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Charlton's Water Works

Now - I put this picture on the GIHS Facebook page and asked people to tell me where it wasNow only one person got it right - Congratulations Peter Luck - it's Woolwich Road looking east towards the...

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Charlton's other waterworks.

So - this is the second episode following yesterdays post, and facebook page mystery picture, about Charlton's water works  - first - back to John Smith's History of Charlton.After the Woolwich Road...

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William Lindley

We are receiving a number of articles and information about engineer William Lindley - some of it is in a posting on the GIHS Facebook page. Lindley - when he wasn't designing public services in Europe...

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Letters January 2006

Letters January 2006From:  Keith MillsI have no real information relating to "Merryweather's" of Greenwich, London. I know that following their move from Greenwich, they established themselves at the...

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David Cufley on sustainable building materials

David Cufley runs North West Kent Family History Society and has been to talk to GIHS on a couple of occasions.  However he is really the local authority on bricks and building materials. So – when...

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Articles on Greenwich Peninsula History - by Mary Mills

Mary Mills –Works on Peninsula HistoryAs ever I find 'consultants' paid  for writing histores of Peninsula sites - and getting it all wrong.  They never ever seem to consult existing work - and...

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GIHS NEWSLETTER August 2020

Greenwich Industrial History SocietyNewsletter August 2020Like every other Society we had to pause our meetings from March onwards. But we have an exciting offer to all members – and to followers of...

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GIHS AUTUMN PROGRAMME

 GREENWICH INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SOCIETYAUTUMN MEETINGS 2020 All meetings will be virtual, held via Facebook Live, YouTube, Zoom or similar technology (technology to be decided).  Video attendance will be...

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ARE THESE PICTURES OF PENN'S ENGINE WORKS ON BLACKHEATH ROAD?The pictures below come from a set which we have been given by someone who got them from an unknown source.  They are copies - so someone...

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More Merryweather - females fighting the flames- scouting for fires

Females Fighting the Flames… Scouting for Fires… ...............Isabella’s Engagement… ...... Training a Dolphin .............and ................the Pompier Debateby Neil BennettFire, the devouring...

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GIHS lectures on YouTube

 Greenwich Industrial History Society have now set up their own YouTube channel,https://tinyurl.com/GIHSvideo there you can find Alan Burkitt-Gray's 13 Oct lecture about the role of Greenwich, Charlton...

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Operation PLUTO and the HAIS Cable By Bill Burns & Stewart Ash A large part of the borough of Greenwich is currently being re-developed to provide much-needed housing and new commercial premises....

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 ANGERSTEIN RAILWAY FOOT CROSSING -UNDER THREAT AGAIN(this article was written to support an ACV application last year)The Angerstein Railway is a freight only railway which runs from just outside...

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Greenwich riverside pictures

 R.J.M. Carr has sent us a series of photographs taken of the Greenwich riverside in the early 1980s.John W. Mackay at Enderby WharfLovells WharfCoaling at Enderby WharfLooking south west at Enderby...

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Letters August 2006

Letters August 2006 From: Malcolm Tucker The illustration in GIHS 9 (2) of ‘a fireman’ was not photographed in the retort house of a gasworks. The features behind are a bank of classic Babcock and...

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Borough of Woolwich Electricity Junction Box

Borough of Woolwich Electricity Junction BoxRichard Buchanan and Susan BullivantSome years ago Woolwich Antiquarians Newsletter mentioned that: "on Shooters Hill one of the roadside electricity...

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Notes and snippets from 12 years ago - December 2006

Notes and snippets from 12 years ago - December 2006GREENWICH EMOTION MAP Whaaat!? The East Greenwich-based Independent Photograph Project have produced an Ordnance Survey-type map of the Greenwich...

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