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View down Elder Road
With a line of fine old gnarled trees growing in a variety of directions.
After the traffic lights the road becomes Norwood High Street.
In the distance are the towers of St Luke's church and the former fire station.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 30 Jan 2010
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Norwood High Street (1)
A tatty stretch on the east side running north from Windsor Grove (far right). The modest mid-Victorian two-storey houses would probably scrub up reasonably well, but sit far back behind a ragbag of projecting shops, several of which are currently empty. The corner site is empty, save for two rusting Volkswagens.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 2 Feb 2012
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Elder Road
A view south along Elder Road. Just visible over the rooftops is the TV transmitter mast at Beulah Heights.
Image: © Malc McDonald
Taken: 22 May 2010
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Ghost sign, Norwood High Street
A palimpsestic ghost sign? I think Kay's Motors is discernible, with at least one other later incumbent less so. The current ones, Alton Motors, may have painted over some of the original sign.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 6 Feb 2013
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Waring Street
A short cul-de-sac off Norwood High Street with nothing much except a couple of industrial buildings - Waring House, and Zephyr House beyond.
Off to the left is an even shorter cul-de-sac, Dunkirk Street, which has virtually nothing except three houses opposite Waring House. The map suggests it may originally have continued north until it met Pilgrim Hill before being curtailed by the site now occupied by builders' merchants, Travis Perkins.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 6 Feb 2013
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Formerly the Kings Head, Norwood High Street
Now Scandals, a bar and nightclub.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 23 Jul 2011
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Industrial area near West Norwood Station, from the train
This area of builders' supply yards, light industry and mechanics' shops lies in a dip just to the east of (and parallel to) Norwood High Street, running south from the railway. The dip probably represents the old course of the Effra, one of London's lost rivers.
In the foreground, the beer garden of a pub on Norwood High Street
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 15 Oct 2011
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West Norwood Royal Mail Delivery Office, Windsor Grove
Built in 1962.
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 31 Oct 2015
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Norwood High Street, London SE27
Image: © Stacey Harris
Taken: 3 Jun 2009
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Mylands factory, Rothschild Street
Although primarily a residential area with a main shopping street, West Norwood also has an industrial area. Well, two streets to be precise. Mylands makes paints and polishes. According to their website, they are "the last manufacturer of decoration coatings based in the London area."
Rothschild Street was laid out c1900 on the site of some Huguenot almshouses.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: Unknown
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