Bostall Hill, SE2

Bostall Hill was an old route leading east from Plumstead.

Bostall Hill (1910)
Credit: User unknown/public domain

The modern development of Bostall Hill dates from the early twentieth century.

The Bostall Estate was built as a result of Bostall Farm and Suffolk Place Farm being acquired by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society in 1886 and 1899 respectively and then developed for housing.

Further east along the road, Bostall Heath and Woods is an area of 159 hectares of woodland with areas of heathland located adjacent to Lesnes Abbey Woods. The area to the south of the Bostall Hill is Bostall Woods and to the north is Bostall Heath. The wood is owned and maintained by the Royal Borough of Greenwich, with the exception of the Cooperative Woods, in the north east corner of the site which are owned by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society.

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence

Click here to explore another London street
We now have 575 completed street histories and 46925 partial histories
Find streets or residential blocks within the M25 by clicking STREETS

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

None so far :(

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

CydKB Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance Added: 31 Mar 2023 15:07 GMT	BlackJack Playground Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance was my favourite childhood park.I went to St Mary’s Catholic school, East Row from Nursery all the way through to Year 6 before Secondary School and I was taken here to play most days. There was a centre piece flower bed in the Voysey Garden surrounded by a pond which my classmates and I used to jump over when no one was looking. The Black jack playground was the go to playground for our sports days and my every day shortcut to get close to the half penny steps foot bridge via Kensal Road. There was also a shop where we could buy ice lollies on hot summer days.The Southern Row side of the Park was filled with pebbles which used to be so fun to walk through as a child, I used to walk through the deepness of the pebbles to get to Bosworth Road or east towards Hornimans Adventure Park. Reply
John Dean’s Court, EC4M Added: 29 Mar 2023 17:31 GMT	Auction of the paper stock of Janssen and Roberts A broadside advertisement reads: "By auction, to be sold on Thursday next being the 16th of this present July, the remainder of the stock in partnership between Janssen and Roberts, at their late dwelling-house in Dean’s Court, the south side of St. Pauls, consisting of Genoa papers according to the particulars underneath." The date in the ESTC record is purely speculative; July 16th was a Thursday in many years during the 18th century; 1750 is only one possibility. Extensive searching has found no other record of the partners or the auction. Source: ESTC - Search Results Reply
Nower Hill, HA5 Added: 27 Mar 2023 18:28 GMT	Nower Hill, HA5 lo Reply
Albert Mews, SW7 Added: 26 Mar 2023 14:50 GMT	Albert Mews It is not a gargoyle over the entrance arch to Albert Mews, it is a likeness of Prince Albert himself. Reply
Christine D Elliott Blockhouse Street, SE15 Added: 20 Mar 2023 15:52 GMT	The Blute Family My grandparents, Frederick William Blute & Alice Elizabeth Blute nee: Warnham lived at 89 Blockhouse Street Deptford from around 1917.They had six children. 1. Alice Maragret Blute (my mother) 2. Frederick William Blute 3. Charles Adrian Blute 4. Violet Lillian Blute 5. Donald Blute 6. Stanley Vincent Blute (Lived 15 months). I lived there with my family from 1954 (Birth) until 1965 when we were re-housed for regeneration to the area. I attended Ilderton Road School. Very happy memories of that time. Reply
Pearl Foster Dukes Place, EC3A Added: 20 Mar 2023 12:22 GMT	Dukes Place, EC3A Until his death in 1767, Daniel Nunes de Lara worked from his home in Dukes Street as a Pastry Cook. It was not until much later the street was renamed Dukes Place. Daniel and his family attended the nearby Bevis Marks synagogue for Sephardic Jews. The Ashkenazi Great Synagogue was established in Duke Street, which meant Daniel’s business perfectly situated for his occupation as it allowed him to cater for both congregations. Reply
Dr Paul Flewers Hawthorne Close, N1 Added: 9 Mar 2023 18:12 GMT	Some Brief Notes on Hawthorne Close / Hawthorne Street My great-grandparents lived in the last house on the south side of Hawthorne Street, no 13, and my grandmother Alice Knopp and her brothers and sisters grew up there. Alice Knopp married Charles Flewers, from nearby Hayling Road, and moved to Richmond, Surrey, where I was born. Leonard Knopp married Esther Gutenberg and lived there until the street was demolished in the mid-1960s, moving on to Tottenham. Uncle Len worked in the fur trade, then ran a pet shop in, I think, the Kingsland Road. From the back garden, one could see the almshouses in the Balls Pond Road. There was an ink factory at the end of the street, which I recall as rather malodorous. Reply
KJH Andover Road, N7 Added: 7 Mar 2023 17:14 GMT	Andover Road, N7 (1939 - 1957) My aunt, Doris nee Curtis (aka Jo) and her husband John Hawkins (aka Jack) ran a small general stores at 92 Andover Road (N7). I have found details in the 1939 register but don’t know how long before that it was opened.He died in 1957. In the 1939 register he is noted as being an ARP warden for Islington warden Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

