Deptford, The Old Bakery In Mill Lane From A Watercolour Mid 19th Century (Thankful Sturdee Collection)

Deptford, Back Yard Of Houses In Mill Lane c.1890 (Thankful Sturdee Collection)

colour artwork showing exterior of Midway Place Chapel ('Mr Becks Chapel') 1841 (from the original in the B L )

Mill Lane, formerly Dog Kennel Row, 1841

Maller's Nursery was established about 1880. This section, with the glasshouses, was between Burnt Ash Hill and Dorville and Leyland Roads. The Mallers lived in the house with the conservatory, No 72 Leyland Road. This part of the nursery was built over gradually, but a section remained until the 1960s when Alanthus Close was built. Kingshurst and Horncastle Roads were built over the southern section of the nursery in the 1930s.

Manor House Exterior & Pond c.1884

Built in 1772 as a country house, the Manor House was owned from 1796 by the banking family of Baring. After 1850, when the area was becoming built up, they let the house rather than live there. The house became a public library in 1902 and the garden a public park, to make an entrance to which the service wing and stables on the right were demolished.

Faulkner's Tile Kiln Works 1854

When this view from what is now the Devonshire Road area was published to mark the opening of the London and Croydon Railway in 1839, the tracks were cutting through open country in Forest Hill. Dartmouth Arms was the original name for Forest Hill station. It was taken from the adjoining pub, one of the very few buildings in the area. In this picture the pub is part of the small group seen in the centre. It is significant that the caption calls it the Dartmouth Arms, Sydenham, for Forest Hill scarcely existed as a suburb, the name being used for only a few houses in Honor Oak Road. Within fifteen years Forest Hill was established as the name for the district and the station, from which hundreds of houses radiated. Lithograph by L. J. Wood and J. R. Jobbins, published by R. Tyas, 1839.

Garden Of Lewisham House, View From Roof Pre 1881

Lewisham House 1856 -60 By Henry Wood

Sepia Photograph of Charles Henry Ladbrook, fruiterer and greengrocer, no. 120 High Street (south of the White Hart). Shopkeeper and provisions are shown in front of store. Buildings, nos 118 and 122, are also pictured. C. 1890