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Tooting
Relatively recent name referring to gorse on the common. Marked as ‘Furze Down’ on the Ordnance Survey map of 1876, that is ‘down on which furze or gorse grows', from Middle English ‘furse’. Local records from the 17th century refer to the cutting of furze for fuel by the inhabitants of Tooting on the common land here. Furzedown (east of Tooting).
WelhamRoad
Furzedown Secondary, has a big Baroque centrepiece of c. 1910, with rusticated brick surround to a large window. Good additions gymnasium and science blocks by Trevor Dannatt & Partners, 1965-7-
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Bonneville Gardens
Bonneville School LSB 1905.
Clapham Common South Side
Back along South Side there are lesser Georgian houses of different dates. once had a succession of large Georgian mansions, but little remains.
Henry Thornton school ,1965-9 by Farmer & Dark. The dominant motif, deliberately different from the usual run of school buildings of the 1960s, is the rapid rhythm of the narrow arched window panels in a concrete frame. Contrasting red brick staircase towers. The building has not worn well.
Notre Dame Estate, depressing L.C.C. blocks of pre-war type, built after 1945 on the site of two houses which had belonged to the Thorntons and later became a convent.
44 a small villa of c. 1820, set back.
53 once a fine three-bay house of c. 1780. Good Venetian window behind a garage.
Wlndmill Inn of c. 1790 forms part of a little enclave on the common.
78, dated 1888, is well endowed with gables, in the tile-hung Norman Shaw manner.
14 Alexandra Hostel. 1866, with large slate-covered domed roof with crest- ing, and polychrome brick detail
third milestone; 1745.
Milepost
Montrose Court Hotel
Clapham Park
1825 Thomas Cubit. Not completed until 1850s because of financial and property slide. laid out with large detached mansions in their own grounds by Thomas Cubitt, the great builder. He bought the estate in 1825, but it was not fully built up until the 1850s-60s. It was one of the most fashionable areas in South London in the mid c19. The main roads are Poynders Road-Atkins Road, crossed by Clarence Avenue and Kings Avenue. Cubitt's own house was in Clarence Avenue. This and most of the other houses have gone.
Southern Motor Co.
Clarence Avenue
Cubit himself lived here – house demolished
After 1965 redevelopment by Lambeth Council, in a different mode three of Lambeth's earliest tower blocks, polygonal with projecting bay-windows, 1966-7.
group of 'quad' houses four back-to-back houses in a cluster, an experimental type of the 1970s;
Clifton an old people's home, low patio houses and flats behind, with a doctor's surgery, a pleasantly varied group completed in 1970 which makes use of a tiny Cubitt remnant perhaps a gardener's cottage as a warden's house
Glenbrook Primary 1949/54 post-war schools is one of the standardized industrial buildings put up by ILEA. immediately after the Second World War, an attractive example which has worn well: 1949-54, job architect L. Pemberton.
Clapham Park School for the partially sighted presents a more homely image created by a well grouped cluster of dark brick pavilions, with pyramid-roofed centre: 1967-9, Job architect Peter Banting
Clapham Library 1887 site completed and opened 1889 by Lubbock.
Lessar Avenue
modest flats by W. H. Beesley, early post-war housing for Wandsworth Council.
Maple Close
1 'dell' garden inspired by Arthur Rackham.
Narbonne Avenue
Holy Spirit
73 South Side. old games room of Eagle House.
Park Hill
Some lesser survivors of the Cubitt estate
St.James. Interesting church 1857 Impression of old Gothic vault. glass. by N. F. Cachemaille Day, replacing a proprietary chapel of 1829 by Vulliamy, enlarged 1870-1 by F. J.& H. Francis and destroyed in the Second World War. The c20 building is of plain yellow brick
72 Former residence surrounded by garages and workshops in late 1920's . In 1946 - 59, the chassis of some 2000 custom-built Allard sports cars were assembled here. The firm eventually closed in 1977.
11 Modest little factory, at the rear, spoilt by additions. 1911 for the Direct Supply Aerated Water Co., who had fizzed off by the early 1920's.
St.Michaels ConventPark Hill despite the additions ofthe convent - chiefly the plain classical chapel of 1939, this is thebest older house left in Streatham. It is a late example ofstuccoed neo-classical villa with a two-storey bow-window standing on top of a hill in its own grounds. It was built for William Leaf, a London draper. Both house andgrounds were ornamented by J. B. Papworth c. 1830-41. The portecochere on the entrance front was added in 1880 by the laterowner. Sir Henry Tate, but the main part of the househardly altered.Beyond were Papworth’s lavish conservatories, aviary, andbilliard room. The huge glass roofs replacedby upper floors. At the end of the terrace a plain summer house. The terrace overlooks the pleasant groundsloping down to a small lake with a grotto beyond. summer house of rustic branches, and a Gothic ruin,;octagonal tower built no doubt as a viewpoint: all the ingriedients of c18 picturesque reduced to a suburban scale.
Maternity Home 1920 memorial to first world war
Poynders Road
Part of original Cubit development
Oaklands estate 1936 London County Council flats
Rodenhurst Road
13 Home of the Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson, pioneer Labour politician, Home and Foreign Secretary, a local preacher and National President of the Brotherhood Movement. Plaque erected 1980.
Worsopp Drive
The Clapham Orangery. Listed Grade II. Orangery of 1793 in Palladian style, now in the middle of a housing estate. designed by Dr William Burgh of York in 1793, once a handsome building with Ionic columns, Coade stone capitals, and pediment.
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Conyers Road
Streatham Pumping station. Built 1888 for Southwark and Vauxhall Water Co., Moorish Domes, and a well of 1,270ft but it has not pumped since 1957.
Ring Main Shaft. The new London water ring main passes under this site about 45 metres underground. Construction site and access shaft. The ring main connects to these shafts at a depth of 40m
Eardley Road
Was site for council housing became nature reserve inside old railway sidings
Garrads Road
Large terracotta-ornamented Edwardian houses. Pipistrelle bats have been recorded along here.
