coronation buildings
coronation buildings
Addlewell Lane
Coronation Buildings was a
row of cheap
housing built in
the coronation
year of Queen
Victoria, 1837.
Built close to
several leather
and gloving
factories shown
on the map
below, it was
intended for
workers in these
factories and,
when
listed in the
1841 census, was
almost
exclusively
lived in by
glovers and
their families.
The 1851 census shows six families living in Coronation Buildings but with a slightly greater diversity of occupations; five of the eight men and boys were employed in the gloving industry but there was also a printer/compositor, a carpenter and a retired Chelsea Pensioner. Five of the eight women and girls were glove workers while one was a dressmaker and one family even had a female servant.
Shortly after the First World War, a leather dressing yard was built on the cottage gardens and the cottages of Coronation Buildings were converted to industrial use. Coronation Buildings finally became leather and gloving workshops of Parker, Brooks and Long. The buildings were demolished in the 1950's and Males' garage was built on the site.
map

The 1886 Ordnance Survey showing Coronation Buildings just right of centre.
Gallery
In this photograph of 1950 the rear of Victoria Buildings stretches across the bottom of the photograph, seen from the slopes of the hill behind, and Park Street runs across the top of the photograph, while glove factories fill the space in between. Immediately above Victoria Buildings is the long terrace of former houses known as Coronation Buildings but, by this time, the leather and gloving workshops of Parker, Brooks and Long. At left the dog-leg spur of Addlewell Lane runs past Coronation Buildings towards Victoria Bridge, obscured in this photograph by Victoria Buildings.
Courtesy of
Roger Froude
The north elevation of Coronation Buildings photographed in the late 1950s by which time they were being used as the leather and gloving workshops of Parker, Brooks and Long whose sign is visible at right.
Courtesy of
Roger Froude
The Addlewell Lane end of Coronation buildings, photographed at the same time as the previous photograph. In the background is the terrace of housing known as Victoria Buildings.
Courtesy of
Roger Froude
The previous two photographs 'stitched' together to give an impression of the whole.
Courtesy of
Roger Froude
Victoria Bridge,
at top left,
with the
Addlewell Lane
approach running
up from centre
right. At bottom
left is the
former
Coronation
Buildings but at
the time of this
late 1950's
photograph the
glove factory of
Parker, Brooks &
Long.