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Stanstead Grove is a quiet lane immediately off Stanstead Road, a section of the South Circular Road. The cottages were built c.1855. Clerks figured prominently among the early residents, especially after Catford Bridge station opened in January 1857, giving them easy access to the City of London. Photograph taken on 11th September 1968.

Bath Place was one of several groups of working men's houses in or close to Blackheath Village. They were mainly occupied by laundresses, carpenters and others engaged in serving the needs of the wealthy residents. Built in stages from the 1790s, the Bath Place cottages were ill drained and poorly supplied with water which was only available from a pump in the roadway. There were four deaths from cholera in Blackheath during the summer of 1849, "... two at a filthy spot called Bath Place". Lewisham included most of the surviving cottages in its slum clearance programme in 1939 and the rest were destroyed by a V2 rocket in March 1945.

Black and White photo of the front gate and exterior of No.10 The Avenue (later known as Somertrees Avenue)

Black and White photo of the front exterior of the houses, 23/8/1968

Black and White photo showing the shop front for Phoenix Cycles, this was once the home of Sir W. Cummings

Black and White photo of the exterior of the former Forest Hill House (now known as the Christian Fellowship Centre), 6/9/1983

13 Handen Road c.1888 (Stanley Unwin at the gate)

Black and White photo of the Brownies on Chilsehurst Common, 1929

140/142 Breakspears Road.

Black and White postcard showing the exterior of No.163 Burnt Ash Hill, 1964

Black and White postcard showing a distant view of The Charcoal-Burner's cottages on Burnt Ash Hill, 1964

Black and White postcard showing a distant view of 'The Charcoal-Burners' cottages on Burnt Ash Hill, 1964