Norway cut swing bridge
This footbridge, with its granite paving, formerly stood across the entrance lock to South Dock and dates from about the time of its reconstruction by the Commercial Dock Co. in the 1850s. It was moved here in 1986.
SE16, Greenland dock - north side
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Norway cut swing bridge
The south bank of the Thames used to be in Surrey, now in Southwark. The firs...
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Norway cut swing bridge
We did not initially recognise this logo, on at least 8 plaques in the Surrey...
Fixed to the wall above this plaque is a small black relief depicting five children playing in a pastoral setting. It's rather lovely an...
At the time gilded lettering incised into granite was a popular technique. We can't say what it was like when new but its legibility has ...
The relief sculpture shows an SOE agent parachuting into occupied territory.
Hyde Park Estate Percy Dearmer, 1867 - 1936, priest and liturgist, Canon of Westminster Abbey, author of the Parson’s Handbook and the O...
Biograph Theatre opened 1908 as London's first licensed cinema. Originally the Assembly Room of The Spread Eagle pub and later the Pictur...
By June 1915, the population of Belgian refugees in Britain rose to 265,000. But we couldn't find anything on the web about the school in Cale Street.
Born in Arolsen as Helena Frederica Augusta of Waldeck & Pyrmont. Married, in 1882, Leopold, Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria. Died in the Tyrol. The photograph was taken at the ...
Unveiled by Sir Michael Tippett who was President of the Peace Pledge Union at the time.
Sovereign of the Seas was a 17th-century warship of the English Navy. She was ordered as a 90-gun first-rate ship of the line, but at launch was armed with 102 bronze guns at the insistence of Char...
We'd hoped to find more information about the early buildings, perhaps a picture, but we found nothing. We are thankful that the new-bui...
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