View of Tenison Street
View of Tenison Street
Record No
91276
Title
View of Tenison Street
Description
View of Tenison Street, Waterloo, looking south-east from the corner with Belvedere Road. On both sides of the street three-storey terraces with basements and a top wall blanking off the roof. There are cast iron balconies on the first floor. On the right is a corner pub, and on the left, a small single-storey shop with barrows and a horse and cart in the street. Tenison Street was named after Thomas Tenison who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1695 to 1715. It ran parallel to Waterloo Road and was demolished in 1949 to create the site of the 1951 Festival of Britain; was the site of the Homes and Gardens Pavilion. After the Festival the Shell Centre was built on the site, now The White House Apartments. A famous crime was associated with Tenison Street in 1872 when Dr WC Minor, who had been a surgeon in the American Civil War, and on a visit to the UK, was staying at 41 Tenison Street. He shot a stoker, an employee of the Lion Brewery in Belvedere Road. At the trial, he was found guilty but insane. From Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum, where he was confined, he contributed between five and eight thousand quotations to Sir James Murray’s famous Oxford English Dictionary.
Date of execution
1930
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_257_A6556
London picture map location
Exact
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