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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" height=115 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="832" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 1 WIDTH="237"><div> <IMG SRC="27878c5a0.jpg" border=0 width="140" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2789333e0.jpg" border=0 width="307" height="62" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:derelictlondon@yahoo.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:derelictlondon@yahoo.co.uk"><U><IMG SRC="08950190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>   <A HREF="home_page.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home Page"><U><IMG SRC="0aa50190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>  <A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London Guestbook"><U><IMG SRC="08a50190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 WIDTH="248"><div> <IMG SRC="27888c590.jpg" border=0 width="140" height="89" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=365 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#660000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Derelict London 2010 Updates Part 2</B></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <IMG SRC="289d53870.jpg" border=0 width="339" height="391" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="289b42880.jpg" border=0 width="322" height="392" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>OLD KENT ROAD </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="27f9c2520.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="27fb52530.jpg" border=0 width="338" height="339" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>BERMONDSEY - SIMON THE TANNER</B></div> <bR> <div> Built  as a public house in around 1829. The name is associated with the old  leather industry in  Bermondsey although Simon The Tanner was a 10th Century  saint associated with the legend of the moving of a mountain in Cairo.This Grade 2 listed building is currently for  sale  A surveyors report states that the building is much altered but does retain some features of architectural & historic interest.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="27fd47eb0.jpg" border=0 width="327" height="235" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="27ff7cec0.jpg" border=0 width="380" height="236" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <IMG SRC="280177000.jpg" border=0 width="375" height="256" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><B> <IMG SRC="28054dff0.jpg" border=0 width="333" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>WHITE CITY</B></div> <bR> <div> Scrap  and builders yards situated near the Westway and within a stones throw of the new Westfield Shopping Centre.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="2807c2520.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <B>GREENWICH - DELTA WHARF</B></div> <bR> <div> Delta Wharf produced metal products, mainly bronze, on this site from 1905 until around the early 80's. It was later used for aggregates until its fairly recent closure. This photograph was taken just before demolition which took place early in 2010.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="280990900.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>PECKHAM</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="280bc2510.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="337" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="288ffe500.jpg" border=0 width="254" height="336" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>PECKHAM RYE</B></div> <bR> <div> The left pic shows a piece of an school entrance gate for a school. Its now used as makeshift park seating. I presumed that this was from the nearby closed Friern School but looking the picture on the right of the said school its not the same after all.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <IMG SRC="280dc2520.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="280ffe530.jpg" border=0 width="254" height="339" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>PENGE - GRACE'S </B></div> <bR> <div> Legendary Victorian  WG Grace was player & manager at The London County Cricket Club  which was based at nearby Crystal Palace. He liced locally and is buried in the adjacent cemetery.The pub is due for refurbishment soon.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="2811c23c0.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="316" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>EARLS COURT - PHILBEACH HOTEL</B></div> <bR> <div> When open was described by Lonely Planet Guide as<B> </B><I>"in the heart of 'gay Earls Court' sits one of London's few gay hotels. Easily the most popular, it prides itself on being 'owned by gays, run by gays, for the gays!"</I></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="28132c900.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <B>LONDON BRIDGE</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="27f5c2520.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>LONDON WALL - ST ALPHAGE</B></div> <bR> <div> This  14th-century tower of the hospital priory of Elsing Spital was later incorporated into the church of St Alphage on London Wall.  The church was damaged but not totally destroyed in the  Great Fire of 1666. Further damage occurred in World War 1.  Its scant remains consist of the ruin of a central tower, built of flint and rubble masonry, with arches on three sides and the south wall missing.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2817c2520.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2819c2520.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>SIDCUP - PUBLIC HALL</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="281bc27e0.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="382" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>CLAPHAM - SCAVENGER SQUIRREL</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="2884f3470.jpg" border=0 width="243" height="327" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="2889b2450.jpg" border=0 width="434" height="325" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2885f6460.jpg" border=0 width="246" height="326" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  <IMG SRC="2886fc400.jpg" border=0 width="252" height="320" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="288aa93e0.jpg" border=0 width="425" height="318" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2888f9400.jpg" border=0 width="249" height="320" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH</B></div> <bR> <div> St Pancras Old Church is believed to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in England, and is dedicated to the Roman martyr Saint Pancras, In the mid-19th century the writer Thomas Hardy, then a trainee architect, was involved in the controversial clearance of part of the churchyard to make way for the railway. It was affected again, some 140 years later, by the St Pancras Channel Tunnel scheme.