Woodman Street, E16

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Tony Whipple Frank Whipple Place, E14 Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT	Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply
Theresa Penney Whites Row, E1 Added: 16 Apr 2024 18:08 GMT	1 Whites Row My 2 x great grandparents and his family lived here according to the 1841 census. They were Dutch Ashkenazi Jews born in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 19th century but all their children were born in Spitalfields. Reply
Wendy The Polygon Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT	Polygon Buildings Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings. Reply
Steve Charleville Circus, SE26 Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:42 GMT	Road construction and houses completed New Charleville Circus road layout shown on Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1879 with access via West Hill only. Plans showing street numbering were recorded in 1888 so we can concluded the houses in Charleville Circus were built by this date. Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London Reply
Steve Charleville Circus, SE26 Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:04 GMT	Charleville Circus, Sydenham: One Place Study (OPS) One Place Study’s (OPS) are a recent innovation to research and record historical facts/events/people focused on a single place �’ building, street, town etc. I have created an open access OPS of Charleville Circus on WikiTree that has over a million members across the globe working on a single family tree for everyone to enjoy, for free, forever. Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London Reply
Charles Hornsey Rise, N19 Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT	My House I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s. Reply
NH Woodgrange Road, E7 Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT	Telephone House Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000 Reply
Paul Cox Aldine Street, W12 Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT	War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there. Reply

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Woolwich Ferry (2012) Credit: Geograph/Oast House Archive TUM image id: 1670003252 Licence: CC BY 2.0	University Square, Docklands Campus of the University of East London (2007) Credit: Flickr/rtcd64 TUM image id: 1669997715 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Hare Street and Powis Street in Woolwich were developed as part of the new shopping centre created in the mid 19th century to the south of the original riverside town. Hare Street - then Richard Street - was finished in 1821 with a total of 158 houses built. Most houses were two storeys high, occasionally three. The narrowest frontages were put up by shipwrights from Woolwich Dockyard, and then sub-leased. Credit: Molineneux Bros TUM image id: 1517851336 Licence:	View of Powis Street, Woolwich (c.1900) A hive of activity in the last year of Queen Victoria’s reign Old London postcard TUM image id: 1517849816 Licence:	Woolwich Foot Tunnel was opened by Lord Cheylesmore, Chairman of the LCC, on Saturday 26 October 1912. It was designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice and built by Walter Scott & Middleton for London County Council. Its creation owed much to the efforts of working-class politician Will Crooks who had worked in the docks and, after chairing the LCC’s Bridges Committee responsible for the tunnel, would later serve as Labour MP for Woolwich. Credit: London County Council TUM image id: 1624017957 Licence:
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and Agnes Neilson, in ‘Coney Island’ (1917) TUM image id: 1670001838 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The River Thames frozen at Woolwich (c.1890) TUM image id: 1622200392 Licence:	Before zebra crossings were invented, other mammal-based crossing ideas were trialled. The inflatable giraffe crossing certainly aided visibility but never really caught on TUM image id: 1676811552 Licence:	The southern departure point for the Woolwich Ferry as seen from the southeast (2021) Credit: Wiki Commons/Ethan Doyle White TUM image id: 1676827602 Licence:	London City Airport runway from the east Credit: Wiki Commons/Frans Zwart TUM image id: 1669978846 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The R101 airship over Bedford, 1929 TUM image id: 1670002872 Licence:	Traffic queue for the Ferry at North Woolwich in a heatwave (1955) Eastward view of traffic queueing for the Woolwich Free Ferry on Ferry Road. North Woolwich station (terminus of the line from Stratford) is ahead. The trolleybus off to the left is on Route 669 from Stratford Broadway; the bus is on Route 101 from Wanstead. Note the doors opened on some cars for a breath of fresh air - no air-conditioning in those days. The conversion to a roll-on/roll-off vehicle service in 1963 reduced waiting times. Credit: Wiki Commons/Ben Brooksbank TUM image id: 1670002362 Licence:	Directing traffic on a Woolwich ferry boat (1950s) The ferry had originally been designed for foot passengers, with the occasional light vehicle. By the 1950s, the ferry was starting to carry large numbers of cars and lorries TUM image id: 1709572988 Licence:	King George V Docks which later became London City Airport TUM image id: 1681229125 Licence:

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Woolwich Ferry (2012)
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University Square, Docklands Campus of the University of East London (2007)
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Woolwich Foot Tunnel was opened by Lord Cheylesmore, Chairman of the LCC, on Saturday 26 October 1912. It was designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice and built by Walter Scott & Middleton for London County Council. Its creation owed much to the efforts of working-class politician Will Crooks who had worked in the docks and, after chairing the LCC’s Bridges Committee responsible for the tunnel, would later serve as Labour MP for Woolwich.
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Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and Agnes Neilson, in ‘Coney Island’ (1917)
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Before zebra crossings were invented, other mammal-based crossing ideas were trialled. The inflatable giraffe crossing certainly aided visibility but never really caught on
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The southern departure point for the Woolwich Ferry as seen from the southeast (2021)
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The R101 airship over Bedford, 1929
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Traffic queue for the Ferry at North Woolwich in a heatwave (1955) Eastward view of traffic queueing for the Woolwich Free Ferry on Ferry Road. North Woolwich station (terminus of the line from Stratford) is ahead. The trolleybus off to the left is on Route 669 from Stratford Broadway; the bus is on Route 101 from Wanstead. Note the doors opened on some cars for a breath of fresh air - no air-conditioning in those days. The conversion to a roll-on/roll-off vehicle service in 1963 reduced waiting times.
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Directing traffic on a Woolwich ferry boat (1950s) The ferry had originally been designed for foot passengers, with the occasional light vehicle. By the 1950s, the ferry was starting to carry large numbers of cars and lorries
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King George V Docks which later became London City Airport
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