107-461: Clapham Junction ( / ˈ k l æ p əm ˈ dʒ ʌ ŋ k ʃ ə n / ) is a major railway station near St John's Hill in south-west Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth , England, 2 miles 57 chains (2.71 mi; 4.37 km) from London Victoria and 3 miles 74 chains (3.93 mi; 6.32 km) from London Waterloo . Despite its name, Clapham Junction
214-493: A formal bid yet to be tabled, the Takeover Panel issued a bid deadline of 13 April. On 4 April, KKR left the consortium to focus on its bid for Alliance Boots . On 5 April, the consortium submitted an "indicative offer" of 562p a share to the company's board. After discussions between Sir Philip Hampton and the two largest Sainsbury family shareholders Lord Sainsbury of Turville and Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover
321-449: A grocer's branch at 12 Kingsland High Street, Dalston . Every shop offered home delivery, as there were fewer cars in those days. Sites were carefully chosen, with a central position in a parade selected in preference to a corner shop. This allowed a larger display of products, which could be kept cooler in summer, which was important as there was no refrigeration. By the time John James Sainsbury died in 1928, there were over 128 shops. He
428-638: A minor heart attack. In the Second World War , many of the men who worked for Sainsbury's were called to perform National Service and were replaced by women. The war was a difficult time for Sainsbury's, as most of its shops were trading in the London area and were bombed or damaged. Turnover fell to half the prewar level. Food was rationed, and one particular shop in East Grinstead was so badly damaged on Friday 9 July 1943 that it had to move to
535-650: A minority stake in another supermarket group, Giant Food, based in Washington, DC , although this shareholding was subsequently sold when Ahold of the Netherlands made a full bid for the company. An arrangement in late 1995 with Supermarket Direct made Sainsbury's the first major grocery retailer in the UK to offer a home delivery service. In May 1996, the company reported its first fall in profits for 22 years. David Sainsbury announced management changes, involving
642-520: A new platform for the East London Line opened, creating an orbital railway around inner London. Overcrowding is most frequent in the often convenient but narrow cross-platform subway. Using this rather than the wide, elegant flying concourse for interchange, a visitors' eyes assessment of fabric and environment listed Clapham Junction in the most needy 10% of Department for Transport category B stations. In an attempt to reduce overcrowding,
749-502: A point, roughly three miles (4.8 km) from Battersea's northeastern corner – but two miles (3.2 km) from the western corner. To the east are South Lambeth and Stockwell ; to the south is Balham ; to the southeast is Clapham ; and to the west is Wandsworth Town , south of which is Wandsworth . Two large neighbourhoods within the larger Battersea are: Some parts of Battersea have become known for drug-dealing. The Winstanley and York Road council estates have developed
856-529: A range of industries such as mills, breweries and dyeing, bleaching and calico printing. Industry developed eastwards along the bank of the Thames during the Industrial Revolution from the 1750s onwards; the Thames provided water for transport, for steam engines and for water-intensive industrial processes. Bridges erected across the Thames encouraged growth; Putney Bridge , a mile to the west,
963-590: A reputation for such offences and were included in a zero-tolerance "drug exclusion zone" in 2007. As of 2011 , Battersea had a population of 73,345. The district was 52.2% of White British origin, as against an average for Wandsworth of 53.3%. Within the bounds of modern Battersea are (from east to west): Battersea is served by three National Rail stations: Battersea Park , Clapham Junction , and Queenstown Road (Battersea) . All three stations are in London Travelcard Zone 2 . Battersea Park
1070-587: A result of increased sales. Sainsbury's sold its subsidiary in America, Shaw's, to Albertsons in March 2004. Also in 2004 Sainsbury's expanded its share of the convenience shop market through acquisitions. After the launch of King's recovery programme, the company reported nineteen consecutive quarters of sales growth, most recently in October 2009. Early sales increases were credited to solving problems with
1177-487: A sign outside his first shop was: "Quality perfect, prices lower". Shops started to look similar, so a high cast-iron 'J. SAINSBURY' sign featured on every London shop so that it could be recognised from a distance, and round-the-back deliveries started to add extra convenience and not upset rivals due to Sainsbury's popularity. In 1922, J Sainsbury was incorporated as the private company 'J. Sainsbury Limited'. Groceries were introduced in 1903, when John James purchased
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#17327659640231284-467: A staircase to platforms 13 and 14 was replaced with a new wider staircase in April 2023. The station has seventeen platforms, numbered 1 to 17. In general, platforms 1 and 2 are used by London Overground trains, platforms 3–11 by South Western Railway trains and platforms 12–17 by Southern trains. Non-stop Gatwick Express trains pass through platforms 12 and 13. Sidings leading into railway sheds at
1391-670: Is connected to the London Underground network at Battersea Power Station tube station in September 2021. London Bus routes 44 , 137 , 156 , 211 , 344 , 436 , 19 , 49 , 319 , 345 and 452 serve the Battersea area during the daytime. Night buses N19 , N137 and N44 , as well as the 344 and 345 route, run overnight. Cycling infrastructure in Battersea is provided by the London Borough of Wandsworth and Transport for London (TfL). Battersea features in
1498-453: Is named Clapham Junction because it is at the junction of several rail lines. The name is not given to any rail junction near the station which, without end-on intercompany junctions, are: Each day more than 2,000 trains, over half of them stopping, pass through the station, more than through any other station in Europe. At peak times up to 200 trains per hour pass through of which 122 stop. It
