Exterior of numbers 435-449 York Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, Greater London Authority, 1951; showing advertising hoardings filling gaps in the terrace. This part of Wandsworth suffered a number of bombing raids during the Second World War and its likely that the advertising hoardings are replacing buildings lost during the Blitz.


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