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Barrington Road, LONDON, SW9 7DL

There has been a "Hero of Switzerland" pub on this site since at least 1901 (see relevant issue of Kelly's "Post Office London"), although this building clearly dates from the same post-war period as the flats around it.

There has been a "Hero of Switzerland" pub on this site since at least 1901 (see relevant issue of Kelly's "Post Office London"), although this building clearly dates from the same post-war period as the flats around it.

In the distance, the Hero of Switzerland pub (Image). There has been a "Hero of Switzerland" pub on this site since at least 1901 (see relevant issue of Kelly's "Post Office London"), although this building clearly dates from the same post-war period as the flats around it.

There has been a "Hero of Switzerland" pub on this site since at least 1901 (see relevant issue of Kelly's "Post Office London"), although this building clearly dates from the same post-war period as the flats around it.

There has been a "Hero of Switzerland" pub on this site since at least 1901 (see relevant issue of Kelly's "Post Office London"), although this building clearly dates from the same post-war period as the flats around it.

The view is across Loughborough Road and the Wyck Gardens open space. From right to left the blocks of maisonettes are Woolley House, Kettleby House and Kemble House. Barrington Road runs by the other ends of them. 19th-century maps show an area of small detached houses with gardens, large semi-detached houses and terraces – Angell Town. By 1951 some of the area had been cleared. These and other blocks first appear on a map of the period 1954-62. Magnificent. Links: http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/loughborough4.html http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/lambeth/lambeth-assets/galleries/brixton/loughborough-est Sadly, the Municipal Dreams website has nothing on the Loughborough Estate https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com//?s=Loughborough+estate&search=Go

The estate was built in 1953-57 to the designs of the London County Council's chief architect Leslie Martin. Here are three of the four eleven-storey blocks, bearing the influence of Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles.

The northeasternmost of four similar 11-storey blocks, seen from Minet Road.

The estate was built in 1953-57 to the designs of the London County Council's chief architect Leslie Martin. Here are three six-storey blocks, bearing the influence of Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles. Two-storey flats recessed behind the grid. In this unlikely setting, some kids were horse riding (right). This is the home of Ebony Horse Club, "a community riding centre using horses to help improve the life skills, education and aspirations of children and young people growing up in the Coldharbour area of Brixton, South London - an area of severe deprivation where 38% of children grow up in poverty."