1605-796: Is not in Clapham , a district 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south-east. A major transport hub , Clapham Junction station is on both the South West Main Line and Brighton Main Line , as well as numerous other routes and branch lines which pass through or diverge from the main lines at this station. It serves as a southern terminus of both the Mildmay and Windrush lines of the London Overground . Routes from London's south and south-west termini, Victoria and Waterloo, funnel through
1712-422: Is not the busiest station by number of passengers, most of whom (about 430,000 on a weekday, of which 135,000 are at rush hours) pass through. Interchanges make some 40% of the activity and on that basis too it is the busiest station in the UK. In 2011, the station had three entrances, all with staffed ticket offices: There are public and disabled toilets at the south-west entrance. There are refreshment kiosks in
1819-596: Is on the curved south bank of the River Thames . Battersea's northern limit is thus the Tideway , the Thames below Teddington . Battersea's riverside is just over 3 miles (4.8 km) long. Immediately to the west is Wandsworth Town . To the north-east are Vauxhall and then Lambeth , including Waterloo . Battersea at one end of its riverside has a western corner at a point 350 metres east northeast of Wandsworth Bridge , and Battersea tapers SSE to almost
1926-563: Is served by some South Western Railway trains. Northbound, most trains call at Vauxhall en route to London Waterloo. Southbound passengers can travel towards Richmond, Twickenham , Hounslow , and Windsor & Eton direct. Queenstown Road opened up the line on 1 November 1877 by the London and South Western Railway , as Queen's Road (Battersea) . British Rail renamed the station to Queenstown Road (Battersea) on 12 May 1980. As part of Northern line extension to Battersea , Battersea
2033-399: Is served by some Southern trains. Trains northbound terminate at London Victoria , which is the next stop along the line. Southbound, Southern's " metro " services run to Clapham Junction, Wandsworth Common , and Balham . After Balham, trains head towards Croydon , Epsom , London Bridge , and Sutton , amongst other destinations. The first station to carry the name "Battersea Park"
2140-562: The London Borough of Wandsworth , England. It is centred 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southwest of Charing Cross it also extends along the south bank of the Thames Tideway . It includes the 200-acre (0.81 km ) Battersea Park . Battersea is mentioned in the few surviving Anglo-Saxon geographical accounts as Badrices īeg , 'Badric's Island' and later [Patrisey] Error: {{Langx}}: invalid parameter: |abbr= ( help ) . As with many former parishes beside tidal flood plains
2247-535: The London, Chatham and Dover Railway in 1867 and closed in 1916. The largest railway station in Battersea is Clapham Junction, to the southwest of the district. The station is a busy interchange, and it serves destinations across London, the South , and South West England . Train operators from Clapham Junction include: In terms of the number of train movements, Clapham Junction is Europe's busiest railway station. It opened on 21 May 1838. Queenstown Road (Battersea)
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#17327659640232354-973: The Meadowhall Shopping Centre , Sheffield (originally as a SavaCentre) in 1990, and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre at Brierley Hill in the West Midlands , which opened in September 1989. Sainsbury's expanded into Scotland in 1992 with a shop in Darnley (the SavaCentre at Cameron Toll in Edinburgh had opened in 1984). In June 1995, Sainsbury's announced its intention to move into the Northern Ireland market, until that point dominated by local companies. Between December 1996 and December 1998,
2461-447: The hypermarket sector, Sainsbury's formed a joint venture, known as SavaCentre , with British Home Stores . The first SavaCentre shop was opened in Washington, Tyne and Wear , in 1977; nearly half the space, amounting to some 35,000 sq ft (3,300 m ), was devoted to textiles, electrical goods and hardware. As the hypermarket format became more mainstream, with rivals such as Asda and Tesco launching ever larger shops, it
2568-464: The 1969 movie Battle of Britain, in the movie as in real life used as a navigational landmark by the attacking Luftwaffe bombers. The Optimists of Nine Elms , a 1973 film starring Peter Sellers , is set in Battersea. Battersea is also the setting for Penelope Fitzgerald 's 1979 Booker Prize –winning novel, Offshore . Kitty Neale's Nobody's Girl is set in a fictional café and the surrounding Battersea High Street Market. Nell Dunn 's 1963 novel Up
2675-620: The 95-minute journey by tube and Gatwick Express to Gatwick Airport and unite the Great Western Main Line with Heathrow, Gatwick and the South West Main Line was cancelled in 2011 following improvements to the 2005-built Heathrow Connect track from Hayes and Harlington and practical impediments, such as pressure for continued high-frequency services on the three deemed-'entrenched' semi-fast and slow services between Clapham Junction and Staines . Overground,
2782-654: The Homebase chain in December 2000, in a twofold deal worth £ 969 million. Sales of the stores to Schroder Ventures generated £750 million and sale of 28 development sites, which had been earmarked for future Homebase shops, were sold for £219 million to rival B&Q 's parent company, Kingfisher plc . During the 1980s, the company invested in new technology: the proportion of sales passing through EPOS scanning checkouts rose from 1% to 90%. In November 1983, Sainsbury's purchased 21% of Shaw's Supermarkets ,
2889-470: The Junction (later adapted for both television and cinema) depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea near Clapham Junction . Battersea provides the backdrop for the real world scenes in the audio book and app series Rockford's Rock Opera . Sainsbury%27s J Sainsbury plc , trading as Sainsbury's , is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in
