James Gray: The view down Wakefield Road, also on 10 August 1949, showing the long high wall which then enclosed Wakefield Villa (later Woodfield Lodge) photograph of which is on another page. jgc_20_073
2018: The lower half of the long wall down the right hand side of Wakefield Road remain. The enclosed area has now been redeveloped as the Bromley Road Estate. This image captures the easternmost block of flats, The Chestnuts. (Photographer: Jane Jordan)
James Gray: The only houses on the west side of Wakefield Road, numbers 31 and 32, photographed on 27 October 1963. From their rather remote situation and large open area of garden it seems likely that they had some connection with Woodfield Lodge, possibly as cottages for gardeners or other servants. Woodfield Lodge was demolished in 1951 and the cottages have now also been removed. jgc_20_068
James Gray: See caption above. jgc_20_069
2019: Looking south along Wakefield Road with the blocks of flats, The Limes, Larch Bank and The Laurels, on the right. These were built across the immediate area of the cottages seen in the 1963 image and are part of the council-run Sylvan Hall Estate development completed in 1976. (Photographer: Jane Jordan)