GREENWICH INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Volume 7, Issue 4, July 2004

ARTICLES

VOTE SEVERNDROOG!!!
TWO MYSTERY PICTURES!
THE GREAT STEAM FERRY AT GREENWICH

WOOLWICH FERRY VISIT

REGULAR ITEMS
MEETINGS, EVENTS & COURSES
LETTERS
BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS

GREENWICH CONSERVATION GROUP

GIHS MEETINGS

21st September - Dr. Chris Philpotts - his work on Archaeological Assessments of the Woolwich Dockyard and Arsenal sites.

19th October - Diana Rimel - Bazelgette

18th November - Dr. Jane Grant - Co-op Women’s Guild

11th January - AGM - and Richard Hartree - John Penn and Sons. Three Generations of a Family Firm

9th February - Tim Smith on Hydraulic Power in London and Greenwich

12th April - Clive Chambers - Thames Defences against the Spanish Armada

14th June - John Lloyd - Greenwich Power Station Strike in support of the miners.

All meetings will take place at The Old Bakehouse in Blackheath Village at 7.30pm.

VOTE SEVERNDROOG!!!

Severndroog Castle on Shooters Hill is to appear as one of the entries in this summer's BBC’s Restoration Programme.

Strictly speaking Severndroog isn’t industrial history - basically it is a folly - but follies were, after all, only built because people had made a lot of money out of industry. The campaign to save the castle in public use has been largely spearheaded by members of the GIHS Committee - so here is a short piece by Susan Bullivant, originally written for the Woolwich Antiquarians Newsletter.

Visit the BBC Restoration website and follow the progress of the campaign to restore Severndroog Castle. Visit also the National Maritime Museum website which shows three pages dedicated to the seafaring exploits of Sir William James, the monument that is Severndroog Castle, built in his memory, and the many images from the Museum's collections."

Severndroog Castle was built in 1784 by Lady James of Park Place Farm, Eltham as a memorial to her husband. Sir William James of the East India Company. Sir William, a former welsh ploughboy, achieved success at sea, and fought the Malabar Pirates off the Goan coast of India - near the island of Severndroog - thus ensuring a safe trade route for merchant ships. He became a director of the East India Company, after his retirement from the sea, and later on a Member of Parliament. Sir William died at Eltham, whilst at his daughter's wedding and was buried in the parish churchyard at Eltham in the family tomb. Lady James leased the land at Shooters Hill to build the castle, which she could see from her home, and she would drive over to it daily. The rooms in the castle contained his swords, and relics of his life at sea. In the 1920's the London County Council bought the Shooters Hill woodlands to preserve them from being built over - seven London Boroughs contributed money towards this project. Many people still remember, when in the care of the L.C.C., and later the G.L.C., the Castle was open to the public, and access was available to the top of the tower. There was also a small cafe on the ground floor, with seats outside in the summertime, but since being transferred to the London Borough of Greenwich, it has been closed to the public and neglected.

The Severndroog Castle Building Preservation Trust is campaigning for the building to be preserved, and once again opened for the public. The Castle featured in the BBC-2 programme, Restoration, on Saturday 8th May 2004 and featured again on 18th July as one of the three selections for S.E. England when viewers voted for the building they wish to see restored.

The Webmeister says (2017): "Although unsuccessful in obtaining funding via this route, Severndroog is now fully restored and open to the public.
Their Web site provides details of the restoration and current opening hours. Strangely, their restoration time-line is not up-to-date! Severndroog Castle


NEWS

TWO MYSTERY PICTURES...

The Webmeister says: "Unfortunately we do not have either of these images available on-line."

PICTURE 1

John Day asks if anyone can date this map - which must be one of the few to show the Arsenal ranges.

PICTURE 2

This ferry picture is captioned ‘Woolwich’ - but we think it is definitely somewhere else. Any suggestions?


THE GREAT STEAM FERRY AT GREENWICH

Progress report during re-development - past copies of this Newsletter have given information about the Great Steam Ferry at Wood Wharf - and Clive Chambers has spoken to the Society on the subject. The site is now being redeveloped and Clive went along to see what he could find.

