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Indoor bowling TUM image id: 1529229197 Licence:	"Suburbia" (1929) This painting/sketch was based upon Girton Road and Tannsfeld Road, Sydenham, SE26 Credit: Stanley Roy Badmin TUM image id: 1605905386 Licence:	Penge floods, Maple Road, 4 June 1908 There was once a thriving market in Maple Road Old London postcard TUM image id: 1681902029 Licence:	The Avenue, Sydenham by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Camille Pissarro was born in St Thomas (then a Danish possession) in the West Indies but lived and worked mainly in the Paris area. He was an Impressionist and mainly painted landscapes. He visited London in 1870-71 and painted London views. The Avenue in Sydenham was later renamed Lawrie Park Avenue. The painting is in the National Gallery, London Credit: Camille Pissarro TUM image id: 1630341523 Licence:	Alexandra Cottages, Albert Road in Penge were built between 1866 and 1868 by the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrial Classes, the first such organisation to build semi-detached houses with gardens, rather than traditional terraces or tenement blocks. They were intended as low cost housing for London workers, being close to Penge station, although local workers were soon accommodated too. Now primarily in private ownership, they remain popular small houses. TUM image id: 1632760100 Licence:
Maple Road (Penge) Christmas decorations circa 1910. Such elaborate decorations persisted until the end of the First World War. The market took over afterwards. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1681902529 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Greyhound at Cobbs Corner, beside Sydenham Station. TUM image id: 1709573598 Licence:

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"Suburbia" (1929) This painting/sketch was based upon Girton Road and Tannsfeld Road, Sydenham, SE26
Credit: Stanley Roy Badmin
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Penge floods, Maple Road, 4 June 1908 There was once a thriving market in Maple Road
Old London postcard
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Alexandra Cottages, Albert Road in Penge were built between 1866 and 1868 by the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrial Classes, the first such organisation to build semi-detached houses with gardens, rather than traditional terraces or tenement blocks. They were intended as low cost housing for London workers, being close to Penge station, although local workers were soon accommodated too. Now primarily in private ownership, they remain popular small houses.
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