London 1982
Peter MARSHALL
Gasholder & Goal, Fairfield St (now Swandon Way),
Wandsworth. 1982
30i-42: gas holder, goal, road, sign
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The bridge indicated by the
sign at right is now on Smuggler's Way, a left turn off Swandon Way. This
sign has been replaced and the bridge has apparently shrunk 3". Looking
at my 1979 map (OS South London TQ 27/37 1:25 000 Second Series) which I
would have been using at the time shows me how different the road layout
was then, with traffic from Armoury Way going across Fairfield St and up
York Road to the Wandworth Bridge Roundabout. The wall and gasholder were
then on the northern part of Fairfield St of which the part shown here was
made into Swandon Way and a few yards further north became Smugglers Way.
Looking at the gas holder I wonder if some slogan had been painted across
it, which has now run in the rain to be illegible. Perhaps someone will
remember some advertisement featuring this location