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Horniman Drive, LONDON, SE23 3BS

This is the ocean liner over the entrance to the 1930s house seen at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5830029

Nice mid-'30's modernist house

In the 1930s it was fashionable to base houses on the clean-cut lines of the ocean liners. This wonderful example in Forest Hill even has an ocean liner over the entrance to emphasise the fact - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5830034

Known as "Welcome Aboard", this house was built in 1932 and designed by Robert Atkinson and Partners who were also responsible for the Art-Deco foyer of the Daily Express building in Fleet Street. Welcome Aboard was built for R.G. Chittenden a member of the family owning Salisbury's luggage shops. Original plans show it to be a two bedroom house with living/dining room and kitchen on the first floor. The wing on the left was built as a garage extension and was indicated on the plans. It has since been converted into extra rooms. As built originally to have a gas fire in the living room, the chimney (to the right of the tree) seems to be a later addition when an open fire replaced the gas version. Information credit to Sue Grindlay, 20th Century Society notes 2005

Built 1932. A front view which shows the converted garage wing at the front and the roof terracing which give the house its nautical look and its name, "Welcome Aboard" See https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6435795

In the 1930s it was fashionable to base houses on the clean-cut lines of the ocean liners. This wonderful example in Forest Hill even has an ocean liner over the entrance to emphasise the fact - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5830034

Built in 1972, architect Michael Manser. Built in blocks cascading down the hill.

A bland 1980s block of flats built on the site of the orchard attached to 31, Horniman Drive, which itself was aligned to take advantage of the aspect over the garden. This explains why the house has a severe frontage onto the road and how the sale of the land for development detracted from the original design. See https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6435771

Westwood Park, looking east.

Dating from 1935, this house was designed by Francis G. Sharp, in a style influenced by late Arts and Crafts. It was later the home of Arthur Verstage, himself an architect and reputed to have designed the first Blue Plaque and was a founder of the William Morris Society. An extension has been built recently and can just be seen behind the ivy on the right-hand side. Information credit to Sue Grindley, 20th Century Society notes 2005