Old people’s sheltered Flats by Lambeth Architect's Departmentcompleted 1970, the same idea as in Leigham Court Road
Mitcham Lane
Manor Park Estate. Between Mitcham Laneand Streatham Station, 1883 etc.,
Woodlands Estate, both largely by FrederickWheeler, in a competent Queen Anne style
The old Streatham Fire Station was opened in Mitcham Lane in December 1903. After 1889 the London County Council took over responsibility for the design of fire stations and it is likely that their Fire Brigade architects, under the superintendence of Owen Fleming, designed this building. The design is in the very best Edwardian fire station tradition..Only the left hand-half of the original building survives, the right hand side of the station building was destroyed by an enemy bomb on 17th October 1940, which killed twelve firemen and seriously injured three others. Adjoining the ground floor on the right hand side there is a later replacement single storey fire engine garage. It was noted that the opening ceremony for the new station was interrupted by the Brigade's first emergency call to a fire at No. 149 New Park Road. The fire station was decommissioned in 1971 and it is now the South London Islamic Centre.
This part of Mitcham Lane is a row of late Victorian shops running along the top of the Green and which was formerly called The Crescent. Some alterations have taken place The date 1891 is recorded in the decorative plasterwork over one of the windows.
Manor Arms was built around 1920. The present building occupies the site of the lodge, coach-house and water tower of Manor Park House, a large mansion that used to stand by Streatham Green and gave its name to the public house. Roughly triangular in plan the pub fills the comer site at the junction of Mitcham Lane and Babington Road.
St.James. 1910 Baptist church. by F. Peck
Baptist Church. 1902-3 by G. & R. Baines, the usual brick and stone facade with turret.
North Drive
Dixcote 1897 designed but not built by Voysey. Typical pebbledash garage hinges, steel trim on the windows
Crane Furzedown Cottage.
Prentis Road
Old peoples flats behind much larger houses;
The Streatham postal sorting office in Prentis Road dramatic pediment and the Royal Coat of Arms.
South London Liberal Synagogue. Originally The Lady Tate Hall this building was opened in 1909 for use by the Streatham College for Girls. The hall, designed by Sidney Smith, was presented to the School by Sir Henry Tate and named after his wife. The school closed in 1933 and the hall became the Synagogue in 1938.
Streatham Green
The remains of the Green atthe fork of Mitcham Lane and Streatham High Road. Greens between Streatham and Tooting closed in 1794 and reopened by the vestry. LCC management
Streatham Green was once wasteland belonging to Tooting Bee Manor. Enclosed in 1794 by Lady Kymer the villagers were so infuriated that they petitioned the Duke of Bedford, The Lord of the Manor of Streatham and Tooting Bee, to force her to open it up again. Iron railings enclosed the Green a hundred years later.
The drinking fountain, designed by pre-Raphaelite painter and local resident William Dyce was moved, during the 1930'to Streatham Green white and red stone. erected by public subscription in 1862 as a tribute to Dyce.
The difference-m the levels of the roads on the east and west sides of the green give it a pronounced slope. It is now divided into four grassed plots, railed in, and intersected by paths with seats. The two lower plots are over underground air-raid shelters remaining from the Second World War.
Recreation ground
National schools next church 1792 public subscription site but pump removed.
Streatham High Road
long curving parade of shops running down to The Broadway. Plaques in the brickwork record Rowsley J.W.R.
292 and further down Eagle House.
322 Damage caused to the buildings by the Zeppelin raid on Streatham in 1916 can still be seen today on the plaques record The Broadway as constructed in 1884 and built by Hill Bros. The name "Broadway" was abolished in 1891
324- 342 Streatham High Road and 1c -o 1g Gleneagle Road known as "The Triangle"
Alliance Bank by Frederick Wheeler imposing entrance and arched windows at street level. #
empty site, which formerly was occupied by the Streatham Town Hall.
Safeways stands on the site of the former Station Parade, a parade of Victorian single storey shops that were demolished in 1984 to make way for the supermarket built in 1985.
Streatham Station The station was originally built in 1868 and its entrance was by a small country lane leading off Streatham High Road. This survives today as Station Approach by the side of Safeways. .1868. Between Tulse Hill and Tooting and also Mitcham Junction on Thameslink. Between Tulse Hill and Streatham Common on Southern Trains. Nice and cheerful
Streatham Park
Formerly the estate of the Thrale family, brewers from Southwark who built a Georgian mansion here in 1740 known as Streatham Place demolished in 1863; their name survives in the street name Thrale Road.
Thrale Road
Fayland Estate, 1950 London County Council housing
Tooting Bec Gardens
Church of English Martyrs opposite Parish church
Tooting Bec Lido. Built by Wandsworth Borough Council but site owned by the London County Council in 1906. Largest open air Art Deco swimming pool in Europe.
St Leonard's church hall faces Tooting Bee Gardens. On the left hand side of the entrance door a plaque records that the hall was erected as a memorial to John Richard Nicholl M.A. Hon. Canon of Rochester and Rector of Streatham from 1843 to 1904. The hall dates from 1907
the Glebe. This was the-site of the old Rectory until it was demolished in the 1970's and the land laid out as open space. The trees here include an Ilex, an Ash tree, a number of Silver Birches, Lime and Sycamore trees.
The Catholic Church of the English Martyrs Robert Measures and his catholic wife lived in the large house known as "Woodlands". Measure, acquired the site of the adjacent "Russell House" and donated the land to build a convent and later the church. Built in 1893, Purdie was the architect of this large church.
English Martyr's Presbytery.
The parish hall dating from circa 1930's stands next door to the Presbytery.
electricity transformer sub-station. This unusual sub-station was designed by the local architect, Frederick Wheeler and dates from 1896
West Drive
Woodfield Avenue
12. Densely planted garden with good variety of shrubs, herbaceous plants, good leaf colour and all-year interest.
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Archbishop's Place.
anamazing survival of small cottages with themost colourful front gardens, reminiscent ofa country village.
