Albany Park, London

Albany Park is a suburban town in southeast London, UK. It is situated in the London Borough of Bexley, located between Sidcup and Old Bexley. The name Albany Park was given to the area when its local station on the Dartford Loop Line was opened on 7 July 1935, following the building of a new housing estate nearby. The majority of houses in the area were built in the 1930s, and are of typical working class or lower middle class associations, though a newly renovated private mansion house exists bordering woodland. Albany Park was largely populated in the 1930s, as a result of increasing urbanisation into areas of Kent. As a result of this, the town, along with many other areas, was ceded from Kent to Greater London in the 1960s. The...