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Butter Hill, CARSHALTON, SM5 2TW

This short modern terrace on Devonshire Road, Carshalton has arrays of solar tiles among the conventional tiles on the roofs.

A modern apartment block on Butter Hill, in Carshalton.

Like many small shopping areas, this one is in decline with the loss of many shops, either boarded up or converted into residential accommodation.

The centre, on the corner of Butter Hill, is a daughter church of Holy Trinity parish Image It is probably less used now that the parish church has a new community centre attached Image

Butter Hill in Carshalton, in the outer suburbs of south London. This section of the road is too narrow for cars to pass. The yellow markings on the road surface prohibit traffic from queueing and blocking the narrow section.

To see the same sluices many years earlier, Image

Caledon Road is a short residential street in Carshalton, in the outer suburbs of south London. The "no entry" signs indicate that vehicles can only enter Caledon Road from the other end of the street.

The removal of old industrial premises has made stretches of the Wandle accessible which previously were not so. This shows part of the Wandle upstream of the sluices. The white building in the distance is occupied by a graphic design company.

This photograph shows Butter Hill Bridge over the River Wandle, and the premises of Vinyl Products Limited. According to information from Gordon Lee who worked there from 1964 to 1979, "Vinyl Products manufactured water-based emulsion polymers based mainly on vinyl acetate which was supplied from the BP oil refinery in Baglan Bay, South Wales, and delivered by road tanker. The polymer emulsions were sold for use in the manufacture of emulsion paint, wood adhesives, paper coating and non-woven fabrics. Vinyl Products was founded before the Second World War by a Cambridge University research scientist, Dr. J E O Mayne and colleagues. In the early 1970s it was purchased by Unilever, who provided the capital for a new manufacturing site at Warrington, Cheshire, to bring it closer to its suppliers and customers, and provide access to an ICI ethylene pipeline. It survived the Margaret Thatcher era and re-organisation by Unilever, but the Carshalton site was closed down and the company was sold on as part of a deal with ICI who later sold it to Celanese. The tradename Vinamul is still in use by Celanese."