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Battersea Reference Library
Battersea Reference Library is a Library#Reference library, reference library within a listed building, Grade II listed building at Altenburg Gardens, Battersea, London, England. The library building was designed by Henry Hyams (architect), Henry Hyams, architectural assistant to the Battersea Council borough surveyor, in an Arts and Crafts movement, Arts and Crafts architectural style, and was built in 1924. The reference library is connected to, and now accessed through, Battersea Central Library; both are Wandsworth Council libraries, operated by Greenwich Leisure Ltd. History Battersea Central Library, the main library of the settlement, was built by the Battersea Vestry between 1889 and 1890, to a design by Edward William Mountford, Edward Mountford. It incorporated a 24' by 45' galleried, glass-roofed reference library room. A decision was made after World War 1, based on agitation for increased reference library space, to add a new library building adjacent and connecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battersea Reference Library In Altenburg Gardens - Geograph
Battersea is a large district in southwest London, part of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross and also extends along the south bank of the Thames Tideway. It includes the Battersea Park. History Battersea is mentioned in the few surviving Anglo-Saxon geographical accounts as and later . As with many former parishes beside tidal flood plains the lowest land was reclaimed for agriculture by draining marshland and building culverts for streams. By the side of this was the River Heathwall, Heathwall tide mill in the north-east with a very long mill pond regularly draining and filling to the south. Battersea () appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 in Surrey within the Hundred (county division), hundred of Hundred_of_Brixton, Brixton () as a vast manor held by St Peter's Abbey, Westminster. Its ''Domesday'' assets were: 18 hide (unit), hides and 17 ploughlands of cultivated land; 7 gristmill, mills worth £42 9s 8d per year, of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
