Editing Catford (section)

===Early developments===
[[File:Broadway Theatre, Catford, SE6 (6877523774).jpg|thumb|The Broadway Theatre]]
[[Broadway Theatre, Catford|Broadway Theatre]] is an [[art deco]] building adjoining the town hall. It is a curved stone structure decorated with shields and heraldic emblems and topped with a copper-green spire. It was opened in 1932 as the Concert Hall and is now a [[Grade II listed]] building. The interior is in art deco style. The last cinema in the borough (before the 2019 launch of Catford Mews) stood diagonally opposite the theatre until its closure in 2002. Catford also boasts a large Gothic [[police station]]. In 2006, a large blue pipe sculpture was unveiled outside [[Eros House]], which was another former cinema (The Eros Cinema), and the Lewisham Hippodrome theatre.<ref>{{cite web|title=Theatres in Lewisham and Catford|url=http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/LewishamAndCatfordTheatres.htm#hipp|publisher=The Music Hall and Theatre History Website|access-date=23 February 2016}}</ref>

The 1960s and 70s had a considerable impact on the architecture of Catford. The old [[Lewisham Town Hall|Town Hall]] of 1875, was replaced by the current Civic Suite in 1968, soon after the merger of the metropolitan boroughs of [[Lewisham]] and [[Deptford]]. Laurence House, where many of the [[Lewisham Council]] functions are housed including the offices of the [[Mayor of Lewisham]] and the Young Mayors of Lewisham, is on the site of old St Laurence's Church. The original Gothic [[Church of England|C of E]] St. Laurence Church was located where Laurence House is today (known as the Catford Cathedral), but as part of the urban renewal of Catford in the 1960s, the church is now housed in a more modern style building 200 metres down Bromley Road. [[File:St Laurence, Bromley Road, Catford (geograph 2258443).jpg|thumb|The 1968 St Laurence Church]]

In Rushey Green the old village water hand-pump from the 1850s survives.

At the end of [[World War II]], the 186-bungalow [[Excalibur Estate]] was laid out in Catford, and by 2011 was the largest surviving [[Prefabs in the United Kingdom|prefab estate]] in Britain. However, in spite of the opposition of many residents,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/8701977/Bulldozers-home-in-on-historic-prefab-estate.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820061247/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/8701977/Bulldozers-home-in-on-historic-prefab-estate.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 August 2011 |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph |first=Will |last=Storr |title=Bulldozers home in on historic prefab estate |date=19 August 2011}}</ref> all are due for demolition, apart from six with [[Listed building|Grade II listing]]. A new estate on the site is due for completion by the mid 2020's.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mulligan |first=Euan O'Byrne |date=20 June 2022 |title=Excalibur Estate: Catford redevelopment enters new phase |url=https://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/19455171.excalibur-estate-catford-redevelopment-enters-new-phase/ |access-date=19 November 2022 |work=www.thisislocallondon.co.uk }}</ref>