Category Archives: Roads

Tide Close

Road off west side of Sandy Lane, consisting of two blocks of flats on the left hand side of the road, as viewed from Sandy Lane, and one block on the right. The names of the blocks reflect the seaside theme: Reef House, Pier House and Dune House. The postcodes for the flats in these blocks are CR4 2GL, CR4 2GN and CR4 2GR respectively.

2021 Open Street Map

Road sign. Photo taken 22nd August 2020

The road and housing was built on a former builders yard, as described in planning application 05/P1938, by Green Acre Homes (South East Ltd.) & Wandle Housing Association Ltd. in 2005 :

Change of use of site from builders storage yard to residential comprising the erection of 3 x three and 1 x four storey buildings to provide 9 x one bed, 40 x two bed and 12 x three bed units with associated parking and 2 vehicle accesses from Sandy Lane.

The builders yard was also known as Byrne’s Yard, and was part of the Electricity Board’s substation site.

Sparrowhawk’s Yard

Scrap metal and former rag-and-bone site at 159 Commonside East, on the corner with Hallowwell Close.

1953 OS map of 159 Commonside East

In 1979 the childrens’ television programme Magpie did a piece on a rag-n-bone man who stabled his horse and cart at the Sparrowhawk yard:

Google Street View history has a view of the site in July 2009:

These photos were taken in December 2007, when the building of the adjacent former Beehive pub was being redeveloped.

Photo taken 16th December 2007

Photo taken 16th December 2007

 

Photo taken 15th August 2021

Photo taken 15th August 2021. The spire of St Marks church can be seen in the background.

Photo taken May 2022

photo taken May 2022

Photo taken 26th February 2024

Planning application 20/P1060 says that the plan is to build 25 flats on the site. The site history in the Design & access Statement said that the site had been in the same ownership since 1926 as a scrap metal facility by Jack Sparrowhawk & Sons, which had ceased trading.


Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.