I was lucky enough to tag along with the team from the Department of the Environment who had an interest in the remains of the ferry. We kept one step ahead of the excavators and used the contractor’s facilities to clear parts of the site before destruction. The Department recorded meticulous drawings of the remains although I was more interested in the overall working of the machinery. After cleaning the floor of the boiler room and the engine space we discovered that my earlier theories about the engines appear to be wrong. The markings and remains of fixings in the floor indicate there was one large engine that carried out several functions. However, evidence of fixing bolts indicate two other smaller engines - perhaps vertical like a motorcar - one might have hauled the semi- buoyant landing platform and the other might have been an electricity generator. There are plenty of other unexplained details. For instance, one of the shafts was enclosed in another shaft! I shall continue research. Then, just as we were ready to pack up, the excavator hit more metal about 18 feet below the floor level of the engine room. After scrambling about in the pit we came to the conclusion the two huge pipes that were revealed were nothing to do with the ferry but from an earlier construction. My view is that the pipes were part of a sewer overflow system that released water (and sewage!) into the river when the sewers were overloaded with rainwater after a heavy storm. The pipes still had debris in them but, after all this time it was quite nice smelling! I was hoping I might have a chance to crawl down a pipe but they were both nearly filled with water. This system became obsolete before the ferry was built and I have documentary evidence of the overflow system back as far 1870 - 18 years before the ferry was built (see OS extract).

LETTERS

Where addresses are not given, please contact through the Editor, c/o 24 Humber Road, London SE3

From: Adrian Goolden

In response to Pat O'Driscoll's query on your Web site. I remember a cast iron drain cover with the maker’s name Anderson & Goolden on it - in the grounds of my old school in Surrey, built 1900. It always fascinated me as both names were in my family! There were no other names /addresses on it.

adriangoolden@yahoo.co.uk


David Pollard asked about Campbell Evans - did we know anything about him?

Mary Mills replied: In the 1859 sewer rate lists for the Greenwich Peninsula is "Peter Soames and Campbell Evans, engineers shop, smithy shop, yard and dwelling house and offices". This is next to the entry for James Soames soap works. Peter Soames was one of the local Soames family who ran a massive soap factory on Morden Wharf for many years - they made British Carbolic and were taken over by Unilever.

David replied: “I have since found an 1858 patent for cranes in the names of Soames, P and Evans, J C. Thanks to you I know something about Soames. The next joint patent was for hoists, the parties this time were Evans, J C and Fairlie, W. Have you ever come across Fairlie? I wonder if there is a connection with Robert Fairlie, the son-in-law of George England of Hatcham Ironworks at New Cross.


From: Peter Claughton

Richard Howarth of the Geologists' Association is trying to trace the site of a plant in East London used to process radioactive minerals from Cornwall - can you help?

Dr Peter Claughton, Blaenpant Morfil, nr. Rosebush, Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire, Wales SA66 7RE.

P.F.Claughton@exeter.ac.uk. Co-owner - Mining-History e-mail discussion list.

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/mining-history/


From: Nancy Williams

I found the Greenwich Industrial History Society Newsletter on the Web through a search engine. I am trying to trace my father’s family. My father was born in 1914 at 7 Drake Buildings, Deptford. There is no mention of a street name. I am trying to find any references to the Drake Buildings so that I can possibly search street directories of the time to see if I can find reference to any member's of my father’s family. I am wondering if the Drake Buildings might have been some industrial type building at some time? I am also wondering if there is some sort of register or record of dock labourers around that time?

The Webmeister contributes:

From my own knowledge I would think that this was probably part of the old Deptford Victualling yards, some of which weren't knocked down and became incorporated in to the present-day Pepys Estate. Whether it was just the warehouses that were preserved and converted into flats I'm not sure. However, there is more info here...

Pepys Community Forum

1961 Royal Victoria Victualling Yard closed. Became Pepys Estate, some 1790 buildings remain (officers houses and warehouses).

