Edith's Streets

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend The line continues to run eastwards Post to the west Stone Post to the east Knockhall Post to the north Greenhithe Bean Road This was the main road going south from Greenhithe and heading to the village of Bean and beyond.  At the northern end it was lined with big houses on the east side built into the hillside. Many of these are now hotels. Care homes and similar institutions. The road was cut off at Mounts Road to the south with the development of the East Cross pit and it continues as a footpath alongside the western edge of the pit. West Works . On map before the 1970s and from the 19th a small works appears to be marked on the road on the corner of what is now the East Cross Pit. A tunnel ran under the road here and continued with a line through the now private belt of woodland between Bean Road and St. Clements Way and appears to remain as a footpath through it. The line continued across London Road to West Works Jetty, east ...

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend. The railway continues to run eastwards Post to the west Stone Lodge Post to the east Greenhithe Post to the north Stone Marshes Bell Close This appears to be on the site of a house called The Limes. The Close is crossed by the footpath which crosses the railway to the north and continues to the church in the south. Birch Road Scout Hut Charles Street Charles Street now has a spur which runs north to a roundabout and to Crossways Boulevard which are to the north of this square.  This spur once went to a complex of rail lines which were associated with the Kent Cement Works, later APCM. Around the spur stood a number of buildings, on site now covered by Burger King, shrubberies and new flats, which were associated with the cement works.  Before the cement works in the 19th this was a dairy farm and buildings on the east side of the spur were called Manorway Place. 208 Mad Play . Children’s play centre. This building appears to b...

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend The railway runs eastwards Post to the west Bow Arrow Post to the east Stone Post to the north Dartford Crossing and Crossways Bow Arrow Lane Cottage Hospital . In 1885 a detached isolation hospital was built as part of Stone House at the corner of Cotton and Bow Arrow Lanes.  Cotton Lane Fantaseas was a chain of indoor waterparks.  The first was opened in 1989 at Dartford on the west side of Cottons Lane. It had six American-style waterslides, an outdoor heated lagoon and a cafe and gaming arcade. In 1992, it was found the foundations were inadequate to support the building but it was also in financial trouble and shut down. The site was guarded and kept in good condition but the buildings were demolished in 2000 and the site used as a refuse dump Kennels Stone Lodge Farm and pit site This large site is bounded by Cotton Lane to the west and London Road to the south.  An area to the east is in the next square. It con...

Railway line from London Bridge to Gravesend The line turns north eastwards TQ 56066 74412 At the back end of Dartford an area named after a farm and associated with a mental hospital. There are still hospitals here and Bow Arrow was an isolation unit. The City of London mental hospital is now a housing estate and its little burial ground abandoned. Here is also a big local authority housing estate opened by Clement Attlee himself, and here  is a huge interchange for the Dartford Tunnel approach road. Post to the west Dartford Post to the east Stone Lodge Post to the north Bob Dunn Way Post to the south Dartford The Brent Attlee Drive Temple Hill Estate . This is a post Second World War housing venture by Dartford Borough Council. It was, was opened in 1947 by the then Prime Minister, Clement Attlee Bow Arrow Lane Said to be a lane which is probably Saxon. Until the 1890s the west section was a track along the railway. Bow Arrow Farm to the south Bow Arrow Infectio...

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend The railway continues south eastward Interesting area on the west side of Dartford town centre which includes numerous remains and places of interest. There were a number of important paper mills and other industries here, as well as the remains of the priory and of West Hill Hospital - and not to forget Mick Jagger. Post to the east Dartford Post to the west Maiden Lane Post to the north Darent meets the Cray Anne of Cleves Road The road dates from the 1890s-1900s and was built on some of the land between Priory Farm and the railway Avonmouth Road Service road on part of the greaseproof mills site Burnham Road Named for Lord Burham, owner of the Daily Telegraph in the 19th. The road dates from the early 1900s Pumping station . Dating from the late 19th. This preceded but was adjacent to the Priory Road electricity works. Tram depot which opened on 1906 was sited in Burnham Road and housed sixteen tramcars. In 1917 it was burnt...

Railway line from London Bridge to Gravesend The railway continues south eastwards Post to the south Thames Road Post to the east Crayford Marshes Post to the north Erith Anchor Bay Bridge Road Bridge . The bridge over the railway dates from 1961. Plans to build it were approved by Crayford Council in 1955 but construction was delayed because problems of design of the bridge and footpaths. Agreement with British Rail was not achieved until 1959. Up to this time the only access to the area was via level crossings over the railway. Slade Green Medical Centre Community centre .  This has now closed Pop in parlour . This has now closed as a result of the Community Centre closing. It had been run by AgeUK Library. This was built in 1965 and is now closed Cedar Road Terraced houses built in the late 1800s by Messrs. Perry and Co. of Bow for railway workers. These were authorised in 1898 by the South eastern Railway in its final months. A second contract was let to Messrs...

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend The railway continues south eastwards Post to the north Erith  and post to the north (north of the river) Coldharbour Point Post to the east Erith Anchor Bay Aperfield Road Road built on the site of a brickworks – Erith Clay Pit in the 1860s and through various owners to become Amalgamated Brickworks in the 1930s Anchor Bay Farm was partly on the site of the brickworks Appold Street The road is cut off by bollards after a short distance but once extended to the deep water jetty. Railway bridge over line going to works to the east. There were marshalling yards for coal trains between here and Wheatley Terrace. The railway is said in 1930 to be a private railway belonging to Turner and Newall whose works was on the old Easton and Anderson site, to the east of this square. The line once the railway to the asbestos works now appears to be a footpath alongside Morrison’s car park. Arthur Street Cobham House. This is a 13 storey block...