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Then and Now (5)
Okay, a bit of an oddity today, folks. Wouldn’t your first guess, looking at this old postcard, be that this was the view from Tunnel Avenue, somewhere up between the old fire station and Shopping...
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I wasn’t planning to talk about this today, but Joe mentioned a fantastic website in one of the comments yesterday that’s really worth a longer look. The Hunthouse is a wonderful collection of maps,...
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Beaconsfield Terrace (1)
Christine asks: Can anyone name all the shops from the sweet shop at the top of the steps – the first shop as you cross over from top of Halstow road where it crosses Humber Road? Then there was a...
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Westcombe folks will remember last week’s foray into the shops that have lined the little terrace to the South of Westcombe Park Station for the past hundred-odd years. I gaily ransacked Neil Rhind’s...
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Morden Art
Okay – no prizes for guessing this building belongs to Morden College (sorry about the fuzziness). Why a lion? I have no idea – my only guess is that a turkey would have provoked sniggers among...
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What’s Next?
Anyone know what’s going to happen here? Jeremy and I have been wondering what’s going to happen to the old bail hostel in Creek Road for some time now. It’s not the prettiest building ever but all...
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Orlop Street
Scott asks: I’m thinking of buying a little house on Orlop Street. The street looks quite quaint, but what kind of reputation does it have now? I know that the orlop deck is the lowest deck of a ship...
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Jack asks: “My family have lived in greenwich for over 150 years, and I have been doing my family tree. On the 1881 census, my great x3 grandmother Eliza Moody ran a greengrocers and fruit shop at 121...
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Kirkland Place
Never heard of it? No, nor had I – and if you were to go by any histories or old maps of Greenwich you wouldn’t be any the wiser either. I haven’t found a single map that actually shows Kirkland Place...
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Then and Now (8)
I owe the entirety of this post to Stephen, who first shared this extraordinary postcard out of his family album – then went out and got its modern equivalent too… What I love about this particular...
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Jim asks: I’m moving to Woodland Grove in a few months. I’ve been looking online I can find almost zero historical information on this street. Are you aware of any street by street resources that I...
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Maze Hill 1906
I had planned to do something else today – but after the discussion about street by street history in Greenwich the other day, when Jim was asking about Woodlands Grove, Neil Rhind has sent me the...
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Wartime Whitworth Street
Meet Geoff, aged four. It’s 1944 and he lives in Whitworth Street. His parents had the unfortunate luck of moving in just as war broke out in 1939, but nevertheless the family will stay at Number 12...
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Pigsty Alley
How fab is this? The newest sign in Greenwich is a revival of an 18th Century name for what remains of a ancient thoroughfare. David, who sent me the photo, tells me that the alley, which runs between...
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Box Ticking
Okay – first in a new occasional series today, folks. Hold onto your seats – this will really blow your socks… Yes, it’s Postboxes of Greenwich. Nothing too small or insignificant for the Phantom....
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Postboxes of Greenwich (2)
Just to get the ball well and truly on the road, two Greenwich postboxes in one week. Whoaaa! Steady there, Phantom… The second in our ‘collect ‘em all’ quest for historic (and otherwise) postboxes is...
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Colomb St
Pauline and John ask: Any idea how Colomb Street came by its name?, I lived there for 26 years and never did find out. The Phantom replies: I don’t know for sure, no. The little ‘What’s in a Name’ book...
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