Asphalt surface in Victorian 1880s neighborhood London ! 

We are in Clyde road at the East India Company Military Seminary British military academy at Addiscombe, Surrey, in what is now the London Borough of Croydon. It opened in 1809 and closed in 1861. Its purpose was to train young officers to serve in the East India Company's own army in India.
The site was sold on 30 August 1861 for £33,600 to the British Land Company, who demolished most of the buildings. All that remain are two former professors' houses, "Ashleigh" and "India", on the corner of Clyde Road and Addiscombe Road; and the former gymnasium on Havelock Road, now private apartments.
The Land Company laid out five parallel roads over the greater part of the grounds, and built them up with villas. The five roads - Outram, Havelock, Elgin, CLYDE and Canning Roads - all took their names from soldiers and politicians prominent on the British side in the events of 1857-58, although none was in fact a college alumnus.