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Lewisham Local History Society -  Newsletter - various things but not really to do with Greenwich Industry - but all very interesting. - The Cinema Museum, Kennington - Sydenham Children's Hospital - the fire at the Catford Prefab Museum - and thanks Lewisham for printing  our programme

- their 2015 programme feature the following sort of Greenwich or industrial things.  See www.lewishamhistory.org.uk  - 
30 January - The Mid Kent Line (speaker, Peter Leigh, will start at Spa Road - originally on the Greenwich Railway)
27th February - The Hatcham Ironworks (the story of George England - great south London industrial history interest)
27th March - AGM and Show and Tell (you never know what that will be!!)
31st Seaside Sauce, cartoonist Donald McGill (who lived I think in the Greenwich bit of Blackheath)
25th September, Orthodox Churchman the Metropolitan Seraphim talks about saving Catford Town Hall in 1961 (correct me if I am wrong, but I think he lives in Charlton)
27th November, W.G.Grace, cricketer (lived in the Greenwich bit of Eltham)

(sorry to be so parochial)

The Redriff Chronicle (Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Local History)
Another great newsletter - covering among other things - archaeology on the Rotherhithe Waterfront - history of Bermondsey Street - the Southwark Park Act 1864 -  etc and more etc

Greenwich Society Newsletter
has a great picture on the front of Greenwich Marsh from One Tree Hill - showing the gunpowder works on the Peninsula 1725, 

LAMAS Newsletter.  This advertises, among other things:

14th April. talk on Palace Foreshores, including Greenwich. Museum of London 6 pm


Newcomen Links - now this is a big thing because it has an article by Allan Green on Enderby's Wharf which I hope to get permission to reproduce.
and also a tour of the new Telecoms Museum in the Science Museum
and an article about Titan cranes (on Tyneside)

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