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Now, here’s something else I found. I pulled out my 1970 copy of Kelly’s Directory and looked at East Bank Road The research labs and printing works are there on the ‘odd’ side, at no’s 5 and 7/39 respectively Norfolk Park Service Station at No.36.... not yet a petrol station, but a ‘motor engineers’ Brooke Bond Tea at No.38 Number 40 is split into 6 flats! My theory is the precast concrete company rented the large yard for their wagons and paraphernalia, with the flats all occupied by the tenants in the Kelly’s listing? So, the building was still standing in 1970, but converted into flats and rather less grand than it once was, barely 80 years earlier? Does that spark any recollections? The Brooke Bond Tea wholesalers is a nice find, as it looks like it was housed in one of the outbuildings of the old ‘big house’?