Nancy has subsequently been back in touch to say that she is going to contact the Pepys Community Forum to see if they have any more information. However, any other information on this would be useful.


Members will remember that at the May GIHS meeting Gerry Moss spoke about the history of fireworks - and the dangers of small, local firework factories where terrible explosions were only too frequent. Gerry drew attention to the pioneering work of the Explosives Inspectorate and in particular Col. Vivien Majendie, after whom Majendie Road in Plumstead is named.

Gerry writes:

As mentioned at the Blackheath meeting I have a copy of Majendie’s signature. Reading it again it is not clear if he actually wrote these complements slips. I thought you might find this interesting.

WOOLWICH FERRY VISIT

by Richard Buchanan (from the Blackheath Scientific Society Newsletter)

Members of the Blackheath Scientific Society met at the Ferry approach on the south of the Thames at 2pm. The following notes are what I remember (I hope correctly) of what we were told. All books about Woolwich have articles about its ferry, but a look behind the scenes adds fascinating detail - taken for granted by the staff - not otherwise known. The party was met by Mr. Paul Beareman, the Workshop Manager, who took us past the contemporary Ambulance Station to the Workshop beyond, telling us that they had been built in the early 1960s by the GLC, when the present ferry was built. Then the GLC had responsibility for various piers, sewage boats, etc. as well as the ferry, and had built a substantial workshop. There are about 110 ferry staff, most of whom are ferry and terminal crew who work in a rota of five shifts running two boats on weekdays and one at weekends (there is no night service) - 30 are employed in the workshop.

The Workshop has a large central working area, with rooms around it for Plumbers, Fitters, Electricians, etc - still used today for those separate trades. Many non-standard parts (including many which once were standard) are made on site for maintenance of the three ferries, the ferry terminals and associated plant. The workshop is equipped with overhead hoists of various ratings, lathes, grinders, milling machines. etc.. At the time of the visit a Voith propeller unit was set up for maintenance. Mr Beareman described the design of the ferry’s propulsion system. Voith propeller units with five vertical blades beneath are fitted at each end: with the blades set tangentially (like the blades of one part of a kitchen whisk) a propeller will turn without developing any thrust; set them at an angle, however and thrust is developed, in a direction determined by the angle. The ferry can be steered backwards, forwards, sideways, or to spin with equal ease (it has a twin set of navigation lights, used according to its direction of travel).

Each ferry has a draft of about five feet and has a flat bottom - except at the ends where it is raised so that the three-foot long propeller blades do not protrude - it can sit on a flat bed without harm. The propeller units are fitted in twelve foot diameter vertical tubes rising just above the fore and aft decks, easily visible to ferry passengers. After unbolting the cover, the units can be withdrawn with the ferry afloat. Each Unit operates at 600rpm, driven by its own diesel engine; originally 7 cylinder Mirlees-Blackstone, they have been replaced with 6 cylinder engines by the same company (though now part of a German group). Control of the thrust angle was originally manual, controlled through universal-jointed shafting from the bridge to each propeller unit. Eventually wear made the system unworkable, even with maintenance involving rebushing, etc.. a setting in one direction giving thrust to another. About three years ago it was decided to computerise the controls which set the desired ferry direction, the computer then deciding the two propeller unit settings - it works well.

The party then moved to the quayside, where one of the ferries was moored for maintenance. It sat on a wooden platform, over which it can float at high tide. This sets the top deck of the ferry below the present level of the flood defences, so a large steel gate has been provided for access, which is via a ramp using an original side gate (when first produced the ferries used the side loading piers of the previous paddle ferries). One could then appreciate the means of removing a propeller unit and taking it into the workshop on its special trailer.

