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Devons Road is a road in the East End of London, UK.[1] Part of the B140 road, it gives its name to the Devons Road DLR station.
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Motive power depots
The North London Railway established a large motive power depot at Bow around 1850, which was demolished in 1882 and incorporated into Bow railway works. Two larger locomotive depots were then built at Devons Road nearby.[2]
Devons Road No.1 shed
This was badly damaged by bombing during the Second World War. It was rebuilt in 1946 by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, and then converted into the first UK diesel maintenance depot by British Railways in 1958. It was closed in 1964 and demolished.
Devons Road No.2 shed
It was closed by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, in 1935 and demolished.
Stroudley Walk
The closure of Devons Road Number 1 shed by British Railways in the 1960s freed up the land for development as social housing, this led to a new street layout with streets and buildings named in honour of Britains railway heritage. As a result the North end of Devons Road, adjoining Bow Road, was changed into a pedestrian area and renamed Stroudley Walk in honour of the great locomotive engineer William Stroudley. As of 2010[update] that section is now being redeveloped by Poplar HARCA.
St Andrew's Hospital
The Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum was established in Devons Road in 1868.[3] This institution was renamed St Andrew's Hospital in 1921, after a nearby church that was destroyed in the First World War. It housed a School of Nursing from 1875 to 1991. All its functions were eventually transferred to NHS facilities in Newham, and it was demolished in 2008. As of 2010[update] the site is being redeveloped as housing including a smaller health centre.[4][5]
Notes
- ^ Hidden London | Devons Road
- ^ Griffiths, Roger and Smith, Paul, The directory of British engine sheds:1, OPC, 1999, p.97.
- ^ Victorian London - Directories - Dickens's Dictionary of London, by Charles Dickens, Jr., 1879 - "Hospitals"
- ^ St Andrew's Hospital at AIM25
- ^ Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum District, Middlesex, London at workhouses.org.uk (with photographs)
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