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Sorry - that it has been so long since this blog appeared. It has been a very very slow month for information coming in and newsletters only started arriving this week. There is a lot going on in the...
View ArticleThe Ghost in the Dome
You see this all goes back to at least 1998 and maybe further back.I had done this M.Phil at the Poly in the early 1980s and it was about George Livesey who was the big man in the late 19th century gas...
View ArticleJohn Humpheries House
John Humpheries House and Leo Computer Centreby Harry PearmanJohn Humphries House in Stockwell Street was the first purpose-built computer centre in Greenwich and the site of a remarkable initiative by...
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PLEASE NOTEThe speaker from the PLA for next week's meeting is now unable to do the talk.Hoping to get a replacement - watch this space
View ArticleNeil Cossons lecture, Chatham Dockyarf
Remains of a Revolution – Presented by Sir Neil Cossons OBE FSA (Wednesday 11th April 2018)In the eighteenth century, Britain was widely recognised as the first industrial nation. In the nineteenth as...
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New book about Sir John Pender - The Cable King
HOW THE INTERNET WAS BORN ON THE GREENWICH PENINSULA Access to the World Wide Web is only possible due to a vast global network of subsea fibre optic cables carrying terabits of data under the oceans....
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The first Harbour Master's House
Harbour Master's House.We all know the Harbour Master's House on Ballast Quay - it was part of a complicated network set up to try and regulate the huge numbers of coal ships from the north in the...
View ArticleReport on Pollution Conference held 1994
POLLUTION IN EAST AND SOUTH EAST LONDON 24 YEARS AGOI thought that - given the current debate on pollution - that it might be of interest to look back and see where we were 24 years ago. This is a...
View ArticleThen three came along at once
After having not produced a Greenwich industrialhistory posting for some months I thought I ought to do something. Several newsletters have come in all at once - so – here we goIndustrial Archaeology...
View ArticleEast Greenwich Gas Holder - info sheet
INFORMATION ON THE EAST GREENWICH GAS HOLDER.This is a brief information sheet about the holder plus information on the current demolition plans.Please support the petition...
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Greenwich riverside path - peninsula - information
GREENWICH RIVERSIDE PATH BackgroundThis is written from memory and may not be entirely accurate. I would therefore ask that it is regarded as confidential and that none of it is reproduced or quoted...
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Notes, news and, or course, the gasholder
Now - have you all signed the petition about the gasholder??https://www.change.org/p/royal-borough-of-greenwich-save-the-nationally-important-east-greenwich-gas-holder-from-demolitionSign it Now! The...
View ArticleSad news
Sad note this morning to say that Darrell Spurgeonhas died.Few people will know Darrell - who was well in his nineties and cut his very considerable list of activities down in the past few years. He...
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Woolwich Antiquarians Newsletter. They advertise their own future programmes: 2 pm for 2.15 pm on Saturday at Charlton House, in the Grand Salon. 12 May Research & Discoveries, Pearly History...
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Congratulations Barbara
Congratulations to Barbara Gasometra Berger in Munich on your PhD on gasholders(We understand there is a chapter on East Greenwich gasholder - can't wait to see it!)
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Notes and serenades
Gasholder – this cracking picture has appeared on the GMV facebook pagethanks Laiura Diggle And remember – its still not to late to sign the petition:...
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GASHOLDER PETITION STILL GOING STRONGHere's another view of the holder:Sign the petition and keep fit -...
View ArticleMore news from Greenwich and its industrial history
GLIAS NewsletterCongratulations to GLIAS (Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society)Congratulations – because after nearly sixty years Newsletter 296 is partly in colour and includes some...
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Greenwich Riverside Path before 'regeneration' - An hysterical walk
I thought that perhaps - for all our newer resident readers - that we should put something about what the riverside path used to be like. Well it wasn't all industry - there was ART too.The riverside...
View ArticleEast Greenwich Gas Holder -latest - and what happens elsewhere!
East Greenwich GasholderPlease sign the petitionhttps://www.change.org/p/royal-borough-of-greenwich-southern-gas-networks-save-the-nationally-important-east-greenwich-gas-holder-from-demolitionWe hope...
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