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36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
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18-07-2015 12:06 AM

Maybe if they had built that block of flats atop the hill in Tewkesbury Lodge Estate in the 1960s then we wouldn’t have the same lack of social housing right now…maybe…that was the start, that was the absolute protectionism of the various but mainly 1930s-house (note hyphen) owners on the ‘estate’ (or ‘Horniman Heights’ as the estate agents would have it now!), and we all at some time or another (okay…just me) eschewed and, hopefully not, voted (I didn’t) Thatcher the Milk Snatcher in to protect that. Well done, that was absolutely the right thing. ‘Thing’ being the important word there.

Mind you, realistically, it wasn’t “on top of the hill” though, was it? The site is where Horniman School is now, and could have been a Beautiful Brutalist Block, in keeping with some of its neighbours, and provided at least enough space for all those families proposed to be accommodated at the Hamilton Lodge and Canonbie Road hostels.

Let’s not mention the halving in storeys of the Wood Vale flats too, thereby halving the number of people that could have been accommodated there. Views, views, views. Wonder what Messrs Bayer’s, du Fresne’s and others’ views of it would be (no, it’s not a law company. Yet)?

Brutalist one way or another.

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RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home) - 67Park - 18-07-2015 12:06 AM
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