Mr. Beareman then took the party on the riverside to the south terminal, through a gate and a walkway to the tower, and up to its first floor. Here we saw the counterweight mechanism for the two 100 ton spans. A level-compensating mechanism is incorporated for changes due to changing load as the traffic drives off and on for the tide - significant at mid-tide even for the few minutes the ferry is docked - and watched it in action as the ferry docked. We then went up to the second floor, which has windows giving a good view of the Thames. We saw the main winding gear, and the large chains (like enormous bicycle chains) - they have stretched a little over their life, but only two have needed replacement.

We then travelled on the James Newman across the River and back. The ferry is of steel construction, but the top deck is wooden, with 3" pitch pine planking covered by 2" deal - something else that needs maintenance. One could see the top covers of the propeller units, but little else of the machinery; the two diesel engines are either side of a central walkway on the passenger (lower) deck, with a shaft diagonally under the floor to each of the propeller units. Unfortunately a car dropped its exhaust while boarding at the north terminal, delaying the return crossing. Mr. Beareman, who had already attended on our slow-walking party, had another appointment, so we promptly thanked him for a most interesting visit and let him go.

BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

We receive a great many newsletters and booklets - thank you, and keep them coming - however, what is listed here are only those which have something of Greenwich interest in the current edition. Reviews of any publications of Greenwich interest are always welcome.


GasLight

Reported on Brian Sturt’s visit to Manchester to tell the North about the South London gas industry.

What they thought is as follows:

"Phew! What a relief! After Brian Sturt had struggled up 200 miles of the nation's finest highways, Northern Gas History members showed their appreciation and turned out in force to greet him.

A record audience listened to his fascinating tale of the growth and development of the country's second largest gas undertaking. Lavishly illustrated with a series of slides culled from sources that most present did not even know existed, Brian traced the appearance, and disappearance, of gas companies, and gasworks, on the south bank of the Thames. Bankside, Phoenix, Surrey Consumers, Croll, Ordnance Wharf and George Livesey - the names, and information, at times threatened to overwhelm the poor northerners but Brian is too good a storyteller and his tale too interesting to allow this to happen. The many disparate strands soon came together as the South Metropolitan Gas Company (or the South Met. to its familiars). Under the guiding hand of its formidable Chairman, George Livesey, the company set standards for others, both within the gas industry and without) to follow - Sick Pay, Pensions, Co-partnership, Worker Directors, Gas Showrooms - even its own Building Society. Little wonder that when, at last, Livesey shuffled off his mortal coil, over 7,000 mourners followed his coffin to his final rest."


Blackheath and Greenwich Guide

Published a really excellent article by Neil Rhind on the Blackheath radio manufacturers, Burndept. It tells how one of the first directors of the BBC was W H (Witt) Burnham, who was put on the Board to represent the smaller companies with an interest in broadcasting. He was one third of the board of Burndept founded in 1919. The original premises were in Deptford. Burnham's partners were electrical engineer Charles Frank Phillips and a Mr. C Duveen. They were housed behind Grotes Buildings in Tilling’s abandoned horse bus station and in 1921 it was called it Aerial Works.

Burndept operated in Blackheath from 1921 to 1931, producing some of the finest quality early radios, from small crystal sets to powerful four-valve loudspeaker-linked receivers. The brand name was Ethophone. They were the first to put domestic radio receivers into cars, aeroplanes, houseboats, yachts and even in punts. The company made a delivery van in the form of a giant Ethophone V model, and placed a receiver on a hand cart with an aerial and loudspeakers. Unfortunately, like many pioneering organisations, Burndept saw the large market going to manufacturers less interested in novelty and more in cheapness and mass production. By 1927 the firm was in deep financial difficulty and was placed into receivership. In 1934 the old name was resurrected when it was bought by a Thomas Cole, a battery maker, who opened a factory at Erith and took on those Burndept staff who wanted to join him. His new trading name was Vidor. Aerial Works remained a factory, passing through the ownership of various electrical manufacturers including Siemens and GEC, but it was demolished in December 1995.


THE SMALL HOUSE IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LONDON by Peter Guillery.

