Browning Street – Formerly Lytton Street. Named after Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873). Re-named Browning Street. Named after Robert Browning (1812-1889). Lytton was an author. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. Re-named Browning Street on 11 October 1954. Browning was a poet.
A small amount of information from the library website and I can add nothing to it.
This street had houses of every style you could think of. A couple of Art Deco flat roofed style from the 1930s/ 1940s. Ugly modern blocks of flats plus houses from 1960s to the 1980s. There were 2 or 3 that looked much older and could be original houses. Some were well kept and others were looking rundown. A weird street as it looked as if it was part of three other streets.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 