Keywords: Sayes Court in 1910 seen from Czar Street.jpg The building known as Sayes Court that was destroyed during the Second World War was not the old home of John Evelyn but the St Nicholas's parish workhouse built on its site in the 1720s After the New Poor Law made it redundant in the 1830s the building had various uses including that of an almshouse for Evelyn family servants and estate workers When the photograph above was taken from Czar Street c 1910 it was set in an attractive park but in the emergency of the First World War it was annexed by the army to enlarge its Supply Reserve Depot at the old cattle market PD-old original upload log page en wikipedia Sayes_Court_in_1910_seen_from_Czar_Street jpg 2009-12-14 22 42 Robkam 1781×1069× 1493293 bytes <nowiki>The building known as Sayes Court that was destroyed during the Second World War was not the old home of John Evelyn but the St Nicholas's parish workhouse built on its site in the 1720s After the New Poor Law made it redundant in the 1830s the building</nowiki> Almshouses in the London Borough of Lewisham Buildings destroyed by demolition in London 1910 in the London Borough of Lewisham |