Battersea today, very impressive!
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That looks pretty damn close to being my complete dream house 
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Just think about the amount of hideous wallpaper you could splurge all over that 
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As much as that is my go to, I think that house suits plain paint, and it’s large wall spaces would be perfect for displaying a variety of interesting art work.
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I am disappoint 
Lovely looking place.
Those crittall type windows make my teeth itch. Had to strip quite a few of them in Crouch End a while back,then repaint. Looked fantastic when done though,
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The former Coop Department store Southport has a similar design staircase. Although I think a post war building.
Southport Co-Op, Eastbank Street (Now McDonalds) AD1934 by Robert Wade (Wadey), on Flickr
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Flog a fairly ordinary smog bound suburban house near Norwood, buy an epic bakeoff venue?
I quite like that though I’m not too sure about the gimp hanging from the rafters.
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That place was an absolute shit hole. Almost the definitive example of a sink estate.
Sink and, by the look of it, washing machine.
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The flats were actually called washing machines by the locals and they called whole estate Legoland.
It really was an awful place.
Just done the “Penge And Palace Trail” as part the London Festival of Architecture.
Really enjoyed it. Who knew that there were massive High Victorian Gothic alms houses in Penge? Or, indeed, that the Croydon Canal ever existed?
I also fancy the exhibition about cooling towers at Margaret Howell
but I need to get my skates on - realistically I’ve only got a couple of days this week when I can make it.
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Spurgeon’s Bridge at West Croydon was one end of tha canal I believe.
There is a footpath that runs along the old canal route to the Bird In Hand pub,
I had a flat near Spurgeon’s Bridge (Named after a methodist preacher) in the 80s.
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