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The Maltings, Whitehorse Lane, LONDON, SE25 6UJ

Posters for this type of House music event regularly appear on traffic lights and lamp-posts along this road (similar versions are flyposted onto walls in the more urban centres); it is purely random chance that preserves this particular event for posterity.

Most of the way up this bit of South Norwood Hill, large villas dominate the western side, but here a gap between two (perhaps created by wartime bombing?) is occupied by this strange little house-cum-garage.

On a winter morning the sun is only just above the horizon and the morning commute is in full swing.

Petrol station at entrance to Crystal Palace Football Ground (through Sainsbury's car park etc)

Unusually for a suburban road, the house-numbering on Howden Road goes not from one side to the other, but all the way up one side and down the other. The Victorian villas on the right, northern side are numbered consecutively uphill from 1 to 13; the numbering then returns down the other side, covering houses that are exclusively interwar semis. It seems clear that when the road was first laid out in the nineteenth century there were only houses on one side and for a couple of generations their inhabitants would have enjoyed a view onto fields, a view taken away when the land was broken into building plots between the wars.

Not much call for a sundial at 4pm on a snowy December afternoon.

Grangewood was originally part of the Manor of Whitehorse and the wood known as Whitehorse Wood was part of the Great North Wood. In 1800 the wood was completely surrounded by fields but by the mid 19th century the east and west sides of Whitehorse Wood were cleared for development, whilst the remaining 30 acres to the east of Grange Road were developed as a private estate. This now forms Grangewood Park. It had a mansion at the centre with extensive gardens to the south. Croydon Corporation bought Grangewood Park in 1900. The mansion and grounds were badly damaged in the Second World War and the house was demolished in 1960. The formal garden at the centre of the park marks the site. When the Council acquired the park they built a bandstand but this was also demolished after the Second World War. Much of the park is what is called woodland park which is not as dense as ordinary woodland. These gates lead out to Ross Road at its junction with Wharncliffe Road and Canham Road. The house opposite is in the continuation of Ross Road.

This imposing house, high on the hill, can be seen be seen from several (distant) photographic points. Severely damaged by fire in the late 20th century, it has been restored to its former glory. Photographed from inside Grangewood Park.