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Lamorna Villas, Chislehurst
West, c. 1930
My
parents plus three and then four children lived at No. 79 from 1945 to 1956. The
houses went back from the road a long way. In fact, they were not just
family homes but bourgeois homes, with provision for servant(s).
Andrew Belsey, Cardiff
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Dating
from before 1880, Lamorna Villas was a pair
of small cottages in what is now the High
Street. They were built as part of a substantial
development in this part of Chislehurst.
Later numbered 77 - 79, the latter was in
commercial use for much of the inter-war period.
They were eventually swept away in the mid
1970s as part of a wholesale redev-elopment
which resulted in the building of Sainsbury's
Supermarket.
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A Reader comments:
Contrary to the imp-ression the photo might give, 77 and 79 High Street
were not small cottages but substantial 4-bedroomed family homes.
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Bickley
Arms Hotel,
Chislehurst, c. 1870 |
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Double's
Butchers,
65 High Street,
Chislehurst, c. 1930 |
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Water
Tower,
Summer Hill,
Chislehurst, c. 1960 |
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