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

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

The Broadway Theatre Deptford..Knife Throwing Act..for real!!!

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Wanganui Herald, 30 August 1899.
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Murder in Deptford

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Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Builders at Work, 1933 Albury Street.

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Whilst researching the Albany Institute I came across this letter from Dennant & Laver Estate agents who's business premises were ...

Condemed Houses in Watergate Street, late 1890's

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The lease holder of the two houses ctr. (not the shop) is Mr C. J. Young, 70 years of age. He had a crippled wife and a 12 year old daughter...
Friday, 14 January 2011

New Zealand Evening Post 1940's

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I came across this press cutting whilst serching newspaper archives. Does anyone know Ms Aucutt?
Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Remarkable Misers and one from Deptford Broadway.

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Mary Luhorne died in 1676 in a lodging house on the Broadway. She was 96 years of age and amassed a small fortune. To whom it went to on her...

Daily Mirror Report 1905 - Murder of the Farrows- Deptford High Street.

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Murder of the Farrows, Daily Mirror Report 1905 March 28th (first article) MURDER BY MASKED BURGLARS Aged manager brutally slain by tri...
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Saturday, 8 January 2011

A Street in Deptford

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I found this photo entitled a Deptford Slum Street? Can anyone tell me where it could be? The tower in the background could...
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Tuesday, 4 January 2011

History of Albury Street. Part 3.

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Only three contemporary leases for Union Street have been discovered. Two are leases for empty plots and one is a lease of a plot wit...
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BBC HISTORY SERIES – OUR SECRET STREETS

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You may be aware a major BBC2 series charting the history of the secret streets of London is in the making and is planned to be screened som...
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Sunday, 5 December 2010

The Centurion Pub, Deptford High St.

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Old photo of the Old Centurion Pub at the top of Deptford High St. Below ground toilets can be seen on the left and Deptford Broadway runnin...
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Friday, 3 December 2010

The Knighting of Admiral Francis Drake, Deptford Creek - April 1581.

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I have read many accounts of the knighting of Francis Drake at Deptford Reach by Queen Elizabeth 1 but have always known this was partly unt...
Friday, 26 November 2010

History of Albury Street Part 2.

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Until 1882, Albury Street was called Union Street, a name which commemorated the Act of Union between England and Scotland. Union Street was...
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010

History of Albury Street. Part 1

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Albury Street was laid out and developed between 1705 and 1717 or soon after, by a local bricklayer, Thomas Lucas. The method of developmen...

The History of Albury Street, Deptford.

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During my research of Deptford and in particular Albury Street I discovered a document in the Lewisham Local History archives. This document...
Thursday, 18 November 2010

Deptford Fairground/Boxing Booth.

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As a child I can remember the fairground just up past the station. I know it had been there for years with thousands of people visiting the ...
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All for Two Shillings!..Went on then....Goes on now.

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GODSELL George (61, horsekeeper), and STEVENS, Alfred (41, hawker), both unlawfully uttering counterfeit coin twice on the same day; both fe...
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