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8 via London Live. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Series Playlist - https://bit.ly/2CcZFSA Facebook fanpage - facebook.com/LondonDistricts/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/dewyneuk Instagram - instagram.com/dewynelindsay/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The district of Mottingham is located in south east London torn between the London Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bromley, 9 miles from Charing Cross. Tarns are small lakes or pools formed from the melted ice of its surroundings. This one is surrounded by nine acres of woodland as a nature reserve which once stood within the grounds of the 17th century Eltham Lodge, part of the huge Eltham Palace estate. The Tarn is one small fragment of its former glory creating a natural environment that attracts a host of sky and water bird species. You can spot Coots, Wildfowl, Canada Geese, Tufted Ducks, Moorhens and Mandarin Ducks in around the Tarn and even Parakeets and bats populating the trees. The silo-shaped structure in the corner of the park is called an Ice Well. It was built in 1760 for affluent Eltham Lodge residents. Long before mechanical refrigeration, they'd cut ice from the Tarn in winter and store it in this padded underground structure to preserve its state. Mottingham was an extra-parochial hamlet meaning it was geographically defined as sitting outside of a parish boundary. In this case, just outside of Eltham. These awkwardly placed areas had no church or local governance and therefore no means to provide relief for their poor. The 'New Poor Law' forced these areas to operate like civil parishes by coupling them with existing ones or promoting them into independent ones if they had enough natives. These regions were all gone with the Extra-Parochial Places Act 1857. St Andrew's Church on Court Road was the first one, built and established close to 1880. It's creation helped Mottingham hold its own as a district under the shadow of nearby Eltham. This notion was bolstered further when Mottingham's new train station, Eltham station was renamed as Mottingham station shortly after it opened in 1866. The village sign symbolises its characteristics by a cricket bat and ball, making reference to renowned cricketer and Mottingham resident W G Grace and a tree denoting its early days with Eltham College sitting in view behind it along with the date it was established. During the 1930s, London County Council built a large self-contained estate to the west of Mottingham Road mainly comprised of cottages and Woolwich Council then built the Coldharbour Estate to the east of the road to provide accommodation for homeless victims of that lightning bombing campaign by the Germans. The Time Kebab House 2 is a sequel to the Time Kebab House 1 in Catford of 1988. A Turkish takeaway serving Doner, Shish and Kofte kebabs with salad and various side offerings. The meat is considered 'permissible' or the more commonly used arabic term Halal. Modingahema, an interpretation of the term 'the proud place' was a name recorded in 862AD to refer to the land of Moda's people a notable leader during the Saxon period. Modig meant proud, bold and hard-working and ham meant shelter. Of course, as centuries passed, language evolved the name to what it is now.