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Lakeside, REDHILL, RH1 2AE

A small 1970s estate with roads named after birds - for example the road off to the left is Sparrows Mead.

A small 1970s estate with roads named after birds.

Victorian lodge at the junction of Wiggie Lane with Frenches Road. Wiggie Manor was a large house situated east of the railway through Redhill - in the late 1950s much of its land was taken over by the engineering company Foxboro Yoxall, with the manor house itself being demolished in the late 1970s and the site used for a training centre for the company. The whole area area is now housing - firstly the southern part of the site in the 1990s (see Image) and later the site of the factory itself (see Image) .

Part of The Assembly, a 2012 redevelopment of the former Frenches Road School - see Image for fuller picture. Note the entrance on the left marked "Boys"; the equivalent entrance for girls was directly below.

This path doesn't do much more than provide access to housing in Holmethorpe.

Close up of the restored Reigate Borough Crest (prior to the inclusion in 1974 of the area north of the Downs and Horley to the south to form the Borough of Reigate and Banstead Borough) on the former Frenches Road School, now converted to housing as The Assembly - see Image For another version of the crest see Image

Part of The Assembly, a 2012 redevelopment of the former Frenches Road School - see Image for fuller picture. See Image for a close up of the crest, that of the original Reigate Borough.

2012 redevelopment for housing of the former Frenches Road School, built in 1905 to the design of John Moir Kennard (1857-1950). Old maps show the site to have originally been a sand pit. The building later formed part of St Bede's School before the full development of its present Carlton Road site which saw the present building become redundant in around 1990. It then fell into decay, but was grade II listed in 2004 (see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1391211 ) to offer some protection. Its recent conversion to housing has won awards for the successful restoration of an historic building. For close up of the central section with local council crest, see Image

One of a pair of matching 1950s apartment blocks on either side of Colesmead Road at its junction with London Road.

c.1950s apartment block on the corner of Colesmead Road and London Road.