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Agaton Road, LONDON, SE9 3RN

Metal plate attached to stone post by the A211, in parish of ELTHAM (GREENWICH District), Footscray Road SE9, East of Meavyn Avenue, by No. 494 , in grass area, beside pavement, on South side of road. New Cross marker, erected by the New Cross turnpike trust in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- : 10 / MILES / TO / LONDON / BRIDGE : : 2 / MILES / TO / FOOTSCRAY : Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1358949 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358949 Milestone Society National ID: KE_LF10.

A view along Footscray Road (the A211) looking towards main crossroads where the library, shops and railway station are to be found. This is New Eltham Methodist Church and "The Centre", a Methodist Hall/Community Centre.

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.

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.

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.