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Perry Vale, LONDON, SE23 2LG

In the distance the spire of Christ Church Forest Hill.

Clyde Terrace, and railway signal for trains passing through Forest Hill heading north

The tower and spire of the church was built in 1885. Architect: Ewan Christian.

St. Antholin’s, completed in 1688 and regarded as one of Wren’s finest City churches, stood on the corner of Sise Lane and Budge Row/Watling Street, roughly on the site now occupied by the Temple of Mithras, before the building of Queen Victoria Street. St. Antholin (a corruption of St. Anthony) was dedicated to St. Anthony of Egypt. The spire (one of Wren’s few true spires and the only stone one) was octagonal. St. Antholin’s was demolished in 1875. However, in 1829, the upper part of the spire had been replaced and the portion taken down sold for £5 to Robert Harrild, a printer, who had it erected on his property, Round Hill House in Sydenham. And here it stands, now surrounded by a cul-de-sac of modern town houses.

Looking up the South Circular from the junction with Dartmouth Road.Day and Month uncertain.

Looking along the South Circular to junction with Devonshire Road.Day and Month uncertain.

Bampton Road in Forest Hill, on a sunny day in early October. Leaves on the trees are starting to turn autumnal gold.

Perry Vale in Forest Hill, in South East London.

The railway here follows the line of the Croydon Canal which ran for nearly ten miles from Croydon, via Forest Hill, to the Grand Surrey Canal at New Cross. It opened in 1809, and closed in 1836, making it the first canal to be formally abandoned by an Act of Parliament. Much of the alignment was used by the London & Croydon Railway Company (to whom the canal had been sold for £40,250). The station was opened by the original London & Croydon Railway in 1839 as Dartmouth Arms after the name of the local inn. The line was also used by the London & Brighton Railway from 1841 and the South Eastern Railway from 1842. In 1844, the station was chosen by the London & Croydon Railway as the northern terminus for Phase 1 of an experimental Atmospheric railway to West Croydon operated by the railway. In 1847, 'Atmospheric' working was abandoned, and the station became Forest Hill for Lordship Lane. In the early 1850s, the line was quadrupled. The London Brighton & South Coast Railway station buildings, were destroyed by bombing during the Second World World. London Overground trains now operate from the station, as well as Southern trains.