2996-963: The London Mayor's new Housing Zones. Further north towards Chelsea is the Surrey Lane Estate , and on Battersea Park Road is the Doddington and Rollo Estate. East, toward Vauxhall, is the Patmore Estate which is in close proximity to the Battersea Power Station. Other smaller estates include: York Road (see Winstanley Estate ), Ashley Crescent, Badric Court, Carey Gardens, Chatham Road, Ethelburga, Falcon Road, Gideon Road, Honeywell Road, Kambala, Peabody, Robertson Street, Savona, Somerset, Wilditch and Wynter Street. The tradition of local government in England
3103-576: The National Anti-Vivisection Society sought permission to erect a drinking fountain celebrating the life of a dog killed by vivisection . The fountain, forming a plinth for the statue of a brown dog, was installed in the Latchmere Recreation Ground , became a cause célèbre, fought over in riots and battles between medical students and the local populace until its removal in 1910. The borough elected
3210-710: The Nectar app. The Nectar scheme replaced the Sainsbury's Reward Card; accrued points were transferred over. In January 2003, Wm Morrison Supermarkets (trading as Morrisons) made an offer for the Safeway group, prompting a bidding war between the major supermarkets. The Trade and Industry Secretary, Patricia Hewitt , referred the various bids to the Competition Commission , which reported its findings on 26 September. The Commission found that all bids, with
3317-443: The Sainsbury's board would even consider opening its books for due diligence for anything less than 600p per share. Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, with just under 3%, was more extreme than his cousin, and refused to sell at any price. He believed any offer at that stage of Sainsbury's recovery was likely to undervalue the business, and with private equity seeking high returns on their investments, saw no reason to sell, given that
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3424-439: The Sainsbury's group boasted a twelve-year record of dividend increases, of 20% or more and earnings per share had risen by as much for nearly as long. Also in 1991, the company raised £489 million, in new equity to fund the expansion of supershops. With the advent of out of town shopping complexes during the 1980s, Sainsbury's was one of the many big retail names to open new shops in such complexes – notably with its shop at
3531-516: The South West Main Line and outer suburban services to Alton and Basingstoke typically do not stop at the station. In the 2010s, a Clapham Junction station was proposed as part of the Crossrail 2 project. A large underground station dug underneath the existing station was proposed to serve Crossrail 2 service. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the project was indefinitely postponed in 2020, although
3638-711: The St John Baronets of Lydiard Tregoze and ultimately the Viscounts Bolingbroke . Bolingbrokes exercised control of the manor for some 173 years, showing varying levels of interest and competence in running the estate's affairs, until in 1763 the disastrously dissolute Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke sold the manor to help to settle his many debts. Battersea now passed into the Spencer family - John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer being related to Frederick's wife. The Survey of London identified
3745-501: The Thames foreshore; and a Spencer was responsible for the construction of first local bridge across the Thames, Battersea Bridge from 1771 to 1772. And albeit Battersea saw some slow change over the first seven centuries of the second millennium, it was not until a later period that an imperative for greater local government arose. The vestry of Battersea continued to increase in importance from 1742, notably concerning itself with Poor Law administration and drainage. Responsibility for
3852-582: The United Kingdom, instead assuming responsibility for the rest of the group. David Bremner became head of the supermarkets in the United Kingdom. This was "derided" by the city and described as a "fudge". On 14 January 2000 Sainsbury's reversed this decision by announcing the replacement of Adriano by Sir Peter Davis effective from March. Davis was CEO between 2000 and 2004, with his appointment well received by investors and analysts. In his first two years, he exceeded profit targets, although by 2004
3959-477: The United Kingdom. Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane , London, the company was the largest UK retailer of groceries for most of the 20th century. In 1995, Tesco became the market leader when it overtook Sainsbury's, which has since been ranked second or third: it was overtaken by Asda from 2003 to 2014, and again for one month in 2019. In 2018, a planned merger with Asda
4066-596: The abbey, variously termed a beadle , reeve or sergeant , whose responsibility it was supervise the farm servants of the manor, and to enforce and direct customary work performed by manorial tenants. After 1540 the Crown assumed ownership of the manor, and let it on short leases to a succession of individuals, until in about 1590 it came into the hands of the St. John family of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, who later became
4173-462: The appointment of two chief executives, one in charge of supermarkets within the United Kingdom (Dino Adriano) and the other responsible for Homebase, and the United States (David Bremner). Finally, in 1998, David Sainsbury himself resigned from the company to pursue a career in politics. He was succeeded as non executive chairman by George Bull, who had been chairman of Diageo , and Adriano
4280-604: The area shows the following factories, in order, from the site of the as yet unbuilt Wandsworth Bridge to Battersea Park: Starch manufacturer; Silk manufacturer; (St. John's College); (St. Mary's Church); Malt house; Corn mill; Oil and grease works (Prices Candles); Chemical works; Plumbago Crucible works (later the Morgan Crucible Company ); Chemical works; Saltpetre works; Foundry. Between these were numerous wharfs for shipping. In 1929, construction started on Battersea Power Station , being completed in 1939. From
