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Whitby Gardens, SUTTON, SM1 3NA

Sewer vent column in Duke of Edinburgh Road, one of at least 31 such columns in the old Carshalton UDC area (see description below - this is no 9 on the map). This example has the arrow below the globe at the top of the column. Grade II listed - see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1468630?section=official-list-entry. For a wider view see Image The terraces in the background are in Westminster Road and Whitby Road.

Sewer vent column in Duke of Edinburgh Road, one of at least 31 such columns in the old Carshalton UDC area (see description below - this is no 9 on the map). This example has the arrow below the globe at the top of the column. Grade II listed - see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1468630?section=official-list-entry. For a wider view see Image The terrace in the background is in Westminster Road.

The inter-war St. Helier council estate was not built with the motor car in mind.

Houses in Duke of Edinburgh Road, a road marked on the 1898 6 inch map and 1913 25 inch map (both simply as Edinburgh Road) only with a few houses at its northern end, where the terrace on the left in this photo now stand. The houses on the right are later, being first shown on the 1935 25 inch map (with the road named as currently). In the right background is the sewer vent column in Image and Image

Pevsner sums it up with "big, tall and broad ... in a utilitarian modern idiom". By Saxon Snell and Phillips in 1938. He omitted to mention its whiteness. It is conspicuous in views from high points across south London, due to its bigness, tallness, whiteness, and the flat green expanse in front of it.

Houses in Duke of Edinburgh Road, a road marked on the 1898 6 inch map and 1913 25 inch map (both simply as Edinburgh Road) only with a few houses at its northern end, beyond Prince of Wales Road. More houses are shown on the 1935 25 inch map (with the road named as currently), but the ones seen here are not marked until the 1944 6 inch map (in outline only), implying a mid - late 1930s building date.

Serving a large area of South London

This large white building is visible on the skyline from quite large distances.

Greenshaw Wood lies within the public park known as Rosehill Park East. A strip of oak woodland formerly ran in a crescent from the site of the present St Helier Hospital south to a larger tract of woodland depicted on the First Edition Ordnance Survey Map as Been Hill. This strip of woodland was felled before 1815 and Been Hill became the new suburb of Benhilton. Greenshaw Wood is all that remains of these former ancient woods showing up with exactly the same boundaries as today on the Ordnance survey Map of 1866. This view looks along the southern boundary of Greenshaw Wood.