Many of the cottages including 2 - 12 Romer Place (seen here), were demolished as part of the slum clearance programme in the late 1930s.

Front and rear views of various houses in Romer Place (originally Fuller's Place). Its location was off the west side of Lewisham High Street, in the area now occupied by BHS (formerly British Home Stores) and Littlewood's.

It was one of hundreds of similar houses built in the late 1830s and 1840s over the gardens of Grove House, a mansion demolished c.1836.

The early occupants were jobbing gardeners, carpenters, laundresses, and others providing services for the bigger houses of the village.