IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4020
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: METROPOLITAN ARTIZANS AND LABOURERS DWELLINGS ASSOCIATION
Date(s): 1876
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.07 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Barry | Charles | 1823-1900 | architect
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Metropolitan Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Association bought some of the land around Battersea Park from the Crown at £1,600 per acre. Battersea Park had been established in the 1850s and the station for the Brighton and Chatham Railway was opened in 1867. The area was also being developed by others such as the Artizans' and General Labourers' Dwellings Company (who built the Shaftesbury Estate). Charles Barry Junior was Architect to the Association, which also had dwellings in King's Cross and later became known as the Victoria Dwellings Association.
The buildings consisted of 3 blocks, one for artisans (98 tenements of 3/4 rooms) and two for labourers (each having 90 tenements of 1/2 rooms). They were of 4 storeys and were built in yellow stock brick.
The Victoria Dwellings, Battersea Park Road were demolished in 1983.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Plans and elevations of Metropolitan Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Association buildings at Battersea Park, designed by architect Charles Barry Junior.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One item.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records gifted to the Archive in July 1997.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
The Wandsworth Historian No.38 (September 1983): Keith Bailey, Victorian Dwellings - Battersea Park Road (LMA Library ref: 88.1 WAN).
Parliamentary Papers 1882 VII: Select Committee on Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvements.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.