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The residents of Fenstanton Rest Home, Christchurch Road, Streatham Hill on VE Day in 1945. The house was previously used for patients with mental illness before it was taken over by the London County Council as a rest home for the elderly. Temporary wartime protection for the building can be seen on the left and Mrs Gaston de Poitiers, the matron, is seated in the centre of the front row.Digital image by kind permission of Edward de Poitiers. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.

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Collection:	Home Front Project 2005
Image type:	Photograph
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Ref:	06703
Identifier:	SPd 4051/1
Date:	1945

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