London’s Alleys: Lamont Road Passage, SW10

This is a posh-looking alley to be found in Chelsea’s World’s End that has a link with the brutalist architects that designed the Barbican estate.There’s a hint of how the alley came to be where it is in the Greenwood map of 1828, where a line dividing two fields is perfectly aligned with the alley today. It’s likely that two property developments used the border between the fields for the alley.
The OS ma at the end of the 19th-century shows an unnamed alley with a schoo