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Mayflower Road, LONDON, SW9 9JZ

Apart from the cars, this street would not have appeared very different a century ago.

Taken at the junction of Mayflower Road. It is around 5pm and the queuing traffic is headed away from the centre of London. This is the A3, a major route to the south west of the city and beyond. It has been designated a "Red Route" (a road with extra parking restrictions and enhanced enforcement for parking infringements), hence the red double lines at the kerbside.

There are a lot of these tall terraced houses here. None of these houses would have been built with any thought of car parking, and spaces are clearly at a premium. Flat conversions are quite common with these types of building, further compounding the problem.

A pair of late C18th houses, no. 357 "so much altered as not to be of special interest", thanks to the prominent Victorian bay window. It used to look like no. 355, plain and dignified, three storeys and three bays. It has a splendid fanlight (Image]). Grade II listed. Part of a group of houses on the east side of Clapham Road running north from Landor Road built on land which came into the ownership of the Duke of Bedford in the early C18th. The Survey of London records that building began after he signed an agreement with Archer Willson, a builder of Fulham, in 1791.

Beautifully delicate late-C18th fanlight. Full view here: Image

A pair of substantial early C19th houses, both of four storeys, no. 361 five bays wide and no. 359 three bays wide plus a two-bay extension with a bow. Grade II listed. Part of a group of houses on the east side of Clapham Road running north from Landor Road built on land which came into the ownership of the Duke of Bedford in the early C18th. The Survey of London records that building began after he signed an agreement with Archer Willson, a builder of Fulham, in 1791.