4387-552: The availability problems, Justin King said "Lawrence hadn't seen anything that he hadn't seen before. He just hadn't seen them all in the same place at the same time". In 2006, Christensen commented on the four automated depots introduced by Davis, saying "not a single day went by without one, if not all of them, breaking down... The systems were flawed. They have to stop for four hours every day for maintenance. But because they were constantly breaking down you would be playing catch up. It
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4494-551: The books of Michael de Larrabeiti , who was born and brought up in the area: A Rose Beyond the Thames recounts the working-class Battersea of the 1940s and 1950s; The Borrible Trilogy presents a fictional Battersea, home to fantasy creatures known as the Borribles. The station makes a brief appearance in The Beatles ' second film, Help! , in 1965. It also appears during the first daylight attack on London sequence in
4601-462: The borough and after the turmoil of dock strikes affecting the populace of north Battersea, was elected to represent the borough in the newly formed London County Council . In 1892, he expanded his role, being elected to Parliament for Battersea North as one of the first Independent Labour Party members of Parliament. Battersea's radical reputation gave rise to the Brown Dog affair , when in 1904
4708-472: The change would have been at Clapham Junction. On the morning of 12 December 1988, two collisions involving three commuter trains occurred slightly south-west of the station due to a defective signal. 35 people died and 484 were injured. On the morning of 16 December 1991, a bomb ripped through tracks on one of the station's platforms, causing major disruption to the rail network. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) claimed responsibility. The station
4815-474: The company and where the company could improve. This reaffirmed the commentary of retail analysts: the group was not ensuring that shelves were fully stocked, due to the failure of the IT systems introduced by Peter Davis . On 19 October 2004, King unveiled the results of the business review and his plans to revive the company's fortunes, in a three-year recovery plan entitled 'Making Sainsbury's Great Again'. This
4922-552: The company introduced another informal font in 2005, which is used in a wide range of advertising and literature. In 1999, Sainsbury's acquired an 80.1% share of Egyptian Distribution Group SAE, a retailer in Egypt with one hundred shops and 2,000 employees. However, poor profitability led to the sale of this share in April 2001. On 8 October 1999, the CEO Dino Adriano lost control of the core supermarket business within
5029-429: The company opened seven shops. Two others at Sprucefield , Lisburn, and Holywood Exchange , Belfast would not open until 2003, due to protracted legal challenges. While Sainsbury's outlets in Northern Ireland were all new developments, Tesco (apart from one Tesco Metro) instead purchased existing chains from Associated British Foods (see Tesco Ireland ). In 1992, the long time CEO John Davan Sainsbury retired, and
5136-440: The company was soon forced to backtrack, introducing its own Reward Card eighteen months later. For much of the 20th century, Sainsbury's had been the market leader in the supermarket sector in the United Kingdom, but in 1995, it lost this position to Tesco. Some new ventures were successful, notably the launch of a retail bank, Sainsbury's Bank , in partnership with Bank of Scotland . In addition to Shaw's, Sainsbury's bought
5243-497: The company went public on 12 July 1973, as J Sainsbury plc, the company was wholly owned by the Sainsbury family. It was at the time the largest ever flotation on the London Stock Exchange ; the company rewarded the smaller bids for shares in order to create as many shareholders as possible. A million shares were set aside for staff, which led to many staff members buying shares that shot up in value. Within one minute
5350-454: The company's distribution system. Later sales improvements were put down to price cuts and the company's focus on fresh and healthy food. On 2 February 2007, after months of speculation about a private equity bid, CVC Capital Partners , Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Blackstone Group announced that they were considering a bid for Sainsbury's. The consortium grew to include Goldman Sachs and Texas Pacific Group . On 6 March 2007, with
5457-533: The company. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index . Sainsbury's was established as a partnership in 1869, when John James Sainsbury and his wife Mary Ann opened a shop at 173 Drury Lane in Covent Garden, London. Sainsbury started as a retailer of fresh foods and later expanded into packaged groceries such as tea and sugar. His trading philosophy, as stated on
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#17327659640235564-454: The construction of four fully automated depots, which at £100 million each cost four times more than standard depots. In 2001, Sainsbury's moved into its current headquarters at Holborn, London. Sainsbury's previously occupied Stamford House and twelve other buildings around Southwark . The accounting department remained separate at Streatham . The building was designed by architectural firm Foster and Partners , and had been developed on
5671-500: The current management, led by Justin King, could deliver the extra profit generated for the benefit of existing investors. He claimed the bid 'brought nothing to the business', and that high levels of debt would significantly weaken the company and its competitive position in the long term, which would have an adverse effect on Sainsbury's stakeholders. On 11 April, the CVC-led consortium abandoned its offer, stating that "it became clear
5778-424: The development of a plurality of smaller estates, which had implications for the later development of the area. The scope of governance throughout this period was relatively slight. Lords of the manor were responsible for church appointments and maintenance of the fabric of the church; for drainage, and for the direction of the duties of the manor's tenants. From time to time work was done under manorial direction on
