Deptford Creek
This is the mouth of the River Ravensbourne, first bridged in 1804. the Domesday Book of 1086 noted many watermills nearby.
Greenwich and Deptford History Trail
SE8, Creek Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Deptford Creek bridge
From the magnificent Edith Streets: The Bridge, with its control tower along...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Deptford Creek bridge
This is a trail that has gone cold. We know of two other plaques which are pa...
Unveiled by actor Fiona Shaw to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
This plaque is on the central cotagey-looking building which looks undamaged. While the tall, three-storey building to the left looks ver...
Tollard House, the first residential roof top wind turbines installed in the city of London by the Green Company, www.the-green-company.c...
2022: The The Historical Society of Ottawa contacted us with "We recently (re)discovered the plaque to Colonel John By featured on your w...
We have found that the plaque was unveiled by the Mayor of Greenwich, but there is no indication that Greenwich Council actually erected it.
The Guardian reports: "the first stand-alone memorial to an Asian woman in the UK" and elsewhere we read that it is "one of the few anywh...
The Epping Forest Act placed all the commons and forest in the parish of Epping, except Rye Hill, under the protection and management of the City of London, thus ensuring their preservation. We le...
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 1. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
Myra Josephine Royal was born on 20 December 1958 in the Dominican Republic and grew up in Houston, Texas, USA. She was a daughter of Boswell and Eloise Royal. Our Picture Source and the Clipper C...
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