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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
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Woolwich Ferry (2012)
Credit: Geograph/Oast House Archive
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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
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View of Powis Street, Woolwich (c.1900) A hive of activity in the last year of Queen Victoria’s reign
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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
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The River Thames frozen at Woolwich (c.1890)
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Before zebra crossings were invented, other mammal-based crossing ideas were trialled. The inflatable giraffe crossing certainly aided visibility but never really caught on
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Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and Agnes Neilson, in ‘Coney Island’ (1917)
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The R101 airship over Bedford, 1929
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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
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