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New Lydenburg Commercial Estate, New Lydenburg Street, LONDON, SE7 8NF

These are the light industrial units off Westmoor Street and Penhall Road, between the A206 (Woolwich Road) and the River Thames. The view is from the vantage point above Gilbert's Pit Image

The area between Woolwich Road and the river has an aura of the land that time forgot. Populated with scrap metal merchants, car repair yards, and defunct vehicles gathering dust, often on the pavement, it has the rare quality of still looking like a plausible location for The Sweeney from the 1970s.

The area between Woolwich Road and the river has an aura of the land that time forgot. Populated with scrap metal merchants, car repair yards, and defunct vehicles gathering dust, often on the pavement, it has the rare quality of still looking like a plausible location for The Sweeney from the 1970s.

One of several motor repair businesses in this area.

This building appears to have had so many owners, judging from the palimpsest of signs on the wall, that it's difficult to know who is there now. One former business, now overwritten was stonehill.co.uk - an office supplies company - and there are also old signs for motor repair businesses.

The view from the summit of Cox's Mount, part of Gilbert's Pit in Maryon Park. The summit was home to a Roman hill fort in C1st-C4th, artefacts of which were discovered in 1915. In the 1850s Cox's Mount was also used by ships' captains on the River Thames to assist them in navigating. The former Gilbert's Pit, an area that was worked for fine sand from c.1780s until 1889 is now part of Maryon Park but is separated from it by this ascending spur of land that juts out towards the River Thames. This viewpoint is a fenced-off area of a few square metres only situated at the top of a flight of steps (of earth and railway sleeper construction) located adjacent to the Charlton Lane railway crossing.

The area between Woolwich Road and the river has an aura of the land that time forgot. Populated with scrap metal merchants, car repair yards, and defunct vehicles gathering dust, often on the pavement, it has the rare quality of still looking like a plausible location for The Sweeney from the 1970s. That said, the building on the left was, improbably, a church.

The building carries the name Thames Barrier Arms (so must have been open in the 1980s when the nearby Barrier was built) but is now a veterinary surgery. It was originally called the "Lads of the Village".

One of several motor repair businesses in this area. This one is on the corner of Penhall road.

A road serving several industrial units (see Image) including a paintball venue, go-karting circuit, Council depot, and "House of Praise" church.