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Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham coat of arms TUM image id: 1585831487 Licence:	Elsiemaud Road, Lewisham Credit: croftonparkhistory.com TUM image id: 1716716060 Licence:	Kilmorie Road School and Elsinore Road, Forest Hill (c. 1910) TUM image id: 1584973100 Licence:	Glenfarg Road, Catford Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1585677280 Licence:	Station approach, Catford Bridge (1983) Credit: Wiki Commons/Ben Brooksbank TUM image id: 1607342329 Licence:
Swallands Road on the London County Council"s Bellingham cottage estate. Houses had small front and larger back gardens. The pavements were wide, giving space for children to play, at a time when there was less traffic on the roads. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1628615400 Licence:	Wyleu Street, SE23 has an unusual name. London authorities frowned on duplicate streetnames by the 1880s and builders had to get more creative. ’Wyleu’ has an unknown origin but it’s the Welsh word for “weep”. TUM image id: 1660570255 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Bellingham Library, Oakview Road (1960) The residents of Bellingham had to wait a long time for their library - it was opened in 1949. It closed in 1963 following the opening of Bromley Road Library, which in turn was replaced by the Catford Library in 1991. Credit: Borough of Lewisham TUM image id: 1628626238 Licence:	Rising Sun, Rushey Green Credit: http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/ TUM image id: 1600882720 Licence:	Engraving showing the original Black Horse Inn - date unknown. TUM image id: 1600951508 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The "Splendid" served as Downham’s only cinema. To the right is the old (upper) mill on the Ravensbourne river. Credit: Ideal Homes TUM image id: 1601025627 Licence:	The Rising Sun, Rushey Green, Catford (1909) TUM image id: 1660648486 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Rising Sun, Rushey Green, Catford (1909) TUM image id: 1693235691 Licence:	Lewisham (1897 map) Here is Lewisham and Brockley around the turn of the twentieth century. In those days, Lewisham was still on the edge of the countryside and you can peruse the rest of the map as I’m going to concentrate only on a small section. Joy Farm can be spotted in the area south of Hilly Fields, Deptford and Lewisham cemeteries. Joy Farm was on the site of the modern Elsiemaud Road. Elsiemaud Road was part of a group of roads, off Brockley Grove, that are better known today as the ’double name’ roads - Amyruth, Arthurdon, Francemary, Gordonbrock, Henryson Phoebeth and Elsiemaud. The Daily Telegraph & Courier reported on 28 April 1899: ‘Some amusement was caused at a meeting of the Lewisham Board of Works, when the following list of names of new thoroughfares was read by the chairman: Phoebeth, Francemary, Arthurdon, Gordonbrock, Amyruth, Henryson, Elsiemaud, Huxbear and Abbotswell streets. One member described the names as the most ridiculous he had ever heard. Another pointed out that the London County Council objected to two streets of the same name in the Metropolis, and it was difficult to invent new appellations.’ The estate was built in 1899 by the Heath family and were named after the first and second names of the children of the architect and surveyor for the estate, Henry Hewitt Bridgman. Credit: Ordnance Survey TUM image id: 1716713362 Licence:

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Swallands Road on the London County Council"s Bellingham cottage estate. Houses had small front and larger back gardens. The pavements were wide, giving space for children to play, at a time when there was less traffic on the roads.
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