Southwood Road, SE9

Southwood Road connects Sidcup Road with Footscray Road.

Southwood Road, SE9 (1920s)

New Eltham grew up as a suburb of farmland to the south of Eltham in and around the small hamlet and crossroads of Pope Street.

Southwood Road started life in the 1890s. Note the tile-hung decoration to bay window and the ornamental brick pediment over the front door, features that embelished the medium to large semi-detached houses built at this time.
Credit: Ideal Homes

Before Pope Street station (later New Eltham station) opened in 1878, the land hereabouts was mainly used for farming and forestry.

By the 1890s, there were detached villas in Southwood Road East and Southwood Road West (later Avery Hill Road) and in Footscray Road while modest workers’ cottages clustered in streets at Novar Road, Garrskell Road (now Gaitskell Road), Lannoy Road, Reventlow Road and Batturs Road.

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