Senegal Road
Hello to all, I am looking for anything to do with Senegal Road, I think it was knocked down to make way for Millwall's new ground. It's my mothers 60th birthday in august and wanted a photo to suprize her with. The Clark family Senegal Road ring any bells ?
Hi Nickyharvey32
Your correct, Millwall was built on the Senegal road area as confirmed by Wikipedia.
Senegal Road I Believe was between Bolina Road and Stockholm Road.
Hopefully someone on this site may remember the Clark Family, and I will certainly keep my eyes open for any Photo's of Senegal Road.
Good Luck in your search
Bermondseyboy
I didn't know any streets were knocked down for the new ground. When the site was chosen it was already playing fields - surrounded by railway lines. I presumed that any housing on the site had been cleared many years before.
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Copy from old map of the area showing Senegal Road which lay on the site of the New Den between the railway lines which served South Bermondsey and Bricklayers Arms, I think the area is now known as Senegal Fields
Joe Foster
That's an amazing aerial photo.
I had no idea the area was covered in housing - I just assumed it had been a bomb-damaged industrial area. I know the authorities were keen on senseless post-war clearances, but surely not just to replace it with rough grassland?
That's an amazing aerial photo.
I had no idea the area was covered in housing - I just assumed it had been a bomb-damaged industrial area. I know the authorities were keen on senseless post-war clearances, but surely not just to replace it with rough grassland?
-deegs
Rough grassland? I'll let you know that the council football pitches at Senegal Fields was as good as any and better than most (eg Blackheath, Falconwood,). It was a pleasure playing Sunday league matches there.
PS: Excellent aerial photo. All those trees outside the houses and not one car, how times change!
I was was born at 127 Senegal Road. My family was moved out in 1962 as part of a slum clearance programme. A lot of the houses had huge cracks caused by the muddy ground underneath (there was a programme on the TV about it all back in the fifties). Presumably that was why no further housing was built on the land -rather it was turned into a park and subsequently Millwall football ground.
I think there was a boy in my class called Alan Clark - but as I'm now 63 going on 64 my memory is a little hazy. I do have a school photo with all of my class-mates - I went to Ilderton Road Primary School 1951/1957.
