Rectory Gardens
Introduction
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Rectory Gardens
Image: © Keith Yardley Taken: Unknown
A development of mainly semi-detached houses, centred round an attractive green with its ancient oak, and built by Biddle and Homer in the 1930s on part of the glebe lands of St Alphege. For a pre-war view from the builders' promotional postcard see http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/jy100/8671696/90690/90690_original.jpg (the iron chains that originally demarcated the front gardens were removed for scrap during the war and never replaced) and for a modern view see Image
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Image Location
Latitude
52.410226
Longitude
-1.773563