Distillery Tower, SE8

Distillery Tower is located on Deptford Bridge.

In the vicinity of Deptford Bridge DLR station, Gardiner and Co and Nobles were two notable department stores of the area.
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Phillip Martin

Ashburnham Place, SE10

Added: 16 Oct 2023 06:25 GMT

16 Ashburnham Road
On 15 October 1874 George Frederick Martin was born in 16 Ashburnham Road Greenwich to George Henry Martin, a painter, and Mary Martin, formerly Southern.

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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
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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
Kevin Pont St George’s Square, SW1V Added: 23 Nov 2024 17:03 GMT	St Georges Square This is rather lovely and well worth a visit! Reply
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
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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:	’Creek Road, Deptford, London, 29 August 1952’ Noel Spencer was a printmaker and artist in black-and-white, born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. He studied at Ashton-under-Lyne School of Art and Manchester School of Art. The Museum of London has a considerable collection. Spencer was interested in depicting townscapes and landscapes, a notable achievement in the 1940s being many pen drawings of Huddersfield, completed while he was head of the Art School there. Credit: Noël Spencer/Museum of London TUM image id: 9533054 Licence:	Chimney sweeps of Deptford (1936) All depicted in the photo were fathers and sons. TUM image id: 1707499116 Licence:	Deptford Broadway (1960s) Looking east with Deptford High Street on the left TUM image id: 1657290927 Licence: CC BY 2.0
View of Deptford High Street, SE8 Credit: Wiki Commons/Mike Quinn TUM image id: 1647011236 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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:	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:	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:
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:	Two smallpox hospital ships moored off Deptford - vaccinations eventually rid the world completely of this terrible disease. Acquired in 1881, the ships were later moved down river to Long Reach, before being phased out in 1904 TUM image id: 1660579452 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A ward on the ’Atlas’ (1881) The smallpox epidemic which began in 1881 placed great strain on hospital beds. To create more bed space, the Metropolitan Asylums Board chartered two old wooden warships from the Admiralty - the ’Atlas’, a 91 gun man-of-war built in 1860, but never fitted out for use at sea, and the ’Endymion’, a 50 gun frigate would be used for administration and storeroom. These were converted at a cost of £11 000. The ships were sited off Deptford Creek in Greenwich. The first patients were admitted onbard the 120 bed Atlas in July 1881, by the end of the epidemic in August 1882, almost 1000 patients had been treated onboard the ship, of whom 120 had died. TUM image id: 1606860975 Licence:	The Thames and its estuary, as pictured from an Easyjet flight (2019) TUM image id: 1695900421 Licence: