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St Leonard's Court
St Leonard's Court is a four-storey block of flats on Palmers Road, off St Leonard's Road in East Sheen, London SW14 in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, 0.2 miles from Mortlake railway station. It was constructed between 1934 and 1938 and is remarkable for its surviving underground air raid shelter, built in anticipation of the Second World War and now Grade II listed. Air raid shelter The shelter is beneath the raised central courtyard in front of the flats, under a grass lawn which is surrounded by a hedge. The entrance, above ground, is via a brick conical turret which has a tiled roof. Steps lead down from inside the turret to the shelter below. The shelter was designed to hold 48 people and, according to Habitats & Heritage, was built in 1938 and extended in 1941. It has four rooms (two for men and two for women, separated by a central corridor) and a particularly well-preserved interior with some original fittings. According to Historic England, it has some s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
East Sheen
East Sheen, also known as Sheen, is a suburb in south-west London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its long High Street, high street has shops, offices, restaurants, cafés, pubs and suburban supermarkets and is also the economic hub for Mortlake of which East Sheen was once a Manorialism, manor. This commercial thoroughfare, well served by public transport, is the A205 road, Upper Richmond Road West which connects Richmond, London, Richmond to Putney. Central to this street is ''The Triangle'', a traffic island with a war memorial and an old milestone dating from 1751, marking the distance to Cornhill, London, Cornhill in the City of London. The main railway station serving the area, Mortlake railway station, Mortlake, is centred north of this. Sheen has a mixture of low-rise and mid-rise buildings and it has Richmond upon Thames parks and open spaces, parks and open spaces including its share of Richmond Park, accessed via Sheen Gate; Palewell Common, which has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
