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AN ITINERARY THROUGH LEE, 95 
In the High Road, opposite the entrance to the Old Road, 
were the almshouses built and endowed by Mr. Christopher Boone 
in 1683 (Plate 36). The houses were pulled down in 1877, but the 
old chapel, said to have been designed by Sir Christopher Wren, 
has been permitted to remain. The Merchant Taylors’ Company, 
who are the trustees, purchased the ground in the rear, and erected 
a further set of almshouses in 1826. ; 
Brandram Road was formerly a country avenue by the side of 
the Boone estate, leading up towards Dacre House, which stood 
on the right-hand side at the top of the ascent. This house was 
occupied by Sir John Lade in 1745, and was afterwards the seat 
of Sir Samuel Fludyer, who died here in 1768. His niece, Mary, 
married Charles Trevor Roper, 18th Baron Dacre. She died in 
1808. After being leased to various tenants, the grounds were 
eventually built over. A view of the house is given in Plate 37. 
In its later days it was, like so many others, stuccoed over and 
spoilt. The view from the house in its prime is said to have been 
one of much beauty. 
Manor Park, with Northbrook Road, perpetuate the name of 
the old Manor Farm, together with that of the owner (the Earl of 
Northbrook). 
Weardale Road is an enlargement of a pleasant field-path by 
the side of the Quaggy, which, crossing over the river by a foot 
bridge, entered another field-path in Lewisham Parish, known as 
Hokum Pokum, which led towards Lewisham Church. Its route 
can still be traced via Dermody Gardens and Ryecroft Road. At 
the corner of the road stood a small house, known as ‘‘ Rose 
Cottage,” on the site of which the '‘ Rose of Lee” is built, the 
adjoining shops being built on the garden. The greater part of 
the roads on the opposite side of the road—Belmont Park (at 
first named Middleton Road) and Blessington Road—are on the 
property of the Merchant Taylors’ Company, and were formed in 
the late ‘‘ fifties’? and early ‘‘sixties.’”’ Holy Trinity Church was 
opened in 1863. 
- At the corner of Eastdown Park is the Lee Baptist Chapel, 
which was built in 1854. Adjoining are a few small houses of late 
18th century date, followed by the detached villas, known formerly 
as Lee Place, which were built about 1812. They were the first 
of their kind to be erected in the parish, and were built by Messrs. 
John and Henry Lee, of Loampit Hill. Between these houses and 
Lee Bridge there were, at the end of the 18th century, a few villas 
standing in their own gardens, with the brook and the fields of the 
College Farm in the rear. Early in the 19th century small houses 
(Albion Place), subsequently turned into shops, were built on the 
gardens. Some of these were in their turn rebuilt, and a large 
number were removed in 1906-7, when the electric tramways were 
Jaid down. 
