Then and Now: Acre Lane by Branksome Road
Photographic comparisons of old and modern views of Lambeth



c. 1921 Looking west along Acre Lane (away from Brixton), past the corner with Branksome Road. Facing the camera on the left is the doorway to 'B C Crook Undertakers'. Note the lone cyclist ambling along a near-deserted street and the row of shop awnings stretching off towards Clapham.
(pic: Lambeth Archives)



Sept 2003 The awnings have all but vanished and the block of buildings to the left has been replaced by a six-storey building (Sandhurst Court, built 1938). Apart from the inevitable huge increase in traffic, not much else has changed in the scene. There's still a funeral directors in the area too, situated to the the right, just out of picture (the window display used to feature the morbid juxtaposition of a digital display ticking away the seconds, flanked by two headstones).



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