Tag Archives: Victorian park villas

House tales: The brothers Letts

Posted on November 4, 2010 by

  Following on from my earlier post ‘A brief history of park villa estates’, I’ve been devoting a number of blog posts to a park villa I previously had the pleasure of living in on the Crystal Palace Park Estate. … Continue reading →

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Brief history of park villa estates

Posted on October 6, 2010 by

I left South London a few years ago to work ‘up north’ and now live in Southport (near Liverpool), which has a seriously delicious Victorian housing stock. The other thing Merseyside has in common with my previous haunt is substantial … Continue reading →

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Rediscovering Victorian park villas

Posted on October 5, 2010 by

Copyright: Royal Horticultural Society Victorian villas, despite the cost of renovation and upkeep, remain popular today. Just as at the time of their construction, householders are driven by the desire to reside in properties that are comfortably spacious, solid, elegant … Continue reading →

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The beginnings of an obsession

Posted on October 5, 2010 by

Several years back, before children and a lectureship at Lancaster University beckoned, I bought a flat in London on Crystal Palace Park Road. It was a neo-gothic, red brick villa and its garden backed onto Crystal Palace Park (of dinosaur … Continue reading →

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