tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post6201924159074511269..comments2024-03-15T07:29:28.378+00:00Comments on OLD DEPTFORD HISTORY: Albury Street , DeptfordAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318768945646828358noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-56963018058943500912022-01-31T15:03:23.075+00:002022-01-31T15:03:23.075+00:00This is a great site - thank you.
My Great-Grandm...This is a great site - thank you.<br /><br />My Great-Grandmother Elizabeth Prothero (nee Klein) worked as Housekeeper at no.20 Albury Street, and my Gran was born there at the beginning of the 20th Century.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-84204082584218730302022-01-30T10:22:49.244+00:002022-01-30T10:22:49.244+00:00Hi Lucy
Thanks for your comments.... very interes...Hi Lucy<br /><br />Thanks for your comments.... very interesting.<br /><br />My grand parents lived there in 1918 and i think before that date. Their surname was White. My grandfather was a professional boxer "Jimmy White". It was quite common for more than one family to live in these houses sometimes up to 3.<br /><br />Regards<br /><br />ANDYAndyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10318768945646828358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-12238761410005637262022-01-21T16:44:07.706+00:002022-01-21T16:44:07.706+00:00Hi Andy,
I recently found out that my Great Grea...Hi Andy, <br /><br />I recently found out that my Great Great Grandmother also lived at number 29 Albury street - she was there in 1911.<br /><br />Was your grandmother by any chance called Mary Ann Carr (Maiden name Jones?)<br /><br />If so we had at laast 25 relatives all living in Albury street in 1911, between the Carrs, Blamires and Reynolds! <br /><br />From LucyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04202959481618415755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-63694765035470476062021-04-08T09:35:00.400+01:002021-04-08T09:35:00.400+01:00According to England & Wales Censues - Elizabe...According to England & Wales Censues - Elizabeth MacPherson, formerly Wilson, nee Dunckley (my 2 cousin 4x removed) worked as a matron at the Albany Institute from 1891-1911. Her daughter Louisa Dunckley nee Wilson also worked there as an assistant matron in 1911.Michelle Erskinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04039626198215732141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-78873149982780333042021-03-11T20:47:17.597+00:002021-03-11T20:47:17.597+00:00I have the same information for my family, the Eas...I have the same information for my family, the Easterbrooks. April 2nd 1911, 5 andom terrace :-) Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11371359341547067396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-3038912552532348372021-01-03T18:28:05.629+00:002021-01-03T18:28:05.629+00:00Hi I was wondering if you had any information on A...Hi I was wondering if you had any information on Andom Terrace, we have my partner's Great grandparents living at 5 Andom Terrace in the 1911 census. Their name was Peacock. Their son, my partner's grandfather, rescued a 5 year old girl Gracie Haywood from the Thames in 1911, after she fell in at the causeway steps. Any info gratefully received, thanks. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03224886896585819161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-43086944820946339912018-01-18T21:40:25.527+00:002018-01-18T21:40:25.527+00:00Hello Harry,
That's great information. Tell m...Hello Harry,<br /><br />That's great information. Tell me what number did you live at in Albury Street?<br />We lived at 29 and my aunt Jeanie lived at 34. I was also interested in the ghost encounter, can you tell me more of this<br /><br />Best regards and thanks<br /><br />AndyAndyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10318768945646828358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-18099992091781233872018-01-18T15:44:08.785+00:002018-01-18T15:44:08.785+00:00My family name of Pearson lived in Albury St aroun...My family name of Pearson lived in Albury St around about the 1940s,we then moved to an alley next to Mary Annes Buildings called Andom Terrace,I remember going into the tunnel in the cellar and trying to clear it out with some mates because we believed it led down to the water gates by the river,but the roof had collapsed and we could not do it.My mother told me stories about the houses being haunted and meeting a woman one night when she walked up the stairs to bed the woman slapped her face and disappeared when mum woke up in the morning she still had the hand marks on her face.We used to use the Kings Head pub when it was called the Blue Light,and my dad use to take the boxing training in The Albany which was sponsored by Goldsmiths College there were 5 brothers and we all boxed and won various competitions and were nicknamed the fighting Pearsons.Reading your blog brought back lots and lots of memories.