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Enderby House, Lay Lines, ourTelecom's Heritage - and what's going on??
The Enderby Group has been refurbishing its web site - and adding a page about the new sculpture which is standing outside of Enderby House. Here's the link -...
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A few notes abour events and so onGLIAS Newsletter 300G|LIAS current lecture series27th February, Mildred Cookson on Roller Flour Mills of London20th March Tony Riley on London’s Lost Railway...
View ArticleNaval Dockyards in Deptford and Woolwich - Conference Report
That excellent organisation, the Naval Dockyards Society, has now produced an important report on a conference held at the National Maritime Museum in 2013 – “500 Years of Deptford and Woolwich...
View ArticleDavid Cuffley on bricks - and also come and hear him next Tuesday
GIHS Meeting on 19th - next Tuesday - we are welcoming David Cuffley who is going to speak about Discovering history of a house -case study Salutation Alley WoolwichDavid works hard for the North West...
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Sir Joseph Bazalgette and Deptford Pumping Station
SIR JOSEPH BAZALGETTE ANDDEPTFORD PUMPING STATIONPhoto R.J.M.Carr28th March was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Joseph Bazalgette. He was the Engineer to the 19th century Metropolitan Board...
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My Father’s Work Experiences at Tunnel Glucose,
My Father’s Work Experiences at Tunnel GlucoseTunnel Avenue, East Greenwich.My father, Percy McDougal, was born in 1908 in Siebert Road, Blackheath, the youngest of five children. He left school at the...
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I'm sorry that nothing has been on here in the way of news for some time, very remiss...………...So what have we got?Crossness Engines. We ought to congratulate Crossness Engines on the big party they...
View ArticleGreenwich's Black 'Ole
Greenwich’s secret war time location. ‘The Black ‘Ole’ in Tunnel Glucose.Unless you worked at the Tunnel Glucose factory during or shortly after the Second World War you might not know what the ‘Black...
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More bits of news
Congratulations to Woolwich and District Antiquarian Society on the on the publication of an Occasional Paper (No. 5) called "Sweets and Schooldays' and is a series of reminiscences from WADS members...
View ArticleSiemens - whales - Enderby - underground - George Elliott
Apologies for not putting it out earlier but have been working flat out on the new book which we hope to get out in time for the Greenwich Book Festival. It’s going to be a rerun of ‘Greenwich Marsh’...
View ArticleFOND MEMORIES OF TUNNEL AVENUE
FOND MEMORIES OF TUNNEL AVENUE1947 – 1954I will always remember January 1947 in Tunnel Avenue, East Greenwich for several reasons. One was that it was my fourth birthday which also coincided with my...
View ArticleJune 11th meeting - what is happening
GIHS MEETING 11TH JUNEOUR June meeting will not be in the Bakehouse at Age Exchange but in the Studio. Go get there we have been told to go into the front door of Age Exchange shop in Blackheath...
View ArticleAll sorts of news and reviews
LAST NIGHT - Thanks to everyone who came to the Greenwich Industrial History Meeting last night and in particular thanks to Tracy Stringfellow and Charlie MacKeith who were the speakers. Age...
View ArticleDiana Rimel
GIHS is sorry to learn that Diana Rimel has died. She was oneof the true local historians of Greenwich. Diana had been associated with GIHS from the start, had contributed a number of articles to...
View ArticleThis and that and Plumstead Station
There is a petition out on Plumstead Station:“Network Rail South East: Save Our Station (History) - Plumstead - Sign the Petition! http://chng.it/xy4X2py5 via @UKChange”The background to this is...
View ArticleBelated news - but anyway its summer
I have been very trmiss not sending some of this off earlier,. I ought to send it out on the day it comes in! Hwever here is the digest of what has been in the post recently - keep on to the end...
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Bad News
Bad News--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------People may also have heard of the deaths over the past 10 days of Sue Bullivant...
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The Siemens Brothers Works Bird’s Eye View Artist
The Siemens Brothers Works Bird’s Eye View ArtistBy Stewart AshDuring the 1920s, a talented amateur artist, Edmund William Neale, who was a Siemens Brothers employee throughout his working life,...
View ArticleMeeting on Tuesday
This is to remind you about the GIHS meeting on 15th at the Bakehouse. You are going to have me, Mary Mills, talking about thw wider picture of Greenwich industry and how it could be turned into a...
View ArticleThe Woolwich Navy
THE WOOLWICH NAVYThis extract is taken from London Ship Types, by Frank C.Bowen published 1938 by the East Ham EchoThe units of the 'Woolwich Navy' which is maintained by the War Office with its...
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