{"id":115038,"date":"2020-03-20T23:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T16:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-eltham-south-east-london-it-gave-birth-to-kate-bush-and-bob-hope\/"},"modified":"2020-03-21T00:04:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T17:04:12","slug":"lets-move-to-eltham-south-east-london-it-gave-birth-to-kate-bush-and-bob-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-eltham-south-east-london-it-gave-birth-to-kate-bush-and-bob-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Eltham, south-east London: it gave birth to Kate Bush and Bob Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOn the surface, it\u2019s your average London sprawl of 1930s semis, but it hides its treasuresWhat\u2019s going for it? It\u2019s true, you do have to suspend a jot of disbelief imagining a young Henry VIII jousting in the tilt yard while you queue for socks at the tills in M&S. But that\u2019s Eltham for you. Like many suburbs, it hides its treasures, its oddities. On the surface, it\u2019s your average London sprawl of 1930s semis, Carphone Warehouse and McDonald\u2019s. But this sprawl gave birth to Kate Bush (Kate Bush!), to Bob Hope (actual Bob Hope!), schooled a young Frankie Howerd and was nursery to Henry VIII. Not a bad little nursery: Eltham Palace, tucked out of view, is these days mostly the product of the Courtauld family, who built their dreamy art deco grand design, down to (recently returned) gold phones and quarters for their pet lemur, Jongy, amid the ruins of Henry\u2019s childhood home. But ever since Thomas More introduced young Henry to the greatest mind in Europe, Erasmus, a few hundred metres from where today stands Dylan Barbers \u201csunbed\/tanning\u201d and Coco\u2019s Espresso Bar, Eltham, high on its hill, has considered itself a cut above the likes of Sidcup.The case against Two mammoth roads, the A2 and A20, roar through, dividing up the manor and fumigating the place. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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