Guide to Sources

Guide to sources: Tracing the history of houses in Dulwich The most useful general collections can be found in: Southwark Local History Library, 211 Borough High Street, London SE1 1JA;[tel. no. to be assigned]; email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; website: www.southwark.gov.uk/DiscoverSouthwark/LocalHistoryLibrary. SLHLHowever researchers should note that the library is temporarily located throughout 2009 at Peckham Library, 122 Peckham Hill Street, SE15 5JR, tel: 020-7525-0232 with many archive sources unavailable. Researchers are advised to check the location and availability of material before visiting. The equivalent record centre for that part of Dulwich in Lambeth is:Lambeth Archives, Minet Library, 52 Knatchbull Road, London SE5 9QY; tel: 020-7926-6076; Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; website: www.lambeth.gov.uk/services/leisure-culture LA Records generated by the Dulwich Estate can be found in Dulwich College Archive, Dulwich College, Dulwich Common, London SE21 7LD. Tel: 0208-299-9201; email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; website: www.dulwich.org.uk. DCA[access is only by prior appointment] Some records mostly after 1900 are still in The Dulwich Estate, The Old College, Gallery Road, London SE21 7AE; tel: 020-8299-1000; email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; website: www.thedulwichestate.com. DE[requests for information should be made to The Dulwich Estate] Records relating to Dulwich are also held in the London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R OHB; tel: 020-7332-3820; email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it /lma; website: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma. LMA For information about buildings Maps: general large scale Those relating to Southwark are in SLHL and Lambeth in LA unless stated. Rocque, 5.25”: 1m, London and 10 miles round, 1741-5 Camberwell Tithe, 1837-8, c26”: 1m (copy in SLHL, Roll 56 with schedule); Camberwell 1842, 8”: 1m (Camberwell Society reprint of Dewhirst’s map, 1971)Stanford’s London 1862, 6”:1 mile1868-1914, Ordnance Survey 25”: 1 mile (most sheets reprinted in Alan Godfrey series)1869-1912, Ordnance Survey 60”: 1 mile (1894 edition for Camberwell annotated in SLHL)1948- date, Ordnance Survey 50”: 1 mile1939-45, LCC Bomb damage maps based on revision of 1914, 25” OS series (originals in LMA; London Topographical Society reproduction, 2005 in SLHL) Dulwich maps1809 Enclosure 10”: 1 m (SLHL and DCA);1860, 1906 Manor and Estate maps in SLHL; 1806, 1852, 1876, 1886, 1893 and 1906 in DCA Historic Photographs c1870- (selected views); surveys c1964 and 1984-6, vertical aerial 1981 with some oblique earlier aerial photos in SLHL. Some photos of individual houses are in DCA Street naming and numbering London County Council, List of the streets, 1929, 1955 (and supplement to 1965); SLHLPatrick Darby, A gazetteer of Dulwich roads and place-names (Dulwich Society, 1997, and revised edition 2009 on Dulwich Society website) Drainage Plans c1856- , surviving original plans and applications in SLHL (not currently indexed); [digitised copies from microfiche of plans arranged by street in Southwark Road Network Planning Section, 160 Tooley Street, SE1, but these are poor quality and lack the accompanying text] For information about residents Rentbooks, 17^th – 19^th centuries and lists of tenants 1782-1842 (with gaps) in DCARatebooks 1731-1859 (with gaps, some name indexes), and 1914-64; valuation lists 1870, 1900 in SLHL. [Before houses were numbered individual properties can be difficult to identify].Census returns: 1841-1901 (every 10 years) microfiche or film copies in SLHL; also on commercial websites eg Ancestry but most of these not searchable by address.Directories: London suburban, 1860-1950; local for Dulwich, 1888-1928 in SLHLElectoral registers 1832, 1913- in SLHL, 1890-1965 in LMA. Dulwich Estate records Manor court records 1330-1880 in DCA with some gaps and indexes; 1782-1840 in SLHLLeases 1611- 20^th century in DCA with card index by address and lessee; current leases in DELease plan registers 1855-1912, 1959-64 in DCA and some individual lease plans in SLHLSolicitors’ correspondence 17^th – 19^th centuries with indexes and letter books 1883-1958 in DCA College Governors minutes 1858-1984 in DCA and 1858-83 in SLHL; most Estate Governors minutes up to 1965 in SLHL and up to 1953 in DCARecent leases and architects’ plans for post-war developments in DE FURTHER READING John Beasley, East Dulwich: an illustrated alphabetical guide (2^nd ed 2008)Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London 2: South (1983)Patrick Darby, The houses in-between: the history of houses on Dulwich Common, between Gallery Road and College Road, since 1323 (2000) Dulwich Society booklets on houses: Belair, Bell House, Kingswood, Dulwich Corner; and the series of Newsletter/Journal articles: ‘On the street where you live’, by Ian McInnesBrian Green, Dulwich: a history (2002)Brian Green, Victorian and Edwardian Dulwich (1988)Herne Hill Society, Herne Hill Heritage Trail (2003)Jon Newman and M Copeman, Home secrets: tracing your Lambeth house history (2005)Bernard Nurse, ‘Planning a London suburban estate: Dulwich 1882-1920’, London Journal vol 19, 1994 Compiled by Bernard Nurse, 10/2009.email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. 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