Hackford Road is a road in Oval,

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, south

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. It runs north–south and is located between Clapham Road ( A3) to the west and

Brixton Road Brixton Road is a road in the London Borough of Lambeth (south London, England), leading from the Oval at Kennington to Brixton, where it forms the high street and then forks into Effra Road and Brixton Hill at St Matthew's church at the junction ...

( A23) to the east. To the north is the

Oval tube station Oval is a London Underground station in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is on the Northern line between Kennington and Stockwell stations and is in Travelcard Zone 2. It opened on 18 December 1890 as part of the City and South London Railway ...

The artist

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2 ...

(1853–1890) lived at 87 Hackford Road, then the house of Ursula Loyer and her daughter Eugenie, in 1873 and 1874. He wrote to his brother Theo van Gogh from this address. He arrived in London to start work at the art dealership Goupil & Co. in

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, central London, on 19 May 1873. From August of that year, van Gogh lived in Hackford Road. His stay is now recorded with a

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, installed a hundred years later in 1973. He sketched the

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terrace opposite

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in Hackford Road during the 1870s. There is a small

conservation area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...

, first designated in 1974, which includes the house where van Gogh lived.Hackford Road Conservation Area
,

Lambeth Borough Council Lambeth London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Lambeth in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, and one of the 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London. The council meets at Lambeth Town Hall ...

. The

Type Museum The Type Archive (formerly the Type Museum) is a collection of artefacts representing the legacy of type founding in England, whose famous type foundries and composing systems supplied the world with type in over 300 languages. The Archive was f ...

, opened in 1992, is located at 100 Hackford Road, at the southern end.

References

External links

Hackford Road Guide — Kennington London SW9LondonTown.com

Streets in the London Borough of Lambeth Museum districts in the United Kingdom {{London-road-stub