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Cathcart Drive, ORPINGTON, BR6 8BX

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. A modern development of studio flats at the north end of York Rise, just inside this square.

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 Cathcart Drive, built immediately post war close to the railway, which runs behind the houses in this picture. The road bends here, and the resulting space was utilised to provide this triangular green. A similar one was included further along the road (see Image).

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 Cathcart Drive, built immediately post war close to the railway (the cutting for which is marked by the line of trees in the background). The shape of the site gave room for two pleasant triangular greens, of which this is one (see Image for the other).

Leads from Andover Road to Yeovil Close.

As seen from Image Many lines from central London head towards Orpington (via Bromley or Hither Green).They head towards Orpington Station (in the background). Note: the station is very very quiet this Sunday, due to the fact of engineering works from here to Knockholt. Resulting in passengers taking Rail Replacement buses for the day!

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.

A line of 1950s semi-detached houses.