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Colour photo of the Coopers Lane School carnival float displaying an 'Iron Man', 1978

Colour photo of Coopers Lane School float, 1978

Colour photo of Mrs. Valerie Dalouto, the secretary of the Grove Park Community Group, 1978

Colour photo of the Girl Guides' float, 1978

Grove Park Hospital As Army Service Corps Barracks c.1916 (Olley Collection)

The Grove Road (later Dalmain Road) school was built by the School Board for London, which had been set up under the 1870 Act. It was their first local school and was opened in 1873 in one of the few poor areas of Forest Hill. Indeed, it remained the only state school there until 1903. The horseman seen on the right, was turning into Grove Road, which was part of the West Kent Park estate. It was not much above the level of a slum. The nearest building was the original school of 1873, which became the infants' department when the taller boys' and girls' school was added in 1875.

Colour Photograph of Hally's Nursery, Blackheath Village, 1852 (from a billhead) by John R. Llwyd Roberts.

Handen Road (Baker Collection)

The railway was built through Hither Green in 1866, and proposals for a station at the Hither Green junction were regularly put forward. But it was not until 1st June 1895 that a station was finally opened. The railway had the disadvantage of effectively cutting off the communities either side of the railway line. The coming of the railway ended the building of large detached houses in the area, and as early as September 1865 land for development was advertised as being close to the intended station. Land prices began to rise rapidly and the building programme began to gather momentum.

Hope farm Dairy Milkfloat, Le May Ave, Grove Park

Black and White postcardshowing boats on the lake and children playing

Houses In Old Flagon Row, North Side (Thankful Sturdee Collection)