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Orville Rd runs off Battersea High St by the side of Katherine Low Settlement, doing a right turn to ;..'n v 'icarage C.ascent. The houses in Orville Rd were built <ri the 1880s and consisted of Nos 1-47 and 2-18. The families living in became the focal point for the work of the Katherine Low Settlement from 1924. In 1933 it built the Katrine Baird Hall. Orville Rd suffered major bomb damage during the Second World War. The houses were demolished and replaced first by pre-fabs and then by Fred Wells Gardens and by modern houses. The Settlement sold The Hall Battersea Churches Housing Trust, which in turn sold it, and it is currently a private house. Fred Wells Gardens was laid down on where there were and along the strip of land to Lombard Rd which had previously housed the Battersea Stadium.
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When Charles Booth undertook his survey of London in the 1880s his researcher described Orville Rd as
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A DANGEROUS LOCALITY
The Orville Road itself is a dangerous locality marked black on the police books, and constables are not allowed into the street singly - they have to go in pairs. If a thief escapes into this place he is safe, as every house has a bolt-hole and they can go through into the next till quite lost sight of. The street is a cul-de-sac - its only advantage, as it is of course the only playground for the teeming children, and the only place for their mothers to gossip and compare notes on their babies.' - Abbot's Hill Chronicle, December 1930
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POVERTY, DEGREDATION & CRIME EARLY 1930s
There are a number of streets where poverty prevails, most of them being close to railways or factories. The worst patch is Orville Road, near Battersea Station, where there is much degradation associated with crime. ' - New Survey of London Life & Labour. 1934
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Battersea Stadium
In the 1930s Battersea Stadium was built between the back gardens of Orville Rd and Lombard
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