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Denmark Hill Estate, LONDON, SE5 8HH

Seen at the junction with Acland Crescent. What an amazing tree in the front garden.

Camberwell Borough built the estate in 1950; it provided 682 homes. The unusual streetnames may remember the large houses on Denmark Hill that were demolished to make way for the estate. Source: Ideal Homes website http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk

Both apparently in the same compound, are, on the left, Hambleden Clinic GP Surgery, and on the right Denmark Hill Neighbourhood Community Centre.

View northward taken from the car by Ferndene Road, Ruskin Park being on the left. The tower ahead to the right is the Salvation Army Museum.

"Redholm, the large house on Champion Hill behind the Fox on the Hill pub was built in 1885 to the design of the well known late Victorian/Edwardian architect John Belcher who lived in it until his death in 1913 ..." - quotation from this http://www.dulwichsociety.com/newsletters/40-winter-2006/263-john-belcher. Grade II listed, described at this http://www.dulwichsociety.com/newsletters/40-winter-2006/263-john-belcher.

That is the name (meaning plane trees), which appears on a gatepost, given to the mansion in 1882 when it was built for George Egmont Bieber, a City merchant. The next owner, Herman Kleinwort, gave the mansion to King’s College Hospital in 1910. Shortly afterwards it became a Hall of Residence http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-507126-the-platanes-now-king-s-college-hall-cam . A thorough analysis of all aspects of the site including its history is at http://planningonline.southwarksites.com/planningonline2/DocsOnline/Documents/49758_1.pdf

An entrance from Ferndene Road near the eastern edge of the park.

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Built between 1936 and 1954 to the designs of architect Alexander Stuart Gray of Watkins Gray Architects. More on the block at this http://c20society.org.uk/botm/ruskin-park-house-london/. Following his retirement from a very successful practice A.S. Gray devoted his retirement years to compiling his "Edwardian Architecture : a Biographical Dictionary" (London : Duckworth, 1985). He spent much of time in the Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects, where this contributor met him and sought out research materials for him. A.S. Gray died in 1989. One of the entries in his dictionary is for the architect John Belcher who designed a house for himself ("Redholm" Image]), on a site opposite to where Ruskin Park House stands. For a similar development on North London see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4747250.