page_title: Winstanley Estate
section_title: Pre-War Development and Pioneering British Black Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Winstanley Estate / Background / Pre-War Development and Pioneering British Black Politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Winstanley Estate Area 1938
context_page_description: Winstanley Estate and York Road Estate are large estates of predominantly public housing apartments in Battersea, London, adjacent to Clapham Junction railway station, although some have since passed into private ownership.
  Due to their proximity to one another, the Winstanley Estate and York Road Estate have historically been grouped together and shared facilities, including York Gardens and transport links at Clapham Junction. According to official data, there are a total of 1419 homes on the estates, with approximately 5200 residents. The adjacency of a built-up residential area to one of the busiest stations in Europe is almost unique and has profoundly influenced various factors of the district. The locality has had numerous well-known residents over the years, including: John Burns, Alan Johnson and Levi Roots. However, they are particularly well known within London musically, being the founding location of the So Solid Crew, a garage group that had mainstream success and did much to popularise succeeding genres of UK "urban" music. Work has begun for a planned regeneration scheme, taking place on a timeline of December 2018 until 2030.
context_section_description: Although most prominently associated with the development of the nearby Latchmere Estate in 1903, John Burns was born here in 1858 and grew up at 80 Grant Road with his family, thereafter becoming a Progressive member of the first London County Council for Battersea in 1889 and campaigning vigorously around the area. Whilst the opening of Clapham Junction railway station in 1863 would eventually have a dramatic effect on the area, by the end of the 1860s only small areas of housing on Edward (Wye) Street and Grant Road had been completed. Canon Erskine Clark, upon arrival on Plough Road in 1874, attributed the "proximity to the great railway centre “Clapham Junction” as the main reason for "its recent building boom" and rapid development. Like many South London riverside areas such as Deptford or Rotherhithe, this particular area of "North Battersea" has a long-standing association with poverty and vice. This was documented in the Charles Booth poverty map in 1902, where the main streets of the estate around Darien and Winstanley Roads are coloured black and dark blue to signify "criminal" and "very poor" inhabitants. The Latchmere ward that the Estates area is within was particularly notable for the election of John Archer in 1906, one of the earliest Black British Politicians (along with Allan Glaisyer Minns and Henry Sylvester Williams).
caption: Winstanley Estate Area 1938
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