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Carberry Road, LONDON, SE19 3RU

A glance at old-maps.org.uk shows that for decades after the later 19th century the Upper Norwood 'triangle' was a patchwork of lanes, short terraces of small houses, workshops and businesses. Carberry Road may retain something of that character, quite different from the scene in Image, which may date from the years either side of 1980.

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. Here Ovett Close coming in from the west meets Brunel Close coming in from the east and the two overlap; two no.24s face each other across the paving, to the despair of the local postmen.

On the extreme right, a weatherboarded building creeps in which was the last surviving remnant of the original White Hart inn on the corner of Church Road and Westow Street. The White Hart itself was replaced in the later nineteenth century by a fanciful Gothic construction designed by Sextus Dyball, but a small portion of the earlier building remained, possibly a stable : see Image for the "new" building, where the last remnant of the old can be seen peeping, painted white, around the left side of the Gothic brickwork. The last portion of the original pub was knocked down in early 2015.

Looking across Westow Street from the corner of Haynes Lane.

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.

Carberry Road is a quiet cul-de-sac in the villagey heart of the Crystal Palace 'triangle'. The ball-topped railings are believed to be locally made; pleasing examples may be come upon Image

"Drapery" is about all I can make out of this. However, a "blue plaque" sticker placed in 2017 in the window of the restaurant that then occupied the premises provided more detail, noting that from 1905 to 1979 this was the site of James Jackson's draper's shop. (See Image).