Edith's Streets

Riverside. South bank east of the Tower Highbridge and Ballast This post covers only sites on the south bank. Sites on the north bank are under Cubitt Town Post to the north Blackwall Post to the east East Greenwich Post to the south Greenwich Post to the west Millwall  and Deptford Riverside Anchor Iron Wharf The Wharf is a made-up wharf, which does not follow the original line of the river bank, but is built out from it. The maximum depth of water alongside allows coasters to come in.  Following the clearing of industry and the building of modern flats the wharf has been opened up as a riverside space.  Previously the footpath and right of way went down a narrow inland passageway. C. A. Robinson & Co . This was a scrap metal business Founded in 1835 that leased this site from Morden College in 1905 and remained here until the lease expired in 1985.  They also used Dowell's Wharf at Deptford Creek Bridge and at Granite Wharf downstream here. They di...

Riverside, south of the river and east of the Tower. Peninsula west Post to the north Old Blackwall  and Blackwall Point Post to the east Greenwich Marsh Post to the west Millwall Post to the south Cubitt Town This posting refers to sites on the south bank only. The north bank is Blackwall Riverside – Tunnel Avenue This riverside strip of wharves mainly front onto the river on the west and Tunnel Avenue on the east.  This stretch of Tunnel Avenue was one called Blackwall Lane or Marsh: Lane Point Wharf This is a Morden College owned area. Blackwall Tunnel vent . This is the ventilation shaft for the ‘old’ tunnel. These vents are not the originals but new installations to clear pollution.  They have an arrangement whereby the roof opens in segments – ‘like a flower’ this one is marked on pre 1960 as maps as 'stairs' - access stairs to the tunnel when it was used by pedestrian traffic Edmonds Barge Builder. Augustus Edmonds had a barge building works here in ...

Riverside south of the river and east of the Tower.  Blackwall Point This post only relates to sites on the square south of the river. Sites north of the river are Old Blackwall Post to the west Canary Wharf Post to the north Poplar Post to the east Leamouth  and Dome Post to the south Greenwich Peninsula West Drawdock Road Drawdock Road was built in the 1880s by the gas company as compensation for loss of watermen’s rights on the frontage of the new gas works. It is a public right of way but is not always accessible because of events at the Dome. Riverside The riverside walk is now renamed Olympian Way Blackwall Tunnel vent. This is behind the security fence. This is the ventilation shaft for the ‘old’ tunnel. These vents are not the originals but new installations to clear pollution.  They have an arrangement whereby the roof opens in segments – ‘like a flower’ Meridian Line ., This crosses the path here marked with metal strips.  When this ar...

Riverside east of the Tower and south of the river This post covers only the parts of the square on the south bank of the river. The post for the north bank is Leamouth Post to the north Canning Town Post to the south Greenwich Marsh Post to the west Old Blackwall  and Blackwall Point Dome The Dome. This was originally called the Millennium Dome and built at public expense as an exhibition arena. It is now a private entertainment venue called the O2 and run by an American group. It is dome is one of the largest of its type of structure in the world. It is a large white tent with twelve yellow support towers, one for each month of the year, or each hour of the clock face, representing the role played by Greenwich Meantime,. But in fact very reminiscent of structures at the Festival of Britain – i.e. the Dome of Discovery and the Skylon.  The architect was Mike Davis, of the Rogers Rogers Partnership. As the Millennium Dome it was inaugurated under the Tory Major Gov...

Riverside. South bank east of the Tower. Greenwich marsh Post to the east Charlton Angerstein  and Silvertown Post to the south East Greenwich Post to the west Blackwall  and Greenwich Peninsula West Post to the north Leamouth  and Dome Barge Walk New road built in 2014 between large blocks of flats Bessemer Place New road built in 2014 between large blocks of flats. Named for Henry Bessemer’s Greenwich steel works. Blackwall Lane This is the ancient road into the Marsh. It was also called Marsh Lane and Also Ship and Billet Lane after the pub on the corner with Woolwich Road. In this northern section of the Peninsula its line has been very much curtailed and it now ends at the roundabout with Millennium Way but it once followed the line of what is now Tunnel Avenue to the tip of the Peninsula Housing . In the late 19th and early 20th there was some housing in Blackwall Lane, most of it associated with various industrial sites. In the 1860s Sidmouth Place ...

Riverside - east of the Tower and on the south bank. Charlton Angerstein This posting covers only the south bank of the River. On the north bank is Silvertown Post to the west Charlton Riverside Post to the south North Charlton and East Greenwich Post to the west Greenwich Marsh Anchor and Hope Lane This was also once known as Manor Way. It was a 'Man Way' or ‘Great Man Way. In the 16th it was as part of a marsh drainage scheme and later a causeway across the marshes. The current street name is derived from the public house. Moore and Nettlefold . This firm made hand blown glass bottle here about 1901.  United Glass . This had been set up in 1913 as a consortium of bottle and glass manufacturers. Initially the company concentrated production at a newly built factory at Charlton which they had taken over from Moore and Nettlefold who were members of the group. They used sand from the Charlton sandpits but also from America and Redhill. By using American machinery th...

Riverside south of the Thames and east of the Tower. Barrier This posting covers only the part of the square on the south side of the river. The north bank is Silvertown Post to the east Woolwich Dockyard Post to the south North Charlton Post to the west Charlton Angerstein Bowater Road This was originally called Marsh Street and was built by John Long on the south side of his riverside property in 1808–9. It turned at right angles to a new river landing. This area is now an industrial estate with many buildings in use by arts projects. 17-21 Siemens office building . Built in 1911–12 using the Kahn system. This was a five-storey telephone-equipment factory with an engineering shed behind.  It included a laboratory and experimental rooms for engineers. Siemens Brothers took out the first British telephone-exchange related patent in 1913. 17 is now a Chinese performing arts centre 25 junction-box factory built 1925–6 34 Siemens building for training in the use of rad...