Was this the house DKS had in mind?: The have I have taken, said Mr.Pickwick, is at Dulwich…is situated in one of the most pleasant spots near London.

Tappen House (formerly known as Glenlea) on Dulwich Common Road, in Dulwich in Southwark, south east London, is a detached house that was designed by George Tappen, the surveyor of Dulwich College. It has been Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England since September 1972.^[1]

Bridget Cherry, writing in the 1991 London: Southedition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, described Glenlea as a "pretty stuccoed villa".^[2]

Back on and along COLLEGE ROAD towards  CRYSTAL PALACE

Dulwich Woods is a mosaic of ancient semi-natural woodland comprising historic ‘coupes’ of trees which have been managed for centuries. Hence the different area names like Low Cross Wood, Rock Hill, Upper Dulwich and Hitherwood.

The transmitting station, officially known as Arqiva Crystal Palace, is a broadcasting and telecommunications venue located on the site of the former television station and transmitter operated by John Logie Baird from 1933. Those earlier transmitter and TV studios were a separate development at the other end of the Palace and perished with it in 1936. 

The station is the eighth-tallest structure in London, and is best known as the main television transmitter for the Greater London area and parts of the surrounding Home Counties. As such, it is the most important transmitter in the UK in terms of population covered. The transmitter is owned and operated by Arqiva.

The first transmission from Crystal Palace took place on 28 March 1956, when it succeeded the transmitter at Alexandra Palace where the BBC had started the world's first scheduled television service in November 1936. In November 1956 the first colour test transmissions began from Crystal Palace, relaying live pictures from the studios at Alexandra Palace after BBC TV had closed down for the night. In May 1958 the first experimental Band V 625-line transmissions started from Crystal Palace.

As usual, an interesting post!

A bit of history from THE NORWOOD SOCIETY and

See his London years.  By the way Pissarro met Monet over here…

Arthur Conan Doyle was active in the area between 1891 and 1894. Although he lived in nearby South Norwood, he visited the Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood area regularly in connection with the Upper Norwood Literary and Scientific Society. The Foresters Hall on Westow Street was then known as the Welcome Hall (or just Welcome), and it was in that hall in May 1892 that Arthur Conan Doyle was elected President of the society. He was re-elected to the post in 1893 and resigned in 1894. Each occasion was held in the same hall

At 69 Westow Street is an ornate Greek Orthodox Church which serves the Greek Cypriot and Orthodox community in the surrounding area. Built in 1878, and formerly an Anglican church (St. Andrew's), the walls are now dressed in ornate Byzantine-style art.^[29]

The ’White Hart’ is a very old Norwood pub and photographs show that, in common with a lot of the earlier Triangle properties, it was originally a wooden structure, with posts and chains around the frontal area and a pump on the pavement where water was sold to the locals at so much a bucket. There was also a ‘White Hart’ tea garden on the opposite side of the road which was entered through an opening formed by the jawbones of an enormous whale. As with much of very early Norwood, this has now gone forever. The present building was designed by Sextus Dyball. The only remaining part of the original weather-boarded building can be seen immediately adjacent to the public house. The oldest surviving building in Norwood, this fragment was saved from demolition in the 1990’s by the action of the Norwood Society and more recent attempts to demolish it for redevelopment continue to be resisted. It is, however, obviously in a parlous state and faces an uncertain future.

(1854). It was once the only large hotel in the whole of Croydon, built to serve those who came from far and wide to see the Crystal Palace. Many famous people have stayed there, including the Emperor Frederick of Germany, who was married to Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter. Emile Zola was there during the Dreyfus affair when he fled France in order to avoid a sentence of imprisonment following his newspaper article denouncing the actions of the French government. Note the blue plaque commemorating his stay. The replacement modern wing on the right is, by any assessment, an eyesore. The South West wing of the hotel was demolished after a disastrous fire in 1975.