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White Hart Depot 2000
White Hart Depot 2000A VIEW FROM A STRANGERIn February a party from GIHS visited the Plumstead White Hart Depot. GLIAS’s Bill Firth comes from Golders Green and knows nothing about Plumstead - here...
View ArticleDeptford Shipbuilding in the 17th century
DEPTFORD SHIPBUILDING IN THE 17TH CENTURY further extracts from Christopher Philpott’s studyIn 1788 the lease on an area of Deptford riverside once used by the East India...
View ArticleMore of John Day's Memories of a ROF apprentice
MORE OF JOHN DAY’S MEMORIES ................... .........................OF A ROF APPRENTICEOne morning when I came in, there was a terrific row going on in the foreman’s office. The barrel of a 3.7...
View ArticleMassey Shaw
In early June the TV has been full of the last return of the ‘little ships’ to Dunkirk. A few days earlier a number of Greenwich people had stood on the London Fire Brigade pier in Lambeth to see...
View ArticleReviews and snippets July 2000
Reviews and snippets July 2000Domesday IndustryAt a recent lecture at the Maritime Museum, Andrew Butcher of the University of Kent pointed out that Greenwich was an important industrial centre in...
View ArticleTom Cribb
TOM CRIBBAlthough the life of the boxer, Tom Cribb, is hardly industrial history we have had so many requests for information about him through the internet - several from Australia and New Zealand -...
View ArticleLetters July 2000
From Angela (I have a copy of the following local history book and wondered if you could advise me how I can find out if it is of value, please:Thankfull Sturdee - Reminiscences of Old Deptford....
View ArticleLocomotive Woolwich
LOCOMOTIVE ‘WOOLWICH’In our last issue we reported on efforts to get the Locomotive ‘Woolwich’ returned to its native town. Jack Vaughan reports further....‘Readers may recall that we set out in an...
View ArticleArsenal Steam Hammers and Research Dept
ROYAL ARSENAL STEAM HAMMERS by Jack VaughanRead on...... this is not about the ‘beautiful game’! We have in previous newsletters, said a few...
View ArticleHoskins, Greenwich Boat Builder
SEARCHING FOR HOSKINS, GREENWICH BOAT BUILDER- Karen Day discovered that her family were Greenwich boat builders - here she describes her search for them ....First, I tried the Kent County Archive at...
View ArticleReviews and Snippets September 2000
Reviews and Snippets September 2000ACTUAL WORKFor those who want to do an action re-creation of actual traditional work - Woodlands Farm can give you a farming experience any Sunday morning! Or any...
View ArticleLetters September 2000
Letters September 2000From Dept. Culture, Media and SportLovells Wharf CranesTwo Cranes on Lovell’s Wharf. As you know a request was made for these two cranes to be listed. English Heritage has...
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Mumford's Mill
MUMFORD’S MILLA couple of months ago GIHS welcomed Jonathan Clarke of English Heritage who spoke about Mumford’s Mill in Greenwich High Road. At the time we promised to publish extracts from his Survey...
View ArticleEasington Collieey
EASINGTON COLLIERYIn the 1980s Greenwich Council ‘twinned’ with Easington - then an area known for its coal mines. Much of the coal mined in County Durham had come to London and for years collier ships...
View ArticleMemories of a ROF Apprentice
MEMORIES OF A ROF APPRENTICE - MORE FROM JOHN DAYSix months were spent in the Mechanical Engineering Department drawing office. Then I went out on my own doing installation...
View ArticleWhite Hart Depot and Frank Sumner
WHITE HART ROAD DEPOT FRANK SUMNER, WOOLWICH BOROUGH ENGINEER AND SURVEYORby Dave RamseyWhite Hart Road depot - which has featured in this newsletter on several occasions recently - was built and...
View ArticleNorth Woolwich Pleasure Gardens
EXTRA EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING EXTRAORDINARY- more from Howard Bloch on the history of the North Woolwich Pleasure GardensAt North Woolwich the number of visitors increased in 1870 following...
View ArticleMerryweather Steam Trams in New Zealand
Merryweather Steam Tramsby John GarnerThe following article has been sent to us from Wellington, New ZealandWellington, with a population of only 19,000 people, launched its steam-trams in August 1878...
View ArticleBillingsgate
BILLINGSGATE - Greenwich’s ancient harbour by Herbert DicksonJust by the Cutty Sark and...
View ArticlePeople Spirit -- Massey Shaw at Dunkirk
PEOPLE SPIRITIn our last issue we featured the historic fire boat - Massey Shaw. Here is John Furlonger’s description of her historic trip to Dunkirk in May 2000.When in May 1940 the Admiralty asked...
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