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 have been researching a friend's family history, and found hergrandmother living in Douglas Street Deptford in the 1921 census.She was aged 46, wife and mother, but it was unusual that she had a occupation, which was apparently shared by about 100 other people in the area. She was a "bedmaker" employed by the LCC at Carrington House, Brookmill Road, Deptford. From the information on the web site about this "doss house" it doesn't sound a very congenial job!
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
Friday, 30 June 2023
A Bedmaker ... Carrington House.
Friday, 17 March 2023
Emperor of the United States
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 on a variety of fronts — research, education, advocacy — to advance the legacy of a San Francisco eccentric and sometime visionary that declared himself "Emperor of the United States" in 1859 and went on to become a folk hero and patron saint of his adopted city.
Friday, 14 October 2022
Deptford Memories by Jeff Manning
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 deptfordites.
Deptford had 2 excellent pie and mash shops I remember my brother and me eating in Goddards
(Pie and mash was one shilling and 4d for a Pepsi to wash it down.) Does anyone remember the toy shop on Lamerton Street?
See below a
list of shops I remember:
Edwards the Bakers baked delicious Jam doughnuts they were only a penny each.
Fantos (Does anybody know when Fantos first came to Deptford?)
Mayne’s, Swans Bookstall (Deptford Market Yard), Woolworths
Johnson’s Bakers, Bridges
Fish and Chip shop Douglas Way
Perry’s sweet shop
Douglas Street, Pecry's
Rossi ice cream
shop (Deptford high street and New Cross Road)
Marks and Spencer,
Ovenells (Winkle Stall), Lillie’s (Shere Road)
Shopping in Deptford High Street on a Saturday with my mum in
the fifties used to take a long time before supermarkets you had to queue up at
all the different shops, but it was always busy and vibrant in Deptford then, the
crowds so big sometimes you had to walk in the road.
10 Trickett Co Ltd 1889 160 -162 Rebuilt 1846
45 Red Lion & Wheatsheaf
77 Caxton House?
(Ladies School in the 1820s)
91 Deptford High Street Built in 1898
Corner of Hamilton Street and Deptford High street 2 small
street signs (Hamilton street and Hamilton Place)
thanks all
Jeff