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Balfour Street, LONDON, SE17 1PB

The demolition of the Heygate Estate in inner south London is part of a £1.5billion project which will take a number of years to complete. This is the first part of the estate to be demolished, seen from the upper deck of a bus on Rodney Road.

An attractive street of 3-storey townhouses, that have outlived the later public housing of the nearby Heygate estate that was being demolished at this time.

This brick building on Chatham Street, Walworth, with an apsidal east end, is now a church of the denomination "Cherubim and Seraphim". See Image for another view. It is listed grade 2 (list entry number 1378475) under its former name, Lady Margaret Church. It was built in 1889 as an Anglican mission, the architect being E Christian. As a parish church it was considered for closure from 1966 and the parish was united with that of St John in 1975 when it became a Chapel of Ease. It was finally declared redundant in 1983 and used from 1986 by the Cherubim & Seraphim church who have leased it from the Diocese since 1990.

The weathercock is on the fleche of the Cherubim & Seraphim church Image it is protected by a very prominent lightning conductor.

Looking across the junction with Henshaw Street.

51/53 Chatham Street. This is the UK Provincial headquarters of an African Instituted Church. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Sacred_Order_of_Cherubim_and_Seraphim for more details on this Nigerian church. This church was part of the St John's College (Cambridge) Mission which included a hostel and parsonage on the same site. The church building opened in 1889 and was uniquely dedicated to Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, the co-founder of St John's college, rather than to a saint. The church was considered for closure from 1966 and finally declared redundant by the Church of England in 1983. It has been leased from the Diocese of Southwark by the Cherubim and Seraphim church since then. The building was listed grade 2 in 1994 (Listed Building No. 470776).

Looking along the pedestrianised Victory Place off Rodney Road.

This hotel was threatened with demolition so that a new housing development could be built on the site, but planning permission was refused. There is an application to have it given "listed" status. Follow these links to find out more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driscoll_House http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/40692 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/2056

New housing going up on a triangular site in Walworth.