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Tewkesbury Avenue, LONDON, SE23 3DQ

Westwood Park, and further away the twin blocks of Dawson Heights.

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

Compare with https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/758375 which shows the same house in 2008. Within the last year, it has been gutted and renewed, the garage being removed and replaced by a new window in the former position of the front door with a new front door next to it. It is good to see the original patterned glass being retained.

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

These houses have some of the most spectacular views in London. To the front, there is an almost unbroken view of the City and West End, all the way to the hills some miles north of the city centre. The top of this hill is around 100m above sea level.

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

Nice mid-'30's modernist house

View of the City with Swiss Re and the Natwest Tower with the new Shard taking place to the left. Dawson Heights flats in the middle distance. A temperature inversion has trapped the pollution in the lower air levels and this can be seen as the brown tint near ground level.