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By Earl Aelfheah · Posted
Henry Bessemer’s Observatory! https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/londons-alleys-green-dale-se5-74976/ -
Superb research! What is the domed building in the picture? Is that looking up the hill towards Camberwell? -
By Friernlocal · Posted
Greendale/Green Lane is an ancient thoroughfare that connected Dulwich Village to Camberwell. This allowed for easy access as Dulwich was in the parish of Camberwell and the parish church was St Giles. It would have been used as a track for foot and horse drawn vehicles. The bridge was built on Dulwich College land, and they leased building plots on both sides from East Dulwich Grove up to the bridge (see attached picture). So, the track would have been widened for this. If you look from the bridge in the direction of North Dulwich Station, you can see another bridge built by the railway company for a road that Dulwich College planned but never built. The old Dulwich College Estate maps right back to 1806 show Green Lane as a road that joined, as it still does to Champion Hill. The estate map of 1886 shows the college proposed widening Green Lane all the way to the top and connecting it to Denmark Hill, but once again this didn’t happen, and the widening appear to stop about a third of the way up the lane. When Camberwell Borough Council acquired a lot of the land on the upper portion of the hill, I assume they decided that the path could be narrowed from Wanley Road up to Champion Hill to maximise space to build the housing estate. The attached photo is of Green Lane looking up the hill with what would be Wanley Road on the right.
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