The Beulah Spa
The Royal Beulah Spa And Gardens: how the spa water was discovered The following is a story circulating in 1948. The owner of the Manor of White Horse took pity on a poor old horse that was being taken to the knacker’s yard. He turned it loose in a mea …
Lower Norwood Free Public Library (1888 – 1969)
On Saturday July 28th 1888 the Norwood Free Public Library was opened by the Earl of Northbrook. Mr Nettlefold purchased the site for 1000 pounds and it was quite an architectural addition to the neighbourhood. The Library contained literature by the …
The Baptist Chapel on Central Hill
The 1863 Ordnance Survey map shows the Baptist Chapel on Central Hill prior to the creation of Gatestone Road which was built to the west of the chapel following the field boundary southwards. The Reverend Samuel Tipple started preaching in the Baptist …
Norwood Cottage Hospital
In 1880 a committee was formed to establish a cottage hospital which would provide treatment for the sick poor of Norwood and the surrounding suburban districts. An Appeal was launched and was met with enthusiastic support. It had been hoped to acquir …
The Bricklayer’s Arms
Sadly no longer a public house the Bricklayers Arms stood at 29, later 34, Chapel Road, West (Lower) Norwood. Built at the time of the rapid expansion of London in the 1860s the name was not an uncommon choice for a public house. The Norwood brewery s …
Bishop’s Folly 228 South Norwood Hill
Bishop’s Folly, 228, formerly called St Helen’s was in 1960 the home of Mr Amphlett Micklewright, the first Chairman of the NORWOOD SOCIETY and Mrs Helen Hamilton Flint. Mrs Hamilton Flint was the first Honorary Secretary of the Norwood Society, or as …
Harefield House, Anerley Hill
HAREFIELD HOUSE—The Story of a House Through Time whose family have lived there since 1948 14 Anerley Hill, Upper Norwood, London, SE19 2AA (NB Anerley Hill was a fairly recent incarnation – forerunners were Westow Hill Rd, Annerley Rd. and Anerley Rd. …
Lower Norwood Working Mens’ Institute
The Lower Norwood Working Men’s Institute, was presented by the philanthropist Mr. Arthur Anderson to benefit the community in 1860. It was inaugurated 19 December 1859 and at the time was considered to have been well planned and run. Arthur Anderson …
Chapel Road Congregational Chapel
This building was erected between 1819 and 1821 on land bought by William Salter from Benjamin Shaw, to whom it had been allotted by the Lambeth Manor Inclosure Commissioners. The church has a plain stock brick body made more imposing by a taller ped …
Grangewood (1861)
Grange Wood House was built in 1861 for Charles Hood. It was built near the southern end of the Norwood spur at an elevation of 92 metres (300ft), to ensure commanding views to the south and southwest. Hood commissioned the building of Grangewood Hous …
Falkland Park (1890)
Falkland Park was built in 1890 of white Suffolk bricks with Portland Stone dressings. It was described by English Heritage in 1988 as of ‘Mongrel Classical Style’! Like The Grange its portico’d entrance is to the side allowing as many rooms as possi …
Harold Road Tennis Club (1887)
The Harold Lawn Tennis Club was opened in 1887 and occupied the land bordering Orleans Road, Vermont Road and Harold Road. The grounds covered 3 acres, and included seven grass courts, a club house, and a croquet lawn – later adding four hard co …
Gayfere (Pre 1800)
The original Gayfere ‘cottage’ to the left probably dating from before 1800 and the 1850s wing added by Mr Teasedale. The Leech Ponds behind Gayfere Within its walls, men lived who made their fortune from the quackery that was Edwardian medicine …The West Norwood Cemetery (1836)
The cemetery was founded by an Act of Parliament in 1836 and was consecrated for its first burials in 1837. In 1836 the South Metropolitan Cemetery Company bought land from the late Lord Thurlow’s estate in Lower Norwood and created the second of the …
Stanley Halls, South Norwood (1903 to 1907)
With the £120,000 raised from floating his business, The Stanley Works, on the stock market William F. R. Stanley announced that he would “provide the district with a well needed Public Hall” (Norwood News, 1901). The buildings were completed in stages …