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Well done. There's only one CPR in Britain according to Streetmap. The larger than life Mr M(alcolm) Allison was manager of Crystal Palace at that time, which is presumably the reason behind the name (as Ted Max suggested, simultaneously).
No idea but an aquaintance of mine once lived there and if memory serves me well it has got a sort of mini-church type structure in the garden. It's owned or was owned by the same guy who owns/owned the property in Upland Road that has the petrol pumps outside. Oops! that could have been another question.
A close friend assures me that the houses in Upland and Dunstans both have clock faces with petrol pumps outside and were both owned and built by the same person. The folly in question at Dunstans is, as previously mentioned, fully operational with chimes on the hour, complete with weather vane, arched doorway and stained glass window. Very impressive I think.
I'm sure it's very impressive, but when you live near it (as I used to) it's awful having a clocktower chime throughout the night - the sound travels unbelievably and it used to wake me up in the middle of the night (and remind me what time it was dare I should wake up early ;-)). Fortunately I was only renting for a while; so used earplugs... but if I'd lived there as a 'proper' resident, I would have tried to see if it could be silenced at night. I don't know how their neighbours stand it!
I used to know a guy (complete tosser I might add) who rented on of the flats in that Dunstan's Road house. Went to a party there once, and loved the little tower in the garden! The flat itself was beautiful too! Thankfully he got thrown out and hasn't been heard of since!

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