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Fount Street, LONDON, SW8 4SS

A striking example with a good mix of horizontal and vertical elements. By Lyons, Israel & Elsom, 1936. Now a gym, SouthBank Club.

Looking towards Wandsworth Road. This is an important local shopping area. The weather is cold and rainy so not many people are about. In the far distance, centre shot, are the chimneys of the now decommissioned Battersea Power Station.

Sainsbury's Nine Elms store is on the left, and to the right of the picture a South West Trains service has just left Vauxhall Station, heading away from Waterloo.

The platforms on the station's first day of operation. Exterior view: Image

On its first day of operation. It is one of two stations on a new Northern Line extension from Kennington, the terminus being Battersea Power Station. They will serve an area being filled with hideous towers, examples of which can be seen behind, as well as the revamped power station, US Embassy etc.

Looking along Wandsworth Road. On the left is Nine Elms Underground station, one of two stations on the Northern Line extension from Kennington to Battersea opened on 20 September 2021. Behind on the far left is Gladwin Tower, completed in 2019, then Pinto Tower, completed in 2016. In the background is Sky Gardens, completed in 2017, then Damac Tower and (on the far right) Keybridge Tower, both completed in 2021.

Underground station on Wandsworth Road, one of two stations on the Northern Line extension from Kennington to Battersea opened on 20 September 2021. Behind on the left is Pinto Tower, completed in 2016, and in the right background is Sky Gardens, completed in 2017.

Viewed probably eastward near the turntable, No. 1696 is one of the few Chatham line (pre-1899) locomotives ex-SE&CR remaining on the SR after the Second World War and then for a short time after Nationalization. The Kirtley R1 class, No. 696 being the first in 11/1900, were all built after their designer retired following the 1899 amalgamation with the SER; it duly became No. A696 after Grouping and No. 1696 in 1931, but was withdrawn under BR in 3/51 before receiving a BR number. From Nine Elms it worked the same duties as its few H and numerous M7 0-4-4T companions. [I took this rather inferior photograph with my first cheap camera in poor weather].

Opened in 2021 on the Northern Line of London Underground between Kennington and Battersea Power station. Forecourt looking north west on Wandsworth Road. The scale of high rise buildings in the area is evident.