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Janet and Larry Colfer [pictured above] like to go for Sunday lunch at an old haunt in Elephant and Castle, where they lived for 36 years until their run-down social housing estate was knocked down to make way for smart new apartment blocks. On their way, the retired couple pass hoardings advertising Elephant Park, the new quarter that will replace the old Heygate Estate. These depict an urban idyll full of smiling young residents relaxing in gardens bathed in dappled sunlight. "It makes me sad when I see it because all my memories were tied up there. It was a lovely community, and now we've all been scattered," said Janet, 68, a former waitress, shop worker and bingo caller who raised her five children on the Heygate. South Gardens, Elephant and Castle, timelapse film - September 2015 Elephant and Castle is in "zone one", the central region on London's transport map, just minutes away by train or bus from the business, shopping and leisu...