be used by local people, however, such is the demand for open space in this very built-up part of the Borough.

This small garden has been established on a Second World War bomb site; the story is told here: http://bonningtonsquaregarden.org.uk/index.html .