Dreadnought School - the council has been consulting about the gasholder site - but also on that site is Dreadnought School which is currently in use by the Horniman Museum as a store. The school was built by the London School Board and was probably opened in 1893. Other information seems to be very elusive. Around London these Board Schools are being listed and are becoming very famous - the earlier ones were designed by Edward Robson and then, later, by T.J.Bailey. We don't now who designed Dreadnought but probably neither of these two leading architects. Does anyone have any information. The schools seems to have later been called Riverway School - and we also don't know what information Horniman has and what their response to the consultation is. We understand Horniman sometimes offer tours of the building - starting from their site in Forest Hill.
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2018 will be European Cultural Year and EFAITH are planning on industrial development having a major role in this. they have already held two conferences on this and hope to:
--- have an industrial heritage theme for each month
--- feature young people and industrial heritage
----motivate and train volunteers
----help to save endangered industrial sites
EFAITH - is European Industrial and Technical Heritage volunteers and voluntary associations.
check this out at: http://industrialheritage.eu/2018-European-Year-of-Cultural-Heritage
or email your ideas to secretariat@e-faith.org
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Tidal Thames - their newsletter features the day when two cruise liners passed each other in Blackwall Reach a month or so ago. These were Silver Wind and Silver Cloud and they passed to sounds of horns and cheering passengers. And showed there is much more room in the river than some people think. (I was brought up in 1950s Gravesend when we thought nothing of three or four big P&O liners all moored in the river and at Tilbury landing - people should have seen the river when we had lots of real boats up and down all the time).
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Tidal Thames also celebrates the arrival of Mercury Clipper - built on the Isle of Wight - and no doubt soon to be seen on Greenwich Reach.
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- and Tidal Thames is pushing For Fish's Sake which is about litter in the Thames and around the Thames. Details are available along with a video, http://tidalthames.co.uk/july2017/2.htm
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Note from Historic England that archaeological investigation is about to start at Greenwich Pumping Station Thames Tideway site
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Naval Dockyard Society - this is a call for papers on Dockyards - the End of the First World War and interwar retrenchment. This is for a conference to be held on 24th March 2018 at the Maritime Museum. Details from Dr Ann Coats avcoatschair@gmail.com and Richard Holme richardholme@btinternet.com
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George Burtt - have been sent a lot of info about George Burtt who was born in Greenwich in 1871. He went on to become a great railway photographer. Any info??
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We have had an email about a project which is recording oral histories of boatyards along the tidal Thames from Teddington Lock to the Barrier, They have already interviewed men from Thamescraft Dry Dock Services, Cory's and the Yacht Club. Is there anyone else out there who would be interested. Please get in touch with GIHS. indhistgreenwich@aol.com
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GIHS hopes to have a meeting on October 10th where we can discuss industrial heritage in Greenwich. We are putting together a programme of people who can put their views forward and get the ball rolling. If you have something you would like to say and can say it in five minutes please get in touch asap marymillsmmmmm@aol.com
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The gasholder and its site. We have so much stuff this is going to have to be a separate postings. Great response, thanks everyone!!