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Round Hill (oil painting) Round Hill is off Dartmouth Road, opposite Sydenham Park Road junction Credit: Alfred L Bailey TUM image id: 1630338849 Licence:	Crystal Palace Transmitting Station Mast (2007) Credit: Tv boy TUM image id: 1556888259 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Crystal Palace in Sydenham, before the 1936 fire, was a glorious construction of wood and glass. TUM image id: 1557158911 Licence:	The Hollywood East pub in Penge - closed in 2015. The pub was the site of the unofficial Murder Trial of the ill-fated Harriet Staunton, a terribly sad story of a young woman with learning difficulties who married the wrong man. Credit: Wiki Commons/Ewan Munro TUM image id: 1632761860 Licence:	Crystal Palace from Anerley Hill (1906) Not only did the palace burn down in 1936 but a V1 largely demolished the buildings on the right in 1944. The remains of the water tower can still be seen today Credit: TV Boy TUM image id: 1708037690 Licence:
Church Road (1904) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1600774835 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Fox Hill, Upper Norwood 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. Credit: National Gallery, London TUM image id: 1630341947 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:	Westow Street (1905) Westow Street now forms the western side of the "Crystal Palace Triangle" but in earlier days was considered as part of Upper Norwood. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1600775011 Licence:
The Sylvan Estate was an estate of prefabs off Maberley Road, SE19 Credit: Barrie McKay TUM image id: 1624370243 Licence:	Delivering ice on Court Lane, Dulwich Court Lane was first mentioned in 1599 as "the highway leading from the Manor House". As ’Dulwich Court Lane’ by 1619, it lead from the 129 acres Dulwich Court Farm (later Constable’s Farm), which lay on either side of it, the southern fields later forming the nucleus of Dulwich Park. It became Court Lane around 1834. D. H. Allport, wrote in 1953: "Many residents in Dulwich will remember the elm-lined hedgerows which bordered the old lane, the deep ruts and the mud of Stygian blackness which formed its surface in winter time." TUM image id: 1719482544 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:	The death of Bridget Driscoll (c. 1851 – 17 August 1896) was the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in Great Britain. As 44-year-old Mrs Driscoll, with her teenage daughter May and her friend Elizabeth Murphy, crossed Dolphin Terrace in the grounds of the Crystal Palace, she was struck by a car belonging to the Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company that was being used for demonstration rides, driven by a Mr Edsell. TUM image id: 1634647847 Licence:

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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
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