I found a nice local history of a building that has been put together by the current occupants at 39 Honor Oak Rd. Between 1886-1926 it was a school. This is now the Honor Oak Christian Fellowship
It is a building I have been inside, I spoke there on behalf of Albion Millennium Green at a Forest Hill Ward assembly. During the break I wandered onto the back garden and I think I saw the beginnings of the new housing that had been started. I marvelled at the realisation of how big the back garden must have been for so long, unaware that the building had a history as a school.
It would seem that it did have a notable pupil, the cartoonist H M Bateman.
If you were at (what appears to be) one of two possible locks in this overlay, you can see from my line drawn with the highlighter tool that you would be looking toward Forest Hill House, and its neighbour.
I believe we concluded (some time ago on a different website) that this was more likely a branding exercise and not related. Lock Keepers’ cottages would have to be next to the lock (so they could come to open & collect fees) … so it is unlikely that this was either close enough or even on the right level to be original
Yes, I agree with that logic. And I thought I had read somewhere that the house was built only after the railway. I haven’t had time to look it up just yet.
