Gasholder – this cracking picture has appeared on the GMV
facebook page
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| thanks Laiura Diggle |
And remember – its still not to late to sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/royal-borough-of-greenwich-save-the-nationally-important-east-greenwich-gas-holder-from-demolition
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The latest edition of the GLIAS Journal – London’s Industrial
Archaeology No. 16- is with us. It
includes a very important article by James Hulme about the Charlton Riverside.
As many of our readers will know James and how he started work
on the Charlton riverside as an assessment of the site for the Council before
the development began. unusually in thse
circumstances he has given us an extremely detailed industrial history of an
interesting and so far undeveloped area.
He begins with one of the oldest buildings in the area - the
Anchor and Hope pub - moving on to Castle’s shipbreakers at the end of Anchor
and Hope Lane. He continues with notes on other riverside sites – including
Cory’s dry dock and boatyard, the Glenton and Angerstein railways and of course
Siemens. From the 20th century there is United Glass, Bridon and Stones
and – much else.
I’m sure people will want to see this article and copies of the Journal . Please
email journal@glias.org.uk
Also in the Journal includes an article on Great Western Railway
employee hostels in London by David Thomas , the Montgomery timber merchants from
Brentford by Beverley Ronalds,
Coalbrooke decorative ironwork in London, by David Perrett, and W.T.Gilbert mathematical instrument makers of Tower Hill by
D.J.Bryden.
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We’re getting a lot of requests for information about the proposed
desise of the decorative footbridge across Plumstead station. Network rail needs to install a lift for
disabled access between the platforms of Plumstead and unfortunately they have
been unable to this and still keep the decorative ironwork bridge. There are
now many calls to have the bridge main
retained. This is clearly a difficult
and sensitive issue with rights on both sides of the argument.
Deborah O’Boyle has written This delightful bridge was built for SE
Railway, in 1892, by Joseph Westwood & Co (over in Millwall) . Please see the GIHS facebook page for more
info from Debs on this. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1549240565122658/permalink/1739322149447831/
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853 has reported on the first outings (in Gdansk!) of the
new Woolwich ferries https://853london.com/2018/05/17/new-woolwich-ferry-vessels-take-to-the-water-for-the-first-time/
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More news about plans in Europe to create a European database
of extant chimneys. There have been
entries to the competition of videos of people serenading chimneys. Apparently
none have been received from the UK – but you can see the serenades at
http://www.industrialheritage.eu/EYCH2018/May/Serenade-for-a-Chimney
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