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eep in southeast London is a pair of Victorian houses. The house on the left has been restored, scrubbed bright, while the one on the right is concealed by a mass of Banksia rose (). The bright house has a potted bay tree by the door, its leaves notched by vine weevil, and come April, a few hybrid bluebells that nod

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