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University of Greenwich
Opened as the Woolwich Polytechnic; it became the Thames Polytechnic in 1970 and was granted university status in 1992.
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John Sulman
Architect. Born in Greenwich. Articled to Thomas Allom. Emigrated to Sydney in 1885 on account of his wife's tuberculosis, but she was to die just 3 years later. 1921-4 he was chairman of the Feder...
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Rev. Alexander Raleigh
The 1865 Christian Witness and Congregational Magazine, Volume 1 reports that from September to October Raleigh opened an iron chapel in Croydon and a chapel in Maidstone. That publication also inc...
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Norwood pumping station
This building provided the propulsion for the Croydon atmospheric railway. We don't know when the building was demolished. This 1868 map shows a building approximately '50m north of the bridge' whi...
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Henry James Felton
Chairman of Cripplegate Institute in 1894. Henry James Felton is listed as a churchwarden at St Giles Cripplegate in 1885 and as a vestryman in 1887. His son, Charles Page Felton, attended City of...
Person, Industry, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration
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Sidney R. J. Smith
Architect. HIs extant work in London includes: West Norwood Free Public Library, Knight’s Hill (1887); Outdoor Relief Station, Norwood (1887); Tate Free Library, South Lambeth Road (1887); Durning ...
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Sir Edward Frankland
Chemist. Born in Catterall, Lancashire. He was an originator of organometallic chemistry, and an expert in the analysis and quality of water. A member of the second Royal Commission on the pollutio...
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