Hi..I stumbled upon your post about Highwood Barracks, by chance. I used to live at 534 Lordship Lane until 1954, when I was 8. My Parents had been bombed out during the war and were re-housed there, in a top floor flat, by the Council. I think five families lived there in total. It was a large Victorian mansion house, situated between the barracks and a railway line, which is no longer there, and occupied a huge plot. I remember a tennis net across the lawn, a wood, a huge rockery garden and large vegetable plots for each family who lived there. Shortly after we moved to Sidcup, the house was demolished to make way for several houses. 534 was pretty much opposite Wood Vale, where I used to go to St Ann's private school until I transferred to Friern Road infants, around 1951. I found, on Google this morning an old photo of Lordship Lane Station and the pillars on the right were the in-and-out drive of 534. If you ignore me and my Dad, you can see part of the house, taken from the back garden I also remember the electric trams on Lordship Lane. i hope this information is of interest to you.. Anni Ryan