King of Sardinia with"barley sugar" chimney pots
Brixton Hill
Moorish Lane corner site of Brixis Stane This is where the Hundred of Brixton met wasteland in 19th. ‘Brixiges stan’ 1062 in an Anglo-Saxon charter, ‘Brixiestan’ 1086 in the Domesday Book, ‘Brixistane’ 1279, ‘Bryxston’ c.1530, that is 'stone of a man called Beorhtsige', from an Old English personal name and Old English ‘stan’. Brixistan’ which means ‘stone of the Brixi’ who were the local administrators. ‘Brixi’ is short for ‘Beorhsige’ which means ‘bright victory’. Possibly a 'boundary stone', but since this place gave its name to one of the ancient hundreds of Surrey, the 'stone' may well have been one marking the meeting place of the hundred. Brixton Common was on Brixton Hill and was enclosed in 1810. ’Brixges'. Became a market gardening area.
Christchurch Street
Street with church 1836 place 'easily discernible' oddities from 1900, pulpit from the city church.
Christ Church 1840-2 by James Wild,
Christ Church schools
Criffel Avenue also dates from the same year and is named after a hill and prominent landmark 3 miles south of New Abbey in Dumfries and Galloway, also a part of the Stewert estate,.
41 was purchased by a bridge-building engineer William Newton Bakewell who worked on the building of the Forth Bridge, remaining there until his death in 1913.
Forster Road
Tilson Gardens,. examplesof changing fashions:, neo-Georgian blocks of 1929- 36 of typical L.C.C. type
Kingswood Road
Henry Crompton School . Good example of T. J. Bailey's mature three-decker board schools with jolly Jacobean skyline. 1898.
New Park Road
138, a villa of 1835 in the cottage orne tradition, with bargeboarded gable and battlemented porch.
Piecemeal local authority redevelopment began between the wars and still continues
Streatham High Road
Telford Avenue
Telford Avenue Mansions in Telford Avenue dates from circa 1935 and has many similarities with Telford Parade Mansions next door -
Telford Parade Mansions is a development of purpose built flats with shops at street level which dates from 1935.
Telford Court of 1931 was designed by Frank Harrington in 1931.
Wyatt Park Mansions was designed by H. J. S. Abrams and Sons of Buckingham Street, WC1.
triangular piece of land to be included in the Conservation Area. This area includes an access route, car parking and communal gardens with a number of large mature trees.
Streatham Hill Theatre (now the Mayfair Bingo Hall)when it opened in 1929, one of the largest outside the West End of London. The giant auditorium had a capacity in excess of 2,500 seats. The architects were William George Robert Sprague and William Henry Barton whose design is in a late Edwardian classical style. In its heyday the Streatham Hill Theatre was a number one touring theatre and also put on opera, ballet, musicals, variety and pantomime. . The Theatre closed its doors in 1962 and has now been converted into a bingo hall and social club but entrance hall in the Adam style has been retained and maintained in its original form.
Streatham Hill
Brixton bus garage
Pullman Court. 1933-36 Frederick Gibberd, age 27, designs. Commissioned by landowner and developer Willliam Bernstein. Private and the largest commercial development at the time. Reinforced concrete structure by L.G.Mouchel, overhanging rails designed to help with repainting.
St. Pancras Auxiliary Institution was the Royal Asylum of St.Anne's Society Three story Ionic pediment with royal Arms. Erected in 1829 as a school for children of necessitous parents, and for orphans.
Telford Avenue
tennis club
Upper Tulse Hill
Gospel Tabernacle, Upper Tulse Hill Built 1894 as St Matthias (Church
Strand Comprehensive School, An early I.L.E.A. comprehensive, architect J. M. Kidall. Built in 1956 and the Nine-storey teaching block is the tallest built by the L.C.C.). Four lift shafts with each lift designed to hold a whole class. The school was for 2,210 boys and when built it was the largest school in London. Closed 1970s
Huggin astronomer built observatory at 90
Wellfield Road
1-3 Leigham Arms
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Factory Square
Immanuel Parish Schools by G. G.Scott, 1861, extended by George & Peto, 1874.
Greyhound Lane
5 Two half oil jars on frontage, sign of oil and colour man.
151 Greyhound Brewery
Green Lane
Factory premises of Small Electrical Motors Ltd. old laundry and chimney
Guildersford Road
St.Andrew, 1885-6 by George & Peto. Ernest George lived near Streatham Common, and his firm, well known for their Dutch domestic architecture, did much work in this area.
Vicarage next door, 1886 by George & Peto. Good
Church Hall, 1898 by George & Yeates.
Lime Common, is the top bit, Beam for Queen `Victoria's Jubilee, cricket green is preserved in the Commons Act
The Rookery. the best formal garden in Lambeth. This is the site of an early spa. The well head is now in a walled Old English garden with white flowors – called The White Garden with a sundial. this is the site of one of the three original wells of Streatham Spa dating from 1659. workmen in 1660 had their homes stuck in the middle. The bright yellow monkey flower is very colourful alongside the stream in summer and a number of ferns such as soft shield-fern and male fern can be found here too. magnificent cedar of Lebanon. There's also a walled English Garden with fragrant planting; a secluded rock garden and stream; a small yew-hedged pond garden and wisteria-clad pergola; shrubbery-lined paths and Further down the hill is a quiet orchard.
South Side Streatham Common
South Side home Transferred from Metropolitan Asylums Board to London County Council, LCC management
Streatham
In the 17th went from being a small scattered village to a popular residential area following the discovery of the spa well in 1660.
Streatham Common
marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1816. and there was a fashionable spa near here during the 18th century, based on a medicinal spring discovered in 1659 and still marked Wells on the 1816 map.
Streatham High Road
Path alongside the road. This is the area of relic acid grassland on Streatham Common. The large anthills of the yellow meadow ant , which are present in the grass, are a good indication that this grassland has been little disturbed in the past
Sainsburys,behind it is Factory Square. Has been India rubber firm since 1838, built as Dak. 1885, chimney, Sainsburys purchased land occupied by the Cow Industrial Polymers
India RubberWorks of P. B. Cow of Cow Gum. The handsome chimneyadded to the works in 1885 may also be by George Peto. Cow Industrial Polymers P.B.Cow, 1857.