London's modest 18th century houses, those inhabited by artisans and labourers, can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survive from the 18th century and sheds new light on both the era's urban architecture and the lives of a culturally distinctive metropolitan population. Peter Guillery discusses how and where, by and for whom the houses were built, stressing vernacular continuity and local variability. He investigates the effects of creeping industrialisation (both on house building and on the occupants), and considers the nature of speculative suburban growth. Providing rich and evocative illustrations, he compares these houses to urban domestic architecture elsewhere, as in North America, and suggests that the 18th century vernacular metropolis has enduring influence.

ISBN 0300 102380 price: £40.00 (Review taken from GLAA Review)


Post-Medieval Archaeology. Vol. 38 Part 1 2004

Excavations at Deptford on the site of the East India Company dockyards and the Trinity House almshouses, London - (David Divers et al)

An archaeological excavation was conducted on the site of the Deptford power stations prior to the redevelopment of the site. The excavations followed an evaluation that identified two areas where significant archaeological remains survived. The first of these excavation areas, on the site of the Trinity House almshouses, revealed three major phases of building. The earliest structural remains correspond to the documented 16th century origins of the complex, while subsequent buildings date to the 17th and 18th centuries. The second area revealed the structural remains of a dockyard, founded by the East India Company in the early 17th century. Excavation exposed slipways and wharves of the dockyard, and waste products associated with shipbuilding activities were recovered. Evidence for the medieval river embankment pre-dating the dockyard was also recorded. The manufacture of pottery is another known activity on the site during the 18th century. No structural remains of any pottery were found, although a large quantity of pottery wasters and kiln waste was retrieved from land reclamation dumps.

Review taken from GLAA Review


Extracts from Greater London Archeology Advisory Service Quarterly Review

THE ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH, RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, PHASE 2- Oxford Archaeology

Found two systems dating from 1800-1860 as well as floors, flues, concrete tanks, concrete foundations and a possible engine or stanchion mount, associated with a Shot and Shell Factory or later works (1860-1960).

ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH (BUILDING 48) - Oxford Archaeology.

This is unlisted but is within the Royal Arsenal Conservation Area - buildings at the site which are of national significance in terms of their military and industrial history. The building was constructed in c.1889-90 and has typical late 19th century stone walls, regular fenestration with cast iron glazing bars, cast iron columns and joists and an iron truss roof. Its structure is illustrative of the technological advances made in the construction industry during the 19th century which allowed larger, uninterrupted spaces and a much more open plan form to that of the adjacent, early 19th century ranges of the Grand Store. It also represents an important later phase in the history of the Arsenal as the site expanded and developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries before it reached its peak during the Great War.

THE ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH (AREA OF FORMER BUILDING 50) - Oxford Archaeology

A possible east-west timber revetment, 15341, may relate to this period. A channel located within the north-east of the site probably relates to drainage works instigated in the late 18th century. A centrally located underlay proofing workshops shown on maps of 1802-8, and other culverts within the east of the site probably relate to the same period. Ranges of timber pilings found to the north, east and west relate to the construction of the Grand Store's Eastern and Northern Ranges and 'Central structure', which started in 1805. Much of the remains of this phase had been removed during previous remediation works, although fragmentary remains of the former power station building were in evidence, particularly within the west of the watching brief area.

LAND BETWEEN 25-29 POINT HILL, S.E.10 - Compass Archaeology

It had been thought that the site might be crossed by a post-medieval conduit, one of a number which supplied water from natural springs to Greenwich Palace. The subsequent route of the conduit is unknown, although this close to the head it would probably be fairly small taking the form of a lead pipe or small brick drain. Quarrying activities in the area disturbed some of the conduits, and resulted in the diversion and serious reduction of the water supply. Observation of the redevelopment works revealed later post-medieval work at the northern part of the site, filling what may have been a small quarry pit.

173-185 GREENWICH HIGH ROAD, GREENWICH, S.E.10 - Museum of London Archaeology Service

Despite extensive truncation, brick footings associated with the Greenwich Railway Terminus, built in 1840 were identified in the north part of the site. The remains of cellars associated with other 19th century buildings were also identified.


