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Beverley Brook from Priest's Bridge
The Halfway House pub is on the left
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 18 Oct 2014
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The Stag's Head
Image: © Alex McGregor
Taken: 12 May 2022
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Halfway House
Public House, Priests Bridge in Barnes.
Image: © Wayland Smith
Taken: 1 Oct 2011
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Allotments and apple tree, Railway Side, Barnes
Seen from Railway Side, which for most of its length is no more than a footpath. The buildings in the background stand on the far side of the railway line from Waterloo to Windsor.
As I understand it, the apple tree is growing on what was once the track-bed of the old London & South Western Railway's Barnes Curve (hence the name Railway Side). More history here: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3986505
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 17 May 2014
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Old sign on Priest's Bridge, Barnes
There are a number of these in SW London but not elsewhere.
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 18 Oct 2014
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Railway Side, Barnes
No longer quite as close to the railway as the name might suggest. These days a roughly triangular plot of land (used as allotments) lies between Railway Side and the Waterloo-Windsor line.
However, a railway line once passed much closer. West of Barnes station the line out of Waterloo forks - one branch running west to Windsor, the other north-west towards Hounslow (the Hounslow Loop). The Barnes Curve - which once ran parallel to Railway Side - completed a triangular layout, leaving the Windsor line near White Hart Lane, and joining the Hounslow line close to Barnes Bridge.
All the lines involved were built by the London & South Western Railway. The Barnes Curve opened to traffic in 1862, but was lifted as early as 1881. I can find no reference to it in Dendy Marshall's 'History of the Southern Railway' - and my prime source of information is Ian Yarham's Geograph: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2237211
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 17 May 2014
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Fitzgerald Avenue, October 2020
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 25 Oct 2020
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Fitzgerald Avenue, Mortlake
The privet hedge - with its arch over a gateway - is a feature which would have attracted little notice in these suburban streets half a century ago. Given the present-day emphasis on 'low maintenance' - and with many front gardens converted to parking spaces - it seemed worth recording for Geograph.
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 9 May 2014
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Railway lines from White Hart Lane, Mortlake
Image: © David Howard
Taken: Unknown
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House in Fitzgerald Avenue, Mortlake
No. 1A Fitzgerald Avenue has an entry in the book Nairn's London by Ian Nairn where it is described as "a wonderful toy fort made up of genuine bits and genuine fantasy". He mentions the huge Wren-style door dated 1696, as well as the columns and battlements. It certainly seems to sit rather oddly here in suburbia.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 10 Nov 2010
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