Camberwell: Comber Grove School, SE5
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Camberwell: Comber Grove School, SE5
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 11 Sep 2009
Since the School is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1896 but not on the 1882 edition, its date of origin can be placed at around 1890. A curious change of circumstances has come about here. When the school was built at that time it was a latecomer to an already well-established residential community of terraced houses. Now it is the survivor amongst a sea of much more modern buildings such as the adjacent Image The road in front is Comber Grove but the old Ordnance Survey maps show it as Leipzig Road, certainly up to 1938, so presumably the school was not originally called Comber Grove.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.477766
Longitude
-0.096882