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aerial photograph of Myatt's Field North estate, now the Oval Quarter, Fairbairn Green London SW9 taken in 2013 just before much of the area was demolished and rebuilt as a new Urban Village.Myatt’s Fields estate was built 1970 to 1984 to replace housing lost in the war. Much of the area had been flattened in the Blitz with a V2 landing in the area in the centre of the photograph. The estate is unusual in that it is heated with a district heating scheme which uses an underground boiler with the Chimneys protruding above the ground and looking rather like the conning tower of a submarine, giving it the name the Camberwell Submarine.