* This page originally stated that this postcard shows the corner of Pepys Road and Sandwell Road. Barbara James of New Cross, however, pointed out that no such road exists (or existed in 1901 according to our maps): "I am not aware of any such road going off Pepy's Road. Surely this is either the corner of Pepys and Ommaney or Pepys and Arbuthnot? My money is on the former because that is where the bombsite was and the incline of the road suggests it is not as high up as Arbuthnot".

Pepys Road was part of the development of substantial houses built by the Haberdashers Company on their Hatcham/New Cross estate from the 1860s onwards.

Here we can see an elaborate front garden with bird-bath and yucca plants.

This house, on the corner of Ommaney Road*, was destroyed by bombing in World War II.