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Church Road, LONDON, SE19 2EZ

The centre of the Upper Norwood triangle used to be given over to light industry: joinery, engineering and so forth. Some works survive, but much of it now is made up of small housing estates, various cul-de-sac lanes into the triangle giving onto a network of pedestrian paths. Stoney Lane leads in from the south. A dark afternoon, hence the flash was used and picked out something close to the camera on the right side of the shot: I'm not sure what it is.

Late C19th, by no means the first pub on this site, and standing at one of the corners of the 'Crystal Palace Triangle', Westow Street to the left and Church Road to the right. Apparently designed by Sextus Dyball. Note the variety of roofs. Information from The Norwood Society. Dyball was a speculative builder-architect who designed a number of buildings in the area. Jonathan Meades wrote of him that he was "a local builder to whom all devotees of inspired ugliness and sinister gracelessness will be forever indebted. Did Dyball know what he was doing? Did he have any idea of the sensations that his creations would provoke? It is improbable that he was out to shock. Rather, it seems that he ... subscribed to an aesthetic system that, although not far from us, feels chronologically, seems unfathomably distant – a vestige of an alien civilisation."

This firm specialised in agricultural machinery for developing countries and as a result Upper Norwood would sometimes have the unusual experience, for a London suburb, of having a classic 1970s Massey Ferguson tractor rumbling around it. At time of writing (early 2011) the premises are being emptied.

The centre of the Upper Norwood triangle used to be given over to light industry: joinery, engineering and so forth. Some works survive, but much of it now is made up of small housing estates, various cul-de-sac lanes into the triangle giving onto a network of pedestrian paths. Stoney Lane leads in from the south and here meets Telford Close coming in from the east.

At the junction of Church Road and Stoney Lane, the latter one of the little lanes that lead into the middle of the Crystal Palace Triangle.

A street of several uses characteristically choked and deafening with traffic.

A public lane leading to other paths through the Crystal Palace 'triangle'. Stoney Lane is home to a maker of ornamental ironwork; pleasing examples can be seen in the residential heart of the 'village'.