OLD DEPTFORD HISTORY

This website is dedicated to the past History of Deptford. If you have any stranger than fiction stories about Deptford I would welcome your input. This may include stories of the people, the places still here or long gone, the characters, the war years, ghost stories and haunted places, ancient buildings and bygone memories, long forgotten. You can contact me with your stories at axelgs1@yahoo.co.uk

Monday, 23 June 2025

Remembering Tommy Martin Heavy weight Boxer from Deptfod

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Tommy Martin Hello, I found your website and I am in search of information about 1930's boxer from Deptford Tommy Martin and his family....
Monday, 26 May 2025

Connections between Deptford and Greenwich for the Marsh Family

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  Hi, great blog in Deptford.  My family moved there in the early 1800’s from Dorset. My great great grandfather died in the Greenwich workh...
Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Help for Philip

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  Thank you for a fascinating website. I have been researching the Wood family who lived in the area for many generations and in doing so ha...
Wednesday, 30 October 2024

William Armitage. An Artist born in Deptford at 10 Union Street now Albury Street.

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  An unlucky and forgotten Utah painter's life is a lesson on caring for local art.  The Bigger Picture By   Wes Long Email Print Cover ...
Thursday, 20 June 2024

William Joseph Armitage

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  Greetings! My name is Wes Long and I am a writer with the Salt Lake City Weekly. I happened upon your website and thought you might have s...
Monday, 2 October 2023

Help for Tony

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  Hi, I read this morning, with great interest, your Old Deptford History, very good, so much information. My reason for looking on your sit...
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Memories all the way from Australia

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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 s...
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Whitcher Street.

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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 ...
Friday, 30 June 2023

A Bedmaker ... Carrington House.

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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 ha...
Friday, 17 March 2023

Emperor of the United States

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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...
Friday, 14 October 2022

Deptford Memories by Jeff Manning

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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 deptf...
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Wednesday, 7 September 2022

13 Deptford High Street.

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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...
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Sunday, 28 August 2022

Help for Warren McIver tracing family History.

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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 Zeal...
Thursday, 30 December 2021

Princess of Wales Pub

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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 ...
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