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<br/>Sainsburys Savacentre in Sydenham, South East London.
©Fan Yang
Dist:0.3km north<br/>St Michael's House is a modern block of social housing on the corner of Stanton Way but is on the site of the former Bell Green Mission Room and has retained this old dedication stone.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.3km north<br/>This is a small set of industrial units in Worsley Bridge Road Sydenham. The Garage you can see is Cromwell SAAB an independent dealer established in 1962 (at the time of the morning this picture was taken all the “posh” cars were safely under lock and key!). The picture was taken from lower Sydenham Railway Station passenger footbridge
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The Columbia Ribbon and Carbon Manufacturing Company Ltd on Sydenham Industrial Estate, Kangley Bridge Road. Presumably it used to make typewriter ribbons, but what now?
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Parish church of St Michael & All Angels, Lower Sydenham. Built 1956 to replace a Victorian church lost in WW2.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.5km north<br/>The deserted car park of the Sainsbury's hypermarket at 6pm on Sunday.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.6km west<br/>These flats appear to be in good condition, but they are apparently a crime hot-spot.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.6km west<br/>This two-manual instrument is the only known surviving example of the Deptford organ builder Alexander Hunter (not to be confused with the better known Alfred Hunter). It was originally in the nearby Christ Church Chapel and is allegedly the instrument on which Maunder composed "Olivet to Calvary".
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.6km north<br/>These are the gasholders at the old Bell Green Gasworks. My Dad worked for British Gas, woe betides anyone who referred to structures like these as gasometers. They don't meter anything he would retort!
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.6km west<br/>The congregation at this church worships in the Anglo-Catholic tradition as is evidenced by the six tall candles on the altar and its canopy or baldachino.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.6km west<br/>The church was built in 1904 to the designs of Fellowes Prynne, though the west end was never completed through lack of funds, giving rise to the deceptively plain exterior seen in [[943292]]. The interior is a contrast with its lofty gothic architecture. The full-height chancel screen is typical of Fellowes-Prynne's work. It is listed grade C.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.6km north<br/>As part of the development of the Bell Green gas works site, the section of the river that ran in a culvert under the gas works has been diverted, opened up, landscaped and now forms part of the Waterlink Way.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.6km west<br/>An Anglican church, listed ecclesiastical grade C (equivalent to 2). It was designed by George Fellowes Prynne and opened in 1907, replacing an earlier church on a nearby site called Christ Church. It was never completed, which explains the unattractive west end shown here, set well back from the road: the interior of the church is much more impressive. For a close up of the bell, see [[943306]]. The parish website is http://www.gss.org.uk/allsaints.htm
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.6km west<br/>The bell of [[943292]]. It has an intriguing history, told in full at http://www.sydenhamsociety.com/All Saints bell.html , but briefly it was originally cast for the Royal Exchange but actually used in another church in Sydenham, from where it was moved to All Saints.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.6km west<br/>Despite the name this is not a legal institution, just a recent housing development - a mixture of houses to buy and flats for rent.
©Stephen Craven

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