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This site at Battersea was first laid out as a Park a hundred years earlier in the 1850s, the idea of a local entrepreneur called Thomas Cubitt. Soil was transported from the excavations at Surrey Docks to raise the level of the ground for the new Royal Park.
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Battersea Park - view of newly laid cut park |
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Thames at Battersea, Bridge, Swan, Mill And Church |
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Before that, Battersea had been a place for market gardening. The railways brought increasing industrialisation and swelled the population. One particularly unusual building that stood here in the 19th century was a tall windmill.
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Unlike conventional mills with vertical sails, this was a horizontal mill in the form of a tall tower. Slats in the side let in the wind which rotated a series of 96 sails horizontally around a central axis. It ground linseed for oil as well as corn and malt for distilling.
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Thames at Battersea |
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Introduction
Battersea
