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Sidcup

Sidcup grew up around its railway station, which opened in 1866, and the older parts of the area still carry the names of the big estates that once stood here. Frognal House and Lamorbey House both survive as institutional buildings set within Lamorbey Park, a registered historic park that includes The Glade, a landscaped area laid out in the 1920s around a lake. Most of the streets surrounding these estates were built up through the 1930s with the semi-detached housing typical of the era.

In the older Victorian and Edwardian houses nearer Lamorbey and Frognal, we still find original lead or galvanised supply pipe and gravity hot water systems fed from a loft tank, both worth checking before any bathroom or boiler work. In the 1930s semis that make up most of Sidcup, the same pattern is common, and a lot of homeowners are converting to a combi or unvented cylinder for better pressure and more airing cupboard space.

This part of south east London has hard water too, which shows up as limescale in boilers, shower heads and taps over time and is worth checking during a service.