Showing posts with label clapham common. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clapham common. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

London Riots Live Streaming, Webcam Views Across the City

The city of London has been shcoked to it's core by 3 days od serious rioting, with by far the worst so far on Monday night, with building set on fire and looting an criminal damage widespread.

These live webcam views are right across the affected areas of the city of London:


Rioting has spread across London on a third night of violence, with unrest flaring up in other English cities. An extra 1,700 police officers were deployed in London, where shops were looted and buildings were set alight.

Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol saw violence. The prime minister has belatedly returned early from his holiday to discuss the unrest, which first flared on Saturday after a peaceful protest in Tottenham over the fatal shooting of a man by police. At least 334 people have been arrested and 69 charged following the riots across London over the past three days, Scotland Yard has said.





Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Clapham Common Webcam Live at Royal Wedding Party 2011

With street parties taking place right across the country to celebrate the Royal Wedding of Prince William, one of the biggest gatherings will be on Clapham Common, where a large marquee will be erected for a huge party celebration.

This live feed is at Clapham Common for the party:

Royal Wedding Party Clapham Common

Location Information:

Clapham Common is an 89 hectare (220 acre) triangular area of grassland situated between Clapham, Battersea and Balham in south London, England. It was historically common land for the parishes of Battersea and Clapham, but was converted to parkland under the terms of the Metropolitan Commons Act 1878.

43 hectares (108 acres) of the common (the area historically known as Battersea Common) are within the London Borough of Wandsworth. Although the Common is wholly managed and maintained by the London Borough of Lambeth, the policing of the open space is divided between the Wandsworth and Lambeth borough "commands" of the Metropolitan Police, which follow the local government boundaries.

Clapham Common is also the name of an electoral ward in the London Borough of Lambeth covering the area of housing to the southeast of Clapham Common Southside better known as "Abbeville Village" - see Clapham Town ward. In the centre of the common is the Clapham bandstand constructed in 1890. It is the largest bandstand in London and a Grade II Listed Building. For many years it was also erroneously thought to be one of the bandstands first erected in 1861 in the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens in South Kensington.

Friday, August 27, 2010

South West 4 Weekend 2010 - Live Webcam at Clapham Common

Yet another in the series of summer 2010 music festivals hits the centre of London, with a sell-out crowd over the full weekend on Clapham Common for the South West 4 Weekender event.

This live feed is at Clapham Common throughout the event:

Clapham Common webcam

Location Information:

Clapham Common is an 89 hectare (220 acre) triangular area of grassland situated between Clapham, Battersea and Balham in south London, England. It was historically common land for the parishes of Battersea and Clapham, but was converted to parkland under the terms of the Metropolitan Commons Act 1878.

43 hectares (108 acres) of the common (the area historically known as Battersea Common) are within the London Borough of Wandsworth. Although the Common is wholly managed and maintained by the London Borough of Lambeth, the policing of the open space is divided between the Wandsworth and Lambeth borough "commands" of the Metropolitan Police, which follow the local government boundaries.

Clapham Common is also the name of an electoral ward in the London Borough of Lambeth covering the area of housing to the southeast of Clapham Common Southside better known as "Abbeville Village" - see Clapham Town ward. In the centre of the common is the Clapham bandstand constructed in 1890. It is the largest bandstand in London and a Grade II Listed Building. For many years it was also erroneously thought to be one of the bandstands first erected in 1861 in the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens in South Kensington, which would have made it the oldest surviving cast iron bandstand in Europe. However, recent research has shown that these bandstands went to Southwark Park and Peckham Rye, and it appears that the Clapham bandstand was fabricated to a very similar design almost thirty years late