Shaw Close, SE28

Shaw Close is one of the streets of London in the SE28 postal area.

The Harrow Inn public house is mentioned in a description of the hamlet of Abbey Wood in the late 1860s when it was one of the very few buildings.
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Haycroft Gardens, NW10 Added: 7 Jul 2024 16:26 GMT	Haycroft Gardens, NW10 My Grandfather bought No 45 Buchanan Gdns in I believe 1902 and died ther in the early 1950s Reply
Haycroft Gardens, NW10 Added: 7 Jul 2024 16:20 GMT	Haycroft Gardens, NW10 I lived in No 7 from 1933 to 1938 Reply
Sylvia guiver Blandford Square, NW1 Added: 4 Jul 2024 14:52 GMT	Grandparents 1937 lived 37 Blandford Square Y mother and all her sisters and brother lived there, before this date , my parent wedding photographers were take in the square, I use to visit with my mother I remember the barge ballon in the square in the war. Reply
Roy Mathieson Southwark Added: 27 Jun 2024 16:25 GMT	St Saviours My great grandmother was born in Bowling Green Lane in 1848. The family moved from there to Earl Terrace, Bermondsey in 1849. I have never been able to locate Earl Terrace on maps. Reply
Buckhurst Street, E1 Added: 26 Jun 2024 13:10 GMT	Buckhurst Street, E1 Mt grandfather, Thomas Walton Ward had a musical instrument workshop in Buckhurst Street from 1934 until the street was bombed during the war. Grandfather was a partner in the musical instrument firm of R.J. Ward and Sons of Liverpool. He died in 1945 and is buried in a common grave at Abney Park Cemetery. Reply
Mike Dowling Undercliff Road, SE13 Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT	Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply
Evie Helen Erith Added: 13 Jun 2024 00:03 GMT	Vickers Road The road ’Vickers Road’ is numbered rather differently to other roads in the area as it was originally built as housing for the "Vickers" arms factory in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Most of the houses still retain the original 19th century tiling and drainage outside of the front doors. Reply
Paul Harris Ellen Place, E1 Added: 12 Jun 2024 12:54 GMT	Ellen Place, E1 My mother’s father and his family lived at 31 Ellen Place London E1 have a copy of the 1911 census showing this Reply

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The tramway between Erith and Abbey Wood opened on 26 August 1905. In 1902 Erith Council agreed upon the laying out of several lines, the one here shown beginning at High Street, Erith, travelling along West Street and Lower Road to Abbey Wood (Station Road) via Belvedere. TUM image id: 1557162532 Licence:	The Clock Tower in the middle of the Thamesmead shopping centre Credit: Wiki Commons/oxyman TUM image id: 1630337900 Licence:	Tram Terminus, Abbey Wood, c. 1908. TUM image id: 1557151722 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The tramway between Erith and Abbey Wood opened on 26 August 1905. In 1902 Erith Council agreed upon the laying out of several lines, the one here shown beginning at High Street, Erith, travelling along West Street and Lower Road to Abbey Wood (Station Road) via Belvedere. TUM image id: 1557162532 Licence:	Floods in Abbey Wood, 1953. TUM image id: 1557163037 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Ampleforth Road This image is part of a photographic survey of the Abbey Wood Estate made in c.1968. Credit: Sandra Lawrence TUM image id: 1557159655 Licence:	Bostall Hill (1910) 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. TUM image id: 1513442563 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:	Knee Hill, SE2 (c.1900). After 1889, Knee Hill formed the boundary between the counties of Kent and London. The ancient woodland on either side of the road was purchased in two parcels, one in 1877 and the other in 1894, by the Metropolitan Board of Works and its successor, the London County Council, to safeguard it from development. TUM image id: 1556889856 Licence:	Purrett Road, SE18 Purrett Road leads south from Plumstead High Street and was photographed here c. 1900 TUM image id: 1622474372 Licence:
An entire village was destroyed by the 1953 floods - the village of Creekmouth in Barking. In 1958, all of the inhabitants were rehoused elsewhere. TUM image id: 1658158314 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Crooked Billet (1904) TUM image id: 1658159122 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Bostall Farm on the Bostall Estate TUM image id: 1584980804 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Redefining London’s future (2020) Credit: IG/mindtheben TUM image id: 1653836031 Licence:

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Ampleforth Road This image is part of a photographic survey of the Abbey Wood Estate made in c.1968.
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