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Westcombe Park

 this post has not been edited or checkedThe Avenue (not on AZ)Is a fine avenue of trees from Old Dover Rd to Shooters Hill Rd. South Eastern Railway passes below. Part has been enclosed and there is...

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Charlton

 this post has not been checked or editedBeacham Close London Borough of Greenwich sheltered flats Begbie Road1 Kidbrook Boundary goes from Shooters Hill Road to here.Harvey Sports Ground. Kidbrook...

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Woolwich Common

  this post has not been checked or editedCemetery LaneUnigate Dairy Depot a reminder that the area was once dairy farmland; the depot replacing the original milking sheds.  Charlton Cemetery.  this is...

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Eltham

   this post has not been checked or editedAllenwood RoadHutments built in the First World War.Arbroath RoadCakehill Lane went north from here, curving round the foot of the cemetery hill, before going...

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Shooters Hill

    this post has not been checked or editedAcademy Road Royal Military Academy.  The RoyalMilitaryAcademyitself was founded in 1741 in the buildings in the Royal Arsenal which later became the Royal...

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Shooters Hill

    this post has not been checked or editedAcademy RoadAcademy Orchard.  Planted in 1990s over a reservoir.  Old hedge and bank with a rare vetch.Castle Wood Castle Wood.  An area of woodland, in part...

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Eltham Park

 this post has not been edited or checkedA2 Relief Road1885-88. 244 house demolished and 8 acres of open space gone. Green Link Bridge across the two bits of Eltham Park. Corbett Estate Grid of streets...

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Plumstead Common

  this post has not been edited or checkedAdmaston Road Churbim and Seraphim St. Michael's Church Blendon TerraceWooded ravinewhich was part of the grounds of Brambleberry House. Now a designated Site...

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Shooters Hill Woodlands

 This post has not been edited or checkedClothworkers wood Site of Falconhurst.  Built by Lord Penzance’s uncle. Then called Falconwood. Lord Truro lived there could have been illegitimate son of...

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Plumstead Marsh

  This post has not been edited or checkedAbbey Wood Tram depot. 1910. For electric trams. Enlarged and closed 1952. Belmarsh PrisonBelmarsh Prison, built 1987-91. On either side of the central brick...

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Plumstead Rockclffe

   This post has not been edited or checkedAlabama Street`Over a waste of rutted land to a new street. Bassant Road. A deep dip between the south and north ends. Bleak Hill,This has steep slopes of oak...

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Welling

This post has not been edited or checked Bellegrove RoadWelling Methodist Church Dryden RoadOpen Space Safeguarded for ELRIC. Upgraded by Task Force East Wickham Open SpaceSmall strip in Greenwich....

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Welling

 this post has not been edited or checkedCavendish AvenueDarwin RoadHuxley RoadMaxwell Road Sutherland Road The Green Tyndall Road Westmoreland Road

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Dulwich

 this post has not been edited or checkedBassand Street?1895 artist with picture in Dulwich gallery Bawdale Road. Beauval Road1894 local family Glamis of Camberwell. Lords of Beauvale Dulwich Tillings...

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Crystal Palace

 This post has not been edited or checkedBorder Road 2/2a mid 19th century pair16/18, substantially altered and not very appealing.   Mid 19th.Bradford Road 55 Whole families were wiped out in their...

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Forest Hill

 This post has not been edited or checkedBoveney Road Garages, rear access road from Hengrave Road, line of the canal West and south sides of the road rear garden boundary is the canal's west bank...

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Sydenham

  This post has not been edited or checkedAdamsrill RoadMayow family name Hall DriveOriginally a carriage drives leading to Sydenham Hall. It is an attractive road, with grass verges, white railings...

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Penge

   This post has not been edited or checkedAlbert Road Cator Road Victorian Villas Alexandra County Primary School. 1952. In 1900 a school had been opened in Parish Lane. This was the Alexandra School,...

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Catford

    This post has not been edited or checked Blythe HillConical hill.  A Roman road supposedly ran across it. Marked thus near to ‘Blythe House’ built c.1830 on Bacon's map of 1888, possibly a...

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Beckenham Hill

     This post has not been edited or checkedAbbey EstateAbbey School.  The largest and best known of the boys' schools which was built on a beautiful site ofan old gravel pit between Copers Cope and...

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