These crisp new villas and terraces were built in the early 1870s.

In the background is the Congregational Church of 1867.

Just visible of the enlarged version of the photograph is a chimney of one of the brickfields on the north slope of Hilly Fields.

West Kent Grammar School, built in 1885 and now enlarged as Prendergast School, can be seen at almost the highest point of Hilly Fields.