Hi
My name is Alan and I lived at Pikethorne flats no 23 as one of the first families to live there in 1950. I was 1 year old when we moved in and so the first few years there are vague however we were the first to move into our ground for flat and have many happy memories over 22 years living there. However I too have found it difficult getting any official information regarding when they actually started building them but I guess it must have been around 1947 to 1950 with many other of the estates in that area as these were largely bomb sites damaged I think by the same land mine that desroyed most of Forest Hill train station. I hope this helps and if you can find more out from this, I would be great full to know.