No. 8 was long the home of Leland Duncan, the Lewisham historian, who was a civil servant in the War Office, and sufficiently important to merit a blue plaque.

The photograph taken in July 1980.

This is one of a group of eight uniform villas built in the mid 1870s for the new middle class commuting population that had grown rapidly since the opening of Lewisham Station in 1849.