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Wimbledon

   This post is not finished it has not been edited and checkedBarham RoadFishpond WoodBeverley Meadsnature reserve . where Wimbledon Rugby Club plays.Copse HillConservation area.Widened in 1925 and...

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Putney

    This post is not finished it has not been edited and checkedCarslake RoadHome of Julia Cameron photographer.Pullman GardensElliott School. Features in films 'Love Actually’.Putney HillThe golden...

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 This post has not been finished, it has not been checked or editedKingston RoadPortsmouth Road Scio House, a battlemented and gabled Tudor Gothic villa of c.l8 for the speculative builder John Elger,...

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Southlands

This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checked Inner Park RoadRoundacre interesting flats. 1960Queensmere Road21 Maxwell FrySouthlands College. The original house, Belmont House, was...

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Wimbledon Common

 This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checkedCalonne RoadThe later houses in this area of ample winding roads also espouse the Arts and Crafts tradition rather than neo-Georgian. A...

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Wimbledon

  This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checkedBelvedere Drive House by Ernest George & Yeates, 1901; a nearly symmetrical Queen Anne frontCanizaro RoadCannizaro Park In contrast to...

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Southfields

   This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checkedAckroyden Estate. LCC. When it was new so modern would not have been allowed in Surrey.  Point block pioneered as a way of preserving...

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Wimbledon

 This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checkedLavenham RoadSt.Barnabas Prince's WayLinden Lodge school for the blind 15 Gordon Dene VoyseyWimbledon Park,Spencer Estate and landscaped by...

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Wimbledon

  This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checkedArthur RoadPark House School, the Middle School of 1972-4, occupies the site of Wimbledon Park House Wimbledon Park House here until 1949....

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Clerkenwell

this post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedAgdon StreetWas called Woods Close. People used to wait for an escort into the city hereAlbemarle Way General Monk brought Charles II to the...

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Grays Inn

   This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checkedActon StreetBuilt 1835 onwards. 66 Queen's Head Ampton Street33 Thomas Carlyle home London County Council plaque Cubitt original yard...

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Canonbury

    This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checkedAll Saints Street Thornhill Wharf The street side with the name and function of the original occupiers set, appropriately, into cement....

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Camden Town

   This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checkedAldenham StreetEstate was given to the public school in Hertfordshire called Aldenham by Richard Platt. Native of the town and Brewer...

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Canonbury

  This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checkedAbbots Close?Almorah RoadHousing on an old triangular church site.  A mannered groupwith two tall monopitch-roofed wings linked by a low...

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Islington

   This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checkedArlington SquareIn mediaeval times the southeasterly quarter of Islington parish - east of the presentEssex Road-formed part of the...

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Hoxton

    This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checkedBaches StreetSturt Estate rebuilt with warehouses fromthe 1890s. The most interesting of these are by Ernest Newton,whose father was...

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Darenth Wood

  This post has not been finished, it has not been checked or editedCombfield DriveDene Hole A 1m. Diameter hole had appeared in the left hand rear comer of the garden following heavy rain. This marked...

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Stone

   This post has not been finished, it has not been checked or editedStone cemetery StoneCastleStoneCastle, once a strong place, was built in the reign of King John.  Some remains of it, consisting...

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Darenth Park

    This post has not been finished, it has not been checked or editedDarenth Park Hospital   A subsidence revealed a shaft in the hospital grounds on the 5th September, 1958 after a heavy rainstorm....

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Lane

     This post has not been finished, it has not been checked or editedLanglands Drive, 18 Denehole. subsidence in the rear garden in 1979.  A shaft 4m from the rear of the house and 5m from the west...

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