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we've been asked to put this out for Docklands History Group BEFORE THE DOCKS - LONDON RIVER AND PORT IN THE 18TH CENTURY DOCKLANDS HISTORY GROUP FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE - SATURDAY 7 thMAY 2016MUSEUM...
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SERIAC 2000 - This is the South East Regional Industrial Archaeology Conference - this year on 23rd April in Kingston. There are talks on 18th century iron in the Weald, Papermaking history,...
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Greenwich Park Bandstand
Greenwich Park Bandstand – Update on post of 6th September 2015by Barbara Holland(this is an update on a previous article on this blog by Barbara - see below)Barbara saysI finally managed to find the...
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Terry Scales’s blogsite has recently been updated with a post on Ballast Quay. The post is illustrated with paintings from the areas industrial past and is located here;...
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Sea Witch Pub - the tankards
SEA WITCH PUB The Sea Witch Pub stood along the Greenwich Riverside Path, facing the river, until it was bombed in the Second World War and was subsequently demolished. It stood just where the path...
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News
Enderby Group - On Monday the Enderby Group held a seminar for a small selected audience of local politicians, prominent citizens, museum operators and historians and some developers. This consisted...
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CHANGE OF PROGRAMMEGIHS - meeting on 19th - this will now feature Mary Mills - on some other bits of the Enderby site - the gunpowder works and the Beale foundryAge Exchange Bakehouse, Bennett Park....
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Next GIHS meeting 19th April at Age Exchange Bakehouse. 7.30In a change to the original advertised programme I am going to speak about Joshua and John Taylor Beale.I have already written several...
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BARBARAAs many historians and people in Greenwich will know by now Barbara Ludlow died over the weekend. This is a brief tribute to her - she was one of the founders of Greenwich Industrial History...
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News from around and about
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY NEWS - WITH GREENWICH INTERESTWe are getting information about plans to fill in the Arsenal Canal. More information here when we get it. Meanwhile...
View ArticleBarbara Ludlow - An obituary
BARBARA LUDLOW1929-2016Barbara was a Wellard who were a remarkable local family heavily involved in local politics. Her parents – and in particular her communist uncle, Charlie – were well known in...
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George Thomas Landmann
For the past (nearly) thirty years I have flirted with the idea of doing a biography of George Landmann.I did a lot of research in 1986 for a booklet, timed for the 150th anniversary of the London to...
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Isaac Landmann
In writing about George Landmann is it important to first look at his distinguished father, from whom he learnt so much.Isaac Landmann was Professor of Fortification and Artillery in the days when the...
View ArticleGeorge Landmann - a small child at the RMA
George Landmann devoted almost a whole volume of his autobiography to his childhood in Woolwich. Most of it describes unrelated incidents. This is of such great local history interest and, as we shall...
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George Landmann - the Verbruggens - was there a scandal??
The next episode from George Landmann's childhood reminiscences involves work at the Arsenal - and is no doubt taken from his father's Commonplace Book and notes. I am approaching it with a great deal...
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Landmann - exploding cannon - annoying Hutton - investigating the Tower
Landmann's memoirs continue - short episodes in a discursive styleHealth and Safety at WoolwichRight after his information about the Verbruggens come a couple of pages on the proving of new cannon in...
View ArticleGeorge - Turnham Green and the great Lord Heathfield
The next episode described in George Landmann's rather rambling childhood memories takes place in west London, far from Woolwich. It raises some interesting questions about his father, Isaac...
View ArticleNews and notes - what is going on in Greenwich
More notes and stuff that has come inCABLE AND ENDERBY GROUP INFOThe prestigious NEWCOMEN SOCIETY - is to hold an event at the Royal Institution on 5th September to note the 150th anniversary of the...
View ArticleSudden holes appear in Charlton and Woolwich
The following might be a bit band wagon jumping - but the recent collapses in local roads are all too familiar to me - brought up in Gravesend where dene holes were well known.There has been a lot of...
View ArticleGreenwich and Woolwich Foot Tunnels
Greenwich and Woolwich Foot Tunnels.(this article - with details and pictures - was published in Subterranea No.37 December 2014. Copies are available from their bookshop http://www.subbrit.org.uk/)...
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