Camden House, SE8

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Richard Eades Downsell Primary School Added: 3 May 2021 11:42 GMT	Downsell Primary School (1955 - 1958) I was a pupil at Downsell road from I think 1955 age 7 until I left in 1958 age 10 having passed my "11plus" and won a scholarship to Parmiters school in bethnal green. I remember my class teacher was miss Lynn and the deputy head was mrs Kirby. At the time we had an annual sports day for the whole school in july at drapers field, and trolley buses ran along the high street and there was a turning point for them just above the junction with downsell road. I used to go swimming at cathall road baths, and also at the bakers arms baths where we had our school swimming galas. I nm y last year, my class was taken on a trip to the tower of london just before the end of term. I would love to hear from any pupils who remember me. Reply
Michael Upham Bala Place, SE16 Added: 16 Jan 2023 21:16 GMT	Bala Place, SE16 My grandfather was born at 2 Bala Place. Reply
Christine Clark Knoyle Street, SE14 Added: 20 Feb 2021 11:27 GMT	Number 44 (1947 - 1967) The Clark’s moved here from Dorking my father worked on the Thames as a captain of shell mex tankers,there were three children, CHristine, Barbara and Frank, my mother was Ida and my father Frank.Our house no 44 and 42 were pulled down and we were relocated to Bromley The rest of our family lived close by in Milton Court Rd, Brocklehurat Street, Chubworthy street so one big happy family..lovely days. Reply
Senegal Road, SE16 Added: 1 Sep 2021 16:58 GMT	Prefabs! The "post-war detached houses" mentioned in the description were "prefabs" - self-contained single-storey pre-fabricated dwellings. Demolition of houses on the part that became Senegal Fields was complete by 1964 or 1965. Source: Prefabs in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia Reply

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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
The Queens Head Added: 2 Mar 2023 13:50 GMT	The Queens Head Queens Head demolished and a NISA supermarket and flats built in its place. Reply
Mike Elia Street, N1 Added: 28 Feb 2023 18:09 GMT	6 Elia Street When I was young I lived in 6 Elia Street. At the end of the garden there was a garage owned by Initial Laundries which ran from an access in Quick Street all the way up to the back of our garden. The fire exit to the garage was a window leading into our garden. 6 Elia Street was owned by Initial Laundry. Reply

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Brookmarsh Trading Estate, SE8 Commercial area

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Chester House, SE8 Chester House is sited on Evelyn Street.

Chester House, SE8

Childers Street, SE14 Childers Street is one of the streets of London in the SE8 postal area.

Childers Street, SE14

Citrus House, SE8 Citrus House is a block on Alverton Street.

Citrus House, SE8

Clayton Drive, SE8 Clayton Drive is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Clayton Drive, SE8

Clement House, SE8 Clement House is a block on Rainsborough Avenue.

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Cornbury House, SE8 Cornbury House is a block on Evelyn Street.

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Crandley Court, SE16 Crandley Court is a block on Crandley Court.

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Czar Street, SE8 Czar Peter the Great of Russia lived at Sayes Court nearby in 1698 while studying shipbuilding at Deptford.

Czar Street, SE8

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Daubeney Tower, SE8 Daubeney Tower is a block on Grove Street.

Daubeney Tower, SE8

Dawson Street, SE8 Dawson Street first appears as a tiny side street on the 1830s map.

Dawson Street, SE8

Diana Close, SE8 Diana Close is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Diana Close, SE8

Dolphin Tower, SE8 Dolphin Tower is a block on Unnamed Road.

Dolphin Tower, SE8

Dorking Close, SE8 Dorking Close is a road in the SE8 postcode area

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Dragoon Road, SE8 Dragoon Road is one of the streets of London in the SE8 postal area.

Dragoon Road, SE8

Drew House, SE8 Drew House is a block on Wharf Street.

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Dryfield Walk, SE8 Dryfield Walk is a road in the SE8 postcode area

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Eddystone Tower, SE8 Eddystone Tower is sited on Oxestalls Road.

Eddystone Tower, SE8

Etta Street, SE8 Etta Street is one of the streets of London in the SE8 postal area.

Etta Street, SE8

Evelyn Street, SE8 John Evelyn, English writer and essayist, lived at Sayes Court, a former house in Deptford near the street.

Evelyn Street, SE8

Foreshore, SE8 Foreshore is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Foreshore, SE8

Frigate Mews, SE8 Frigate Mews is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Frigate Mews, SE8

Fulcher House, SE8 Fulcher House is a block on Evelyn Street.

