Lees Court is just off from Devizes Road, at the southern end.
I don’t know why it’s called Lees Court for sure – but from memory either the Devizes Road shoe repairer’s or the shop on the corner of Ashley Road and Coldharbour Lane was called ‘Lees’. Perhaps there was some connection.
Update: I was browsing in the library and found a book called ‘On The Corner’ by Daphne Lee1. As might be guessed from the title and author, this confirms that the shop on the corner of Ashley Road was indeed ‘Lees’.
I didn’t have time to read the book yet, but given how close ‘Lees Court’ is to the old ‘Lees shop’, you might expect there to be a connection. I did notice that, according to the author, the family may be connected to the name of Lee Green in London, which is near Lewisham.
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Footnotes
- Lee, Daphne, On the corner, Published Excalibur Press, 1988 107p : ISBN/RCN 1853660124 Library Class Number SAL.921 [↩]
Lee’s shop was on the corner of Coldharbour Lane and Ashlet Rd, at the top of Ashley with junction of Devizes Rd was Tibbenhams shop and the top of Kingsland Rd was Powells. The area was well served with shops. The Post Office was in Devizes Rd opposite Highbury Avenue and there was a host of shops on the Wessex junction (now the st Pauls roundabout)