Walking the path of the River Effra... Sunday 27th September
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lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Assuming you mean the church rather than the South Metropolitan Cemetery...
http://www.stlukes4u.org/burials.htm - it is an impressive effort by a local church congregation to provide burial records for family history researchers on the web.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Hey bh, sorry i didn't make the last walk, i got split up with and wasn't very happy 
boohoo
No.
Photos taken by the boyfriend finally:http://www.flickr.com/photos/boohooroo/sets/72157622545565679/
the box, the box. What was in the box??
the box, the box. What was in the box??
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
For those of you that came on the effra walk, i'm sad to say the lovely little house which probably sat once on the banks of the river has been pulled down...
Shit
That could have been a lovely home for someone 
boohoo
No.
Shit
i knew the people who use to live there so i had visited the house once. I'd been told it had had an air raid shelter in the back. It was a wonderful example of that type of little house.
I was gutted it was gone because i wondered if it could have been protected due to age and location - however, stuck down a little back street no-one was going to miss it.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
It was a bit banjacksed though - like the site of a very long, very good party. Which it may well have been, more than once.
Will another house go in its place, do you know?
Will another house go in its place, do you know?
boohoo
No.
Well, it looked like someone had started developing it when we visited because originally you would have entered in the front door with a view of straight up the stairs or entrances to rooms on either side of the door. There was two rooms upstair and I think a small bathroom upstairs. So realistically the original main house was two rooms downstairs and two rooms with a smaller room. At the back had been created a toilet and kitchen. So it really was a tiny cottage.
I imagine the last owners had ran out of cash hence the damage to the building and half finished renovations. A new build will go up but that can't really replace a 1850s small cottage.
I imagine the last owners had ran out of cash hence the damage to the building and half finished renovations. A new build will go up but that can't really replace a 1850s small cottage.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I suppose, without know the size of the back garden, you can't really know the plot size either.
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
It is certainly big enough for a block of flats - can't remember the exact number of dwellings, but it is certainly going to be taller.
The size of the cleared site as it currently appears may be deceiving though. Over the winter the builders were excavating part of the bank behind the old building when it caused a landslip and swallowed a chunk of the gardens in the next street. This was exacerbated by the bad weather and works have been delayed due to a number of other reasons since then.
billythefish
toad licker
How sad - it was a remarkable little survivor. It was inevitable I suppose - completely surrounded by bigger and newer developments. I am surprised it wasn't listed though.
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