Bygone Kent

The June 2004 article includes an article by Barbara Ludlow on John de Morgan and the Battle for Plumstead Common. Not, strictly speaking, industrial history - but a good dramatic local story with a few remaining mysteries.


Meridian

The June Meridian contains another of Peter Kent’s excellent articles in his Riverwatch series. Entitled Greenwich Grit this explores the remains of the old industries along the riverside path downstream from the ‘grandeur of the World Heritage Site’. From there on there is the Trafalgar Tavern 'down an ancient alleyway where Tudor houses once jostled with each other between the warehouses bordering the Thames. …. this firm shoreline bristled with every type of ship imaginable from all across the world'. He himself remembers when 'the wharves were still bustling with lighters, colliers and coasters; even Thames spritsail barges graced Ballast Quay'. But 'when the colliers ceased supplying the great Greenwich Power Station and Robinson's scrap yard at Anchor Iron Wharf closed, this really changed the atmosphere' at Ballast Quay. As we pass down river we arrive at Ballast Quay and the Harbour Master's Office ‘from here the fleets of incoming colliers were controlled …… because 'King Coal' ruled the Capital and each tide brought in the fuel source’. He points out that ‘the great generating station here at Greenwich is the last remaining power station still to be working. The great coal hauling landing stage is, however, no longer used. The enormous coal bunkers towering over neighbouring Trinity Hospital still remain… it evolved from a smaller plant which was built to supply the local trams and trolley buses. ….. it grew and grew with its four very tall chimneys and two generating halls the size of cathedrals. Nowadays only part of the building is used to accommodate a series of gas-fired jet engines which spring into life when needed to supplement the national grid for London Underground. It was built on the site of ‘Crowley House ….. where anchors were shipped in from the north-east foundries……the variety of types and sizes of anchors is mind boggling and there's a good collection still to be seen close by at the National Maritime Museum.

Peter says that ‘Bob Aynge, our friendly foreshore man, says the river is still littered with abandoned anchors. No doubt fortunes were also made here when Anchor Iron Wharf was a clearing house for the detritus of south east London's disintegrating industry’ He remembers the ‘many trucks and totters' carts waited to get their scrap valued and off-loaded prior to being shipped to some far off steelworks’.

All of this is gone and now there is a new development by Berkeley Homes on Anchor Iron Wharf. ‘Pedestrians will be pleased that the developers here have dedicated much of the old riverside wharf to public use, once again changing the scale and revealing a view not seen before of this once busy river port’.


We have been sent a page from the Times (6th February 2004). This is an obituary of Frank Stone, a lead-burning specialist who died this January. Stone was an expert in producing indestructible joints for great lengths of steel piping and played a crucial role in the development of PLUTO. Together with his brothers, Albert and Ron, Frank was part of a Brockley-based lead business and in 1942 were asked by Siemens of Woolwich to design suitable jointing methods for PLUTO - which they did with great success. PLUTO was made by Siemens in Woolwich, and Callender’s in Erith - the three Stone brothers working with both firms.

After the war Frank Stone specialized in submarine cable work, and also in medical physics for hospitals and radiation protection in the nuclear industry. After retiring he remained a consultant to the cable industry.

GREENWICH CONSERVATION GROUP NOTES

by Philip Binns

Meeting held 12th May 2004.

St.Mary’s and St.Andrew’s Wharves. Submission of details of respect of safeguarding. Deemed to be unobjectionable. Also application for erection of two storey services building.

Phase 3 I0 Centre Royal Arsenal S.E.18. New 2 storey building - excellent example of straightforward modern design.

Building F MacBean Centre, Macbean Street, S.E.18. Demolition of single storey building and replace with four storey mixed used development. Concern that there is no planning brief for this site. No indication of materials and will add considerable bulk to the building it replaces.

Meeting held 7th June

Mumford Mills, 23 Greenwich High Road, S.E.10. layout of central courtyard, erection of car stacker parking block, etc.. Applaud the introduction of the landscaping for the roof of the car stacker building.

