Putney's grand designs No.2

Continuing my infrequent series of posts about the great buildings of our area, one of the issues I've touched upon in previous posts has been the damage done to Putney by planners. The most stark examples of this can be found in central Putney where fantastic gothic mansions were demolished in the 1950s and 1960s and replaced by architecturally similar, blander apartment blocks.

These proliferated up and off Putney Hill; in Carlton Drive, St John's Avenue and Merciers Road to mention a few. However, interspersed with these apartment blocks remain some of the original homes, that give us an idea of what central Putney used to look like.

One of the grandest examples of these is pictured here in St John's Avenue. But there are several other original mansion houses in Carlton Drive in particular.