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Alabama Street`
Over a waste of rutted land to a new street.
Bassant Road.
A deep dip between the south and
north ends.
Bleak Hill,
This has steep slopes of
oak and birch woodland, including sessile oaks,
birches, ash and alders with holly, aspen and goat willow shrubs. There is
hedge mustard, which exudes a strong smell of garlic. Also here are bluebells,
cow parsley, rosebay and willow herb.
Holly Cottage
A steep cliff on either side
Bleak Hill Lane
Bleak Hill
Meadow. – Wonderful sight in summer. Was once a car
breakers yard.
Heathfield Terrace – name
is on an 1870 map.
Duncroft
8-14 hit by a
flying bomb which killed or injured 21 residents
42-44. V2 attack
26 February 1945. Direct hit. Another serious incident in the vicinity of
Shooters Hill. 13 killed, 87 injured.
40-50 V2 attack
26 February 1945 demolished. Blasted
again with another fifteen houses down and 300 damaged thereabouts. Fatalities
included PC William Edmonds and his wife, Ethel.
46 V2 attack 26 February 1945 A fireman returning from
duty found his home in ruins and was silently led away by a local priest when
all hope was given up for his wife, son and parents-in-law buried under the
rubble. It seems that these were Mrs Helen Lush, her 11-year-old son, Donald,
and Mr and Mrs Ludlow. 9.10 am
Edison Grove
41 Glenmore Arms
Flaxton Road.
Francis Street. (Not on AZ)
Gipsy vans
Heathfield Terrace.
King's Highway
Woolwich Cemetery. Divided into an eastern and a western
cemetery. Herb rich grassland with many
grasses and wild flowers. Princess Alice
memorial
Alma
Brick Kilns. clay is dug for brick tiles - mathematical tiles? - and coarse
pottery. In the same field with the clay
pits and on the north side/of them a shaft is sunk 120 feet to the surface of
the subjacent chalk, which has been extracted to the further depth of 24 feet,
being the object for which the shaft is made .
Runs downhill to the east with the Common rising
abruptly to a flat table land on the north side and dipping steeply on the
south side to a narrow vale occupied
by strawberry gardens,
Nyanza Road
Rockcliffe Gardens
A park which lies between the two parts of
the cemetery. Dense shrubberies amd a
pond.
Collapse on September 1937 in a children's playground,
leaving a crater measuring 80ft x 60ft x 30ft deep. More collapses followed in
1938 and Woolwich Borough Council employed consultants to carry out a series of
bores to see what was there.
Southland Road.
active brickfield.
St Mary Road (not on AZ)
Sutcliffe Road.
Mission Hall at northwest end
Swingate Lane
The Slade
A small ravine, which overlooks the Thames
and though at first looks flat has great dips. It is a combe cut by river Wogebourne with a
pond, fringed by poplars, and the dried river valley with its steep sides has by
trees stretched down to the plain below. A stepped path goes through Great
Bartlett Woods to houses on the valley bottom. Winns Cottages and a Warehouse were there once
and an Old Mill which fell down. ‘Slade’ means ‘the slide’ or ‘slip’.
Greenslade School
Barrow in the gravel behind
the Slade, probably natural hillock used for artillery practice
Plume of Feathers
35 Woodman. Pub. Old
established pub – does the name mirror the clientele?
38 The People's Hall now
Slade Evangelical Church. Renamed 1999.
Timbercroft Lane
Church of the
Ascension. Begun 1903 by A. E.
Habershon. Ends 1911. Brick with terracotta; polychrome interior.
Who'd a Thought It. Flying pig sign
Edward VII Terrace because
built in 1902
Coronation Terrace because
built in 1902
Wesley Hall Methodist
Church
Timbercroft Schools. Built
by Wallis of Maidstone 1906. Erwood antiquarian taught there.
Orchards and market gardens with foremen's or farmers' houses.
old beerhouse.
Winns Common
Plumstead Common's easterly end which is known as Winn's
Common. It is a pasture flanked by small terraced cottages named after the tenant of the old workhouse. There are supposed to have been Ancient
Britons there and there are Roman relics, barrows and things. There is woodland
of birch, holly, oak, beech and false acacia.
The soil is very poor with pebbles of the Blackheath beds just below the
surface.
Fairy rings.
Boundary markers. London
County Council.
Playing fields.
Bronze
Age burial mound on the central part of Winn's it is believed. Later the centre was used
for horse and gun carriage practice.
Puddlestone rock boulders
Bowman’s Hollow. Was it
where archery was practiced?
A sandy gravelly waste on which only the military are
allowed to ride or drive, used by artillery as an exercise ground
Tormount Road
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