Mostly Medical: A Walk Along Nightingale Lane
Friday 5th June. 6.30pm
Nightingale Lane, one of Clapham’s oldest thoroughfares, began life as an agricultural track between Clapham and Wandsworth Commons. For many years the road also formed a part of the boundary between Battersea and Clapham Parishes. Residential began to take over from agricultural use in the 18th Century and over the following 150 years it became the home of many interesting, and influential, characters. The sanitary engineer George Jennings, for example, lived on Nightingale Lane and the row of shops he built in the mid-19th century is still in use today. Also found among the residents are a surprising number of pioneers in the development of medicine over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and we will concentrate upon some of their stories over the course of this walk.
Meet opposite the Hope pub by the entrance to Wandsworth Common Station
Friday 5th June. 6.30pm
Free of charge but please book at gapingill@yahoo.co.uk
Photo: the former South London Hospital for Women and Children, opposite Clapham South tube station