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Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend. Plumstead

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend The line continues straight eastwards Post to the west Woolwich Post to the east Plumstead Post to the north Broadwater and Arsenal Ancona Road St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School . This is an Infant and Junior School with a Nursery. It originated at Coupland Terrace, in an iron building in 1891 and was maintained from Parish funds. In 1893, the new church opened in Conway Rd, and the school was beneath it. A new building opened in 1909. The boys and girls department merged in 1930 to form one school, the infants became a separate school. In 1960 Commonwealth Hall at Abbey Wood was hired from the RACS until St. Thomas –a-Becket School to take the extra children. Up to 1962 St. Patrick’s had secondary pupils but then they joined pupils from St.Peter’s to form a new secondary school at Briset Road. In 1968 a New School was completed, initially Infant School and Offices. The current school hall is the old St. Patrick's Church

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend. Woolwich

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend The line continues in an eastward direction Post to the west West Woolwich Post to the east Plumstead Post to the north North Woolwich  and Woolwich Angelsea Road The road is named after the pub on its corner with Woolwich New Road and dates from the 1850s. Chrisma New Testament Church of God . This was Woolwich and District Synagogue and is a white modernist building built in 1962.  It was previously the site of St Andrews’ Presbyterian Church built in 1873 which was taken over by the Jewish congregation in 1924 and replaced in 1962. The synagogue closed in 1998. Carmel Chapel. This was a Strict Baptist chapel of 1866 built by John Vaughan. By 1908 it was used by Unitarians and then Oddfellows, and was later St.Peter's Youth Club. It was demolished and the site is now housing. Anglesea Avenue Built on a market garden area Angelsea Mews Built on the site of Field Cottage, built in 1887 and used, and expanded, by a successio

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend. Woolwich West

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend The railway continues to run eastwards Post to the west North Charlton Post to the east Woolwich Post to the north North Woolwich and Woolwich Dockyard Post to the south Woolwich Common Artillery Place Opened 1804-5 1 Joseph Daniels and Co. this is on the corner with Frances Street and built in 1903–4 as a military tailors shop. They had been there since the 1850s. To the east was a long first-floor tailors’ workroom. In 1945 it became the Woolwich office of the Assistance Board.  In 2011 another storey was added to turn it into flats Cambridge House . This was one of a number of blocks of married soldiers’ quarters erected in 1910 by the Barrack Construction Department, and replaced in 1937. It was acquire by Hyde Housing Association in 1990. Northern Gateway to Royal Artillery Barracks . This was a triumphal arch with guard rooms on either side. Built 1805-6 it was dismantled for road widening in 1968 and never re-erected Centurion