Sainsburys - Silk Mill. the Mill building is incorporated into Sainsbury's, providing offices and refreshment facilities. The mill was ercrcted in 1820 by Stephen Wilson, a silk manufacturpr, whose family lived almost opposite, but with long connections with the Spiralfields industry. Although importing both French personnel and new Jacquard techniques, Wilson is thought to have found his new green-field-site cheaper to operate. It is a complete, purpose-built three storey Georgian silk mill, of pleasant proportions and appearance, complete with a cupola, which was probably the first UK location to use Jacquard-style looms. Became Cow industrial Polymers
386 1932 Ice Rink. 1927 Baths next door.
496 Beehive Coffee House and Working Men's Lodgings; a QueenAnne front of 1878-9 by George & Peto. It was intendedbenefit the workers of the neighbouring India RubberWorks listed.
412-415 Holy Martyrs, built by P.B.Cow
Emmanuel Church. A rebuilding and enlargement of 1864-5 by B. Ferrey of a church built in 1854 by A. Ross. Kentish rag. Tower. Stained glass Windows by Lovers & Barraud commemorating the chief donors, the Leaf family of Park Hill, Streatham Common..
412-416 Streams.Architect's Department, 1968-9, of houses on decks overgarages
498 Pied Bull. Near the common, The island bar serves four distinct areas. There are comfortable - sofas and upholstered chairs; prints adorn every wall. The garden is particularly popular.
Hambley Mansions
668 Sussex Tavern
Greyhound Inn, meeting house in last century of gypsies
522 Garage. A semi-deserted- looking garage is home to the spooks' special motor pool. The cars and vans that come and go from here don't always leave in the same colours or with the same registration plates they had when they entered. This is where SIS built false bottoms into the van that smuggled Oleg Gordievsky out of the USSR
Streatham Common
The common used to comprise an area of rough open land. The trees surrounding the lower slope, and the "ancient" wooded area at the top of the common, are comparatively modern developments being -the result of landscaping undertaken by the Metropolitan Board of Works when they took over responsibility in 1888. I can only assume that in the late 15th century the common was denuded of bracken and furze as a result of which "thorns" required to construct the pound had to be brought from Pollards Hill. The pound was situated in the manor of South or Lower Streatham, the common land of which was the present-day Streatham Common. The manor of Streatham was combined with that of Tooting Bee and its common land was Tooting Bee Common. At one time there were two pounds on Streatham Common, one was situated opposite Greyhound Lane and the other halfway between the lower pond and Streatham Common South, the latter being clearly marked on the Ordnance Survey map dating from the mid-1860s and believed to be the site of the ancient pound of the manor.
Wallfied House.
Commons rights movement like Tooting. Sold commoners rights. Commoners burnt the fences and the gorse. Six mysterious men cut enclosure fences for grazing. Well discovered by ploughman in hot and sulphurous. So, Streatham Well House. Common sold by ecclesiastical commissioners to Metropolitan Board of Works for £5
West Streatham Common
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Collyers mill and Welcome Group in 1924, Colyers Orchard Mill owned by John Twisleton, fulling mill, and then corn in 1788. Royal Victoria
Dartford Bypass
1924 built by Dartford UDC plus KCC and Min Trans
KCC,
Heath Street
Salutation
Oakfield County
Highfield Road
Eighteenth century stucco spared
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Miskin Road
Dartford North West Kent College of Technology 1954 work done by Kent County Council to improve it. 1954-55 first stages in building programme.Major post war education campaign. Busy motifs
Shepherds Lane
Deneholes and pit. Chalk mine
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High Road
Plough
Wilmington Waterworks, Kent Waterworks Co., 1888 boiler house survives
Oakfield Lane
Dene Hole. a large hole appeared a few metres from one of the residential blocks. At the bottom was the remains of a steel and concrete cap which had fallen in. Coincidently a soak away had recently been dug just above the cap. The depth to the bottom of the debris cone was 18m and there were three chambers each about 6m long. This was a typical chalk well. The head of the geology department believes it is a flint mine. Just a few meters away is a depression that the ground staff has been filling in for years which though not associated with the collapse certainly needs an eye kept on it. There is a dene hole marked on the 1869 map in the area and a brick works.
Wilmington
St. Michael. 1839 rebuilt aisle. Possibly pre-Conquest otherwise. Monuments.
Manor House Wilmington
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Barn End Lane
Brewery buildings there as a laundry from 1860 brewery of Chapman called the Eagle Brewery. Had a 200 ft artesian well
The Laurels
Denehole
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Blackfen Road/Penshurst Avenue:
Cottages
The Woodman, in the heart of the Blackfen shopping centre. An extraordinary pastiche pub by Kenneth Dalgleish 1931, looking like a much older building.
Burnt Oak Lane
Development by Leach 1950s
Cedar Avenue Library
Cinema
Maple Crescent
Shops
Merino Place
Radnor Avenue
Pillar box,
Ramillies Road
Rochester Way
Sherwood Park Avenue
Clinic
The Oval
Shopping parade built by developers
Westwood Lane
Westwood estates just west of the junction with Westwood Lane were built by CR Leech in the early 1930s and featured semi-detached three-bedroomed houses offered freehold for £675
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Hurst Road
Holy Trinity Church Hall building of 1880; its It was originally the Lamorbey National School, replacing the school of 1841 in Burnt Oak Lane. In 1969 it became the Church Hall, after a new school had been built in Burnt Oak Lane.
3 Universal House. This large neo-Georgian house of 1904 was a former Vicarage.
Halfway Street
Old hamlet rather larger than Sidcup itself. Fifteenth century was a busy hamlet, farm absorbed by Lamorbey in 1920s when plots were sold to ex-servicemen.
21 White House, c 1877.
21/35 A remarkable group of older houses, which formed the nucleus of the old hamlet of Halfway Street; they include two timber-framed houses which are 400-500 years old.