Bostall Farm Bostall Farm was a smallholding to the east of Plumstead. .

Bostall Farm

NEARBY STREETS

Bargate Close, SE18 Bargate Close is a road in the SE18 postcode area

Bargate Close, SE18

Basildon Road, SE2 Basildon Road is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Basildon Road, SE2

Bastion Road, SE2 Bastion Road is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Bastion Road, SE2

Bendmore Avenue, SE2 Bendmore Avenue is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Bendmore Avenue, SE2

Bostall Hill Road, SE2 Bostall Hill Road is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Bostall Hill Road, SE2

Bostall Lane, SE2 Bostall Lane is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Bostall Lane, SE2

Camrose Street, SE18 Camrose Street is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Camrose Street, SE18

Carnation Street, SE2 Carnation Street is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Carnation Street, SE2

Cassilda Road, SE2 Cassilda Road is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Cassilda Road, SE2

Coltness Crescent, SE2 Coltness Crescent is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Coltness Crescent, SE2

Dahlia Road, SE2 Dahlia Road is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Dahlia Road, SE2

Dianthus Close, SE2 Dianthus Close is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Dianthus Close, SE2

Duckworth Terrace, SE2 Duckworth Terrace is a location in London.

Duckworth Terrace, SE2

Fuchsia Street, SE2 Fuchsia Street is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Fuchsia Street, SE2

Gatling Road, SE2 Gatling Road is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Gatling Road, SE2

Glendown Road, SE2 Glendown Road is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Glendown Road, SE2

Granite Street, SE18 Granite Street is a road in the SE18 postcode area

Granite Street, SE18

Green Chain Walk, SE2 Green Chain Walk is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Green Chain Walk, SE2

Green Chain, SE2 Green Chain is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Green Chain, SE2

Grosmont Road, SE18 Grosmont Road is a road in the SE18 postcode area

Grosmont Road, SE18

Howarth Road, SE2 Howarth Road was built as part of the Bostall Estate, constructed 1900-1914 by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society.

Howarth Road, SE2

Manton Road, SE2 Manton Road is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Manton Road, SE2

Mcleod Road, SE2 Mcleod Road is part of the Bostal Estate.

Mcleod Road, SE2

Myra Street, SE2 Myra Street is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Myra Street, SE2

Myrtledene Road, SE2 Myrtledene Road is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Myrtledene Road, SE2

Old Park Road, SE2 Old Park Road is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Old Park Road, SE2

Openshaw Road, SE2 Openshaw Road is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Openshaw Road, SE2

Owenite Street, SE2 Owenite Street is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Owenite Street, SE2

Rochdale Road, SE2 Rochdale Road is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Rochdale Road, SE2

Rockmount Road, SE18 Rockmount Road is one of the streets of London in the SE18 postal area.

Rockmount Road, SE18

Rockmount Road, SE2 Rockmount Road is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Rockmount Road, SE2

Rutherglen Road, SE2 Rutherglen Road is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Rutherglen Road, SE2

Sandycroft, SE2 Sandycroft is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Sandycroft, SE2

Smithies Road, SE2 Smithies Road is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Smithies Road, SE2

Spinel Close, SE18 Spinel Close is a road in the SE18 postcode area

Spinel Close, SE18

St. Nicholas Road, SE18 St. Nicholas Road is a road in the SE18 postcode area

St. Nicholas Road, SE18

The Cottage Bostall Heath, SE2 The Cottage Bostall Heath is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

The Cottage Bostall Heath, SE2

The Dell, SE2 The Dell is a road in the SE2 postcode area

The Dell, SE2

Unity Mews, SE18 Unity Mews lies off Myra Street.

