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 those 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

Wednesday, October 8

The Ghost of Brockley Cemetery

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  The Ghost of Brockley Cemetery: A Deptford Haunting That Shocked Victorian London A chilling night in Victorian Deptford In the spring ...

THE DEVIL IN DEPTFORD.

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   THE DEVIL OF DEPTFORD. BEING A TRUE RELATION OF THE STRANGE DISTURBANCES, LUDICROUS FEATS, AND MALICIOUS PRANKS OF AN EVIL SPIRIT IN THE ...
Tuesday, July 22

Personal Pilgrimage Marked by Remembrance and Loss Hadlow, Kent — July 2025

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Paul Moriarty This July, I returned to Hadlow, Kent, for the first time in three years—a journey rooted in remembrance, as I visited my moth...
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Monday, June 23

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....
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Monday, May 26

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, December 17

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, October 30

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, June 20

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, October 2

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 ...
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