23 Lilac Cottage, c1800.
25/27, a timber-framed house bearing a Bexley Civic Society plaque with the date 1450. It has been much restored and altered - it was originally one house with a central entrance, the right-hand section being added much later.
29 Halfway Cottage, probably of the 1830s.
31 Fern Cottage, probably c1840.
33 Farm Cottage, a small timber-framed hall-house, bears a plaque with the date c1500. From the street it is hidden behind its front garden wall, and behind the adjoining 35 though it can be seen that the upper floor is jettied towards the west.
35 Old Farm part of 35 was added much later, probably late 19th century.
43 Ye Olde Black Horse, A very ornate pub of 1892 with all sorts of decorative features. It was rebuilt on the site of a much older pub; the building bears shields saying 'built 1692' and 'rebuilt 1892'
50 The right-hand part of this house is 18th century, with a strangely skewed roof; the left-hand part is mid 19th century. The house is being restored as part of a small housing development.
Hamilton terrace Sorting Office
Holy Trinity Church. A Victorian Gothic ragstone church, 1879, by Ewan Christian. The first Anglican church in Lamorbey was a chapel to the parish church of Bexley, and was built in 1840 on a site between the present church and Burnt Oak Lane. It was funded by John Malcolm, the resident of Lamorbey House at the time. In 1862 he bought Abbeyhill as a vicarage. As the population increased with the arrival of the railway in 1866 it was decided to build a new church, again funded by John Malcolm; which became Lamorbey Parish Church. It was substantially rebuilt as a replica following war damage.
The Glade leads from its entrance in Halfway Street to the southern bank of the lake, providing a fine view of Lamorbey House. It is an attractive park, with fine trees including a ten-trunked cypress near the entrance. It embraces part of an old kitchen-garden wall of the House, probably of the 1840s.
The Tudors, timber Wealden house, 1475, was a one hall house, open fire, chimney and horn window still there
Jubilee Way
Sidcup Station. 1866 Between Albany Park and New Eltham on South Eastern Trains. Plans suggested for a station in the area since the 1830s. South Eastern Railway’s Dartford Loop Line. Called Sidcup but nearer to Halfway Street. When it was opened land around sold for building. Booking halls on both lines with no footbridge and no subway in the station from the start because people could walk round on the road. Platform and booking office improvements in 1887 might reflect increased housing and commuter traffic in the area. in 1936 Both platforms had a canopy renewed. In 1965 the down side was closed. 1988 Modern station building erected on up side with a new canopy and a terrazzo tiled ticket office and offices and so on.
Signal box removed 1970.
Two sidings closed 1966.
Goods yard closed 1966
Marlborough Park
Built by New Ideal Homesteads 1950s.
Station Road
122 Iron Horse Pub.
Sidcup House, 1966. Office near the station, which has emphatic mid-60s blocks, By Bernard Engle & Partnersthe offices grow in two directions from a tower-lilt structure of exposed concrete housing the staircases.
Offices, By the Owen Luder Partnership, 1966. A long thin, sixteen-storey slab of completed in 1966. The architects were Douglas Mamott & Partners,
Two six-storey office blocks, not large, but as emphatic as the mid 1960s could be
Public Baths. Built as the Odeon Cinema in 1933 and converted to a pool in 1960. Cinema entrance and canopy still there. Site of Halfway Street Farm which had a splendid herd of shorthorn cattle
Emmanuel Church, 1887-8 by G. Baines. Plate tracery with foiled openings like a series of explosions all over the building.
Sorting office on the site of a row of farm cottages called Church cottages.
Lamorbey School stood at the junction of Station and Hurst Roads,
fire station. was next door to the school, the home of the fire cart, and horses could be obtained from Mr. Young at the Station Hotel.
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Alma Road
Alma Pub
Birkbeck Road
One of the earliest roads developed in the area with cottages for tradesmen.
Carlton Road.
The northern arm of this road, with its avenue of plane trees, has on both sides a complete series of imposing though rather sombre pairs, c1880.
Chiselhurst Road
The Red Lodge. A red brick building, probably c1896, which was a lodge for Sidcup Place; it is now becoming derelict. It has distinct architectural similarities with the north front of Sidcup Place.
'Anonymous' pillar box, ie without a royal cypher, a relatively rare type, c1880.
Church Road
St.John the Evangelist.1899-1901 .The first parish church of Sidcup, rebuilt in its present form between 1882 and 1899. a large, imposing building in the Early English style, with a fine oak pulpit made in the 17thcentury. I on the south wall is a stone recording the laying of the foundations of the first church in 1841 which was completed in 1844 and later became Sidcup Parish Church. columns from the outside arcade of this first church were incorporated in shops at Station Road. The present church was completed in 1901, retaining the chancel, Lady Chapel and churchyard wall from the second church.
Churchyard has many tombs and monuments, but note in particular, towards the rear on the right, the curious bronze cross to Mary Sheffield 1899, conspicuous in its blue colour, with strange art nouveau motifs.
1/10 this attractive terrace of cottages of 1852 was on the original lane from Sidcup to Chislehurst. Some have been considerably altered
Elm Road
30 is part of the same development as the park
Hatherley Road
One of the first new roads laid out locally. Houses from 1870 – highly ornamented detached and semi detached.
High Street,
follows the winding course of the old road from London to Maidstone which was improved by the New Cross Turnpike Trust in 1781. Further development took place in the late 19th century after the arrival of the railway, and above the modern shop fronts much of the facades and roofline has hardly changed since that time. There was the Nucleus of a tiny hamlet at the top of Sidcup Hill.
1 The Black Horse. an old coaching inn with a highly attractive frontage which preserves its basic appearance of the time when the road was improved in 1781.
63/75 1880s, in classical stylewith some small circular windows.
64 c1881, is the only building in the High Street to retain the appearance of the original house with an unaltered ground floor.
77 Cannon Cinema. The cinema entrance is c1933, butthe actual auditorium is of 1911 and is located behind Kings Hall, a building c1870with patterned brick, Gothic window heads and other decorative detail. Originally called The Regal and later the ABC and then Cannon. Closed 2001.
