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Montagu Arms Public House in Kender Street New Cross, Nov, 1969
Woman and children selling lanterns and kites in a market on Queen's Road in Hong Kong. Photograph taken by John Florea in September 1945.
Source: LIFE Magazine
Charity told to leave as community centre faces redevelopment
A charity for adults with learning disabilities has been ordered to leave its Peckham home so Southwark Council can redevelop the building.
The Queen’s Road Day Centre hosts a number of community activities and organisations, including the Camden Society – a charity that supports people with learning disabilities and those with mental health needs and other physical disabilities.
It has been based at the centre for 10 years and uses the facility every weekday and some weekends on an as-and-when basis, to offer support to vulnerable people in the local community.
But Southwark Council said the centre, which was built in the 1970s, requires “signficant investment” to bring it up to a good standard – a cost it “can’t justify”. A decision on new uses for the centre has not been made but it’s unlikely to be rented out in its current form.
Blaming “huge pressure” on council budgets for the move, the council said: “The Camden Society has used the building for several years on a rent-free arrangement.
“The council has to bring in income from its properties to help pay for services, following massive cuts to our funding. It wouldn’t be fair to continue to offer rent-free use of our buildings to some charities and not to others, and we simply can’t afford not to charge rent.”
The charity’s chief executive Denise Largin said: “We understand the council needs to save money but we hope we can get them to review their plans in order to best protect our services for the 160 people with a learning disability who use them at Queens’s Road and the Riverside.
“Our 55 experienced and skilled staff know the people we support – many of them with complex needs – and their families very well, and we want to be able to continue to support them as we do now. So, we are looking for premises in Southwark to do this from. Any help anyone, including the council, can give us on this would be very welcome.”
The Queen’s Road Day Centre is also used by the Astbury Road Area Residents’ Association (ARARA) for their monthly meetings and for local get-togethers for children and adults, including isolated older people who live close by.
ARARA’s Wendy Rother said: “It is of great concern that Southwark Council are taking the Queen’s Road Road Day Centre back from the Camden Society, who have been carrying on their amazing work with people with disabilities and severe learning difficulties for many years.
“We are saddened by this, not only for the caring people who run this great centre, but also the people who enjoy a better quality of life and care they receive here. We can only imagine what a great upheaval in their lives this will cause if their familiar surroundings and facilities are taken away from them.
“If [ARARA] are forced to find an alternative venue, which will need to be close by, we know this will be very difficult and cause a great impact on our senior citizens and ultimately on our numbers on residents who regularly attend our meetings.”
The council spokesman added: “We are meeting with the Camden Society next week to discuss all the options for the services they provide. We are also meeting with users of the day centre to explain the situation and keep them up to date with developments.”
Properties at the corner of Dunelt Road (then Queen's Road) and Waterloo Road in 1925.
Today's view shows some reconfiguration work has been done over the years but neighbouring properties have remained largely untouched.
DUN LAOGHAIRE WATERFRONT [ALONG QUEEN'S ROAD]-159901 by William Murphy Via Flickr: The town was known as Dunleary until it was renamed Kingstown in honour of King George IV's 1821 visit, and in 1920 was given its present name, the original Irish form of Dunleary. I have always been surprised by the fact that Queen's Road has not been renamed especially as a number of memorials have been vandalised over the years [but not recently]. As you can see from my photographs the area between Dún Laoghaire Baths and the East Pier has been derelict for many years and it does attract a degree of anti-social behaviour. Plans for restoration of the area have been subjected to much debate, and some of the more ambitious ideas have been highly controversial. The harbour, one of the largest in the country, is notable for its two granite piers. The East Pier is particularly popular with walkers. It took 42 years to construct the harbour, from 1817 to 1859. The obelisk near the old ferry port terminal at the harbour commemorates the construction of this harbour.
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Queen’s Road Market development, Newham, London, built in 1968 by Gilbert Ash. Photographed in 1990. From Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and North Ireland, by Miles Glendinning & Stefan Muthesius.