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26th Mar 2024  10:31  by The Revenant

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 2/10

I grew up in Carlton & came up here as a boy in early 1960s. Pillar must have been here then. Houses built later. Indications are it stood above Kensington Gdns, in the dense scrub between houses 77 & 79. See maps below helpfully provided by “eon” and Alan Lodge. Greenhill Rise still steep! Marks for nostalgia.

Green Hill pillar must have stood in this scrub, up to the left

6th Aug 2023  07:47  by eon

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

(3217) Lost to urban spread. Not 100% sure of the exact location - garden, road or the verdant bank? Pillar history: Build completion date and cost not present in the records. Marked as destroyed when converted into a block July 1972. FB was S4649. The block is marked as destroyed September 1986.

Map c1967 - also showing TP18945 ©eon
Kensington Gardens - general location ©eon

30th Apr 2022  19:05  by Wheresthatpenguin

Gridref: SK 61556 41102   FB Number: S4649  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 0/10

Gone. Destroyed September 1972. Grid reference places the site where the pillar used to be as on the front garden of 78 Kensington Gardens

Location

28th Aug 2019  17:44  by KevP

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

19th Apr 2018  23:06  by Ant1974

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

29th Nov 2017  14:10  by PeteBoggs

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 2/10

Gone

4th Feb 2016  00:00  by dogwalking

Gridref: SK 61556 41107   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

still missing

31st Aug 2014  10:42  by CJO

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 2/10

Reported destroyed and as a pillar block - pillar base with bolt? Either way the GR appears to be atop a steep vegetated bank.

Green Hill

31st Mar 2012  10:15  by desperate dan

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

A bit ridiculous coming here just to not see something but hey, that's the lot of the dedicated trigger. First of the day and unfortunately it set a theme.

26th Feb 2011  14:40  by ted

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 0/10

Site overgrown and inaccessible.

Green Hill faraway

17th Nov 2008  17:22  by senrabyar

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

13th Nov 2008  10:05  by gowrie

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

9th Jul 2007  15:20  by asbown

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 4/10

strange this as i got to within about 10 metres on the gps but was a long way short of the high point on the street.

28th Oct 2006  14:40  by Glaslyn

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

Lost to housing.

20th Jul 2006  18:45  by AB&MB

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

Very close to home, so i had to have a look just to see how it could go missing. My guess is thats its now in the foundations of one of the houses

18th Dec 2005  14:55  by jameswameek

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

As previous logs describe, this one is definately missing.

26th Jan 2005  14:15  by alanlodge

Gridref: SK 61500 41100   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 2/10

Not a very 'Green Hill!'. Recently built housing estate, surrounds a small patch of higher ground land. Because of new building, there was no easy access. I walked the circuit along Kensington Gardens and then Russett Avenue, a little to the south. I managed to scale a fence, to this ground from the road, and couldn't find it. Then, I found a resident in Russett Avenue that let me hop over his back garden fence. Again no sign of the trig. He had lived there for a few years, and said he had not seen it either.

Green Hill View over the area, it would have been.©alanlodge
Green Hill View over the area, it would have been.©alanlodge
Green Hill View over the area, it would have been.©alanlodge
Green Hill V Large scale showing ex-location©alanlodge

17th Dec 2004  11:00  by Lathama

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 2/10

Not on my Landranger or Explorer maps and no sign of the trig either. Good view over the railway line SE but otherwise all built up. Isn't it baffling how some pillars survive when houses are built [as I found out earlier this morning] and others don't? Perhaps there is a formula about it..... Anyway, I would be grateful for knowing what the FB number once was.

2nd Mar 2003  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: no TP  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

SK 6155 4110: mar03 inaccessible steep ridge amidst new housing; built ?, dest 02/09/72 fb S4649 (OS)