The amphitheatre, set into the slopes of Streatham Common, is a great place to sit and gaze over the towers of Croydon towards the North Downs.

A single cedar tree is the only reminder of the demolished seat of the Dukes of Bedford and the Earl of Coventry, later Britain’s only Anglican convent.

A famous column that went disappeared for 200 years.

Hammersmith Bridge appears in a handful of horror films, but truly stands out in Roman Polansky’s 1965 “Repulsion” and the unusual 1967 horror “It!” or “Curse of the Golem”.