Victoria Street

R.G.Mathews (1947)

Erin Shipley

Victoria Street has been redeveloped more or less consistently since the 1960s. In the late Victorian era it was mostly residential and lined with large red brick mansion flat blocks. Blitz damage in 1940-1941 tore gaps in its facades from Victoria Station to Great Smith Steet. Today it is a bustling commercial area.

For more details of bomb damage in Victoria Street see Bomb Incidents page.

18th century houses seen through a bombsite in Victoria Street (1947) by RG Mathews

Victoria Street, SW1

This page was added by Camilla Bergman on 18/06/2010.

Comments about this page

I remember passsing this damage at about the time the drawing was made, and noticing wallpaper still intact on the various levels. We lived in Pimlico at the time. I still think of this when passing the new buildings today. I was then aged 12.

By Lauretta Hurman
On 01/09/2016

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