which was roughly the area bounded by the modern Sunderland Road, Westbourne Drive, Stanstead Road and Perry Vale. The earl built a middleclass suburb on Pickthorns of semi-detached villas known as Dartmouth Park. The centrepiece of this was the Christ Church and the mansion known as The Red Hall in South Road which became a private girls' school called Tudor Hall School in 1865. Work on the church started in 1852 but was not completed until 1885. The building that housed the girls school, known as Tudor Hall Ladies College in 1907 survives only in part today as the Tudor House flats in South Road. Most of today's houses in Gaynesford Road, Sunderland Road, Church Rise and Perry Vale were built between 1901 and 1906 by local Forest Hill builder, Ted Christmas. The area suffered extensively from bombing during World War II, in particular on Church Rise, Perry Vale and Sunderland Road, including from V-1 flying bombs. Notable residents Mary Seymour Munro (d. 1849) interned at Norwood, lived at Perry Hill, daughter of Sir Hugh Munro, 8th Baronet (d. 1848). Gallery References Districts of the London Borough of Lewisham Areas of London