Alford House
Alford House is a youth club in Aveline Road, Kennington, South London, England that was subject of the 1959 documentary by Karel Reisz We Are the Lambeth Boys and two sequels.- Type: Building
- Description: youth club in Kennington, London, England
- Also known as: “Alford house”
- Address: Aveline Street, London, SE11 5DQ
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Oval and Big Ben.
The Oval
Stadium
Photo: Jguk, Public domain.
The Oval, currently named for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, located in the borough of Lambeth, in south London. The Oval is situated 1,500 feet south of Alford House.
Big Ben
Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower which stands at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, England. Big Ben is situated 1 mile northwest of Alford House.
Vauxhall Gardens
Park
Photo: Samuel Wale, Public domain.
Vauxhall Gardens is a public park in Kennington in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, on the south bank of the River Thames. Originally known as New Spring Gardens, it is believed to have opened before the Restoration of 1660, being mentioned by Samuel Pepys in 1662. Vauxhall Gardens is situated 1,500 feet west of Alford House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kennington Cross and Kennington.
Kennington Cross
Neighborhood
Photo: Jwslubbock, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kennington Cross is a locality in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is at the junction of two major roads, Kennington Lane that links Vauxhall Cross with the Elephant and Castle and Kennington Road that runs from Waterloo to Kennington Park.
Kennington
Suburb
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kennington is a district in South London, England. It is mainly within the London Borough of Lambeth, running along the boundary with the London Borough of Southwark, a boundary which can be discerned from the early medieval period between the Lambeth and St George's parishes of those boroughs respectively.
Vauxhall
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vauxhall is an area of South London, within the London Borough of Lambeth. Named after a medieval manor called Fox Hall, it became well known for the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.
Alford House
- Category: youth center
- Location: Lambeth, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.48791° or 51° 29′ 17″ northLongitude
-0.11405° or 0° 6′ 51″ westInception
1909Open location code
9C3XFVQP+59OpenStreetMap ID
way 943640628OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q28224849
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