Opened as the Woolwich Polytechnic; it became the Thames Polytechnic in 1970 and was granted university status in 1992.
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University of Greenwich
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Workers of Woolwich
The mural depicts the activities carried out by workers at the former Royal A...
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Sydney Charles Pigden
Royal Air Force fighter pilot and PE teacher. Born Sydenham, lived in Lewisham most of his life. Aged 18, joined the RAF and flew Spitfires and Hurricanes. When he left the RAF he taught at Turnham...
1 memorial
Joint Service Defence College
A training academy for British military personnel. It was established as the Combined Staff College in Latimer, Buckinghamshire. Renamed the National Defence College in 1971. Moved to Greenwich in ...
2 memorials
Rose Mary Crawshay
Philanthropist, feminist, educationist. Born Rose Mary Yeates in Horton, Buckinghamshire, to William Willson Yeates and his first wife Mary. When she was seven three of her baby sisters died in qui...
1 memorial
Westfield College
Founded in 1882 by Constance Louisa Maynard and Ann Dudin Brown, as a residential women's college modelled on women's colleges already established in Oxford and Cambridge. The name probably came fr...
1 memorial
Marjorie Hewson
Nursery nurse. She worked for over forty years at Christ Church School, in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, (the area in which she grew up and lived herself). A popular character, remembered by many for h...
1 memorial
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