Tulse Hill
Tulse Hill | |
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Holy Trinity Church, Tulse Hill (built 1855–6) | |
Location within Greater London | |
OS grid reference | TQ315735 |
London borough | |
Ceremonial county | Greater London |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | LONDON |
Postcode district | SW2 |
Postcode district | SE21, SE24, SE27 |
Dialling code | 020 |
Police | Metropolitan |
Fire | London |
Ambulance | London |
UK Parliament | |
London Assembly | |
Tulse Hill is a district in the London Borough of Lambeth in South London that sits on Brockwell Park. It is approximately five miles from Charing Cross and is bordered by Brixton, Dulwich, Herne Hill, Streatham and West Norwood.
History
The area known as Tulse Hill is part of the former Manor or Manors of Bodley, Upgroves and Scarlettes whose precise boundaries are now uncertain. The name of the area comes from the Tulse family who came into ownership of farmland in the area during the period of the Commonwealth in the 1650s.[1] Sir Henry Tulse was Lord Mayor of London in 1683 and his daughter Elizabeth married Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow.[2] The land remained in Onslow ownership until 1789 when most of it was purchased by William Cole. The estate was further divided on Cole's death in 1807.
The western part was left to "Mercy Cressingham, spinster" (now commemorated by the Cressingham Gardens estate in the area) and the eastern part -now mostly occupied by Brockwell Park - was left to Richard Ogbourne who promptly sold it on to John Blades.
In 1810 Tulse Hill Farm was the only building in the western part of the area. The
Mercy Cressingham eventually married Dr Thomas Edwards, who took the initiative in buying extra land to make an access from Brixton Hill in 1814 and laying out two new roads, Lower Tulse Hill Road (now known simply as Tulse Hill) and Upper Tulse Hill Road (now Upper Tulse Hill), by 1821. A plan of 1821 in the RIBA Library shows a proposed speculative development of both the Edwards estate and the adjacent Blades estate with large detached villas, although only the former actually came to fruition. The new roads were adopted by the parish in 1822.
An 1832 map shows that Tulse Hill still had only a few buildings on the new roads in contrast to nearby recently developed areas in Brixton and Norwood and the longer established hamlet of Dulwich.[3] However, by 1843, there was a continuous line of houses, predominantly detached and usually with separate coach houses along the full length of Lower Tulse Hill Road from Brixton to the top of the hill[citation needed].
Development of the area to the east of this road commenced in 1845 when Trinity Rise was built to connect Upper Tulse Hill with Norwood Road. Holy Trinity Church on Trinity Rise was built in 1855-6 and is now
Major development of the area further east did not come until the opening of the Herne Hill and Tulse Hill railway stations in the 1860s.
Most of the original villas with large gardens on the original Edwards-Cressingham landholding have been redeveloped at much higher densities for
The most prominent survival of 19th century Tulse Hill is Berry House, later called Silwood Hall, and now forming the front part of
The redevelopment of Tulse Hill after
Politics
Tulse Hill is represented on the Lambeth London Borough Council by councillors for the Brixton Rush Common, St Martin's, and West Dulwich wards.[5] All three wards are held by the Labour Party although the ward now known as West Dulwich was historically a Conservative ward until the 2014 Lambeth London Borough Council election. Tulse Hill is represented in the London Assembly by Marina Ahmad and in Westminster by Helen Hayes and Bell Ribeiro-Addy.
In March 2022 Lambeth Council initiated a consultation with residents as to renaming the area, to avoid a possible association with Henry Tulse who was once a board member of the Royal African Company, a slave-trading concern in the seventeenth century.[6]
Transport
Buses
The area is served by
, 196, 201, 322, 415, 432, 468 and P13.Rail
Nearby stations provide services to Victoria from Herne Hill and West Dulwich (via the Southeastern Metro Bromley South line) and from West Norwood (via the Southern Crystal Palace line).
The nearest London Underground station is Brixton on the Victoria line.
