Clapham Common band stand, SW4 London by drone

Clapham Common band stand, SW4 London by drone Clapham Common band stand is a quick video shot from a Mavic 2 pro. Lovely to see some random youngsters doing their dance practice on a late summer evening. History of Clapham Common band stand In the centre of Clapham Common park is a 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 later. The bandstand's maintenance had been neglected by Lambeth Council for thirty years, and by 2001 it was thought to be in danger of collapse and had to be shored up with scaffolding for five years. In 2005–2006, a full restoration of the bandstand and surrounding landscape took place, partly funded by an £895,000 lottery grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund matched by £300,000 from Lambeth Council and a further £100,000 from local fundraising efforts and the proceeds of the Ben and Jerry's Summer Sundae event held on the Common. The drainage around the bandstand was restored with granite during the summer of 2011 at a cost of £12,000 to resolve design faults in the earlier works.