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Telcon roving camera plus Lord Reith
- and - how about Telcon's 1951 roving camera - and who they snapped.- and just to add that the clipping at the sides of that picture are them not me!Who they also snapped - on a visit to Greenwich for...
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A walk along the river in 1951
AFTER LUNCH RECOLLECTIONSThis from an (undated) Telcon House Magazine - probably late 1951 or early 1952. This is a walk most of us can still recognise although it is going fast now. It runs from what...
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Recollections of East Greenwich - the gasworks that is
The account below is taken from the South Met. Gas Company House magazine - Co-partnership Journal. As you will see it is about someone who started work as East Greenwich Gas Works was being built -...
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Below is the shop stewards page from Greenwich taken from the Autumn 1954 Telcon House Magazine. There were some bits in this which I couldn't read from the pdf - I hope it makes sense anyway!THE SHOP...
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A SHORT HISTORY OF AVERYHILLPARKAND ITS FRIENDS’ GROUPby Bee TwidaleAvery Hill is a unique park where you can walk and enjoy a cross section of time! The earliest evidence of human activity is a...
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Telcon helps out Jodrell Bank
In the extract from a 1957 Telcon Magazine below the cable company works with the Jodrell Bank observatory - although everyone knows now that the underwater cables round the world get our international...
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More notes and news
Note from the East London Waterways Group -This is about the London Chest Hospital in Hackney (neither industrial and north of the river as well, sorry about that). Anyway they are concerned that it...
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THE MATCHLESS COLLIERSwe have been sent a copy for review of this book by Bill Cakebread. Which traces the history of Matchless and the Collier family from start to finishDon't say - who were...
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Notes, news and bits I missed out earlier
DON'T FORGET OUR NEXT MEETING15th November Mark Stevenson - Mark is the Historic England officers for THIS area. He will talk about current site investigations in Greenwich and Woolwich. Please come...
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DONT FORGET THE GIHS MEETING ON TUESDAYSpeaker Mark Stevenson Historic England. Mark is our local Archaeology Advisor - he is going to talk about current site work but will also answer your...
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History of the Charlton Ropeworks
History of the Charlton RopeworksBy John YeardleyOriginsFrost Brothers Ltd.According to a catalogue of 1906, this business was established in 1790 with a factory in Commercial Road. At that time there...
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First of all - thanks for everybody who is sending a fabulous amount of stuff through. We are hardly catching up with it. Need to be more disciplined and have a daily posting here soon, I...
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More Notes - with pix of Lovells and outside the Pilot in the 1970s
photo R.CarrWell - before we start this morning, here's a nice photo of a Dutch coaster at Lovell's Wharf in the 1970s------------------------and a couple of other things.Industrial Archaeology News -...
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Riverway - as was
These two pictures are of the area around The Pilot Pub. photo R.CarrThe upper of the two photographs is from May 1980 and is looking from Blackwall Lane eastwards from a point which is probably...
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The first Power Station on the Peninsula
This is an article taken from Engineer and published when the first Blackwall Point Power Station was opened in 1900. The article is a bit long and some of it quite technical but it contains some very...
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The steps at Enderbys - and the whole issue of the riverside path
The riverside path along by Lovells and Enderbys is apparently closed - more of that below. First of all - the steps at Enderbys. There are two jetties at Enderby Wharf and between them are some...
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Atlas and Derrick
A couple of weeks ago Greenwich Industrial History was contacted by campaigners at Atlas and Derrick Gardens.This small estate is now owned by Greenwich Council - and is in one of the more obscure bits...
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Stuff sent to us in the past weekemail to us indhistgreenwich@aol.comGLIAS NEWSLETTERThe current Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society's Newsletter has a couple of items about Greenwich.One is...
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NEWCOMEN LINKSThe December issue of Newcomen Links features a report by Richard Buchanan on the seminar held in September at the Royal Institution on 150 years of Transatlantic...
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