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New Kent Road, LONDON, SE1 6FU

Two wind turbines of quite different design on the roof of a housing block on the New Kent Road, seen from the nearby Elephant & Castle station.

Taken from the junction with Meadow Row (SE1)

Looking along New Kent road next to a large construction site.

This church (or Bethel, as the members will refer to it) is on the corner of Falmouth Road and County Street. The Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is Christian based and has its origins in Nigeria. It appears to be a highly distinctive and strict flavour of Christianity though, having significant differences from denominations regarded as being conventional in the UK. Click this link to see their beliefs http://www.ooo.org.uk/index.php/faq/33-practices

There are numerous 5 storey blocks like this in the immediate area. They would probably have been built in the 1930s to a fairly standard design. There will be countless small variations on this theme to be seen within Inner London.

Pretty much the reverse of this view: Image Either another monument to 1960s idealism doomed by modern tastes (now everything must glitter, concrete's just too grey - boring) and/or a mercenary council, or another concrete hell-hole past its sell-by date. Take your pick. Although planned during the previous decade, the Heygate's 1,200 flats were built in 1970-74. The four vast concrete blocks forming the perimeter are certainly forbidding ("impressive from a distance" wrote Pevsner), but the inside is surprisingly green and the spacious flats meant that for a time it was not an unpopular place to live. Later it fell victim to the usual blights and Southwark Council are, perhaps unnecessarily, demolishing the whole lot. They started earlier this year but it will take several years to finish the job. Old communities will vanish and it seems likely that most of the old occupants will be priced out of the new development. On the left is the Strata building and on the right is Hannibal House.