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The Dark Side of the 'Wonder' material for Submarine Cables
DARK SIDE OF FORMER 'WONDER' MATERIAL Porthurno Research Fellow (and Enderby Group member) Allan Greene looks at the discovery and history of cable's 19th century wonder stuff and the impact it had on...
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PLUTO
The following text is a note taken from a talk given to Blackheath Scientific Society - with thanks to them for allowing us to reproduce it. PLUTOPipe Line Under the Ocean by Mr A F CantleThe...
View ArticleCouple of local stuff things
Two things in the post - One is from Fred Parrett and is about a concert at Greenwich University. In 2009 Fred put on a jazz and history concert - and we helped him with industrial pictures of...
View ArticleSome bits from a huge great pile of stuff
Lewisham Local History Society - Newsletter - various things but not really to do with Greenwich Industry - but all very interesting. - The Cinema Museum, Kennington - Sydenham Children's Hospital -...
View ArticleSoap and Syrup - Peter Luck
SOAP and SYRUP FROM SOAMES TO SYRAL by Peter Luck The paper describes the history of the riverside site on Blackwall Lane now occupied by the developer, Cathedral - but previously the Syrol/Tate and...
View ArticleThings to go to
Docklands History Group are advertising their annual symposium on Thames Shipbuilding for 9th May. The programme is on their web site at:http://www.docklandshistorygroup.org.uk/there are still no...
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The last monument to Britain's Subsea Cables Industry
The following article appeared in Newcomen Links (no 232 December 2014) with thanks to the Newcomen Society.The last monument to Britain's Subsea Cables Industryby Allan Green Since presenting my...
View ArticlePart one of Part two on the Atlantic Cable
Back on 19th December we published a page about the history of the Atlantic Cable - it was the second half of an article which had appeared in Part 46 of Wonders of World Engineering in 1938. BUT NOW...
View ArticleThe Greenwich ropeworks and a wretch
Enderby Wharf and RopeThe Enderby family are known for their rope walk on the Greenwich Peninsula - the line of which could be seen until obliterated by current development. It lay at right angles to...
View ArticleGIHS Meeting -GLIAS had been there before
Last week's GIHS meeting was entertained by the speaker, John Kennedy Melling, on the Noakesoscope. That, it turns out, was an ingenious sort of magic lantern, showing moving pictures, invented by one...
View ArticleBallast Quay news
We would like to let you know that there are now three new recordings on our Oral History Pages which can be accessed on the Ballast Quay website under: http://www.ballastquay.com/oral-histories.htmlWe...
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Woolwich gas works - and they are diggin them up
Great to see on Facebook that there is a dig in Woolwich which has found bits of one of the old Woolwich gas works. Details on Chris Mansfield's page....
View ArticleLOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF NEWS - MUST CATCH UP
LATEST STORY FIRST - Yesterday we put on this site stuff about an archaeological dig in Woolwich which had found an old gas holder. Well - later that day photographer Chris Mansfield told us, through...
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St Mary's Flats and the - er - Autostacker
following is a scan and transcript of a booklet produced by Woolwich Council in 1961 about their new flats and new parking system - and, look, this is a scheme produced by a supremely confident Labour...
View ArticleGREENWICH POWER STATION
GREENWICH POWER STATION – this venerable Greenwich installation is apparently due for another upgrade and Transport for London have been consulting locals on it. Below are a three articles about it...
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AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
A lot of things have happened - will report later - but in the short term we are looking to draw up a list of items of industrial heritage interest from all round the Borough.Clearly there are some BIG...
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Various newsletters have turned up - for instanceWoolwich Antiquarians NewsletterForthcoming meetings include: 2nd May Richard Buchanan on the Atlantic Telegraph. Charlton House. 2.15 pmFriends of...
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The one thing you mustn't miss this spring
DOCKLANDS HISTORY GROUP 6th THAMES SHIPBUILDING SYMPOSIUM- SATURDAY 9TH MAY 2015 This will be the sixth symposium on this subject and the second to be hosted by the Docklands History Group. It will...
View ArticleA small personal comment on tugs, the River, famous paintings and stuff
Until the developers and their tower blocks finally close in - I can still see a tiny snitch of the River, off Enderbys, from my bedroom window. A couple of days ago I was watching a group of tugs...
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