Unity Mews, SE18

Viola Avenue, SE2 Viola Avenue is a road in the SE2 postcode area

Viola Avenue, SE2

Woodhurst Road, SE2 Woodhurst Road is one of the streets of London in the SE2 postal area.

Woodhurst Road, SE2

NEARBY PUBS

Plume Of Feathers

Click here to explore another London street
We now have 566 completed street histories and 46934 partial histories

Abbey Wood

Between Plumstead to the west and Erith to the east, Abbey Wood takes its name from the nearby Lesnes Abbey and Bostall Woods.

The original 19th century Abbey Wood (known locally as The Village) is the area immediately south of Abbey Wood railway station, built where Knee Hill became Harrow Manorway and crossed the railway (North Kent Line). This is now the centre where three phases of house building (almost) meet.

The Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society (RACS) bought two farms on the hillside to the south and between 1900 and 1930 built the Bostall Estate. Once known as Tin Check Island after the Society’s dividend system, this has streets named for Co-operative themes (Alexander McLeod, Rochdale, Robert Owen, Congress), a school & shops but no pubs.

Between 1956 & 1959 the London County Council built the Abbey Estate on former Royal Arsenal marshland to the north (between the railway and the Southern Outfall sewer bank heading for Crossness). Predominently conventional brick houses with gardens, equipped with shopping centres, schools and open spaces, the estate was used to rehouse people from London’s East End. The main through-road is Eynsham Drive.

In the early 1970s the Greater London Council began building the first phase of Thamesmead on more ex-Royal-Arsenal land, north-east of Abbey Wood station. The original railway level crossing was replaced by a flyover.

In 1951 Abbey Wood was the destination of the last of the pre-war trams to run in London.

Abbey Wood railway station serves the suburb. It was opened by the South Eastern Railway on 30 July 1849.

During the 1860s William Morris famously used a decorated wagon to commute between this station and his new home at Red House, Bexleyheath, occasionally with his eccentric and artistic house guests.

The station has been rebuilt twice to cater for the changing nature of the area. The station was to be served by the proposed Greenwich Waterfront Transit, however the project was cancelled due to lack of funds.

LOCAL PHOTOS

Click here to see map view of nearby Creative Commons images
Click here to see Creative Commons images near to this postcode
Click here to see Creative Commons images tagged with this road (if applicable)

Belvedere Road, Abbey Wood, c. 1910 TUM image id: 1557162532 Licence:	Howarth Road, SE2 (1906) Howarth Road was built as part of the Bostall Estate, constructed 1900-1914 by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. TUM image id: 1513441914 Licence:	Purrett Road, SE18 Purrett Road leads south from Plumstead High Street and was photographed here c. 1900 TUM image id: 1622474372 Licence:	Wickham Lane, Plumstead - view from Bostall Woods (1911). The old St Paul’s school can be seen. Plumstead garage is on the left. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1643909638 Licence:	Bostall Farm on the Bostall Estate TUM image id: 1584980804 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Bostall Woods (Lat: 51.48 Long: 0.111) TUM image id: 1606951353 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Redefining London’s future (2020) Credit: IG/mindtheben TUM image id: 1653836031 Licence: CC BY 2.0

In the neighbourhood...

Click an image below for a better view...

Howarth Road, SE2 (1906) Howarth Road was built as part of the Bostall Estate, constructed 1900-1914 by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society.
Licence:

Wickham Lane, Plumstead - view from Bostall Woods (1911). The old St Paul’s school can be seen. Plumstead garage is on the left.
Old London postcard
Licence:

Bostall Farm on the Bostall Estate
Licence: CC BY 2.0

Bostall Woods (Lat: 51.48 Long: 0.111)
Licence: CC BY 2.0

MAP YEAR:	1750	1800	1810	1820	1830	1860	1900	1950	2023	Show map without markers
ZOOM:	14 15 16 17	14 15 16 17	14 15 16 17	14 15 16 17	14 15 16 17	14 15 16 17	14 15 16 17 18	14 15 16 17	14 15 16 17 18
	TIP: Adjust the MAP YEAR and ZOOM to tweak historical maps