OLD DEPTFORD HISTORY

  Hi, I read this morning, with great interest, your Old Deptford History, very good, so much information. My reason for looking on your site was because I am starting a novel which begins ...

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 G'day from sunny Queensland. I have just discovered your articles about old Deptford in SE London - fascinating.   I was actually searching for a 'doss house' there called Carrington Ho...

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 Hi there, I came across your blog whilst looking for information on Whitcher Street, which appears to have existed between the late 1940s to 1970 or thereabouts. My father, Albert Eric Whit...

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I have just discovered your Old Deptford web site. I see a lot of comments from 2012, but I hope you are still involved and interested. I have been researching a friend's family history, and fo...

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Hi All My name is John Lumea. I live in Boston and am the founder of a nonprofit, THE EMPEROR NORTON TRUST, that since 2013 has been working on a variety of fronts — research, education, ...

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 My name is Jeff Manning, and I was born and bred in Deptford (1950-1970) and I would like to share my memories of Deptford with other deptfordites.  Deptford had 2 excellent pie and mash sho...

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 Hello Thank you for creating the old deptford history website I have enjoyed reading the articles and looking at the old photos,it brought back so many wonderful memories. I was born and bred...

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Hi All The story I have is less a story about Deptford and more about a family mystery that led me to Deptford. I live in Auckland New Zealand. My son and his family live in Walthamstow in Lo...

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  Hello,  Hoping the Deptford history community might be able to help me out with something...  My partner recently bought a ground floor flat in the former Princess of Wales pub (88 Grov...

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 Hi everyone, I'm a sports writer and historian and currently researching a book about the life of Patrick 'Patsy' Houlihan, Deptford born and bred and the greatest snooker hustler of all time...

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  Residents of Deptford  tell their stories. My thanks to Katharine Alston of the Deptford Ragged School Archives for her permission to publish this video.  Please visit the website  www....

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The image is from http://www.thamesbuttons.com/page1.html The button was found on the Thames foreshore by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker Brian's Button Hi, my name is Brian. I live in North Caro...

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Here's a story involving our shop which might interest you, and might even jog some memories I must have been about 9 or 10 years old when this happened. Opposite Wilson street, on the other ...

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 I was born Rosemary Elizabeth Manning on the 6th of December 1926 in Number 8 Wilson Street, which is just off the New Cross Road. My mum and dad were David and Florence Manning, and they ran ...

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This post shows and example of a dresser made by Peppercorn BROS limited of Deptford Broadway. 

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  Dear Olddeptfordhistory.com  I thought I’d let you know about the Brookmill Road Conservation Area (BRCA Society) online talk coming up in January in which you, or your subscribers, may...

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           United Friends, 25 Wellington Street, Deptford - Licensee T C Entecott The address is listed as 25 Wellington Street in 1882 and earlier, prior to street renumbering, and ...

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 Hello everyone   I though you might be interested in this old postcard as it mentions Southwark Manufacturing at 16 Evelyn Street, Deptford which I believe was gone from there by 1940.  ...

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 Hi, This is a photo of my maternal grandfather, Douglas Jack Green, taking part in a parade somewhere in Deptford! My grandparents lived in Evelyn Street until about 1933, when they moved to ...

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Hi there, Im not sure if anyone will be able to help me but I stumbled on this blog about the history of Deptford.  My grandmother was born in 1908 and her family came from Deptford. She was b...

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Hi, I live on Florence Road (historically in Deptford New Town) and have been trying to find out about the history of our short street and am waiting to hear back from the council's local studi...

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GEORGE LEADBEATER (38) , FELONIOUSLY WOUNDING EMILY LEWIS WITH INTENT TO MURDER HER. SECOND COUNT, WITH INTENT TO DO HER GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM. MR. GRAHAM CAMPBELL Prosecuted. EMILY LEWIS...

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Original new photograph sent to me by an interested subscriber.

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I was sent this old photo showing Deptford Waterworks chimney demolition. Can anyone tell me what location the photo was taken from. Thanks.

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Rank Flower Mill 1966. Mumford’s Flour Mills were founded in 1790, built beside Deptford Creek. The mills were supplied by small craft entering the Creek from the Thames. Mumford’s ...

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