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Lamorna Villas, Chislehurst West, c. 1930

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

 

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.


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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