5885-434: The early twentieth century. During the latter decades of the nineteenth century Battersea had developed into a major town railway centre with two locomotive works at Nine Elms and Longhedge and three important motive power depots (Nine Elms, Stewarts Lane and Battersea) all in an initial pocket of north Battersea. The effect was precipitate: a population of 6,000 people in 1840 was increased to 168,000 by 1910; and save for
5992-453: The end of large scale local industry, resurgent demand among magnates and high income earners for parkside and riverside property close to planned Underground links has led to significant construction, Factories have been demolished and replaced with modern apartment buildings. Some of the council owned properties have been sold off and several traditional working men's pubs have become more fashionable bistros. Battersea neighbourhoods close to
6099-527: The exception of Morrison's, would "operate against the public interest". As part of the approval Morrison's was to dispose of 53 of the combined group's shops. In May 2004, Sainsbury's announced that it would acquire fourteen of these shops, thirteen Safeway shops and one Morrison's outlet, located primarily in the Midlands and the North of England. At the end of March 2004, Davis was promoted to chairman and
6206-404: The extension, due to the high demand. However, provision has been made for a future extension of the line to the station, with a reserved course underneath Battersea Park . Government and Network Rail funding for in the early 2010s of £50 million of improvements was granted. This comprised an upgrade to the main interchange: new entrances and more retail. In a Network Rail study in 2015, it
6313-525: The first black mayor in London in 1913 when John Archer took office, and in 1922 elected the Bombay -born Communist Party member Shapurji Saklatvala as MP for Battersea; one of only two communist members of Parliament. Battersea is currently divided into five Wandsworth wards. The Member of Parliament for the Battersea constituency since 8 June 2017 has been Labour MP Marsha de Cordova . Battersea
6420-453: The first estate directly built by a council's own workforce and therefore the first true "council estate". Indeed, both of these earlier estates have since been recognised as conservation areas due to their historical and architectural significance and are protected from redevelopment. Battersea also has a large area of mid-20th century public housing estates, almost all located north of the main railway lines and spanning from Fairfield in
6527-594: The focus of the area southwards, and marginalised Battersea High Street (the main street of the original village) into no more than an extension of Falcon Road. Battersea has a long and varied history of social housing, and the completion of the Shaftesbury Park Estate in 1877 was one of the earliest in London or the UK. Additionally, the development of the Latchmere Estate in 1903 was notable both for John Burns ' involvement and for being
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#17327659640236634-548: The former Mirror Group site for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture ); Sainsbury's acquired the 25-year lease when Accenture pulled out. Sainsbury's was a founding member of the Nectar loyalty card scheme, which was launched in September 2002, in conjunction with Debenhams , Barclaycard and BP ; Debenhams, Barclaycard and BP have all subsequently left the scheme, although until the chain's demise Nectar points continued to be awarded for online purchases at Debenhams made through
6741-566: The future of Sainsbury's was self-service supermarkets of 10,000 sq ft (930 m ), with eventually the added bonus of a car park for extra convenience. The first self-service branch opened in Croydon in 1950. Sainsbury's was a pioneer in the development of own-brand goods; the aim was to offer products that matched the quality of nationally branded goods but at a lower price. It expanded more cautiously than Tesco , shunning acquisitions, and it never offered trading stamps . Until
6848-400: The government to site its buildings in the area surrounding Clapham Junction , where a cluster of new civic buildings including the town hall, library, police station, court and post office was developed along Lavender Hill in the 1880s and 1890s. The Arding & Hobbs department store, diagonally opposite the station, was the largest of its type at the time of its construction in 1885; and
6955-430: The green spaces of Battersea Park , Clapham Common , Wandsworth Common and some smaller isolated pockets, all other farmland was built over, with, from north to south, industrial buildings and vast railway sheds and sidings (much of which remain), slum housing for workers, especially north of the main east–west railway, and gradually more genteel residential terraced housing further south. The railway station encouraged
7062-452: The group had suffered a decline in performance relative to its competitors and was demoted to third in the groceries market within the United Kingdom. Davis also oversaw an almost £3 billion upgrade of shops, distribution and IT equipment, entitled 'Business Transformation Programme', but his successor would later reveal that much of this investment was wasted and he failed in his key goal – improving availability. Part of this investment saw
7169-407: The late 18th century to comparatively recent times, Battersea was established as an industrial area with all of the issues associated with pollution and poor housing affecting it. Industry declined and moved away from the area in the 1970s, and local government sought to address chronic post-war housing problems with large scale clearances and the establishment of planned housing. Some decades after
7276-567: The latter was removed from the vestry in 1855 with the establishment of Metropolitan Boards of Work under the Metropolis Management Act 1855 ; a Metropolitan Board concerned itself with cross-London drainage and sewerage, whilst a local Wandsworth Metropolitan Board assumed responsibility for minor sewers and the connection of houses to sewerage systems. It was during the tenure of the Wandsworth board that much of Battersea
