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Ha back! oat44.
It was the combination of your words 'south london' and 'heath' which clinched it for me.
The view was familiar (from flying kites up there), Then it was just a case of A Lemon Nation of the ponds on t'heath.
Wasn't Fanny Craddock one of the erstwhile residents of Blackheath Park in the autumn of her life?
With rumours that on sunny days she could be spotted from the top deck of whichever double decker bus went by, nekkid in the garden of her house ....
Jurek
Ha @Jurek Well, you're right, and my original intention didn't quite come to fruition.
The 'unremarkable' building was by Modernist architect and RIBA president Eric Lyons, famous round Blackheath for the high quality/well designed 'private' Span house estates, what I had originally planned to tag. If you go down Blackheath Park, a fenced off gated community designed by Lyons, you'll see it as he intended and it is about as Narnia-esque (albeit Modernist) as you can get in London. It was a surreal place. There were roads, and a mix of Victorian and interestingly designed minimalist 60's houses with well kept front gardens and trees and flowers, but what made it different was what was missing. There was no litter, no traffic, no vans, no mopeds, no bus stops, no phoneboxes, no billboards, no adverts, no BT cabinets, no graffiti, no potholes, no road paint, no wheelie bins... and so on. I felt like an intruder and scooted off to the nearest bit of public land within eyeshot of a Lyons building.
For a more historical account have a read of this:
http://www.c20society.org.uk/botm/corner-green-blackheath/
Apparently the millionth post war house was built somewhere in there, and to give you an idea of the size of the estate, try getting a closer look on Streetview.
Basically you can't, it's a massive Streetview blackhole, another reason I thought, on reflection, it might be best not to tag there.