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Black and White Photograph of The Cottage of Content

Black and White photograph showing exterior of the Cranbrook, with Cranbrook Road to left, Brookmill Road to right, Carrington House visible on extreme right)

Black and White photograph showing exterior of the Crown and Sceptre , Friendly Street, 26/6/79

Black and White Photograph of The Croydon Railway Near Dartmouth Arms, Sydenham Published 1839

Black and White artwork showing exterior front of the Dover Castle. Copied from a Thankful Sturdee original

The Dover Castle, Deptford Broadway

The Downham Tavern c.1932

Black and White photograph showing exterior of the Duke, Creek Road, on the corner of Gonson Street

Black and White photograph showing exterior of the Duke, Creek Road, 1960 (courtesy of Whitbread London Ltd, Whitbread House, Park Street West, Luton)

The Elms was built as a farmhouse, probably in the 1780s, after the partial demolition of the Tudor mansion known as Place House, where the farmer had lived until then. The bay windows were added c.1870. The gradual break-up of the old Place House farm after 1850 made much of western Catford available for building.

Much of the early suburban development of Hither Green in the years around 1800 was made possible by the piecemeal enclosure of wasteland bordering Hither Green Lane. In 1788 Lord Dartmouth leased the site on which two semi-detached houses, later called the Elms and the Chesnuts, were built. The early tenants included shopkeepers from Leadenhall Street and The Strand, and a Bermondsey vinegar manufacturer. The Elms later became the St. Mary's Mission House It was demolished around 1891 to provide part of the site for St. Swithun's Church. The other house, known as the Chestnuts, became the vicarage in 1886 and is now the oldest building in Hither Green.

People on a hill, maypole in the distance