Round up of whats what again
Just saw the latest cruise liner turning at Enderbys - it probably isn't industrial history to have noticed a drift of smoke off her - what will the berthing arrangements be when the cruise liners...
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East Greenwich Tide Mill - the GLIAS Journal
I know I have been banging on about the East Greenwich Tide Mill for years and years and years - an written about it in various places and with varying degrees of seriousness/pop reportage.So - I am...
View ArticleSummertime to do
Lots of stuff in the post - but most of it is about various events - little of it to do with Greenwich and Industrial History. Anyway - here are some bits and pieces.Our next meeting: 16th June Ian...
View ArticleA Parliamentary interlude
The link below is -hopefully - the maiden speech of Greenwich and Woolwich's new MP, Matt Pennycook, in Parliament. There is good reason for putting this on an industrial history blog - listen and you...
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Greenwich Dairy - request for help
GIHS has received the following letter from a Greenwich resident asking for help with a planning proposal - here is what he says: "I'm sending over some details about the Planning Application to...
View ArticleSecond post in one day!! stuff in the post!
So - various bits and piecesOUR NEXT MEETING - IAN BULL - DON'T MISS IT - MORE RAILWAYS - AND ITS ABOUT THE ARSENAL TOODreadnought School - Blackwall Lane - people are always asking what is the old...
View ArticleCoal tar and Coal tar dyes
Today coal tar is seen as a menacing cancer-giving substance. This of course wasn't always the case and careers in the gas industry were built on knowledge of tars and how they could be used. The...
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Dodging the Column - how the company saw it!
Going through the park Dodging the Column - recently I have taken to showing at talks on Greenwich industry the 1950s British Transport film - 'Dodging the Column'. This shows equipment from the...
View ArticleThe night Tower Bridge melted
I don't think I should put personal reminisences here - but its hot - and people are moaning about the buses.In the late '60s - I was working in Stamford Street, and I could get a number 70 bus from...
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New Woolwich High Level Bridge
New Woolwich High Level Bridge -I think these are mid-1930s and far from sure where the drawing has come from - and clearly it would be difficult to have loaded it up as one long strip.Who knows more...
View ArticleLATEST NEWS FROM THE GIHS FRONT
SOME BITS OF PIECES FROM MY IN TRAY.......................................THE ENDERBY GROUPThe Enderby Group is happy to provide a speaker for meetings of all sorts - to tell you about Enderby Wharf...
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...
View ArticleStuff
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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