Roads
At the southern end of Tulse Hill is a major road junction between the
Cultural references in literature
The "Tulse Hill Parliament", a political club, features in P. G. Wodehouse's comic novel Psmith in the City. The author attended Dulwich College, which is in the vicinity.[9]
Noel Streatfeild's novel "Tennis Shoes" (1937) is written about a family who live in Tulse Hill.[10]
Samson Young, protagonist in Martin Amis's London Fields goes to Tulse Hill to buy drugs.[11]
Jason Strugnell, a fictional poet in Wendy Cope's Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis, lives in Tulse Hill and mentions it a couple of times in "his" poems.[12]
Tulse Hill and its surrounding areas are locations in Mark Billingham's crime novel "In The Dark".[13]
Prominent buildings
- Brockwell Hall - built 1811–1813, grade II listed.[14]
- Brockwell Lido - opened 1938, grade II listed.[15]
- Carisbrooke - mid 19th century villa, grade II listed.[16]
- Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Rise - built 1855–6, grade II listed.[17]
- St Martin-In-The-Fields High School for Girls - built mid 19th century, grade II listed.[18]
- Strand School - Grammar School building, opened in 1913 in Elm Park; it is now called Elm Court School.
- 166 Tulse Hill - early-mid 19th century villa, grade II listed.[19]
Notable people
- Teardrop Explodes, lived at 149a Tulse Hill in the late 1980s where, as he described in his autobiography Repossessed, he had a 40 ft Scalextric track and an extensive collection of Corgi, Dinky and other toy cars.[20]
- Michael Finnissy, composer[21]
- Sir William Henry Harris was a chorister at Holy Trinity Church towards the end of the 19th century.
- The astronomers Sir William Huggins and his wife Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, had a home and observatory known as Huggins' Observatory from about 1850 until 1915 at 90 Upper Tulse Hill. It no longer stands but was at the approximate location of today's Vibart Gardens.[22]
- The Ionides family lived there between 1838 and 1864.
- Arthur Mee (1875–1943), British writer, journalist and educator, author of The King's England and The Children's Encyclopædia.[27]
- Metropolitan Police at Stockwell station after he was wrongly deemed to be involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts.
- John Sentamu, previous Archbishop of York, was vicar of Holy Trinity Church for 13 years.[28]
- Euan Uglow, artist
References
- ^ "History of Brockwell Park, Friends of Brockwell Park". Archived from the original on 2 April 2009. Retrieved 5 November 2006.
- ^ 'Lambeth: The parish', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 (1912), pp. 50-64. Date accessed: 15 May 2011
- ^ Genealogy & Family History, London Ancestor website
- ^ "Brockwell Gate - home (Brockwell Gate)". Archived from the original on 7 March 2009.
- ^ "Borough, neighbourhoods and wards | Lambeth Council". beta.lambeth.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ Shah, Furvah (24 March 2022). "London suburb Tulse Hill could be renamed due to its slavery links". The Independent.
- ^ Evening Standard https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/lorry-strikes-at-notorious-low-bridge-in-tulse-hill-drop-by-a-third-after-hightech-signs-installed-a3482856.html
- ^ Urban, Mike (17 September 2020). "A short illustrated history of the Tulse Hill Hotel in Tulse Hill, SE24". Brixton Buzz. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Wodehouse, P.G. Psmith in the City.
- ISBN 978-0141361147.
- ISBN 0-224-02609-7.
- ISBN 9780571137473.
- ISBN 1-4087-0069-7
- ^ "BROCKWELL HALL, Non Civil Parish - 1080511 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ "BROCKWELL LIDO, Non Civil Parish - 1390519 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ "CARISBROOKE, Non Civil Parish - 1081074 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ "HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, Non Civil Parish - 1249628 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ "FRONT BLOCK OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, Non Civil Parish - 1081071 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ "166, TULSE HILL, Non Civil Parish - 1357961 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ Richards, Sam (4 December 2010). "Recreated rock residences – a wish list". the Guardian. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ "Michael finnissy". www.michaelfinnissy.info. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ "William Huggins | The Royal Society". makingscience.royalsociety.org. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ "Whistler Etchings :: Biography". etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ Museum, Victoria and Albert. "The Family of Alexander Constantine Ionides | Watts, George Frederick (OM, RA) | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ Rich (16 February 2012). "History 1955: Mick Jones & Paul Simonon are born in Brixton". Brixton Buzz. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ "Early influences". www.theclash.org.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ "Arthur Mee | Author | Blue Plaques". English Heritage. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ Profile: Archbishop John Sentamu, BBC