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Bethel Road
Welling was turning into an important
dormitory for Thameside workers, especially at Woolwich. The developments were
almost exclusively working class; estates were built where small units of land
were available close to the tram route on the margins of the Danson and
Goldsmith estates.
Burnell Avenue
part of the Welling Council Housing
Scheme. The total cost of the scheme was approximately £460,000 with the
building costs of the 426 houses approximately £408,000.
East Wickham
Open Space
Fields of East Wickham
Farm. In 1934 bought as an extension to Woolwich Cemetery but never used. Then
a became a tip for debris from wartime bombsites. Grassed over and used as
allotments. Called Fanny-on-the Hill which was the name of a pub demolished and
rebuilt on Wickham Street. Part of the land of the farm on Wickham Street.
Edison Grove
41 Glenmore Arms.
Gipsy Road
Welling was turning into an important
dormitory for Thameside workers, especially at Woolwich. The developments were
almost exclusively working class; estates were built where small units of land
were available close to the tram route on the margins of the Danson and
Goldsmith estates.
Granville
Welling was turning into an important
dormitory for Thameside workers, especially at Woolwich. The developments were
almost exclusively working class; estates were built where small units of land
were available close to the tram route on the margins of the Danson and
Goldsmith estates.
Lewis Road
Welling was turning into an important
dormitory for Thameside workers, especially at Woolwich. The developments were
almost exclusively working class; estates were built where small units of land
were available close to the tram route on the margins of the Danson and
Goldsmith estates.
Welling Station, 1st May
1895 .Between Bexleyheath and Falconwood Maze Hill on South Eastern Trains, wooden shelter on the north side from original
1895 buildings. On the Bexleyheath Line.
The line enters the station on an embankment.. In 1936 the Original gas
lit building on the up side was replaced A footbridge was built prior to
electrification in 1926. Original
passenger shelter on the down side has been modernised. Platforms extended 1953-1991.
Goods yard was at the country end. Single track
goods sidings closed in 1962.
Coal sidings
Upper Wickham Lane
Mortimer Terrace 1-8 rear
of it is gas works site.
Fosters School. Main building and schoolmasters house
in residential use. In 1728
William Foster of Croydon left an endowment to found a school at East Wickham
where 20 poor children of the parish were to be taught reading, writing and
arithmetic. By the 1820s organized on the plan of the National Schools and
united with the National Society, although there had been nothing in the will
to suggest Church management, the school was instructing 51 pupils. By 1860 the
number had increased to 78, the population of the parish (666) having expanded
owing to the settlement in the area of labourers from the Arsenal at Woolwich.
Under the instruction of the Court of Chancery the school was thrown open to
the whole parish, but twenty were exempt from the weekly fee of 2d. Paid by the
others. The Vicar of Plumstead in his request to the National Society for aid
for Fosters Endowed School described the existing room as "thoroughly
unhealthy and at times unsupportable, the children even fainting". He
stressed that the School was strictly Church of England. The new building
completed in 1879 is still used, and has the original foundation stone of 1727
set in the front wall. Each year
in July the staff and pupils of Foster's School still hold a festival to mark
Founder's Day.
Hopping Brothers.
Pre-second World War timber distributors. 1930s office block. Demolished 2003.
Odeon Cinema.
Built in 1934 by George Coles. Bingo from 1960 and now then forms the
central blocks of three storey shops and flats. the first Odeon by Coles,
172 Duchess of
Edinburgh. Very large roadhouse pub
Westbrooke Road
Fosters School moved here.
Wickham Lane
Greek Orthodox
Church of Christ the Saviour was St. Michael's church. Orthodox since 1967. Situated on the north-western boundary of the
Borough, it may have been originally a chapel-of-ease of St. Nicholas'
Plumstead, with which the parish was combined until 1852. Parts of it date from
the early 12th century. It is a small rectangular building of flint and brick
with vestry and belfry added at a later date. The end was rebuilt in the early c 19. Brasses to John de Bladigdone, c. 1325 - two tiny prim half-effigies in a frame. On the shaft his
name in large letters - The date 1325 on the base is modern and note Arabic,
not Roman, numerals. It is believed to be the earliest surviving brass
showing civilian dress as opposed to Armour. Other features to note are the
Jacobean pulpit, mediaeval font and royal coat-of-arms. Monument to William Payn 1568 wearing the uniform of
the Guard. Some brasses etc. now in the
new church.
Vicarage
Parish hall
Foresters Arms. Collection of darts trophies
St. Michael's
Church. Behind the old church. 1933, modelled on church in Ravenna. Stones
from old manor in the pillars, iron chest from a Spanish galleon, icon, brasses
and so on from the old church transferred here.
Hutments built
in the area in 1916 for munitions workers.
The outbreak of the first World
War led to the building of a large estate of prefabricated dwellings to house
munition workers from Woolwich Arsenal: these hutments were eventually replaced
by modern houses. Known as the East
Wickham Hutments, built in tidy rows, set up south of St Michaels and also on
the west side of Wickham Lane south of Wickham Street and east of Lodge Lane
near the border with Woolwich.
Wickham Street
Housing. Stevens' and Norman's estates mainly modest
semi-detached houses filled the space between Wickham Street and Central Avenue
German fighter plane shot
down 24/8/40 A.Friedman killed. Buried in Bexleyheath Cemetery. ,
East Wickham
Farmhouse. Very old used
as riding stables. Façade dates from
1843 but the timbers are much older.
Council housing built in the fields of the farm. Kate Bush grew up in the farmhouse.
Bruce Gibson’s
Farm on the west side.
Pond beside the house
St. Mary the
Virgin. 1954-5 by Thomas F. Ford. The exterior is no
more impressive than St John. Red brick, in a sort of Georgian-Early Christian
style, with a thin Lombard s tower. . A building like this epitomizes all that mid-c 20 architecture
ought not to be, yet one at least feels that Mr Ford got a kick out of
designing it.
Green Man pub
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