History
Most of the estate was built in the 1950s on the Olddean Common for residents of heavily bombed Surrey-areas made homeless after World War II, and later expanded by the authorities to be used as a London overspill estate. Many of the roads on the estate reflect this, being named after the London boroughs which paid for the expansion (the others are named after places on the common). Examples include Kingston Road, Mitcham Road and Wimbledon Road.
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