Wood Wharf, Horseferry Place S.E.10. Details of sections. Elevations and facing materials. Group unable to comment.

275 Greenwich High Road land to the side - erection of four storey buildings for office space and flats. Grave concern at this - worries about the public right of way, refuse stores adjacent to it, needs something totally different.

EDF sub-station, Fuchsia Street, SE2. Demolition of sub-station and erection of 11 flats with parking, etc. Group thinks this is unacceptable. Shared amenity space is questionable and design is pedestrian.

MEETINGS AND EVENTS

This list of meetings and events has been culled from leaflets and notices brought to our attention.

If you want your meeting listed here please contact 24 Humber Road, SE3 7LR (020 8858 9482)

2004

JULY

2nd June, Blackwall Yard, Elizabeth Usherwood. DHG Museum in Docklands, West India Quay. 6 pm

15th July, Susan and Andrew Bullevant - The Houses of Shooters Hill. Shooters Hill LH Group, Shrewsbury House Community Centre, 8pm. Details from Dot 020 8467 4416

15th July, Kew Bridge Engines Trust. Seminar on William Murdoch. 020 8568 4757

16th July, Mervyn Streatfield. The Streatfields of Chiddingstone. Lewisham Local History Soc.

17th-18th July, Three Mills. Rally of Boats.

18th July, The date on which Severndroog Castle will feature on BBC's Restoration programme.

21st July, GLIAS Walk. Hackney - fill in the gaps in the database. (Book with SAE to 84a Kingston Road, Luton, LU2 7SA)

23rd July, Captain Cook. NMM Library 11-3 free

25th July, Crossness Engines visitors day. (Tel 020 8311 3711 - Tuesday or Sunday between 9.30-and 4.00)

AUGUST

1st August, GLIAS walk. London and Greenwich Railway - biggest brick structure in the world (book with SAE to 84a Kingston Road, Luton, LU2 7SA)

4th August, Visit to Brahmah Tea and Coffee Museum, DHG Museum in Docklands, West India Quay. 6pm

9th August, Newham taster course on Industrial Archaeology of East London. Mary Mills, ring 0208 858 9482)

11th August, William Hodges 1744-1797 The Art of Exploration. NMM. 2.00pm. Free

18th August, GLIAS Walk. Fitzrovia (book with SAE to 84a Kingston Road, Luton, LU2 7SA)

19th August, Carol Cherepanov. Woodlands Farm, Shooters Hill. Shooters Hill LH Group, Shrewsbury House Community Centre, 8pm. Details: Dot, 020 8467 4416

20th August,Trade and Empire Tour. NMM 2.00 free.

SEPTEMBER

5th September,A Journey Through Time. Walk with Rich Sylvester. True Tales of the ships Pirates and Convicts of Greenwich Reach. North Greenwich Tube. 6.30pm. Tel: Rich 07822 538143

5th September, GLIAS Walk. Camberwell Green and Pleasant Land. (book with SAE to 84a Kingston Road, Luton, LU2 7SA)

16th September, Steve Daly, Susan and Andrew Bullevant on Severndroog Castle. Shooters Hill LH Group, Shrewsbury House Community Centre, 8pm. Details from Dot 020 8467 4416

18th September,Painting the Park. With Kate Baker, 11am - 4pm NMM £20.

25th September,GLIAS Treasure Hunt (book with SAE to 84a Kingston Road, Luton, LU2 7SA)

28th September, Sarah Gibson on Recent Archaeological Work in Southwark. SLAS 7/30 Hawkstone Hall, Kennington Road, SE1.

28th-29th September,London Open House Weekend. Various venues in London and suburbs.

29th September, Visit to Royal Engineers Museum of Military Engineering. Blackheath Sci Soc.


