Edith's Streets

Thames Tributary Earl Sluice Earl Sluice continues parallel with Plough Way to the pumping station in Chilton Grove. It would have emerged into the Thames slightly down river of the South Dock entrance near George’s Stairs. TQ 3675378037 Amazing area of Deptford with the remains of John Evelyn's estate and some of the Royal Dockyard.  It includes part of the Grand Surrey Canal and a great deal of river and canalside industry. Interesting housing developments Post to the west South Bermondsey Post to the south Deptford Post to the east Millwall and Deptford Riverside Post to the north Greenland Dock Blackhorse Road Old road named after the pub. It ran parallel to the Grand Surrey Canal. Industries grew up along the canal bank using Blackhorse Road behind. Mooring rings remained at the side of the road where there had once been the edge of the canal. Neptune Chemical Works . 1864, owned by A.J.Dickinson FRS, FSC, manufacturing chemist. They distilled tar, anthrace...

Thames Tributary Earl Sluice The Earl Sluice is said to flow west and to meet the River Peck near the junction of Ilderton and Rotherhithe New Roads The London and Greenwich Railway runs south eastwards TQ 34676 78833 Inner south east London, essentially the non-riverside area of Bermonsey around the shopping area of Southwark Park Road.  There is much post-Second World War housing and other buildings - the result of terrible bombing raids.  This was also an area with many works and industries, indeed many remain some of this based in the stretch of the Grand Surrey Canal which passes through this square. The London and Greenwich Railway on its original route is also here. Post to the south Peckham Park Road Post to the west Bricklayers Post to the east South Bermondsey Post to the north Bermondsey Aspinden Road Nature garden on a bomb site which has developed naturally. with sycamore woodland and nettles. There is also a pond. Other plants include elder, bra...

Thames Tributary Earl Sluice The River Peck runs underground through this area between Peckham Rye and where it joins the Earl Sluice in Rotherhithe. Post to the west Blue Anchor Post to the east Thames Tributary Earl Sluice - Deptford Post to the south Cold Blow Post to the north Surrey Docks Abbeyfield Road Abbeyfield Estate - twenty-six-storey tower of the 1965-7, with an afternoon shadow which stretches halfway across Southwark Park. London County Council housing Bede House community centre. A C harity established as a Settlement in 1938 Alpine Road 30 Earl of Beaconsfield Pub . Closed and gone Aspinden Road Nature garden run by Bede House on a bomb site Bush Road 58 Old Manor House . Pub is now an Italian restaurant Debnam's Road St.Gertrude R.C. 1902 by F. W. Tasker. Greek cross plan; plain classical detail with groined timber vault. Southwark Special Services Dept. Dilston Grove Clare College Mission Church . Early example of poured concrete const...

Thames Tributary Earl Sluice The River Peck runs underground through this area between Peckham Rye and where it joins the Earl Sluice in Rotherhithe . TQ 35437 77360 Inner city suburbs off the Old Kent Road and near Milllwall Football Club. Remains of two old canals and many railways, some in use and some just remains. Post to the west Peckham Park Road Post to the north South Bermondsey Post to the east Deptford Post to the south Telegraph Hill Avonley Road New Cross Hospital . Opened 1877. Architects J Walker and W Crickman. It was established by the Metropolitan Asylum Board as a smallpox hospital and developed into a general hospital treating infectious diseases serving the south-east London area. Its buildings were added to in the ea rly 20th century. Under the National Health Service it came under the control of the Bermondsey and Southwark Hospital Management Committee and various functions were transferred from Guy's Hospital. The Name was changed from Deptford ...

Thames Tributary Earl Sluice The River Peck runs underground through this area between Peckham Rye and where it joins the Earl Sluice in Rotherhithe. Post to the west North Peckham Post to the north Blue Anchor Post to the east Coldblow Post to the south Peckham Asylum Road Caroline Gardens . Former almshouses of the Licensed Victuallers Institution. It was founded by Hodgson, a distiller fro m Finsbury. It was originally in Cornhill. It consists of almshouses built 1827-1831 by Henry Rose. Bombed. In 1959, when the Licensed Victuallers decided to rebuild at Denham the property was acquired by Camberwell Borough Council, which renamed it Caroline Gardens. The property is now used by Southwark Council. It has long double ranges with houses back and front with courts in between. Built of Brick with two storeys, and a central portico at the end of the chapel. There are more ranges behind built later but in the same style – a total of 176 dwellings. It is named after Caroline...

Thames Tributary Earl Sluice The River Peck flows north through this area between Peckham Rye and the area of Meeting House Lane. Post to the north Peckham Park Road Post to the south Peckham Rye Post to the east Telegraph Hill Alpha Street. Thomas Calton Centre . Old Board school Blackpool Road Bus depot for LT on site of ex-council depot. 1994. Buildbase and HIR Base Blenheim Grove All Saints church 1870/2. A humble building By H. E. Coe. Ragstone. Tara Reclamation Yard 213 Bar Story. Pub in a railway arch Bournemouth Road CP House - Bussey building. An early 20th reinforced concrete industrial building. It was used by Bussey and Co, sporting goods manufacturers. The factory made cricket bats from its own willow farm in Suffolk. Brayards Road 39 Oxford Farm Dairy . George Austin 1844-1925 was born in the Oxfordshire village of Blackthorn. He moved to London and opened the dairy. When the milk round was finished he used the milk cart for small household remova...