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Young George Landmann visits Upper Brook Street
The next episode in George Landmann's childhood memories involve a visit with his mother and sister to "Mrs Burton, 21 Upper Brook Street".Upper Brook Street is, of course, an upmarket address and no....
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Greenwich Industrial History News
Lots of bits and pieces this time - although much of it isn't entirely about Greenwich - CLEARANCESWatchers of the Greenwich riverside path should note that more industrial relics have gone in east...
View ArticleNews and notes from Greenwich Industrial History
News and notes from Greenwich Industrial History (well some of it is about Lewisham)TUESDAY 14th JUNEIan Bull speaks on The Arsenal - Then and Now. Age Exchange Bakehouse - 7.30 - All WelcomeWOOLWICH...
View ArticleSome important new news - FOGWOFT - CHANGE IN WOOLWICH - STERLING CASTLE and...
Sorry about the time lapse again - down in Ramsgate and then a whole week transfixed by Twitter below are various requests for comments and help. Reply if you want to indhistgreenwich@aol.com-any way...
View ArticleGeorge Landmann - his childhood story and how very important is Woolwich
George Landmann's autobiography continues to ramble on through his childhood - with memories of Woolwich in the late 18th century and many posh visitors to the Royal Military Academy (then still...
View ArticleGeorge Landmann - starting school in Greenwich and some 'well mounted' muggers
George starts school - and sees - well mounted gentlemen muggers.In 1789 the Landmann family left their house at the back of the Royal Military Academy and moved to Greenwich - or, as George says,...
View ArticleGeorge Landmann - wild beasts and savages in Barking
The next chapter in George Landmann's autobiography starts with him being taken by his father to 'Exeter Change'. George had done up his foot long hair specially for this visit - by tying it into tight...
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Something personal - a prize trip up the river in 1914
hope GIHS and its readers will indulge me in something personal. I am justifying it with some pictures of the working Thames before the Great War..... but otherwise .....In 1914 my Dad would have been...
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August is the cruellest month. More bits of news and stuff like that.
This post includes stuff that has come in over the past couple of weeks. August is usually a slack month - but there has just been a sudden rush!!(sorry about some of the strange variations in type -...
View ArticleDevelopers and listings, even in the posh bit of Greenwich
Readers will remember that about a year ago we published a plea from some West Greenwich residents about an old industrial building in the posh bit of Greenwich which developers wanted to demolish....
View ArticleSeptember - news and so on
Lots of news from the Lenox Project - to build a 17th century warship in Deptford(who seem to have me down as a VIP supporter)17th and 19th September they are hosting a London Open House event at the...
View ArticleMORE NEWS ITEMS - lots of exhibitions and stuff
Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy - exhibition in central London - about communications in the 19th century - to which Enderby Wharf in Greenwich made an essential contribution. Explore the...
View ArticleThe Commercial Cable Company's Maintenance Cableship
The Commercial Cable Company's Maintenance Cableship by Stewart AshThis article first appeared in SubTel Forum Issue 72, September 2013 Back Reflection Over the last two additions I have written about...
View ArticleC.S.Mackay Bennett - cable ship recovering bodies from the Titanic
CS Mackay Bennett by Stewart AshThis article first appeared in SubTel Forum Issue 61, January 2012 Back ReflectionOne hundred years ago, the 5.5. Titanic, , then the largest passenger ship in the world...
View ArticleNewcomen Telegraphy Conference
Newcomen Society Conference at the Royal Institution on 5th September 2016Annihilating Space & Time150 Years of Transatlantic TelecommunicationThis year marks the 150th anniversary of the first...
View ArticleJohn Pender - The Cable King
The Cable KingAs many readers will know, this year is the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first successful telegraph cables to be laid across the Atlantic. The 1866 cable was completed...
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What has happened to Bendish Marsh??
This is an important article about part of the PeninsulaWhat Has Happened to Bendish Marsh?by Stewart AshBendish Marsh is the name that was given to a 4 acre field on the western Greenwich Peninsula,...
View ArticleTelcon and the 1851 Great Exhibition
The Enderby Group has been handed some issues of the Telcon Company Magazine from the early 1950s - Telcon, of course, was the name of one of the predecessor firms to Alcatel at Enderby Wharf, although...
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REMEMBER OUR NEXT MEETING - ALL WELCOME - PLEASE COME ALONG11th October 2016 Terry Powley. Society's Changing Perceptions of Youth in the Twentieth CenturyWOOLWICH ANTIQUARIANSWe have their newsletter...
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Company Magazines
Hope very much people are enjoying all this stuff about the local cable making industry .... there is a lot more to come. Every day we are being sent editions of the Telcon works magazine from the...
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