EPW052684 ENGLAND (1937). Construction of flats around Dolphin Sqaure, Pimlico, 1937

Tachbrook Estate was built on the site of one of the district's coach termini, and before that the works of the Equitable Gas Company. A description of the Estate together with a photo of the coach terminus can be found here: https://1londonblog.uk/2017/08/tachbrook-estate-pimlico/

While other streets of Pimlico are straight, Tachbrook Street follows the curve of the Tyburn River which flowed here long before the area's development.

Today, this road is called John Islip Street (in 1937, it was Roehampton Street).

Bessborough Gardens, built by Thomas Cubitt (1788-1855) in the 1840s. The Bessborough Gardens of today were developed in the 1980s, and built in the manner of Cubitt: the original houses were demolished when the area was reconstructed.

Holy Trinity Church, Bessborough Gardens The Holy Trinity Church was demolished in 1953, after being damaged by bombing during the Second World War.

Dolphin Square was built on the site of the Royal Army Clothing Depot. Before that it was Thomas Cubitt's workshops for the development of Pimlico. A statue commemorating Cubitt can be found on the corner of Denbigh Street nearby. As part of the War Department the clothing depot's land was marked with "WD" boundary stones. One of these can still (2017) be seen in Chicester Street.

The grid of Colchester, Cornwall, and Worcester Streets was demolished in 1967 for the construction of Pimlico School, in turn pulled down in 2010 for the construction of Pimlico Academy.

Claverton Street. Named after the Cheshire village which was one of the Grosvenor family lands.

Ranelagh Road is named after the New Ranelagh Pleasure Gardens, successors to Ranelagh Gardens further upstream. Local pronunciation was (is?) Ran-lee.

"Sharples" ?

Army & Navy Ltd factory buildings. Much of this area was destroyed in WWII and was cleared away for the construction of the City of Westminster's Churchill Gardens housing estate.

Formerly a Methodist Chapel, from 1917 this was the Catholic Church of the Holy Apostles, Claverton Street. It was destroyed in 1941.

An open section of the King’s Scholars Pond sewer, formerly a branch of the Tyburn River. In this area parts of the sewer remained uncovered, remarkably, until the 1970s.

Grosvenor Road pumping station of the London Hydraulic Power Company, supplying water at high pressure to hotel lifts, dock cranes, warehouse winches and other industries requiring hydraulic energy. You can just about make out the metal water tanks on the roof of the street-facing building. When in Covent Garden's Floral Street, look out for the "LHP" cover plate in the middle of the road.

Tachbrook Street

St Saviours Church

St George's Square gardens