Bitter Experience
King's Hall
Police Station 1902
Main Road
136 Horse and Groom Pub. Antique interior disguises its modern background.
Sidcup Fire Station. Classical brick and stone Edwardian building 1914 for the Sidcup UDC as Fire Station, Council Offices and Council Chamber.
Charcoal Burner Pub
Marechal Niel Parade. Built in 1937. newsagents, grocers, greengrocers, butcher, hairdresser, baker and ironmonger, catered for the majority of the needs of local residents. Brunshaws were shortly to be taken over by Charringtons. Robins, the grocers, was the nearest to a chain with three shores locally. They remained in business until the early 1950s.
Christ Church owes its origin to a dispute between one of the early vicars of St. John's and a group of his parishioners, who resolved to found another church nearby. At first they worshipped in an iron church in Chislehurst Road, but their congregation flourished and they were able to build the present church which was consecrated in 1901.
Old Forge Way
1936 intended to create cul de sac with garages in a Wealden vernacular style by Kenneth Dalgleish 1887-1964. Organic extension to Sidcup High Street
1/15 are a delightful enclave of vernacular houses off Rectory Lane, formed by two terraces leading to a semi-circular group. Designed by Kenneth Dalgleish in 1936 in the style of 17th & 18th century cottages of the Kent & Sussex Weald.
Rectory Lane
the main road to Maidstone originally followed the route of Rectory Lane until a new highway was made down Sidcup Hill in 1776
Rectory. in the 19th century caves and grottoes were cut into the sand in the Rectory Garden.
White Wallsan attractive romantic house c1910 in vaguely Arts & Crafts style.
Toucy & Selwood. another distinctive house of c1910, Toucy & Selwood the front rather difficult to see, but the rear, with two full height bows and a profusion of pargetting, readily visible from Knoll Road.
The Grange near the junction with Cross Road. Tolhurst family. Demolished for Old Forge Way 1930s
Selborne Road
23 Selborne Court. A large and impressive classical-style house c1903 with a fine baroque frontispiece
Sidcup
Sidcup appears in medieval documents as ‘Cetecopp’. Thomas de Sedcopp is recorded as having sold land in the district. It was a straggling hamlet along the Maidstone road with. The Black Horse, and some larger houses. In the early 19th century it began to increase in size. A church was built in 1841 and in 1866 the railway line was opened, though the station was sited a mile to the north. electrification of the Line in 1926 released a flood of building. No main drainage until the 1880s.
Hop pickers
Sidcup Hill
the main road to Maidstone built as a new highway was made down Sidcup Hill in 1776
Ursula Lodges. A fine group of almshouses built 1972 around a square with a pond; the front entrance is round the corner in Eynswood Drive. They replaced previous buildings funded by the Berens family of Sidcup Place in 1847, and from this time a low brick wall to the east survives
Kentish Times Building. Three storey building 1931 for local paper and print works. Now offices.
The Drive
Manor Farm fields alongside. Slow development from the 1880s
The Green
Important conservation area. Informal recreation space. This small tract of common land is separated from the grounds of Sidcup Place by a screen-belt of tall lime trees on a mound. a corner of Sidcup which still keeps a distinctly Victorian atmosphere with its large houses and spacious gardens.
The War Memorial commemorates the dead of both world wars.
Manor House. 1780s, council offices. Architect not known. Eighteenth century remarkable roughness. A very handsome house of red brick c1790 in a prominent position opposite Sidcup Green. It was built on the site of an old farmhouse, and was originally called Place Green House. It was named Manor House in the 1860s, though there never was a manor of Sidcup. It is now used as the Registry Office by Bexley Borough Council.
Place Cottage. brick house, it loos late 18th century , but the structure is of a timber-framed house, probably c1675. There are substantial extensions to the rear, and a two storey bay to the east, added c1895.
Cluny Cottage, has an ornate porch and steep barge boarded gable; the lower floor is of knapped flint, the upper floor jettied and tile-hung. It was originally three cottages of 1886.
Summerfield Lodge, was built in identical style c1986, a hundred years later.
Freeby, a large house with tile-hung upper floor, of 1896.
Cluny Cottage
Summerfield Lodge
Freeby
Sidcup Place. An extraordinary building, partly 18th century, but very irregular because of its 19th century extensions. It is surrounded by a great area of open space. said to have been designed to resemble a fort with projecting bastions at each corner by a Royal Engineers officer and Planned like a staff tent,. The Berens family lived here From 1822 to 1919 and were well-known for their local benefactions – they funded the Sidcup National School, Ursula Lodges and ohns Church. Later the house became a private school and in 1933 was purchased by the Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District Councils for use as their headquarters. It was later transferred to the London Borough of Bexley and used by the Directorate of Engineering and Works. The old core, said to date to 1743, is at the south-east corner. only the north-east bastion remains free, the the others merged into extensions of 1853. The north front has a tower, with a concave roof, and the coat of arms of the Berens added in c1896. There is a mounting-block by the foot of the tower. Has since become a pub.
stable-block, c1780 and a section altered c1930.
Park The grounds of Sidcup Place, cover just over 25 acres, with gardens and sports facilities, and a special playground for children. There is a rose garden, the old kitchen garden with its 19th century walling. There is a long ha-ha of knapped flint.
The Park
The Park was a development of the 1870s. Three houses remain from that time
Kingston House on the south side,
Westburton
Amberley on the north side.
Anonymous pillar box
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Scadbury
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Frognal
Queen Mary Hospital mansion of Frognal
Maternity Wing, a functional building of 1966, by C. F. Scott, Regional Architect E.J. Wilson, project architect.
Nurses’ homes mainly completed 1965. Steps gently down the hill, in series of linked pavilions, and at the end in flat-roofed blocks. By W. H. Watkins, Gray & Partners.
Casualty Wing and Main Block.1969-74, forming the main range towards Frognal Avenue.
Frognal Centre, in the same style as the Main Block.
