Cushty – Nelson Mandela House set to fall…

Tower block made famous in BBC sitcom to be demolished.

The tower block where Del Boy and Rodney lived in Only Fools and Horses is to be demolished.

Harlech Tower on West London’s South Acton Estate stood in for Peckham’s fictional Nelson Mandela House for exterior shots in the long-running sitcom.

But the 13-storey building is to be torn down in 2011 as part of a redevelopment of the entire 42-acre estate, 1,800-home estate, considered one of the most foreboding in the capital.

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