GLC/RA/D2G/05/029

Kidbrooke to Clapham Junction

Date range	1968
Location	London Metropolitan Archives (see all files stored here)
Catalogue	See entry
File base	Fond GLC, subfond RA/D2G

Context

This item is from a collection of files from the GLC's landscaping department, so is concerned with the environmental treatment of the section of road listed in the title. The road in question is the Ringway 1 South Cross Route.

There are three plan sheets here in a flimsy card folder. Unfortunately the title of the file suggests that it might contain plans of the whole length of road between Kidbrooke and Clapham Junction, on most of which detailed plans have not come to light. It does contain plans covering that length in some form, but sadly with no greater detail than has been found elsewhere.

The first plan sheet is smattered with "confidential" stamps, and opens out to reveal a very long thin plan of the line of the road as it is already known, including triangular shapes representing the connections to other routes at Clapham Junction and Loughborough Junction. No other interchanges are shown. A second alignment is shown south of railway from St Johns to Peckham, matching the alternative described in the English Heritage files about this motorway elsewhere. A red marker pen line strikes through the alignment at Blackheath, labelled "A". It's unclear what it refers to.

The other two sheets show the route at Denmark Hill at an engineering level of detail, though they show only an isolated stretch from King's College Hospital to Camberwell Grove. One is labelled "Consultant's Proposal", showing a line around the south side of the William Booth Memorial College in cut-and-cover tunnel. The other shows the motorway on the north side of the College, hard up against the railway, requiring demolition of the college's main building and tower.

Links to other files

ACC/3499/EH/08/04/019 Ringway 1 (1968-1970)

People with camera copies

Chris Marshall has a partial copy.