We thank David Walton for his note and photographs of The Orpines that once stood on the Tonbridge Road and is now where a group of houses and retirement residence stands.
In its day the Orpines was a grand building at one point in the mid 1880's owned by Frederick Leney the owner of the Phoenix Brewery on Bow Road.
David wrote
I thought you may be interested in some photos I have of The Orpines circa 1960. My family rented one of the apartments it had been divided into and I was born there. My father digitised some photos he had of our time there.
Of the two interior photos one shows the room in which I was born; the left hand set of french doors in photo. The other interior shot I can't quite match to any of the windows in any of the other pictures. A mystery for now. A point of note in our family is the missing finial in one photo (from above the third pillar from the left). Known as the "Stone of Destiny", it narrowly missed my father when it fell. Under different circumstances neither I or two of my three brothers would be here! Luckily we all lived to tell. I will ask on our family zoom for any further insights.
Best regards
David
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