The story of one house in Lausanne Road number 13 ........ of mission halls, synagogues and a factory

The Baptist Chapel in 1872

The story of one house in Lausanne Road over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*

Yesterday I went looking for the South London Mission Hall on Lausanne Road.

And today I found it and got a lot more than I expected which is what often happens.

In 1872 it clearly shows up as Baptist Chapel, in 1899 it was a synagogue and by 1952 as my mission hall, “seating 160.”

Then sometime during the 1970s  it was swept away along with everything else down to Queens Road.

Now I know that from 1889 till 1905 it was the South East London Synagogue which  had previously been in a "house in 452 New Cross Road in 1888, and then moved to two rooms in Nettleton Road, New Cross, followed by a hut in 1889 in Lausanne Road, Peckham." and then relocating to New Cross Road in the March of 1905.**

All of which I discovered when reading South East London Synagogue from the site Transpontine.***

After which it may have opened as the South London Mission.

I do have the names of some of the people associated with the building, which will help.

In 1878 it was the Rev Thomas John Cole who I can track around Peckham from the 1870s through to the 1900s on the electoral rolls and at one point lived at number 1 St Mary’s Road.

Of manufacture amongst the smart houses, 1872

So as they say it’s all still to play for.

But in the course of wandering up and down Lausanne Road using the maps of the late 19th and 20th centuries I came across a Confectionery Manufacturer.  It stood four doors up from Mona Road and shows up on the 1872 OS and is still there on 1952.***

And that means that it will still have been there when I was growing up and in all probability I will have passed it countless times on my up to  the doctors at the top of the road.

Something of its industrial past is still there to see and like my mission hall it calls for more research.

I just wish we had taken photographs of both.

Picture; Lausanne Road, 1872 OS London, courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://www.digitalarchives.co.uk/

*The story of one house in lausanne Road, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/The%20story%20of%20one%20house%20in%20Lausanne%20Road

**South-East London Synagogue, Jewish Communities & Records,http://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/London/selondon/index.htm London Synagogue

***Transpontine, http://transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2007/01/south-east-london-synagogue.html

****1872 OS London, courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://www.digitalarchives.co.uk/
 and Southwark Historical Mapping, http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gss=angs-c&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=Thomas+John&gsln=Cole&msrpn__ftp=Peckham&msydy=1891&msypn__ftp=london&gskw=Rev&cpxt=1&cp=11&MSAV=1&uidh=zga&pcat=35&h=1054650&recoff=4+5&db=LMAelectoralreg&indiv=1&ml_rpos=15