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Telcon - and atoms for peace
The following article appeared in the Telcon Magazine for Spring 1958ZETA and Telcon Magnetic Cores LtdIT was a dull, grey morning in February, 1955 when Telmag first become involved in one of the most...
View ArticleIts quiet over Christmas
This is a posting with very little, if any, news and a lot of chit chat.BUTDon't forget our next meeting ......... which will feature ...Stewart Ash speaking on Sir John Pender. 17th 7.30. at Age...
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Docklands History GroupThis is about their conference on Thames River Crossingson 13th May at the Museum in Docklands. They are now taking bookings - look at their website...
View ArticleNotes and notices - nothing for weeks and they all come at once
GLIAS NEWSLETTERThey advertise meetings:15th February Spitalfields Silk Industry by Sue Jackson15th March Crossrail Archaeology roundup - Jay Carver and Andy Shelley19th April - Royal Arsenal Then...
View ArticleThe Archaeology of Archaeology - the Woolwich kiln
It has been all excitement this week. What is this all about?? In 1974 a group of eager young people volunteered to do what we now call 'community archaeology' on a site in Woolwich. And what did...
View ArticleBetter late than never
This is just a few items from the ENORMOUS pile of stuff waiting to go out to you about industrial Greenwich:First - a letter - I write to enquire whether you think members of The Greenwich Industrial...
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THE EAST GREENWICH GASHOLDERBiggest gas holder in Europe - an exceptional structure built to revolutionary principles - listing now refused - and scheduled for demolition - ideas for reuse apparently...
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Gas Holder Stuff - the East Greenwich Gasholder. by Stewart Ash
Gas Holder StuffThe South Metropolitan Gas Works (1883-1948)In 1883, the Morden CollegeTrustees, then being drawn from the Aldermen of the City of London, had a shift in policy and they sold to the...
View ArticleThe South London Gas Workers Strike 1889
The following piece was written in 1989 - for the anniversary of the strike - and published in the long forgotten 'South London Record'. It was almost the first piece I ever had published and, reading...
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The big thing of course is the Council's consultation about building housing on the site of the gasholder. Info about the gas holder itself below...
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Avery Hill and its wonderful winter gardens
Winter gardensThere is a hidden gem at Avery Hill, Eltham SE9. In the late 1890’s Colonel North, the nitrate billionaire, built himself a mansion to rival Walpole’s Strawberry Hill!...
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Jo's idea for the gas holder
Jo's fabulous idea of what to do with the gas holderJo originally put this on her Facebook page - but we just had to copy it here. Other ideas very welcome. Send us your jpegs! (pdfs not ok on this...
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Sir John Pender and All Saints Church, Foots Cray
Sir John Pender GCMGAnd his Association with All Saints Church Foots CrayJohn Pender leased the Foots Cray estate from Coleraine Robert Vansittart (1833-86), for a period of 21 years, on 16 May 1876....
View ArticlePlumstead and the Origins of Dolcis Shoes
Plumstead and the Origins of Dolcis Shoesby Barbara HollandPlumstead does indeed have a place in the history of the Dolcis shoe company. Readers of a certain age – and I’m one of them – will remember...
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Who's heard of Cody Dock?
Ok - Greenwich - which among you has heard of Cody Dock?? Has anyone actually been there?Its not far away .............Do any of you actually, ever, cross the river??So?? -it is part of a riverside...
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Pipers reference
Thanks Mary Jane for this photo a paper from Pipers barge builders - their site was on the Peninsula between Lovells (now Riverside Gardens) and Enderbys - in fact mostly the site recently vacated by...
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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...
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NEW NOTES - AND WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OUR INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE??
NEW NOTES - AND WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OUR INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE??On 10th October Greenwich Industrial History Society wants to host a discussion on the current state of Greenwich's Industrial Heritage...
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--- and --- about the gasholder consultation
- so - what happened when we heard about the consultation on the gas holder site?It is now a couple of months since Greenwich Council announced a consultation on a site on the Greenwich Peninsula...
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NEWS FROM GREENWICH'S INDUSTRIAL HISTORYTHE LENOX PROJECT - their newsletter reminds us of Open House Day on 16th/17th September when they, and others, will be at Deptford Master Shipwright's House -...
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