Narrow Gauge Railways on the Royal Arsenal
The June meeting of GIHS heard a talk by Ian Bull on the Narrow Gauge Railways of the Royal Arsenal. The following report is by Richard Buchanan (with thanks to WADAS) with some annotations by Ian...
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Harvey's Jubilee outing to Brighton - three train loads
The following article comes from the July 1934 comes from the house magazine of Charlton metal fabrication company, Harveys THE JUBILEE OUTING Harvey staff in the Brighton Pavilion 7th July 1934On...
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Information provided about Ralph Lucas, Greenwich Car Designer
We have received the following information about Ralph Lucas, the Greenwich-based car designer referenced recently in this Blog, from Barbara Holland. Many thanks to her for the information.Ralph Lucas...
View ArticleRequest for info - Did you work at Harland and Wolff?
Harland and Wolff were once one of Britain’s largest ship building companies. At their highest point they had a workforce of 35,000 and shipyards in Belfast, Glasgow, Southampton, Liverpool and London....
View ArticleLovells Path
Lovells Path by Fred Mason This may be of interest to residents who live near to Lovells Wharf. Along the new river path there is a small inlet opposite a new reconstructed stone wall.There is a...
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Tory Prime Minister opens Greenwich Housing Estate
Prentiss Court is now an estate of Council owned housing standing at the bottom of Charlton Lane, just south of the level crossing. It was originally company housing built for the employees of...
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The Old Loyal Britons - request for listing
Local Greenwich readers may be aware of a planning application to demolish The Old Loyal Briton's Pub in Thames Street. We have been given permission to reproduce a submission by The Greenwich Society...
View ArticleIKEA and a Greenwich built engine
The Newsletter of the Association for Industrial Archaeology for Autumn 2014 has arrived - and in it are two items of relevance to Greenwich.One of them is an appeal for information about a steam...
View ArticleInteresting news about hopefully interesting stuff in Greenwich
There is a whole ragbag here - hope that's ok1. CROSSNESS ENGINES TRUSTa. Their AGM is on 21st September at the Engine House at 2:00. You have to be a member to go though. Not sure how many of the...
View ArticleThe Chemical Laboratories in the Royal Arsenal
The following is a scan of the synopsis of a series of papers from a Conference held in 2002 between the Royal Society of Chemistry and the (now defunct) Gunpowder and Explosives History Group. The...
View ArticleA tunnel under the Thames at Woolwich
FOGWOFT has passed to GIHS a number of cuttings about a proposed tunnel under the Thames at Woolwich in the 1870s. Strangely these are all press reports from the North of England. GIHS would be glad...
View ArticleGASHOLDERS - what is happening to them round the world
Preserved Gas holders This post has evolved from one I did a couple of days ago on Greenwich.gov.uk. This was about the gasholder conference organised by the Institution of Gas Engineers last week....
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Transatlantic telecommunications timeline
WITH work on the Enderby Wharf project in our minds we hope to publish here various items about the history of telecommunications in Greenwich. BUT to start with, as a bit of general background, here...
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From Elektron to 'e'' Commerce
AND ALSO - more about submarine cables. Here is the front cover of Stewart Ash's book on submarine cables - where there will be a lots about Greenwich-- read the book ----------------------------...
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A bit of moaning in the Mercury
So - the Mercury isn't happy with the state of Greenwich - it says"For some years past the town of Greenwich, although the central one of the three which constitutes this great Borough, has been...
View ArticleBook reviews, contacts and so on
LOTS OF BITS AND PIECES - things which have just come out and things I should have listed down a long time ago - soIndustrial Archaeology News - this (national) publication normally has very little...
View ArticleCable ship Faraday.
A tweeter has put out today a picture of Cable Ship Faraday off Charlton https://twitter.com/thamesfacing/status/543343835511009280/photo/1I promised to put out more information - and I am sorry -...
View ArticleHow it was first achieved - fast information between Europe and America
The following extract from an account of the very exciting story of the laying of the, Greenwich made, Atlantic cable, comes from "Wonders of World Engineering" Part 46 1938. The first part of the...
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Early Pedestrian Subway at Woolwich - by Peter Bone
The North and South Woolwich Subway.On 11th September 2014, GIHS published some information about a proposal, previously unknown to the Society, in the 1870s to tunnel under the Thames at Woolwich. I...
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