Continuing my walk in Peckham in March I spent some time exploring the area around Malt Street and Ossory Road, now on the other side of Asda, where some demolition was taking place but took few photographs, none on-line, and then walked back along along the Old Kent Road to Peckham Park Road, going down this to Green Hundred Road.
I found myself in a large area of council housing, much of which was fairly standard LCC five storey blocks dating from the late s, solidly built, their height limited back then by the lack of lifts. The foreground flats in this picture are from the late 60s and are on Bird in Bush Road, part of the GLC designed Ledbury Estate, and as well as these 4-storey maisonette blocks there were also four identical 14 floor H shape tower blocks, including this one, Bromyard House, which has its entrance on Commercial Way.
This picture was taken from close to the east end of Bird in Bush Road, and the building cut off at extreme left of the image is the former Arthur Street Board School now Camelot Primary School. The design dates of these flats, also on the Ledbury estate, is from the early s and was replicated across London by the GLC, using the prefabricated Danish Larsen-Nielsen system. After one at Ronan Point suffered a disastrous collapse following a gas explosion flats built using this system should have been strengthened, but somehow Southwark Council failed to do so on this estate.
This semi-detached residence dating from which was Grade II listed together with the neighbouring Doddington Place around nine years after I took this picture. There is also Doddington Place at Doddington near Sittingbourne in Kent, but this was only built around There are also six low-rise blocks on the estate.
This will include replacement council homes, additional council homes and key worker housing, shared equity homes and homes for private sale. There will also be a replacement school building, new commercial spaces and a new park. All existing residents will be able to move to a new council home in the first phase of the scheme. I returned to Clifton Crescent which I had photographed earlier and too a rather better and closer picture of this magnificent curved terrace. Fortunately they managed to stop the demolition when only No 1 had been lost.
