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Lowden Road, LONDON, SE24 0BH

Built in 1880 as St John's Mission, Camberwell and later known as St John's church, Herne Hill. Now a nursery.

Located on the junction of Heron Road (on the right) and Lowden Road. The building is a late Victorian hall (built about 1880) of traditional brick construction under a pitched slate roof. Although never consecrated, the building was used for worship until 1981, and was originally known as Camberwell St John's Mission. It was able to seat 300 people. The hall was used as a Community Centre from 1990. More recently it has been occupied by a children's nursery. The hall is currently for sale, and is likely to be improved and converted for community use.

Viewed from an entrance from Heron Road. The facilities and features of the park include: children's playground, 5-a-side football pitch, basketball court, quiet area, trim trail, wildlife areas, and amphitheatre. Since 2003, over £500,000 has been invested to date to enable the park to offer local people of all ages and interests with a wide range of facilities for play, sport and social relaxation. In 2006 the park became Lambeth's first Green Flag Award site.

A Lambeth Council vehicle depot I believe. Its swankier neighbour is the Evelyn Grade Academy (see here: Image]).

Looking south west from the junction with Poplar Walk.

A swanky addition to the area, and the first English project of the eminent architect Zaha Hadid, in 2006-10. Academies are a hybrid - state-maintained but funded largely by other sources - and controversial because of those other funding sources and because they are outside local authority control. Update: in October 2011 this building won the most prestigious architectural award, the Royal Institute of British Architects' Stirling Prize. From the air: Image

Viewed looking north. The photographer is standing in Lowden Road.

This academy building opened in 2010. The school is part of the ARK network of academy schools. The main building is about 125m long so it took two photos to cover it. See Image and also Image for a view from the other side.

The church stands on the junction with Lowden Road. The building was erected in 1905 and is a simple stock brick building with open pedimented east and west gables and a slate roof. A five-bay round-arched arcade built on the north side was intended to lead to an aisle but this extension has never been made. The architect was probably F. W. Tasker.