COURSES

Rethinking the World. The English Experience. NMM and Birkbeck, 11am-1pm - 30th Sept - 17th March. Ring 020 7631 6652

Art and Travel. NMM and Birkbeck, 11am-1pm. 27th Sept - 6th Dec. Ring 020 8858 4422

History of Science. NMM and Birkbeck, 11am-1pm. 28th Sept - 22nd March. Ring 020 7631 6652

'The Port of London. The Industrial Archaeology and Regeneration of a riverscape
Birkbeck-accredited course
North Woolwich Old Station Museum, 2pm-4.00pm, 29th September - 16th March.
22 meetings plus 4 visits. Telephone 020 7631 6627 for details.
Tutor Mary Mills.

The Association for Industrial Archaeology Annual Conference
De Havilland Campus of the University of Hertfordshire at Hatfield from 13 to 19 August 2004.

The programme has been drawn up by a Joint Steering Group of AIA and GLIAS members. The main Conference begins on the Friday evening and ends on Sunday lunch-time. The Conference is accompanied by evening lectures from Friday to Wednesday inclusive (except Saturday); and a series of field visits in Hertfordshire and the Lea Valley on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons and all day visits from Monday to Thursday inclusive. The visits include the Apsley Paper Trail; the Leighton Buzzard Railway; Luton; Maltings; Waltham Abbey Gunpowder Mills; Enfield; Bletchley Park; Hertfordshire Garden Cities; the Grand Union Canal and industry on the River Lea. Places are still available at the Conference and for the field visits.

Further information is available from:
Michael Messenger, 144 Lake Road East, Roath Park, Cardiff, CF23 5NQ; phone 029-2075-4616; email michael@twelveheads.com.

The Conference includes the Rolt Memorial Lecture at 11.35 on Sunday 15 August. This year, it will be given by GLIAS’ chairman, Dr Denis Smith on "Landscape with Writers: Engineering and the Industrial Landscape in English Literature". The lecture is free and open to the public."


EXHIBITIONS

FIREPOWER

For further information please contact;

Firepower on 020 8855 7755, info@firepower.org.uk, website firepower.org.uk


Apologies to Richard Buchanan for pirating his article about the Blackheath Hole from the Blackheath Scientific Society, without permission, and thus not using his masterly account specially written for us.

Mary Mills now has a limited stock available of 'Greenwich and Woolwich at Work' direct from her at £10 each plus postage.
(24 Humber Road, London, SE3. marymillsmmmmm@aol.com)

GREENWICH INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SOCIETY

The Society's officers are currently as follows:

Emeritus President - Jack Vaughan

Chair - Sue Bullevant

Vice-Chair and Committee - Ray Fordham - Andrew Bullevant, Alan Parfrey, David Riddle

Secretary - Mary Mills

Treasurer - Steve Daly

Auditor - Juliet Cairns

Members are reminded that subscription renewals fell due in October 2006. Subscriptions remain at £10 and should be sent to:

Steve Daly, 5 Pankhurst House, Garrison Close, Shooters Hill, SE18 4JE

This newsletter was produced for the Greenwich Industrial History Society.
Chair, Sue Bullevant, 11 Riverview Heights, Shooters Hill, SE18. Views expressed in it are those of the authors and not of the Society.

ANY NEWSLETTER IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS CONTENTS.
IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO TO CONTRIBUTE - ARTICLES, REPORTS, LETTERS - ANYTHING.
Contributions are always welcome. If possible, please send on disk to Mary Mills (address below).

MEETING PLACE

Meetings as advertised at the head of this Newsletter will be held at;
The Old Bakehouse, (at back of the) Age Exchange Reminiscence Centre, 11 Blackheath Village, London, SE23 9LA

Do not go to the Reminiscence Centre itself - The Old Bakehouse is at the back, in Bennett Park.
Walk into Bennett Park and turn left into a yard.
The Old Bakehouse is the building on your right. The entrance is straight ahead.
Members and visitors are strongly advised not to try and park in the yard at the Old Bakehouse itself.


Mary Mills now has a limited stock of Greenwich and Woolwich at Work available at £8 each plus £2 postage from 24 Humber Road, London, SE3 7LT, 020 8858 9482

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