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Langston Hughes Close, LONDON, SE24 0QY

The Michael Tippett School was both the first Building Schools for the Future (BSF) school in London and the first Special Education Needs school to be built under the BSF programme. The school moved into this new building in Heron Road SE24 in February 2008. It provides 80 pupil places for students aged 11 to 18 who have profound and multiple special educational needs. The building was designed by London Eye architects, Marks Barfield, and built by Apollo Education. The photo is taken from the junction between Heron Road (on the left) and Milkwood Road.

This academy building opened in 2010. The school is part of the ARK network of academy schools. The main building is about 125m long so it took two photos to cover it. See Image and also Image for a view from the other side.

A swanky addition to the area, and the first English project of the eminent architect Zaha Hadid, in 2006-10. Academies are a hybrid - state-maintained but funded largely by other sources - and controversial because of those other funding sources and because they are outside local authority control. Update: in October 2011 this building won the most prestigious architectural award, the Royal Institute of British Architects' Stirling Prize. From the air: Image

Viewed from an entrance from Heron Road. The facilities and features of the park include: children's playground, 5-a-side football pitch, basketball court, quiet area, trim trail, wildlife areas, and amphitheatre. Since 2003, over £500,000 has been invested to date to enable the park to offer local people of all ages and interests with a wide range of facilities for play, sport and social relaxation. In 2006 the park became Lambeth's first Green Flag Award site.

This academy building opened in 2010. The school is part of the ARK network of academy schools. The main building is about 125m long so it took two photos to cover it. See Image and also Image for a view from the other side.

Located on the junction of Heron Road (on the right) and Lowden Road. The building is a late Victorian hall (built about 1880) of traditional brick construction under a pitched slate roof. Although never consecrated, the building was used for worship until 1981, and was originally known as Camberwell St John's Mission. It was able to seat 300 people. The hall was used as a Community Centre from 1990. More recently it has been occupied by a children's nursery. The hall is currently for sale, and is likely to be improved and converted for community use.

The building stands on the junction of Hinton Road and Alderton Road. It has the look of having once been a public house.

Viewed looking north. The photographer is standing in Lowden Road.

The ground floor of some of this parade of shops have been converted into flats. The location is Hinton Road, Brixton, looking south from close to its junction with Milkwood Road.

Built in 1880 as St John's Mission, Camberwell and later known as St John's church, Herne Hill. Now a nursery.