More news - the gap being caused by me (Mary) being so busy with my new book.
(Innovation, Enterprise and Change on the Greenwich Peninsula. Available from me £8 plus pp £2 - happy to deliver if you live round here)
Prefab Museum - this project, originally based in Lewisham, has a Brockley prefab walk on 5th December. Check out http://www.prefabmuseum.uk.news
Blackheath Scientific Society. Meeting 20th November, 7.45 Mycenae House, Mycenae Road, SE3 Paul Ryan on TV Gathering the Strands. This is about outside broadcasting. Info 020 8854 3389
We have been asked for more details on the Shooters Hill Abbatoir. Grateful for info we can pass on - GIHS did publish an article on the abbatoir and the police raid there and the article is at http://gihs.gold.ac.uk/gihs32.html
We have also been asked for info on pay and conditions in the 1930s at Frederick Braby's Ida Works in Deptford, and Elliotts in Lewisham. They are also interested in social conditions around the factories and any trade union involvement.
Battle of Waterloo. This is going to take place at the Old Royal Naval College on 5th December at 6.30 https:/www.ornc.org/Event/the-british-stage-in-minature-presents-the-battle-of-waterloo-021215
Stuart Rankin has sent us a link to a programme for the launch of HMS Albion - which caused a massive wave where several people were drowned off Woolwich. http://www.britishtransporttrreasures/product/souvenir-of-the-launch-of-hms-albion-by-h-r-h-the-duchess-of-york-june-21st-1898-ebook/
The Lenox Project have a new promotional t shirt for sale as well as other things to fund raise and get you into a present buying mode - http://www.buildthelenox.org.contact/
Archaeology - we are told by English Heritage that work is about to start on the western area of the Alcatel Lucent site. Happy to send links, please contact.,
We have an email from someone who has bought an old pewter mug with'Sea Witch East Greenwich' engraved on it. The Sea Witch was on the riverside near where the silos stood until recently. Grateful for more info.
Henry - at a recent GIHS meeting John King talked about Sir Francis Joseph and it appears that he was involved with Henry's Sacks in Blackwall Lane. We know a bit about the firm but it would be good to pass more onto John. Joseph described how in May 1931 he visited Imperial Wharf in Greenwich - and was not happy with what he saw there. We also have a description of the works and their contribution to the Second World War effort - mainly through producing sacks to put things in which were needed for the war.
Julie Tadman has sent us a list of local water mills insuredin 1824 - this includes Barratts water corn mill at Bugsby's Hole and Riches stream and water corn mills at Greenwich.
Old Loyal Britons - there has been a long planning battle over this old pub in Thames Street and a great deal of research into the building. We were send info in October - but this is now clearly out of date. Would appreciate an update. Planning officers were apparently claiming that it couldn't be old and worth keeping because they said it had been bombed, Researchers were denying this and saying the building was original.
We have a leaflet from the propeller foundry - would be grateful to hear from them again. Why is it called 'propeller foundry' - we thought Stone's propeller factory was in Charlton and that what you have in Deptford is the office block. Please explain.
Treason's Harbours. This is the published version of a conference run by the Naval Dockyards Society in 2011. It includes articles all of which have some relevance to the Royal Dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich. 'The Dog in the Nighttime. Dockyard in the Genre of Naval Historical Fiction', 'All a-sparkle with Gun flashes. The Bay of Rosas in Naval Literature; 'Art in Dockyards' 'The Iron Slip Roof Cover Roofs of the Royal Dockyards 1844-1857' and "The Application and Scheme of Paintworks in British Men-of-War during the late 18th and early 19th Centuries". As well as book reviews and notices. www.navaldockyards.org
PEPYS - and coke. We note the forthcoming exhibition locally about diarist Samuel Pepys. We hope that there is mention of the first time coke (as in processed coal) is noted - Pepys said he saw it being made in Greenwich having disembarked from the ferry. Another Greenwich first - so - is it in the exhibition, or once again are industrial firsts locally too indecent for posh exhibitions at the Maritime Museum.
