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Letters from 12 years ago December 2006

Letters from 12 years ago December 2006From: Gordon BraughtonRe. Johnson and Phillips material in the August Newsletter. I was born in 1915 in Eastcombe Avenue. Adjacent and to the rear of our flat was...

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Enderby family notes

NOTES ON THE ENDERBYSBarbara LudlowEnderby Wharf on the Greenwich Peninsula - and the activities of the family who made rope and canvass there, and built Enderby House (the only listed building on the...

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Dunkirk and the General Steam Navigation Company

Dunkirk and the General Steam Navigation CompanyBy Tom MoggThe General Steam Navigation Company was founded in 1824. At the start of the 1939-45 war they had about 45 ships, of which 10 were pleasure...

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Street furniture - old Greenwich Borough sites

STREET FURNITUREIn an issue of  2006 Richard Buchanan and Susan Bullevant described how they and other members of GIHS/Woolwich Antiquarians rescued an old Borough of Woolwich Electricity Junction box....

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Merryweather 'Bottell' and W.R.Crow

We received an enquiry about a Merryweather leather pitcher which we put on our Facebook page. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1549240565122658/).Merryweather were the Fire Engine specialist...

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Greenwich Materials Recycling Facility

GREENWICH MATERIALS RECYCLING FACILITYBy Richard BuchananThe Blackheath Scientific Society had a visit to the Greenwich Materials Recycling Facility on 16 Jan 2007. Numbers were limited to ten. Unlike...

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Message to all Members and Friends

Dear GIHS MembersThis is to let you know that the meeting scheduled for Tuesday 14 April WILL NOT TAKE PLACE. Because of Coronavirus we have cancelled ALL MEETINGS until after the summer. Your GIHS...

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Midgie Dolphin - the girl who trained with Merryweather's

Neil Bennett has sent us these notes on Midgie Dolphin  ....................  read on ...................Miss Midgie or Midge Dolphin (once given confusingly as Dolphni) appears to have been ‘trained’...

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Charlton's Water Works

Now - I put this picture on the GIHS Facebook page and asked people to tell me where it wasNow only one person got it right - Congratulations Peter Luck - it's Woolwich Road looking east towards the...

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Charlton's other waterworks.

So - this is the second episode following yesterdays post, and facebook page mystery picture, about Charlton's water works  - first - back to John Smith's History of Charlton.After the Woolwich Road...

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William Lindley

We are receiving a number of articles and information about engineer William Lindley - some of it is in a posting on the GIHS Facebook page. Lindley - when he wasn't designing public services in Europe...

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David Cufley on sustainable building materials

David Cufley runs North West Kent Family History Society and has been to talk to GIHS on a couple of occasions.  However he is really the local authority on bricks and building materials. So – when...

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Articles on Greenwich Peninsula History - by Mary Mills

Mary Mills –Works on Peninsula HistoryAs ever I find 'consultants' paid  for writing histores of Peninsula sites - and getting it all wrong.  They never ever seem to consult existing work - and...

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GIHS NEWSLETTER August 2020

Greenwich Industrial History SocietyNewsletter August 2020Like every other Society we had to pause our meetings from March onwards. But we have an exciting offer to all members – and to followers of...

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GIHS AUTUMN PROGRAMME

 GREENWICH INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SOCIETYAUTUMN MEETINGS 2020 All meetings will be virtual, held via Facebook Live, YouTube, Zoom or similar technology (technology to be decided).  Video attendance will be...

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ARE THESE PICTURES OF PENN'S ENGINE WORKS ON BLACKHEATH ROAD?The pictures below come from a set which we have been given by someone who got them from an unknown source.  They are copies - so someone...

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More Merryweather - females fighting the flames- scouting for fires

Females Fighting the Flames… Scouting for Fires… ...............Isabella’s Engagement… ...... Training a Dolphin .............and ................the Pompier Debateby Neil BennettFire, the devouring...

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GIHS lectures on YouTube

 Greenwich Industrial History Society have now set up their own YouTube channel,https://tinyurl.com/GIHSvideo there you can find Alan Burkitt-Gray's 13 Oct lecture about the role of Greenwich, Charlton...

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Operation PLUTO and the HAIS Cable By Bill Burns & Stewart Ash A large part of the borough of Greenwich is currently being re-developed to provide much-needed housing and new commercial premises....

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 ANGERSTEIN RAILWAY FOOT CROSSING -UNDER THREAT AGAIN(this article was written to support an ACV application last year)The Angerstein Railway is a freight only railway which runs from just outside...

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Greenwich riverside pictures

 R.J.M. Carr has sent us a series of photographs taken of the Greenwich riverside in the early 1980s.John W. Mackay at Enderby WharfLovells WharfCoaling at Enderby WharfLooking south west at Enderby...

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Borough of Woolwich Electricity Junction Box

Borough of Woolwich Electricity Junction BoxRichard Buchanan and Susan BullivantSome years ago Woolwich Antiquarians Newsletter mentioned that: "on Shooters Hill one of the roadside electricity...

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Notes and snippets from 12 years ago - December 2006

Notes and snippets from 12 years ago - December 2006GREENWICH EMOTION MAP Whaaat!? The East Greenwich-based Independent Photograph Project have produced an Ordnance Survey-type map of the Greenwich...

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 Notes on the Industrial Estate Formerly Located to the Rear of 52 Crooms Hill, Greenwich David Whittaker Draft Version 24th March 2024 Notes on the Industrial Estate Formerly Located to the Rear of 52...

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