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Allington Road, ORPINGTON, BR6 8AZ

A mix of 1970s and 1950s housing. Old maps suggest that the latter originally stretched all along this road, with this section being redeveloped presumably at the same time as the neighbouring Place Farm Estate.

A series of photos showing the diversity of housing in one gridsquare in outer suburbia. For others in series see http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1905481. Any further information, such as building dates and what was on the sites before building, would be appreciated. This is Allington Road, with a mix of 50s houses and bungalows and 1970s high density housing, the latter presumably built at the same time as the neighbouring Place Farm Estate.

1970s housing in a road originally developed in the 1950s.

1950s development of mainly bungalows.

A development of mainly bungalows with a few larger semi-detached houses dating from the 1950s.

1950s bungalows with part of the 1970s Place Farm Estate in the background.

A series of photos showing the diversity of housing in one gridsquare in outer suburbia. For others in series see http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1905481. Any further information, such as building dates and what was on the sites before building, would be appreciated. These semis are in Andover Road, to the west of the railway. Looking at the 1940 1 inch map at http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#546,166,1, these particular houses were already built by then, but what appears on the ground to be a similar development behind Andover Road, in Cathcart Drive, is still blank, with Andover Road itself only being partly developed. Unless the map was not fully up to date, this suggests that building either continued through the early part of the war, or even immediately post war, using similar “off the shelf” designs.

Leads from Andover Road to Yeovil Close.

A series of photos showing the diversity of housing in one gridsquare in outer suburbia. For others in series see http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1905481. Any further information, such as building dates and what was on the sites before building, would be appreciated. These bungalows are in Andover Road, part of a development to the west of the railway, which judging from the 1940 1 inch map at http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#546,166,1 started just before the second world war. There are a number of similar bungalow developments in and around Orpington.

This was presumably once a typical arcade of local shops, in the midst of an area of semis and bungalows built between the two world wars - the street map shows a post office, for example. Now it contains a carpet shop, a plumbing supplier, a fireplace shop and a hire shop - great for local building contractors, but the residents in the area will need to go elsewhere for their basic needs.