Upper Norwood
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Upper Norwood is an area of south London, England, within the London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth and Southwark. It is north of Croydon. The eastern part of it is better known as the Crystal
Upper Norwood from the air, with the Croydon transmitting station in the centre
Hermitage Road, a Victorian suburban street in Upper Norwood
A misty day on Central Hill, Upper Norwood. To the right of the line of parked cars is the chapel of Virgo Fidelis Convent Senior School.
All Saints' Church, an Anglican parish church at Upper Norwood
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age 44, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the
Upper Norwood
…with adopting a policy of non-intervention that helped defuse the San Juan Boundary Dispute of 1859 between Britain and the United States of America. Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), the author of American noir detective novels lived as a boy in the area especially at Mount Cyra, 110, Auckland Road, from 1900 to 1905…
Chandler c. 1943
A blue plaque marks the house in Cathedral Square where Chandler stayed in Waterford, Ireland.
Raymond and Cissy Chandler's tombstone