<br />Harry Pearsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-25834922146029783162016-11-29T04:56:30.481+00:002016-11-29T04:56:30.481+00:00I'm researching my wife's family tree on h...I'm researching my wife's family tree on her Dad's side. Her Nan was a Richards (born 1913) and in 1901 her ancestors were living at 38 Albury Street. I've been reading this great blog/site with interest and have checked out Google street view and re-watched that marvellous BBC Secret History of our Streets for the Deptford episode. Would love to know if anyone has any links or family recollections of number 38...?<br /><br />Her Great Great grandparents George (a cattle drover at the foreign import market) and Elizabeth had a number of children - George (my wife's great grandfather, eldest son and aged 20 at this point, he worked at Wheen & Sons soapworks, and joined the Royal West Kent Regiment in 1902 for about 6 years, then was also a drover at the cattle market, then dockworker, and apparently was a boxer - probably amateur. Other children in rough age order were Arthur and Bert or Bart (mid teens) who worked at a Dry Dock and Soap Works respectively. Youngest kids at this point were Emily, Alfred, and Ernest (12 yo, 9yo and 5yo).<br /><br />By the 1911 Census they had moved to 54 Creek Road and that's where the family remained until sometime in the 1950s or 1960s as my father in law regularly visited his grandmother and other relatives there.<br /><br />If anyone can add any extra info to all that, it would be fantastic! Many thanks...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521925960942305269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-79939265598623013982015-10-08T17:08:58.225+01:002015-10-08T17:08:58.225+01:00My grandmother lived in Albury Street on the right...My grandmother lived in Albury Street on the right side looking toward the High Street. Her name was Florence Barnes ( also known as Dolly ) She had 5 children - George, Charles, Peggy, Doris and Vera. Doris died of TB in Hithergreen Hospital. My mum, Edna lived there for a while during the war when my brother, Gary, was born. A bomb went off nearby and blew the window in but a wardrobe had fallen across his cot and saved him. George married my aunt Mag who ended up living in the top of the house. Eventually my Gran had to move out and was given a flat on the Orchard Estate near Lewisham. Gran was a cleaning lady for a butchers in the High Street. I wonder if anyone remembers her.<br />Leenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-18017563944998404012015-02-09T08:32:02.171+00:002015-02-09T08:32:02.171+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10318768945646828358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-56822916945480427772015-02-08T16:06:05.887+00:002015-02-08T16:06:05.887+00:00Hi, Just found this site, and saw the comments abo...Hi, Just found this site, and saw the comments about No. 34. I heard the same thing about Nelson staying there. How true that is I can't say, but it was talked about in the 50's, when I lived around the corner in Church St.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06725055988100415352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-74805904191059095342014-01-21T16:43:37.239+00:002014-01-21T16:43:37.239+00:00Hi whilst tracing my family tree I came across thi...Hi whilst tracing my family tree I came across this site my grandmother was Mary Supple and her sister was Ellen (or Nellie) would love to know if this is the same family. I've got reginald road deptford as a later addressAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-62484675240748901972013-11-17T15:32:31.224+00:002013-11-17T15:32:31.224+00:00my greatgrandmother lived at 41 Albury Street for ...my greatgrandmother lived at 41 Albury Street for 58 years. she died Boxing Day 1935. In 1934 she was interviewed by the Mercury Newspaper. She talks of Deptford Fair which lasted for three days starting Trinity Monday. I have her photo and the cutting. jeffjames54@gmail.comJeff Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11294562268318850404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-1586672269831178032013-11-03T00:47:36.953+00:002013-11-03T00:47:36.953+00:00Hi Andy....My family and I lived in Albury Street ...Hi Andy....My family and I lived in Albury Street from around 1959 - 1967, my sister lived in one of the end Georgian houses too. Then moved on to Tanners Hill eventually. I knew many of the families that lived there, sat on the step of the Kings Head when the governor Mr. Toy used to manage it. Play in the Albany and the opposite bombsite. The Macmillan Nurse house and Pickfords Depot. Lots of memories and but would like to ask you if anyone has any information of a pub in Grove St, called the Ship Defiance. Would be really interested to find out anything related to the period 1820s - 1830S....Kind Regards Joyce Boyle. Joyce Boylenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-58120680636175307632012-12-09T21:07:42.985+00:002012-12-09T21:07:42.985+00:00What a very interesting site - thank you.