Frognal House. This is a large square house, 18th in appearance, but certainly not in origin. large, roughly square, with a central courtyard. Its present appearance is predominantly of c1670, incorporates timber-framed structure of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the stone foundations are in part 16th century. In 1980 it was discovered that it incorporated a c15 timber-framed building of two-bay hall and storeyed wing to which a framed wing was added in the c16 - this timberwork is no longer visible. There was a house on the site at least by the 13th century. It was acquired by Sir Philip Warwick in the 16th century, and the present main facades were built by his heirs. In 1752 it was purchased by Thomas Townshend, who became Lord Sydney and gave his name to the first European settlement in Australia Sydney Watery Lane
Watery Lane
Main gateway, c1720. Early c18 wrought-iron
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Blendon
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Blackfen Road
Chapel House. Erected to Danson Park, roughcast cottage turret and spire 1760. Sham chapel Eye catcher on the roundabout. Mock tomb covers a well head. Built as an eye-catcher across the park. Lead spire at its end, and a low flattened turret towards the road. The traceried windows look like a c 19 remodelling, but an c 18 drawing suggests that they are original
New Ideal Homesteads all round the area. Shopping parades built between the wars.
64-68 Jolly Fenman. Pub and micro brewery
273 Woodman pub.1930s pub
Blendon
Marked as ‘Blenden’ on Bowen's map c.1762 and on the Ordnance Survey map of 1805, earlier ‘Bladidun’, ‘Bladindon’ 1240, ‘Bladindoune’ 1327, ‘Bladyngdone’ 1332, probably -hill associated with a man called ‘Bloda', from an Old English personal name with Old English medial connective ‘-ing-‘ and ‘dun’. ‘Blenden Hal;’ is marked on Bowen's map c.1762, ‘Blendon Hall’ on the 1876 Ordnance Survey map. First known resident was Joseph de Bladindon 14thhouse. He had a house which was bought in the Restoration by Jacob Sawbridge, of the South Sea Compaby
Blendon Road
Blendon Hall built 1763. the home of Charles Delamotte, one of those who accompanied Wesley to Georgia. His father was a sugar merchant. On his return home, Wesley called on the family on his way from Dover to London and was warmly received, despite the fact that he had left Delamotte in America. The Hall was demolished in 1934, but its gatehouse survives at the junction of The Drive. The hall was rebuilt after 1763. This was a 17th century house was demolished in the 1930s and the estate was used for building suburban housing after attempts to turn it into a school. Over the years there has been a long running series of excavations to discover the exact location of the building and to see if the cellars and vaults still existed. There is a passage alongside the cellars.
44 Blendon Road. brick building with odd bellcote was formerly Bridgen National School, 1860.
119/123 Jays Cottages group of three houses was originally a pair of cottages built c1700. extensions to the east and the rear are c1939.
Three Blackbirds. An attractive mid 18th century pub with a fine roof.
167 West Lodge stonebuilding c1860, . One of two lodges for Blendon Hall. The estate of Blendon, originally called Bladigdone, goes back at least to the 13thcentury. Early tenants included John and Maud de Bladigdone, The last mansion on the estate was Blendon Hall, built for Lady Mary Scott in 1763; Humphrey Repton later landscaped the grounds. Demolished in 1934, and the grounds have been developed for housing; a lodge, the bailiffs house, and many trees have survived.
Greensill lamp manufacturer
Blendon Methodist Church. Alongside the red brick church of 1972 is the old white concrete church of 1935, a long low-lying building in art deco style, now in use as the hall. It was an avant-garde building for its time,
St.James the Great, low-lying red brick church 1937, parish church Note the open bell turret. Note on the right-hand wall a small stone V moulding which is actually Norman from Rochester Cathedral
East Lodge
Oak House, Bartlett
Blendon Drive
Rochester Way
The catalyst for suburbanisation.
Westwood Lane
Westwood Estate by C.R.Leech
Plaza Cinema. Architect Robert Cromie. Opened 1937. Renamed Odeon in 1946 and closed 1956. On site of Somerfield’s car park.
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Ruxley
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Maidstone Road
Milestone
Ruxley Cottage
Tollgate
Ruxley
The name Rokesley (Ruxley) is said to derive fromRookesley (O.E.) and means 'a pasture in which rooks do breed'. Gregory de Rokesle (Ruxley) possessed the manor of St. Mary Cray, and KingEdward I authorised him to hold a weekly market and annual fair inthe village. A plaque, set in the wall of Lloyds Bank, Lombard Street, London, records thefact that Gregory had his town house on that site, and was made Mayor of London no less thaneight times between 1274 and 1285.
Ruxley Garden Centre – covers the entire area of the former village.
Ruxley church. Ancient church of St.Botolph, disused for years. It is above the main Rochester Road on a hummock with, one is surprised to find, far-extending views in all directions.The walls are built of flint and Kentish Greensand, which survive intact. Incorporated into the foundations of the latter are some Roman tiles, which may have been moved from the bathhouse, which stood in nearby Beden'sField. This former church is now used forstorage and the attached oast kiln has been partially dismantled.For many years it was used as a barn - it was never more than a chapel a simple rectangle. It is recorded in Textus Roffensis (1120) that 9 denarii were paid to the see of Rochesterat the time of the Domesday Survey (1087).Some 60 graves were discovered here many dating fromthe 14th century and suggesting that the occupants were victims of the Black Death. Gregoryde Rokesle was buried in the Greyfriars Church in the City of London, but there is a remotepossibility that his remains were transferred to the new medieval church at Ruxley, which hadbeen rebuilt by the de Rokesles over the earlier Saxon structure. A skull and bones foundbeneath the site of the altar during the excavation presumably had some special significance.With a major stretch of the imagination, the bones may even be regarded as those of St. Botolphhimself, translated from St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, City of London!In 1557 the church was suppressed by Cardinal Pole, and authority given for the removal ofbuilding materials to the parish of North Cray.
Tiles from local Roman bathhouse.