7383-790: The list of applications was closed: £495 million had been offered for £14.5 million available shares. The Sainsbury family at the time retained 85% of the firm's shares. Most of the senior positions were held by family members. John Davan Sainsbury (later Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover ), a member of the fourth generation of the founding family, took over the chairmanship from his uncle Sir Robert Sainsbury in 1969, who had been chairman for two years from 1967 following Alan Sainsbury's retirement. Sainsbury's started to replace its 10,000 sq ft (930 m ) High Street shops with self-service supermarkets above 20,000 sq ft (1,900 m ), which were either in out of town locations or in regenerated town centres. Sainsbury's policy
7490-420: The local church, temporarily, while a new one was built. This shop was not completed until 1951. In 1956, Alan Sainsbury became chairman after the death of his father, John Benjamin Sainsbury . During the 1950s and 1960s, Sainsbury's was a keen early adopter of self-service supermarkets in the United Kingdom. On a trip to the United States, Alan Sainsbury realised the benefits of self-service shops and believed
7597-751: The lowest land was reclaimed for agriculture by draining marshland and building culverts for streams. By the side of this was the Heathwall tide mill in the north-east with a very long mill pond regularly draining and filling to the south. The settlement appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Middle English : Patricesy , a vast manor held by St Peter's Abbey, Westminster . Its Domesday Assets were: 18 hides and 17 ploughlands of cultivated land; 7 mills worth £42 9s 8d per year, 82 acres (33 ha) of meadow , woodland worth 50 hogs . It rendered (in total): £75 9s 8d. The present church, which
7704-615: The nonindustrial parish calculating that being upon the slopes of Clapham's plateau would only reinforce this distinction, leading to a long-lasting misunderstanding that the station is in Clapham. The new London Overground line names and colours were introduced across the London rail network in November 2024 A £39.5 million planning application from Metro Shopping Fund was withdrawn before governmental planning committee consideration on 20 May 2009. A ' Heathrow Airtrack ' to reduce
7811-464: The north east tip of the area. Over the next 22 years five other lines were built, which continue to carry all of the trains to and from London's Waterloo and Victoria termini. An interchange station was built in 1863 towards the north west of the area, at a junction of the railway. Taking the name of a fashionable village a mile and more away, the station was named ' Clapham Junction ': a campaign to rename it "Battersea Junction" fizzled out as late as
7918-400: The offer was rejected. On 9 April, the indicative offer was raised to 582p a share, however this too was rejected. This meant the consortium could not satisfy its own preconditions for a bid, most importantly 75% shareholder support; the combined Sainsbury family holding at the time was 18%. Lord Sainsbury of Turville, who then held 7.75% of Sainsbury's, stated that he could see no reason why
8025-608: The pace of new supershops construction would slow down, and that it would write down the value of some of its properties. In 1994, Sainsbury's announced a new town centre format, Sainsbury's Central, again a response to Tesco's Metro, which was already established in five locations. Also in 1994, Sainsbury's lost the takeover battle for William Low (like Tesco, Sainsbury's had long been under-represented in Scotland). Also that year, David Sainsbury dismissed Tesco's clubcard initiative as 'an electronic version of Green Shield Stamps ';
8132-452: The parish of Battersea was part of the county of Surrey . In that year a new County of London came into being and the parish was made part of it. Before the Industrial Revolution , much of the large parish was farmland, providing food for the City of London and surrounding population centres; and with particular specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill (nowadays denoted by
8239-817: The period of Frederick's tenure with the development of the Vestry in Battersea; absent a competent lord of the manor, this local secular and ecclesiastical government took it upon itself to establish a workhouse in 1733, and met monthly from 1742. The period of Spencer ownership of the manor saw important land ownership changes introduced to the area. The family had many estates, such as at Althorp in Northamptonshire and Wiseton in Nottinghamshire. Locally, their interests were concentrated on Wimbledon . During their tenure, large tracts of land were sold, notably around 1761, and from 1835 to 1838, leading to
8346-529: The railway have some of the most deprived local authority housing in the Borough of Wandsworth, in an area which saw condemned slums after their erection in the Victoria era. Battersea was radically altered by the coming of railways. The London and Southampton Railway Company engineered their railway line from east to west through Battersea, in 1838, terminating at the original Nine Elms railway station at
8453-541: The reluctance to move into non-food retailing, the indecision between whether to go for quality or for value, "the sometimes brutal treatment of suppliers" which led to suppliers favouring Tesco over Sainsbury's, and an unsuccessful advertising campaign fronted by John Cleese . At the end of 1993, it announced price cuts on three hundred of its most popular own label lines. Significantly, this came three months after Tesco had launched its line Tesco Value . A few months later, Sainsbury's announced that margins had fallen, that
8560-492: The road of the same name), asparagus (sold as "Battersea Bundles") or pig breeding on Pig Hill (later the site of the Shaftesbury Park Estate ). At the end of the 18th century, above 300 acres (1.2 km ) of land in the parish of Battersea were occupied by some 20 market gardeners, who rented from five to near 60 acres (24 ha) each. Villages in the wider area: Wandsworth, Earlsfield (hamlet of Garratt), Tooting, Balham – were separated by fields; in common with other suburbs