(Innovation, Enterprise and Change on the Greenwich Peninsula. Available from me £8 plus pp £2 - happy to deliver if you live round here)
Prefab Museum - this project, originally based in Lewisham, has a Brockley prefab walk on 5th December. Check out http://www.prefabmuseum.uk.news
Blackheath Scientific Society. Meeting 20th November, 7.45 Mycenae House, Mycenae Road, SE3 Paul Ryan on TV Gathering the Strands. This is about outside broadcasting. Info 020 8854 3389
We have been asked for more details on the Shooters Hill Abbatoir. Grateful for info we can pass on - GIHS did publish an article on the abbatoir and the police raid there and the article is at http://gihs.gold.ac.uk/gihs32.html
We have also been asked for info on pay and conditions in the 1930s at Frederick Braby's Ida Works in Deptford, and Elliotts in Lewisham. They are also interested in social conditions around the factories and any trade union involvement.
Battle of Waterloo. This is going to take place at the Old Royal Naval College on 5th December at 6.30 https:/www.ornc.org/Event/the-british-stage-in-minature-presents-the-battle-of-waterloo-021215
Stuart Rankin has sent us a link to a programme for the launch of HMS Albion - which caused a massive wave where several people were drowned off Woolwich. http://www.britishtransporttrreasures/product/souvenir-of-the-launch-of-hms-albion-by-h-r-h-the-duchess-of-york-june-21st-1898-ebook/
The Lenox Project have a new promotional t shirt for sale as well as other things to fund raise and get you into a present buying mode - http://www.buildthelenox.org.contact/
Archaeology - we are told by English Heritage that work is about to start on the western area of the Alcatel Lucent site. Happy to send links, please contact.,
We have an email from someone who has bought an old pewter mug with'Sea Witch East Greenwich' engraved on it. The Sea Witch was on the riverside near where the silos stood until recently. Grateful for more info.
Henry - at a recent GIHS meeting John King talked about Sir Francis Joseph and it appears that he was involved with Henry's Sacks in Blackwall Lane. We know a bit about the firm but it would be good to pass more onto John. Joseph described how in May 1931 he visited Imperial Wharf in Greenwich - and was not happy with what he saw there. We also have a description of the works and their contribution to the Second World War effort - mainly through producing sacks to put things in which were needed for the war.
Julie Tadman has sent us a list of local water mills insuredin 1824 - this includes Barratts water corn mill at Bugsby's Hole and Riches stream and water corn mills at Greenwich.
Old Loyal Britons - there has been a long planning battle over this old pub in Thames Street and a great deal of research into the building. We were send info in October - but this is now clearly out of date. Would appreciate an update. Planning officers were apparently claiming that it couldn't be old and worth keeping because they said it had been bombed, Researchers were denying this and saying the building was original.
We have a leaflet from the propeller foundry - would be grateful to hear from them again. Why is it called 'propeller foundry' - we thought Stone's propeller factory was in Charlton and that what you have in Deptford is the office block. Please explain.
Treason's Harbours. This is the published version of a conference run by the Naval Dockyards Society in 2011. It includes articles all of which have some relevance to the Royal Dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich. 'The Dog in the Nighttime. Dockyard in the Genre of Naval Historical Fiction', 'All a-sparkle with Gun flashes. The Bay of Rosas in Naval Literature; 'Art in Dockyards' 'The Iron Slip Roof Cover Roofs of the Royal Dockyards 1844-1857' and "The Application and Scheme of Paintworks in British Men-of-War during the late 18th and early 19th Centuries". As well as book reviews and notices. www.navaldockyards.org
PEPYS - and coke. We note the forthcoming exhibition locally about diarist Samuel Pepys. We hope that there is mention of the first time coke (as in processed coal) is noted - Pepys said he saw it being made in Greenwich having disembarked from the ferry. Another Greenwich first - so - is it in the exhibition, or once again are industrial firsts locally too indecent for posh exhibitions at the Maritime Museum.