{"id":17754,"date":"2025-08-14T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17754"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:24:18","slug":"battersea-riverside-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17754","title":{"rendered":"Battersea Riverside 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Battersea Riverside<\/strong>. The short walk from Battersea Bridge to Wandsworth is one I’ve done quite a few times over the years. For most of the walk you can now keep to the riverside, with views across the Thames, though a few short detours are needed. It’s on of my favourite walks in London and only a couple of miles, though if you want a longer walk it is now part of the Thames Path so you can continue for many miles either upstream or down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lots Rd<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When I first made this walk in the 1970s the riverside was lined with industry and I could only access the river at a few locations. By 2012 the industry had almost all gone and there were blocks of private flats along most of this length. But ‘planning gain’ meant a riverside path even if it was lined behind by planning loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thames at Battersea<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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St Mary’s Battersea<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Old Swan Wharf<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

People have to live somewhere and London needed extra housing, though almost all of these new developments were the wrong kind of housing and not the social housing desperately needed by Londoners. Back in the early post-war years we saw social housing being built to provide mixed communities and promote social cohesion, but Thatcher changed all that, and social housing became something only for the poor and that stigmatised residents as failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overground train on its way to Clapham Junction<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Demolition at Fulham Wharf<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New Flats and Wandsworth Bridge<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The loss of industry also meant the loss of jobs in the area, and took place at a time of increasing gentrification in Battersea, with people moving in who worked in wealthier parts of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking upstream from Wandsworth Bridge<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As I wrote in 2012, “Every time I walk it a little more has gone with a new block of flats or hotel or other luxury development. But a few things remain<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Waste transfer station, Wandsworth<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can see the panoramic images larger by right clicking on them and choosing Open Image in New Tab’ More pictures on My London Diary at Battersea Riverside<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Battersea Riverside. The short walk from Battersea Bridge to Wandsworth is one I’ve done quite a few times over the years. For most of the walk you can now keep to the riverside, with views across the Thames, though a few short detours are needed. It’s on of my favourite walks in London and only … Continue reading Battersea Riverside 2012<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[21480,3588,13510,316,13514,471,21478,17,1343,5681,3888,83,13623,200,9359,8165,2842,3995,11777,11780,21479],"class_list":["post-17754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-londonphotos","category-my-own-work","tag-aggregate-works","tag-battersea","tag-battersea-riverside","tag-demolition","tag-fulham-wharf","tag-gentrification","tag-industry-gone","tag-london","tag-london-photos","tag-lots-road","tag-overground","tag-peter-marshall","tag-private-flats","tag-river-thames","tag-riverside-path","tag-sand-and-gravel","tag-thames-path","tag-wandsworth","tag-wandsworth-bridge","tag-waste-transfer","tag-wrong-kind-of-housing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17755,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions\/17755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}