Fulcher House, SE8

Golden Hind Place, SE8 Golden Hind Place is one of the streets of London in the SE8 postal area.

Golden Hind Place, SE8

Gosterwood Street, SE8 Gosterwood Street is one of the streets of London in the SE8 postal area.

Gosterwood Street, SE8

Grafton House, SE8 Grafton House is a block on Grove Street.

Grafton House, SE8

Grinstead Road, SE8 Grinstead Road is one of the streets of London in the SE8 postal area.

Grinstead Road, SE8

Grove Street, SE8 Grove Street is a main road of Deptford.

Grove Street, SE8

Hanlon Street, SE8 Hanlon Street ran from the current Argosy House (Windlass Place) down to current Scott House (Oxestalls Road).

Hanlon Street, SE8

Harmon House, SE8 Harmon House is a building on Longshore.

Harmon House, SE8

Hurlestone House, SE8 Hurlestone House can be found on Grove Street.

Hurlestone House, SE8

Inwen Court, SE8 Inwen Court is a road in the SE8 postcode area

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Keppel House, SE8 Keppel House is a block on Dragoon Road.

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Langford House, SE8 Langford House is a block on Evelyn Street.

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Leeway, SE8 Leeway is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Leeway, SE8

Marine Tower, SE8 Marine Tower can be found on Taylor Close.

Marine Tower, SE8

Mermaid Tower, SE8 Mermaid Tower is a block on Childers Street.

Mermaid Tower, SE8

Millard Road, SE8 Millard Road is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Millard Road, SE8

Moulding Lane, SE8 Moulding Lane is a location in London.

Moulding Lane, SE8

New King Street, SE8 New King Street is one of the streets of London in the SE8 postal area.

New King Street, SE8

Norris House, SE8 Norris House can be found on Grove Street.

Norris House, SE8

North House, SE8 North House is located on Grove Street.

North House, SE8

Oxestalls Road, SE8 Oxestalls Road is one of the streets of London in the SE8 postal area.

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Parkside Estate, SE8 Commercial area

Parkside Estate, SE8

Pelican House, SE8 Pelican House is a block on Grove Street.

Pelican House, SE8

Pilot Close, SE8 Pilot Close is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Pilot Close, SE8

Prince Street, SE8 Prince Street is one of the streets of London in the SE8 postal area.

Prince Street, SE8

Rickman House, SE8 Rickman House is a building on Evelyn Street.

Rickman House, SE8

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Rowley House, SE8 Rowley House is a block on Trevithick Street.

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Sanderson House, SE8 Sanderson House is a block on Grove Street.

Sanderson House, SE8

Sapphire Road, SE8 Sapphire Road is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Sapphire Road, SE8

Sayes Court Street, SE8 Sayes Court Street is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Sayes Court Street, SE8

Scott House, SE8 Scott House is a block on Grove Street.

Scott House, SE8

Staunton Street, SE8 Staunton Street is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Staunton Street, SE8

Strafford House, SE8 Strafford House is a block on Evelyn Street.

Strafford House, SE8

Taylor Close, SE8 Taylor Close is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Taylor Close, SE8

Timberyard Street, SE8 Timberyard Street is a location in London.

Timberyard Street, SE8

Trevithick Street, SE8 Trevithick Street is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Trevithick Street, SE8

Watergate Street, SE8 Watergate Street is an old Deptford street giving access to the river.

Watergate Street, SE8

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Waterline Way, SE8

Woodcote House, SE8 Woodcote House is a block on Prince Street.

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Deptford

Deptford is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne.

Deptford began as two small communities - one at the ford on the Ravensbourne with the other being a fishing village on the Thames (called West Greenwich).

During the reign of Henry VIII, it became home to Deptford Dockyard (the first of the Royal Dockyards) which lasted until the lat Victorian era. They were the main administrative centre of the Royal Navy. Deptford had a long royal connection and gave birth to the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cape for Queen Elizabeth I. Captain James Cook’s third voyage aboard Resolution set out from here. Deptford became a major shipbuilding faciliry and attracted Peter the Great of Russia to arrive incognito to study shipbuilding.

The two Deptford communities grew together and flourished. The area declined as first the Royal Navy moved out, and then the commercial docks themselves declined until the last dock, Convoys Wharf, closed in 2000.

Opened in 1836, Deptford station is the oldest railway station in London and was situated on the first London railway - the London and Greenwich Railway which opened its first section between Spa Road, Bermondsey and Deptford on 8 February 1836. The line was extended westwards to the new London Bridge Station on 14 December 1836 and eastwards to Greenwich on 24 December 1838.

