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Dist:0.1km<br/>Viewed across St Mary Cray Recreation Ground.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.1km<br/>On the left is the Rookery Gardens estate (see [[731792]] and on the right the twin St Mary Cray tower blocks, Alkham Tower (see [[731814]]) and Horton Tower (see [[731817]]).
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking towards St Mary Cray and St Paul's Cray. Prominent on the skyline to the left is St Barnabas' Church, St Paul's Cray (see [[154570]] and on the right the twin St Mary Cray tower blocks, Alkham Tower (see [[731814] and Horton Tower (see [[731817]]).
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.2km<br/>In the background are the twin St Mary Cray tower blocks, Alkham Tower (see [[731814]] and Horton Tower (see [[731817]]).
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.2km<br/>Derry Downs is an informal open space, just east of St Mary Cray. This view looks towards the houses of Hodson Crescent.
©Ian Yarham
Dist:0.2km<br/>The houses behind are in Burrfield Drive, and beyond is Kevington Hall, a Palladian villa completed in 1769 and commissioned by the owner of the estate, Herman Behrens, a City merchant from Amsterdam. It continued to be owned by the Behrens family until the Second World War, when it was requisitioned by the government to house Canadian troops. After the war it was used as a primary school until the early 1980s, when it became privately owned, with the new owners undertaking a full restoration. It is grade II* listed - for listing particulars see http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=358345&resourceID=5.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.2km<br/>A Victorian quadrangular road, the first few houses on which are shown on the 1868 Godfrey edition map. Some of the houses have been replaced, and an additional development, Rosecroft Close, added, as visible in the background to this photo.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.3km<br/>This building is on the Rookery Gardens estate in St Mary Cray, which is one of the original "Home Zones" - see [[731779]] for entrance to Home Zone and link. The gates designed to emphasis the traffic free nature of this central area - previously this was the access road to garages. Painted on the ground between the gates is are the names of the planets of the solar system, presumably in an aim to be "different". In the background are the two St Mary Cray tower blocks: Alkham Tower (see [[731814]]) and Horton Tower (see [[731817]]).
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.3km<br/>A Victorian quadrangular road, the first few houses on which are shown on the 1868 Godfrey edition map. Some gaps have been filled in more recently, as can be seen from the third house from the right in this picture, and also in the background.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.3km<br/>A Victorian quadrangular road, the first few houses on which are shown on the 1868 Godfrey edition map. Some gaps have been filled in more recently, as can be seen from the house just visible behind the main one in this picture.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.3km<br/>A Community School for children aged 5 - 11 years. A plaque on the right hand wing gives a date of 1909.
©Ian Capper
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©David Howard
Dist:0.3km<br/>Grade II listed building on 231 High Street. See http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-358491-231-bromley for more details about the building.
©David Anstiss
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©David Howard
Dist:0.3km<br/>An unpretentious local pub in this predominantly working-class area on the southern fringes of St. Mary Cray
©Dr Neil Clifton

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