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Abbey Wood
Tram depot. 1910. For
electric trams. Enlarged and closed 1952.
Belmarsh Prison
Belmarsh Prison, built 1987-91. On either side of the central
brick entrance section, the perimeter wall with its overhanging 'beak' extends
for over a kilometre.
Crown Court. A post-modernist building of 1993. The two
wings are set at an oblique angle to the great central entrance, with its
glazed canopy. The building is linked to the prison by an underground tunnel
Belmarsh Ditches.. a
series of old grazing marshes with reeds and willow herbs and other marshy
plants, some of them rare. Water voles
live here.
Eastgate wall?
Nathan way;
Cory dyeworks
Plumstead Marshes:
Test track for experimental
work on post office railway in 1914 Open ditches, swamps and malaria,
Southern Outfall Sewer and
Ridgeway path. 1856 sewer.
Sidings laid from North
Kent Line in the Arsenal and called Marsh Sidings. Marshalling yards. Line over
the sewer embankment
Ridgeway
One of the few landmarks that
preceded the new buildings; the barrier of the raised sewer bank leading to
Crossness Sewage Works. On top is a green walkway with rough grassland and
wildlife.
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