LOCAL PHOTOS

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Re-securing the mooring lines of lighters at Deadman’s Dock, Limehouse Reach in Deptford on 29 April 1934. The photographer A.G. Linney recorded that the previous night had been foggy and a steamer had hit the lighters, causing them to break adrift. In the background is Snowdons Wharf at Millwall on the Isle of Dogs. Credit: Albert Gravely Linney TUM image id: 1620313474 Licence:	View of Deptford High Street, SE8 Credit: Wiki Commons/Mike Quinn TUM image id: 1647011236 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Grove Street, Deptford looking north from Evelyn Street (c.1937) Credit: London Metropolitan Archives TUM image id: 1620301256 Licence:	Knoyle Street looking from the Cold Blow Lane end towards Chubworthy Street, Woodpecker Road and Milton Court Road (1953). This view dates from a period before demolition took place and only the houses pictured front right remained. TUM image id: 1570966755 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Watergate Street, Deptford Formerly known as King Street, there were so many King Streets in London, it needed a new name as postal workers were complaining. The new name was given as it had access to the River Thames (and because there were no other Watergate Streets). Many large houses were built in the street during the 17th and 18th centuries and lived in by those connected to the maritime trade. By the twentieth century the street had became run down and post-war, new housing was built. TUM image id: 1570963350 Licence:
Deptford Windmill was situated at the junction of Windmill Lane and Deptford. This sketch dates from 1840. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1620909429 Licence:	Abinger Grove VE Day street party This road runs up to Evelyn Street in Deptford TUM image id: 1625500582 Licence:	Albury Street, formerly Union Street in Deptford (1906) TUM image id: 1570990116 Licence:	Deptford Ferry Road - view of Britannia Dock. Above the terraced houses the masts and yards of the barque Killoran can be seen under repair in Britannia Dry Dock in 1928. Credit: Museum of London TUM image id: 1570994888 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Trains once ran down the centre of Grove Street in Deptford. Originally called the Thames Junction Railway, the Deptford Wharf Branch was a goods-only branch built to a railway-owned wharf on the Thames incorporating the old established Deadman’s Dock. This connected in to the lines to New Cross Gate and the South London Line and its route crossed the Grand Surrey Canal, first on a lifting bridge then further north at a higher level on an over bridge. The wharf was more or less divided into two halves with Grove Street forming the boundary. There was a line which came out of the east side of a yard and formed the Grove Street Tramway that ran down the middle of the road to the Corporation of London Foreign Cattle Market. Between the Wharf and the cattle market was the Royal Victualling Yard, later the Royal Victoria Yard. The Locomotive is a London and Brighton and South Coast Railway Class D1. Credit: London and Brighton and South Coast Railway TUM image id: 1620902713 Licence:
L’Avenir in the Millwall Docks (1908) TUM image id: 1630317490 Licence:	Robert Price - yet another fence! He’s a one man fence erecting machine... Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1621596286 Licence:

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Re-securing the mooring lines of lighters at Deadman’s Dock, Limehouse Reach in Deptford on 29 April 1934. The photographer A.G. Linney recorded that the previous night had been foggy and a steamer had hit the lighters, causing them to break adrift. In the background is Snowdons Wharf at Millwall on the Isle of Dogs.
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Grove Street, Deptford looking north from Evelyn Street (c.1937)
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Watergate Street, Deptford Formerly known as King Street, there were so many King Streets in London, it needed a new name as postal workers were complaining. The new name was given as it had access to the River Thames (and because there were no other Watergate Streets). Many large houses were built in the street during the 17th and 18th centuries and lived in by those connected to the maritime trade. By the twentieth century the street had became run down and post-war, new housing was built.
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Deptford Windmill was situated at the junction of Windmill Lane and Deptford. This sketch dates from 1840.
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Abinger Grove VE Day street party This road runs up to Evelyn Street in Deptford
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Trains once ran down the centre of Grove Street in Deptford. Originally called the Thames Junction Railway, the Deptford Wharf Branch was a goods-only branch built to a railway-owned wharf on the Thames incorporating the old established Deadman’s Dock. This connected in to the lines to New Cross Gate and the South London Line and its route crossed the Grand Surrey Canal, first on a lifting bridge then further north at a higher level on an over bridge. The wharf was more or less divided into two halves with Grove Street forming the boundary. There was a line which came out of the east side of a yard and formed the Grove Street Tramway that ran down the middle of the road to the Corporation of London Foreign Cattle Market. Between the Wharf and the cattle market was the Royal Victualling Yard, later the Royal Victoria Yard. The Locomotive is a London and Brighton and South Coast Railway Class D1.
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