</div> <bR> <div>  Charles Dickens mentions it by name in A Tale of Two Cities, making it the location of body-snatching to provide corpses for dissection at medical schools, a common practice at the time. In 1968, The Beatles were photographed in the churchyard grounds, in a series of pictures designed to promote the single "Hey Jude"</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="282b24900.jpg" border=0 width="292" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>ROTHERHITHE - WOODEN DOLPHIN</B></div> <bR> <div> I always wondered what these battered wooden structures were called until I saw a drawing from the 1800's on one at the Docklands Museum. A dolphin is  a large wooden pile used as a mooring post for ships or as a beacon.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="2883874b0.jpg" border=0 width="391" height="331" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2881e64c0.jpg" border=0 width="230" height="332" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2882084e0.jpg" border=0 width="264" height="334" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>PECKHAM - THE ALLIANCE</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2839c1900.jpg" border=0 width="449" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>DEPTFORD - THE VICTORIA</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="283bdb6a0.jpg" border=0 width="219" height="362" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="283da3680.jpg" border=0 width="419" height="360" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>KENSINGTON  - RADNOR ARMS</B></div> <bR> <div> Despite the "wet paint" warning and the "still a real pub" on the sign it closed down in 2007. Described by Fancyapint as <I>"A true local in an area where you wouldn't necessary expect one, the quality beers, cheery regulars - and a whole menagerie – add up to one of the most pleasant pub-going experiences in London."</I></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="27c98dff0.jpg" border=0 width="397" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="27c848000.jpg" border=0 width="328" height="256" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>DULWICH - BELAIR PARK RATS</B></div> <bR> <div> Despite the numerous poison traps, rats freely roam around the area near the ornamental lake which is said to be  a tributary of the buried River Effra. People are being discouraged to feed the wildlife  as its been encouraging the rats who feed alongside the ducks. There are reports on a local forum of a council official using a  baseball bat to kill rats which has caused some distress amongst onlookers and their children.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="28412c900.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>WALBROOK</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="28432c900.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>BRIXTON</B></div> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="284590900.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <B>UPPER NORWOOD </B></div> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="2890cb0f0.jpg" border=0 width="203" height="271" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2892650b0.jpg" border=0 width="357" height="267" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2891670d0.jpg" border=0 width="359" height="269" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>HONOR OAK</B></div> <bR> <div> The beacon (left pic)  at the summit of One Tree Hill in Honor Oak  was erected to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George VI in 1935. It was subsequently used for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, her silver and golden jubilees and also at the Millennium. Beacons on the same site were used to give warning of invasion by the Spanish and later the French. The Hill was also the site of Watson's General Telegraph, a relay system established in 1841 linking London with shipping in the English Channel.</div> <bR> <div> This polygonal structure(middle pic)  on One Tree Hill is  a gun emplacement which  was erected on the hill in 1915 to counter the threat of raids by Zeppelin airships. Evidence of where the gun originally stood can be seen in the middle of the polygon (right pic)</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="284f425a0.jpg" border=0 width="322" height="346" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>MILL HILL - JEREMIAH BULLFROGS</B></div> <bR> <div>  </div> <div>  <IMG SRC="28592d900.jpg" border=0 width="301" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>DENMARK HILL - RUSKIN PARK SUNDIAL</B></div> <bR> <div>  Ruskin Park occupies the site and grounds of several 18th century houses by Denmark Hill. The famous German  composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote a piano piece, inspired by the tranquility of the area, while staying at  168 Denmark Hill in the 1840's.  (It is rumoured the piece, originally called 'Camberwell Green', only took off in popularity after it was renamed 'Spring Song'.) Living  at number 163 was the Victorian artist & social reformer John Ruskin. In 1907 the houses were demolished and the park opened in their place. All that remains of the original houses is the portico from number 170 and a  fenced-off terracotta stump  is the last remnant of a sundial planted in 1842 to mark Mendelssohn's visit.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="285b4e2d0.jpg" border=0 width="334" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2894ca2d0.jpg" border=0 width="458" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>UPPER NORWOOD - ST MARGARETS CHURCH</B></div> <bR> <div> Built in  1901. Unoccupied since 2002 and made formerly redundant by the Church of England in 2003. 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