Upper Norwood: shops on Westow Hill
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Upper Norwood: shops on Westow Hill
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 29 Jul 2008
These small nineteenth-century cottages survive as shops, squeezed between taller late nineteenth-century structures with more pretensions to grandeur; the smaller ones may be survivors of the period before the Crystal Palace arrived in the 1860s and triggered large-scale development of the area.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.419594
Longitude
-0.081033