Elswick Road, SE13

Elswick Road is one of the streets of London in the SE13 postal area.

Ladywell

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

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

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Parkers Row, SE1 Added: 9 Jan 2025 18:51 GMT	Parkers Row, SE1 My great great grandmother, and her soon to be husband, lived in Parker’s Row before their marriage in St James in June 1839. Thier names were - Jane Elizabeth Turner and Charles Frederick Dean. She was a hat trimmer and he was a tailor. Reply
Lindsay Trott Lockside, E14 Added: 1 Jan 2025 17:55 GMT	Lockside not on 1939 Register I have the Denby family living in Lockside in 1938 but it does not appear on the 1939 Register. Reply
Janelle Robbins Blossom Place, E1 Added: 27 Dec 2024 18:47 GMT	Harriet Robbins Please get in touch re Harriet Robbins Reply
Dave Hinves Bacon Street, E1 Added: 27 Nov 2024 03:55 GMT	he was a School Teacher Henry sailed from Graves End 1849 on ’The Woodbridge’ arrived South Australia 1850. In 1858 he married Julia Ann Walsh at Burra, South Australia, they had 3 children, and 36 grand children. Died 24 June 1896 at Wilmington, South Australia. He is my 1st cousin 3x removed. Reply
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Simon Chapman Blossom Place, E1 Added: 22 Nov 2024 17:47 GMT	Blossom Place My Great Great Grandmother, Harriett Robbins lived in 2 Blossom Place in 1865 before marrying my Great Great Grandfather. They moved to 23 Spitall Square. Reply
Mark G Skidmore Street, E1 Added: 26 Oct 2024 21:54 GMT	Skidmore Street, E1 Skidmore Street was located where present day Ernest Street and Solebay Street now stand. They are both located above Shandy Street and Commodore Street. Reply
Alan Russell Cheshire Street, E1 Added: 26 Oct 2024 14:36 GMT	Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969 Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969 Reply

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The Mercury building on Blackheath Road (1960s). On the left you can see a terrace that exists today - the location of the White Swan pub. Credit: Adrian Spalding TUM image id: 1657289064 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Sylva Cottages Estate in Mill Lane (now Brookmill Road), Lewisham (c.1904) Credit: London Metropolitan Archives TUM image id: 1620298012 Licence:	Deptford Broadway (1960s) Looking east with Deptford High Street on the left TUM image id: 1657290927 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Lewisham Road with a crew rushing to a fire TUM image id: 1466525486 Licence:	Lewisham Way (1952) This was the final year of the old trams. There’s also a fine old street lamp in the view. TUM image id: 1707500504 Licence:
Lewisham market (1911) Lewisham market began in 1906 and is today one of a handful of six-day markets in London. The photo was taken from the southern end, looking north towards Avenue Road (Romer Avenue), now replaced by the main entrance to the Lewisham Centre. In 1944, Lewisham Market was hit by a deadly V1 attack which landed 100 yards from the Clock Tower and demolished part of the High Street shops. Credit: Lewisham Archives TUM image id: 1669915157 Licence:	Lewisham High Street (1927) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1657283837 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Brookmill Road, as viewed from Deptford Broadway (c.1890) Then known as Mill Lane, the road featured cottages and lodging houses. In 1895, a joint initiative by the London County Council and the Greenwich Board of Works cleared this area and built Carrington House as a common lodging house. TUM image id: 1652217023 Licence:

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The Mercury building on Blackheath Road (1960s). On the left you can see a terrace that exists today - the location of the White Swan pub.
Credit: Adrian Spalding
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Sylva Cottages Estate in Mill Lane (now Brookmill Road), Lewisham (c.1904)
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Lewisham Road with a crew rushing to a fire
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Lewisham market (1911) Lewisham market began in 1906 and is today one of a handful of six-day markets in London. The photo was taken from the southern end, looking north towards Avenue Road (Romer Avenue), now replaced by the main entrance to the Lewisham Centre. In 1944, Lewisham Market was hit by a deadly V1 attack which landed 100 yards from the Clock Tower and demolished part of the High Street shops.
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