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Woolwich Foot Tunnel was opened by Lord Cheylesmore, Chairman of the LCC, on Saturday 26 October 1912. It was designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice and built by Walter Scott & Middleton for London County Council. Its creation owed much to the efforts of working-class politician Will Crooks who had worked in the docks and, after chairing the LCC’s Bridges Committee responsible for the tunnel, would later serve as Labour MP for Woolwich. Credit: London County Council TUM image id: 1624017957 Licence:	Woolwich Ferry (2012) Credit: Geograph/Oast House Archive TUM image id: 1670003252 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Beresford Square (c. 1890). Workers leaving the Royal Arsenal are walking past the elegantly designed public convenience. Credit: Ideal Homes TUM image id: 1517848717 Licence:	Hare Street and Powis Street in Woolwich were developed as part of the new shopping centre created in the mid 19th century to the south of the original riverside town. Hare Street - then Richard Street - was finished in 1821 with a total of 158 houses built. Most houses were two storeys high, occasionally three. The narrowest frontages were put up by shipwrights from Woolwich Dockyard, and then sub-leased. Credit: Molineneux Bros TUM image id: 1517851336 Licence:	Unknown house in Wellington Street, Woolwich (1890s) TUM image id: 1669932150 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Montage of the chimneys of Woolwich Top row: Ferry Place - former Public Baths - Sunbury Street fire station - Woolwich Dockyard steam factory - former Queen Victoria Pub Middle row: Engineer House - former Woolwich Magistrates’ Court - porter’s lodge Royal Military Academy Bottom row: Barnfield Estate - Verbruggen House - St Peter’s RC School - Royal Arsenal Energy Centre - Woolwich Power Station (demolished) Credit: Wiki Commons/Kleon3 TUM image id: 1630946178 Licence:	Originally Warwick Street, Lord Warwick Street in Woolwich was demolished and rebuilt in the 1960s. On a previous publishing of this photo, the girl in the middle with her hands in her pockets was identified as Pat Mahoney. Credit: Greenwich Heritage Centre TUM image id: 1610551699 Licence:	The River Thames frozen at Woolwich (c.1890) TUM image id: 1622200392 Licence:	Before zebra crossings were invented, other mammal-based crossing ideas were trialled. The inflatable giraffe crossing certainly aided visibility but never really caught on TUM image id: 1676811552 Licence:	Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and Agnes Neilson, in ‘Coney Island’ (1917) TUM image id: 1670001838 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The R101 airship over Bedford, 1929 TUM image id: 1670002872 Licence:	Traffic queue for the Ferry at North Woolwich in a heatwave (1955) Eastward view of traffic queueing for the Woolwich Free Ferry on Ferry Road. North Woolwich station (terminus of the line from Stratford) is ahead. The trolleybus off to the left is on Route 669 from Stratford Broadway; the bus is on Route 101 from Wanstead. Note the doors opened on some cars for a breath of fresh air - no air-conditioning in those days. The conversion to a roll-on/roll-off vehicle service in 1963 reduced waiting times. Credit: Wiki Commons/Ben Brooksbank TUM image id: 1670002362 Licence:	Directing traffic on a Woolwich ferry boat (1950s) The ferry had originally been designed for foot passengers, with the occasional light vehicle. By the 1950s, the ferry was starting to carry large numbers of cars and lorries TUM image id: 1709572988 Licence:	The southern departure point for the Woolwich Ferry as seen from the southeast (2021) Credit: Wiki Commons/Ethan Doyle White TUM image id: 1676827602 Licence:	Beresford Square, early 20th century Old London postcard TUM image id: 1657284474 Licence: CC BY 2.0