8667-512: The route has been safeguarded. The Northern line extension to Battersea Power Station was criticised for not extending to Clapham Junction. During the public inquiry into the extension in 2014, it was noted that although an extension to Clapham would be desirable, it was unnecessary to meet the needs of the Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea regeneration area. Additionally, it was noted that a further extension could overwhelm
8774-465: The second largest retailer of groceries in the northeastern United States (primarily in New England). In June 1987, Sainsbury's acquired the rest of the company. In 1985, the chairman reported that over the preceding 10 years profits had grown from £15 million to over £168 million, a compound annual rise of 30.4% – after allowing for inflation a real annual growth rate of 17.6%. In 1991,
8881-646: The station, making it the busiest in Europe by number of trains using it: between 100 and 180 per hour, except for the five hours after midnight. The station is also the busiest UK station for interchanges between services, as well as the only railway station in Great Britain with more interchanges than entries or exits. On 21 May 1838, the London and Southampton Railway became the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR), and opened its line from Nine Elms as far as Woking . The second line, initially from Nine Elms to Richmond , opened on 27 July 1846. Nine Elms
8988-472: The streets near the station developed as a regional shopping district. The area was served by a vast music hall – The Grand – opposite the station (nowadays serving as a nightclub and venue for smaller bands) as well as a large theatre next to the town hall (the Shakespeare Theatre, later redeveloped following bomb damage). All this building around the station shifted
9095-510: The subway, on the footbridge and on some platforms; and a small shopping centre, including a small branch of Sainsbury's supermarket, in the south-east entrance. British Transport Police maintain a neighbourhood policing presence, whereas the Metropolitan Police Service and the part- Transport for London funded Safer Transport Command provides a police presence in the area outside the station. On 9 December 2012,
9202-693: The wealthy of London and the traditional manor successors built their homes in Battersea and neighbouring areas. Industry in the area was concentrated to the northwest just outside the Battersea-Wandsworth boundary, at the confluence of the River Thames and the River Wandle , which gave rise to the village of Wandsworth . This was settled from the 16th century by Protestant craftsmen – Huguenots – fleeing religious persecution in Europe, who planted lavender and gardens and established
9309-666: The west of the station are located between platforms 6 and 7. Platform 8 must not be used for stopping trains, unless in an emergency, because the platform gap is too wide. All South Western Railway services from Waterloo pass through the station, as do Southern and Gatwick Express trains from Victoria. The Mildmay and Windrush lines of the London Overground have Clapham Junction as one of their termini. The typical off-peak service of 104 trains an hour (tph) comprises: South Western Railway: Southern: London Overground: During peak hours on weekdays express services on
9416-399: The west to Queenstown in the east. There are four particularly large estates. The Winstanley Estate , perhaps being the most renowned of them all, is known as being the birthplace to the garage collective So Solid Crew . Winstanley is close to Clapham Junction railway station in the northern perimeter of Battersea, and is currently being considered for comprehensive redevelopment as one of
9523-465: Was a vicious circle." Christensen said a fundamental mistake was to build four such depots at once, rather than building one which could be thoroughly tested before progressing with the others. In 2007, Sainsbury's announced a further £12 million investment in its depots to keep pace with sales growth and the removal of the failed automated systems from its depots. In addition, it did a deal with IBM to upgrade its Electronic Point of Sale systems as
9630-792: Was based in part of Manor , and later on the Parish . Battersea's governance can be traced back to 693, when the manor was held by the nunnery of St. Mary at Barking Abbey . After the Norman Conquest of 1066, control of the manor passed to Westminster Abbey , ending at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540. Battersea was one of only three of the Abbey's demesne directly supervised by monks, rather than being let to tenants. Local control rested with an officer appointed by
9737-555: Was blocked by the Competition and Markets Authority over concerns of increased prices for consumers. The holding company, J Sainsbury plc, is split into three divisions: Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd ( including convenience shops ), Sainsbury's Bank , and Argos . As of 2021, the largest overall shareholder is the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar , the Qatar Investment Authority , which holds around 15% of
9844-604: Was built in 1729 and rebuilt 1882, and Battersea Bridge in the centre of the north boundary in 1771. Inland from the river, the rural agricultural community persisted. Along the Thames, a number of large and, in their field, pre-eminent firms grew; notably the Morgan Crucible company, which survives to this day and is listed on the London Stock Exchange ; Price's Candles, which also made cycle lamp oil; oil refiner and paint manufacturer S. Bowley and Son ; and Orlando Jones' Starch Factory. The 1874 Ordnance Survey map of
9951-408: Was completed in 1777, hosted the marriage of William Blake and Catherine Boucher in 1782. Benedict Arnold , his wife Peggy Shippen , and their daughter were buried in the crypt of the church. Battersea Park , a 200-acre (0.81 km ) northern rectangle by the Thames, was landscaped and founded for public use in 1858. Amenities and leisure buildings have been added to it since. Until 1889,
10058-712: Was decided that a separate brand was no longer needed, and the shops were converted to the regular Sainsbury's supershop format in September 1999. Sainsbury's diversified further in 1979, forming a joint venture with the Belgian retailer, GB-Inno-BM, to set up a chain of do-it-yourself shops under the Homebase name. Sainsbury's also trebled the size of its Homebase do it yourself business during 1996, by merging its business with Texas Homecare , which it acquired in January 1995 from Ladbroke for £290 million. Sainsbury's sold
10165-633: Was developed; but such was the pace of development in Battersea that by 1887 it had a population sufficient to win the case for renewed local autonomy under the Metropolis Management (Battersea and Westminster) Act of 1887. The Battersea vestry continued through to 1899, when it became the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea as a result of the London Government Act 1899 . The Metropolitan Borough of Battersea
10272-436: Was forced to quit in the face of an impending shareholder revolt, over his salary and bonuses. Investors were angered by a bonus share award of over £2 million, despite poor company performance. On 19 July 2004, Davis' replacement Philip Hampton, was appointed as chairman. King ordered a direct mail campaign to one million Sainsbury's customers as part of his six-month business review, asking them what they wanted from
10379-415: Was generally well received by both the stock market and the media. Immediate plans included laying off over 750 headquarters staff, and the recruitment of around 3,000 shop floor staff, to improve the quality of service and address the firm's main problem: stock availability. The aim would be to increase sales revenue by £2.5 billion by the financial year ending March 2008. Another significant announcement
10486-598: Was in 1965 combined with the neighbouring Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth to form the London Borough of Wandsworth . The former Battersea Town Hall , opened in 1893, is now the Battersea Arts Centre . In the period from 1880 onwards, Battersea was known as a centre of radical politics in the United Kingdom. John Burns founded a branch of the Social Democratic Federation , Britain's first organised socialist political party, in
10593-409: Was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) as "Battersea" on 1 October 1860 and was located at the southern end of what is now Grosvenor Bridge. It closed on 1 November 1870. The LB&SCR opened another station on a high-level line on 1 May 1867 called Battersea Park . Another station existed closed to the current station called Battersea Park Road railway station by
10700-527: Was promoted to be group chief executive. In June 1999, Sainsbury's unveiled its new corporate identity . This was developed by 20/20 Design and Strategy, and included The strapline was dropped in May 2005, and replaced in September of that year by "Try something new today." This new brand statement was created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO . While the Interstate font was used almost exclusively for many years,
10807-492: Was proposed that platform 0 could reopen for 8-car operations of the West London Line. London Buses routes 35 , 37 , 39 , 49 , 77 , 87 , 156 , 170 , 219 , 295 , 319 , 337 , 344 , 345 , 639 , 670 , C3 and G1 and night routes N19 , N31 and N87 serve the station. [REDACTED] London transport portal Battersea Battersea is a large district in southwest London , part of
10914-575: Was replaced as CEO by Justin King . King joined Sainsbury's from Marks & Spencer where he was a director with responsibility for its food division and Kings Super Markets, Inc. subsidiary in the United States. Schooled in Solihull near Birmingham, and a graduate of the University of Bath, where he took a business administration degree, King was also previously a managing director at Asda with responsibility for hypermarkets. In June 2004, Davis
11021-615: Was replaced by his eldest son, John Benjamin Sainsbury , who had gone into partnership with his father in 1915. During the 1930s and 1940s, the company continued to refine its product offerings and maintain its leadership in terms of shop design, convenience, and cleanliness. The company acquired the Midlands-based Thoroughgood chain in 1936. The founder's grandsons Alan Sainsbury (later Lord Sainsbury) and Sir Robert Sainsbury became joint managing directors in 1938, after their father, John Benjamin Sainsbury, had
11128-557: Was replaced in 1848 as the terminus by Waterloo Bridge station, now Waterloo. The line to Victoria opened by 1860. Clapham Junction opened on 2 March 1863, a joint venture of the L&;SWR, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) and the West London Extension Railway (WLER) as an interchange station for their lines. The railway companies, to attract a middle- and upper-class clientele, seized
11235-424: Was succeeded as chairman and chief executive by his cousin, David Sainsbury (later Lord Sainsbury of Turville ); this brought about a change in management style – David was more consensual and less hierarchical, but not in strategy or in corporate beliefs about the company's place in the market. Mistakes by David Sainsbury and his successors, Dino Adriano and Peter Davis , included the rejection of loyalty cards,
11342-420: Was the halving of the dividend to increase funds available for price cuts and quality. King hired Lawrence Christensen as supply chain director in 2004. Previously he was an expert in logistics at Safeway , but left following its takeover by Morrisons . Immediate supply chain improvements included the reactivation of two distribution centres. At the time of the business review on 19 October 2004, referring to
11449-621: Was to invest in uniform, well designed shops with a strong emphasis on quality; its slogan was "good food costs less at Sainsbury's". During the 1970s, the average size of Sainsbury's shops rose from 10,000 sq ft (930 m ) to around 18,000 sq ft (1,700 m ); the first edge of town shop, with 24,000 sq ft (2,200 m ) of selling space, was opened at Coldhams Lane in Cambridge in 1974. The last counter service branch closed in Peckham in 1982. To participate in
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