Back with the Orangery ............... that gem behind the High Street

The Orangery, July 2015

Now the Orangery is one of those places that it is easy to miss.*

For most of the last century it lay off the High Street forlorn and forgotten, subject of various plans to save and restore it all of which came to nothing.

I vaguely knew about it but promptly let it slip out of my mind until I came across a document from the council circulated in the 1970s seeking suggestions about how the High Street should be developed.**

As for the Orangery these ranged from restoring the building and the area landscaping the area in front or conversely dwarfing the building with a multi-story car park.

It would be another forty years before anything was actually done and now we are almost a year from when it was restored.

So it’s about time I included another picture and this was kindly taken by Larissa

Picture;  The Orangery, July 2015, © Larissa Hemment

*The Orangery, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/The%20Orangery

**A Future for Eltham Town Centre, 1974, Greenwich Borough Council