I'v...What a very interesting site - thank you.<br /><br />I've discovered that my gran was born in Aldbury Street in 1902, her mother (my great-grandmother) Elizabeth Klein was housekeeper at number 20 - would anyone know who lived there?<br /><br />KeithAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06633873118753301257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-86767353659157943002012-12-09T09:42:51.147+00:002012-12-09T09:42:51.147+00:00Please could anyone tell me if the older houses in...Please could anyone tell me if the older houses in Albury Street had dumb waiters?Penny Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04619610362095117214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-49319986189836167892012-07-20T12:07:25.032+01:002012-07-20T12:07:25.032+01:00Hi Ron,
Terry Griffith was may brothers God Fathe...Hi Ron,<br /><br />Terry Griffith was may brothers God Father. We grew up at No29 and knew the family well.<br /><br />My Aunt Jeanie lived at No 34 which was the reputed place that Lord Nelson stayed at times. This was handed down over the past 200yrs by word of mouth. I did however discover that when the Albany Institute sold the 3/4 house(Nos. 34,36,38 and 40) which they owned the inventory listed items from Nelson ship the Trafalgar, namely the back door which was one one the hatches and his private locker chain which hung behind the front door. So there is a connection somewhere. It was also said that Lady Hamilton stayed at No.36. My father discovered at secret door in the Garret(attic) which connected 34 and 36 which it was said they use to meet privately through this door. I have researched at the Maritime Museum but to date this is the only connection I can find.<br /><br />Regards<br /><br />AndyAndyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10318768945646828358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-74818618689453614372012-07-19T23:02:39.569+01:002012-07-19T23:02:39.569+01:00My wife was born at #35 Albury Street in 1939. It ...My wife was born at #35 Albury Street in 1939. It was then occupied by the Griffiths family.<br /><br />We have been to this house in 1960 when the Griffiths still lived there. We have since visited in 2002 and now there is a plaque on the wall put there by the National Trust (we think) which refers to Lady Hamilton living there in the 1800's. However wikapedia does not reference this. What is the truth, anybody know?<br /><br />RonRon Lingwoodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-62456157592628692572012-07-10T18:49:42.341+01:002012-07-10T18:49:42.341+01:00Increadible resource for anyone researching their ...Increadible resource for anyone researching their Deptford ancestors.<br /><br />When I googled Albury Street,<br />the place my Digby relatives were<br />living in 1901 and was directed to this site I was amazed.<br /><br />You mentioned the re-numbering, when did this take place?<br />They were at 39 Creek Row 1898,<br />39 Albury Sreet 1899, and 14 Albury<br />Street 1901. Was it around then?<br /><br />Thanks for a brilliant site.411Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-21926716092104904642012-06-29T18:07:29.764+01:002012-06-29T18:07:29.764+01:00Andy no one ever mentions st paul church with fath...Andy no one ever mentions st paul church with father diamond Dougie messenger used to live Albury st<br />i dont know if you that he was the<br />town cryer & when they had beating<br />of the bounds with other the priest<br />& Dougie laid a nice spread & there<br />was a race to see who would be first to the pilot pub.When Dougie's wife died he had the small<br />alter in the church dedicated to Ruth Messenger we all ended up in<br />the vicarage in mary ann gardens<br /><br />Regards Grace hope to hear from you soonAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05988581552000700028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-25329271447695360552012-06-29T14:12:31.258+01:002012-06-29T14:12:31.258+01:00My happiest years was when i lived in Deptford (Al...My happiest years was when i lived in Deptford (Albury st)lovely place<br />lovely people just wished i could move backAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05988581552000700028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-24995513160012469272012-06-27T13:20:10.631+01:002012-06-27T13:20:10.631+01:00Charlie (posted 23rd May 2012) I just saw your pos...Charlie (posted 23rd May 2012) I just saw your post and wanted to say thanks for picking up on my comment re the Webb family... What are the chances of that?!? Remarkable. <br /><br />In 1871 your Margaret Smith Webb was a governess at the Lewisham school where my g.grandmother Louisa was a servant. They lived in parallel streets to each other (Albury and Mary Ann Buildings, Deptford). Louisa's sister was also in service to Margaret's married sister Eleanor Timbury. <br /><br />Please get in touch (contact at oxfordgenealogy dot com) if you would like to find out more... <br /><br />@Andy - anything on Mary Ann Buildings yet? ;-)Oliviahttp://www.oxfordgenealogy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-42461587440273547582012-06-12T14:49:13.608+01:002012-06-12T14:49:13.608+01:00In the garden by the gate there was
a tunnel but m...In the garden by the gate there was<br />a tunnel but my husband laid a path there never explored it was too dank & dark my daughter said the house always gave her the creeps i think the ghosts who they liked & did not like because i always felt comfortable in the house Mr & Mrs Marney who lived at 34 never had attic because the top part of the house burnt down but i belive they were going to have it rebuilt.In 1988 a german guy was writing a book on |Albury he had been looking for the house for years but i told him i had a wall built to cover it up because i did not like the big hole & also a solid floor we had a black range which might still be there the front bedroom on the first floor took 40 square yards of carpet i was told it was connected to 34 hope this has been useful to you.When i left Mr & Mrs Jones moved in they did not have any children or reliatives so maybe it went back to the heritage people it would be good to find out<br />regards Grace. Ps there was something creepy about the top of the house maybe it was the barn door the first landing was a big windowAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11046275857018920387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432133643734415429.post-11543457120210737422012-06-11T17:21:58.037+01:002012-06-11T17:21:58.037+01:00Hi Grace,
That's just the information I was l...Hi Grace,<br /><br />That's just the information I was looking for. When I say the attic or Garrett as it was known I meant the top most room with the little bay windows. If you go to this link on this website you will see reported haunting's of 34 and 36.<br /><br />http://www.olddeptfordhistory.com/search?updated-max=2010-02-05T14:37:00Z&max-results=300&start=64&by-date=false<br /><br />just cut and paste in the address bar.<br /><br />Do you have any old photos of the house and the street. I have some of your front room when it was the babies hospital. My email is axelgs1@yahoo.co.uk<br /><br />If you could give me your email I can post all the information and photos, newspaper cutting which deal with the haunting<br /><br />Please contact me on this email if you have any other stories<br /><br />Many thanks again Grace! <br /><br />very best regards<br /><br /><br />AndyAndyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10318768945646828358noreply@blogger.com