Ordnance Survey c.1950

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Lewisham Council's principal housing effort in the wake of the First World War was made at Grove Park, on farmland west of Marvels Lane.

The Grove Park Estate, as it was called, was built between 1926 and 1929, and the London County Council's huge Downham Estate, to the east of Baring Road, was built at the same time.

These were decisive changes to the social complexion of the area.

By 1950 bomb damage had combined with falling demand, and the large houses of the 1870s and 1880s were disappearing.