The new flat - exterior photos

Well, here we go.

This is what our flat looks like from the front. It's on the top right. The three windows are our living room and kitchen.

It's at the western end of a terrace of 4 houses, all with commercial uses on the ground floor. We have a lovely Italian cafe below (the Nightingale Patisserie), and our neighbour Claire lives between us and the cafe (on first floor). The terrace was built around the turn of the century, and the conversion of our building into flats (or, the 'Cowboy Conversion', as it's more commonly known) happened sometime in the early 1990s.

Our flat is accessed via the back alley behind the terrace. We have a black security gate beside the pinkish shop with the awning outside.
This is the rear view of our flat. The window beside George is Claire's kitchen, and her bedroom window is to the left. Our flat is the level above - the large window is the current bedroom and the small window in the roof gable end is the current bathroom. The small window to the right of our bedroom window is the stairs up to our flat. In this photo George and I are standing on the roof of the cafe below. You can smell delicious baking smells during the cafe's opening hours.

This is the view from our living room/kitchen, looking northeast:
...and northwest. The building with the blue van parked outside is actually a primary school. It's so posh that the pupils individually shake the hand of the headteacher as they enter the school building each morning. The children look really cute in their boater hats and smart blue and red uniforms. Having parked their massive 4x4s in the nearest spare bit of road and dropping off little Sebastian / Matilda each morning, the mothers saunter across the road in their high heels, designer jeans and decorative dog to have a coffee together at the Italian cafe. We could almost be living in Chelsea.
The view to the south is quite expansive (for London) - we look over rooftops to Crystal Palace and other small hills.