EAW042064 ENGLAND (1952). Housing estates at Poverest, Orpington, 1952

The Bull Inn.

St Peters Lane.

Cotmandene Cresent before the shops on the St. Peters Lane side were completed.

Crabtrees Toy Shop, Cotmandene Cresent. The circular shaped single story building located at the end of Cotmandene. Now an Indian resuarant.

Nash's Paper Mill

Ravenscourt Road

Longbury Drive.

Garden/Vegetable allotments located behind houses in Ravenscourt Road and Longbury Drive. The site was developed into housing during the 1980's with a new road construction Longbury Close.

Leesons Hill School - The beginning of it's site preperation.

A small shop (wooden I believe) called 'The Crows Nest' or 'The Nest'. It possibly became a laundrette sometime during the early-mid 1960's.

Lock-up garages rented to local residents by the LCC (London County Council) even though the area was at the time within Kent.

St Barnabas CoE Church, Rushett Rd. The church with a high profile green coloured copper roof, visable from far beyond the congregation it serves. Replacing little more than a large tin hut acting as a place of worship located on the same site, the current day church was built during the early part of the 1960's. When virtually completed, the church was consecrated/blessed in the later part of 1964. I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to Andy Fordham, who uploaded the video to YouTube. Should the video not play, simply go to YouTube and perform a search for 'St Barnabas St Pauls Cray' whereon the video mentioned will be at the front of the search result and playable.

The Broomwood, now McDonalds

The Broomwood, now McDonalds

At the time, a privately owned orchard known to local children as 'Pop's Orchard'.

At the time, this was a Gypsy camp on a site known as Corke's Meadow.

Now a residential site. Was a waste ground before the Crayfish Public House was built on the site sometime around the very early 1960's. The Crayfish ceased business around 2006.

St Mary Cray Train Station.

Now part of the Nugent Estate. The electrical appliance manufacturer Morphy Richards previously occupied the site from it's inception during the mid 1930's.