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Cornwallis Avenue, LONDON, SE9 3RF

Most of the housing in this quarter of the square was built in the mid-late 1930s, and most is semi-detached, often extended now from 3 to 4 bedrooms. The original very durable concrete (with pebble-chip) road surface remains, patched occasionally. The original grey 1930s heavy paving slabs have been relaid after cable TV installed their pipes and other equipment. The pink ones are post-war replacements for cracked slabs. Parking restrictions and yellow lines appeared in the 1990s.

Telford Road was developed in the late 1930s with a mixture of chalet and standard types of semi-detached houses, all with these castellated brick walls dividing the front gardens from each other, and the pavement. The road had narrow grass verges planted with cherry blossom trees (pink). The image has been scanned from a 35mm Ilford FP3 monochrome negative, date circa February or March 1964.

The housing in this quarter of the square is almost exclusively semi-detached, built in the mid-late 1930s, with a lot of the chalet style buildings fashionable at the time. Some were sold in 1937 for £700 (2007 price un-extended, around £300,000) The road surface (apart from patches) is still the original hard concrete packed with tiny stones and pebbles. Many of these three bedroom semis have been extended.

This quarter of the square is almost exclusively made up of 1930s semi-detached housing, around half of it in the fashionable (at the time) chalet style with downstairs toilet and bathroom. Since the 1970s many have been extended in a variety of ways. This image shows the original shape with original 1937 castellated front garden wall, and the next one which is now four bedroomed. The house by the telegraph pole still has the original 1937 castellated brick garden wall.

With residential housing in Aldwick Close providing a backdrop, this is a view of the bypass (the A211) as it heads towards Sidcup (which it skirts on this suburb's southern side).