Ruxley Manor. An 18th century red brickbuilding incorporating parts of an earlier timber-framed structure
Ruxley Farm
Upper Ruxley Farm. Denehole
Ruxley Wood
Denehole
Swanley Bypass
1926: Ruxley to Wrotham KCC 1926
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Joydens Wood
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Alfan Lane
7 open denehole entered through the roots of a tree
Bankside
11, Small depression in corner of rear garden. Almost certainly a denehole.
Joydens Wood
This 320 acre hill top wood was once part of the Mount Mascal Estate and in1956 it was acquired by the Forestry Commission and in 1987 the wood and the plantation were purchased by the Woodland Trust who also gained commoners rights in exchange for land taken for the A2 trunk road. The name comes from William Jordayne, a 16thDartford resident, - and the wood has also been called ‘Jordans’. over 240 species of plants, 50 different trees,many fungi, 270 species of moth, 58 species of birds in or over thewood, many butterflies and insects, plus a small number of animalsand reptiles have been noted. Forestry Commission which clearedmuch of the area and planted Corsican Pine, Larch, Maple andWestern Hemlock for commercial purposes . Later, horse rides wereestablished to separate riders and walkers..
bomb craters from the Second World War
Deneholes. in the 1880s Spurrell made a map of Joydens Wood and plotted the locations of the shafts. He descended many of them and made drawings of some, writing "Deneholes and Caves with artificial entrances" published in the Archaeological Journal. there are Roman remains in the woods and some of the pieces of pottery found their way down the shafts and Spurrell also claimed that fragments of human bone had been found. His map however showed that the shafts were nearly always associated with ancient the earthworks often next to them. They are associated with mediaeval field systems which pre date the square earthwork. Of the 120 deneholes noted by Spurrell only 5 remained by 1966 and later there were only 2. Some of them including the square enclosure in the north east portion are now under a housing estate and were excavated in 1958.. The date of construction of the deneholes is therefore before 1280 and a date of around 1250 is suggested.
square earthwork located a few hundred meters to the west. Excavations here found the footings of buildings dated 1280 to 1320, and are thought to be part of the lost mediaeval manor of Ocholt. Ocholt was held, with Baldwyns, by Lesnes Abbey in the middle ages.
Earth banks excavated by H.A. Hogg. It was wartime and he seems to have laboured alone, shifting many tons of earth and drawing beautiful sections. He found that the bases of the banks were chalk and flint, while pottery gave evidence of the enclosures being built around 1250 to 1300. As noted above there is a discernable correlation between these earth banks and the deneholes. So that some of the excavations may be contemporary with the earth bank construction.
Anglo-Roman settlement
Memorial posts in Summerhouse Drive area
Keeper's cottage
Tump with Woodland Trust plaques
Faesten Dic adefensive earthwork, Anglo Saxon, dated at about 450 AD. this ancient defensive ditch that crosses north to south and it is thought ditches like this marked the frontier of the last Roman power base in London and there was also local tribal warefare at the time it was constructed. The name means ‘The Strong Rampart’ and it goes across a sandy gravel slope of the Cray valley. It is 1.67 km long and is a series of connected zig zag ditches. There is a layer of gravel on the east side of the dyke which may be a military walk way.
Hollow Way – reference to an old road through the wood running north-south.
Roundhouses – sites of two iron age roundhouses have been identified plus four post granaries.
supposed site of the City of Caswallon occupying this and Rowhill Woods. They were a tribe of Celts called the Cassii.
Summerhouse Drive
Entrance to the wood – Horticultural hut there
Kissing gate and electricity transformer
Denehole said to have been utilised by a 'self build' housing group as a storm drain. The shaft was 460 yards east of the Summer House.
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Stonehill
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Stonehill Green
Denehole. This is now believed to be closed.
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Bexley Hospital
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Bexley Hospital
London Mental Hospital, erected by the London County Council in 1898 at a cost of over £400,000, and providing accommodation for 2,160 patients. Building of note. Battlemented water tower is a landmark. Remarkable because of a chapel 1899. Transferred from Metropolitan Asylums Board to London County Council
Hiram Maxim. 1893 First aircraft hanger built there. Flew 600 ft in 1895. This was a a steam powered bi-plane which was tethered to a rail test track.. It lifted the plane off the ground and shot it forward.
Baldwyns Park – Baldwyns Manor dated at least to 1200. Early owner was Sir John Baude who also called himself Baudiwins. It was owned by Lesnes Abbey and after suppression was passed to Cardinal Wolsey who passed it to Eton College. There seems to have been a manor house from, possibly, the 1750s at which time, and subsequently, it was inhabited by a succession of City big wigs. In the 1870s one of them,Charles Minet, was the ‘saviour’ of Dartford Heath by challenging the enclosers. The Manor House remained on site and was used as an Occupational Therapy department. Used for a hospital from 1898.
Heathside
A few acres of primitive Kent
Old Bexley Lane
Chapel small, neat, white-painted
Ditch, here invisible in concrete pipes
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Puddledock
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Birchwood Drive:
Mick Jagger’s home country
Puddledock Lane
Ship
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Puddledock
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Rowhill Road
Rowhill Mount. Denehole.a report form 1912.someone picking apples heard a mysterious rumbling noise and the ladder upon which.he was standing began to slip and he found a huge cavity yawning under him, the ladder standing only upon a piece of turf, the hole was about 40 ft. deep, and the bottom appears to be hollow from the sound when struck.
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Dartford Heath
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Bath Road
25 a shaft appeared on 13th January 1927. It had a single chamber and was 34 ft deep all told, but only 18 ft. to the top of the cone. another shaft appeared there in 1973
Dartford Heath
Hut circles, etc.
Tumulii
Woods of Crockenhill sandpit
The Dartford Warbler was discovered on the Heath by John Latham, a local doctor.
Shepherd's Lane
Kidd Dartford Brewer had a brick pit here
Chalk mine under Sullivan Close, mine entrance under the pavement on the corner, left side
Dandyroll Company
Donkin left Hall at the end of his articles and set up Dartford factory to make moulds for hand made paper, joined by Davis and apprentice Marshall who continued with the business after Donkin left, made paper rolls and Dandy Rolls for water marking machine made paper
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