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Milestone Road, LONDON, SE19 2BJ

One of the steep roads in the area – see Image and related images. There's a distant wooded landscape – it must be Kent. The mural, left, is seen more fully in Image

An ampersand (&) in blue, shadowed green, is overlain with the letters AGaIN in grey. Milestone Road drops away, lower right.

I took this picture in 1993 because the hoardings appearing around the former Palace Hotel (and the closure of the little shops on the ground floor) suggested that it might soon be demolished. In fact, it has subsequently been redeveloped and shops (and a Chinese restaurant) once again occupy the ground floor, with flats (still not particularly swish) on the floors above. Notice the traffic in the foreground heading northwards: since the early 2000s the roads in the Crystal Palace Triangle have been one-way and only southbound traffic uses this street. The distant zebra crossings mark the roads entering the roundabout that at this time controlled the junction at the top of Anerley Hill - this is now (2012) a crossroads controlled by traffic lights.

Church Road, the eastern limb of the Upper Norwood triangle, is a less thriving retail artery than the other two sides of the triangle and specialises in quirkier or more specialised shops and businesses, some of them seemingly hanging on by their fingernails - though this one seems to have lasted well.

Church Road, the eastern limb of the Upper Norwood triangle, is a less thriving retail artery than the other two sides of the triangle and specialises in quirkier or more specialised shops and businesses, some of them seemingly hanging on by their fingernails - though this one seems to have lasted well.

Church Road, the eastern limb of the Upper Norwood triangle, is a less thriving retail artery than the other two sides of the triangle and specialises in quirkier or more specialised shops and businesses, some of them seemingly hanging on by their fingernails - though this one seems to have lasted well.

The Open Door is a stylish venue and event space, formerly The Rialto cinema which had opened in 1928. Some history is at http://www.theopendoor.org.uk

Busy suburban crossroads in South London where four roods meet on the hilltop: Anerley Hill, Church Road, Westow Hill and Crystal Palace Parade. The large building in the centre is The Cambridge pub. Geraniums and petunias in boxes on top of railings brighten up the scene.

Tucked into a wedge-shaped site at one point of the Norwood triangle, one of several pubs that cluster round the junction (once known as the Vicar's Oak) at the south end of Crystal Palace Parade.