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My daughter went on a free week long summer art course at Dulwich College a few years back. We emerged from the station on the first morning and couldn't believe that was a school! The art and music blocks were huge - at her Stratford E15 state school where she was doing A Levels in those subjects there were just a couple of rooms. Truly a different world.
While walking the Green London Way last year I passed through this area. At one point I got lost and had to ask the chap manning the toll booth where I was, very friendly and all for free. Nearby is the house where John Logie Baird lived when he was working at Crystal Palace.
How did I not know about this? In the future it's possible all roads will become covered by road pricing (to replace excise duty when electric cars become standard).
It is amazing that there are still things like this that have somehow escaped my attention all these years.
Every day is a learning day on this blog!
Thanks for this, I had no idea. Very quaint.
Visit the College on a Friday and you can see the James Caird, Shackleton's lifeboat. A better experience than the exhibition the RGS recently put on. Tour commences at 11:30am, booking required.
And also free for motorcycles; there's room to squeeze between the post and the kerb.

I travelled through the tollgate for many years when I lived at Crystal Palace and commuted to work in central London, in the 80's and 90's.

I think in the early 80's there was a doubling of the car toll from 10 pence to 20 pence!
Gateway to the South
You might even spot girls carrying bulging bags of cricket kit...
Carry on past the council estate, and you reach the local state secondary school, Kingsdale. It makes quite a contrast with Dulwich College, with a standard post-war structure having been completely refurbished and covered by a shiny shell in the Blair years.
The council estate referenced also warrants further investigation, surrounding as it does the old Victorian pile Kingswood House, former home of Mr Bovril.










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