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Auckland Hill, LONDON, SE27 9PF

In the 1950s this was Gipsy Road infants school. Subsequently until 2002 it was Norwood Park primary school.

The backdrop of trees are along the railway line east of West Norwood station. One of the rarer varieties of Mini - either a Riley Elf or a Wolseley Hornet - adorns the container on the left.

Sitting pretty atop West Norwood Car Breakers is an old mini (?) On the left is a Royal Mail Delivery Office which looks very 1960s. A train runs behind the trees towards West Norwood and beyond that are houses on Auckland Hill.

Specialist sports school on Gipsy Road.

In Windsor Grove. Mattresses are not uncommon, but Coca-Cola dispensers?

Grave 4864 is slightly to the left of centre of the picture, under the tree. It dates from 1856 (when it cost 15 guineas) to 1908, and holds 6 members of the same family. Unfortunately the inscription is no longer legible.

The food lies rotting, the sports go unwatched and the garden is a wilderness. This particular pub may not have been much of a loss (I don't know, I never visited it), but there is something melancholic about every entry in the increasingly long catalogue of extinct pubs. I think this one went some time in 2011.

Closed public house on the junction of Gipsy Road (in front) and Auckland Hill (on the left).

A pair of stock brick houses dating from the late C18th or early C19th, making them some of the earliest surviving buildings in the area. They share a lunette in the pediment, and the left-hand house has an extra bay. Grade II listed. The development of West Norwood began with the breaking up of Lord Thurlow's estate after his death in 1806. Much of this initial phase has since been swept away by subsequent development which accelerated over the second half of the C19th and during the C20th, but there are pockets of houses surviving from the early days, mostly around Knight’s Hill, Norwood High Street/Elder Road and the area between them.