Edith's Streets

Railway Line from London Bridge to Gravesend. The line goes in a north easterly direction Post to the west Springhead Road Post to the east Gravesend Post to the north Rosherville Urban and inland area of Gravesend and Northfleet. It includes what may have been the original medieval centre of Gravesend as well as the main focus of Northfleet away from the river. It is otherwise part of a busy urban area, with railways heading for the centre and the riverside, churches, schools and pubs. All Saints Road Elim Pentecostal Church . In the 1930s the building here was the Springfield Gospel Hall. Burnaby Road Recreation Ground . Rosherville Park Bycliffes Terrace Flint-built houses which appear to have once been called White Post Terrace and later Pelham Terrace Football field. A field near here adjacent to Campbell Road was used in the late 19h by Gravesend Ormonde football club, made up of local watermen. It later amalgamated with the Gravesend town club to become Grav...

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend The railway continues south eastwards Inland area of Northfleet - built around the remains of many chalk pits, including the dramatic Blue Lake. The area is covered by railways heading for the town centres and the riverside, there were some industries including breweries, and a facilities area for Northfleet with sewage works and cemetery. Post to the east Perry Street Post to the north Northfleet Camden Close Modern housing on site of a recreation ground, previously an isolation hospital. Isolation Hospital . This is shown on maps from before the Great War and still appears in street directories in 1939 with an address in Springhead Road.  It appears to have been a smallpox hospital built by Northfleet Urban District Council along with other facilities. Chalk Pits Church Path Pit . This pit now contains railway infrastructure. Blue Lake .  Owned by Bevan's this was Portland Pit Quarry and was became a lake in 1933 when ...

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend The line runs south eastwards Riverside area of Northfleet including a historic harbour area now being restored by volunteers. This was where the Ebbsfleet met the Thames and the Ebbsfleet valley, until recently mud, contamination and sports grounds, is now the site of major infrastructure works for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link - including Ebbsfleet Station and some sites for use by Crossrail. From the early 19th to the late 20th centuries the riverside was dominated by vast cement works taking raw materials from the chalk pits which cover the area.  Much of this now lies derelict. There were also paper works here, and much 19th century urban infrastructure. Post to the west Swanscombe Post to the east Northfleet Post to the north Botany Marshes Black Eagle Drive The name of the road relates to a pub which once stood in Stonebridge Hill. New housing on the site of the Paper Sacks factory. Paper Sacks was set by Robinsons, a large...

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend. The railway runs eastwards, veering to the south east Post to the west Knockhall Post to the east Northfleet Ames Road The road was developed by Swanscombe Urban District Council after 1926 to provide decent housing for working people. It was named after a local councillor, Walter Ames. 1 Wardona House. This is sheltered housing built on the site of the Wardona cinema. The cinema was originally the Electric set up in 1923 and run by a shopkeeper and his daughter. In 1935 it became the Jubilee and then the Tivoli.  In 1939 it was rebuilt as The Wardona and operated by Wardona Cinemas Ltd.  This was an Art Deco style building designed by Thomas Braddock, including a fin sign outside with cinema’s name in neon. It closed in 1958 and then used as a warehouse. It was later demolished. Church Road The road was once a footpath, running parallel to Stanhope Road and thus linking Galley Hill with Swanscombe Village. It was once known ...

Railway from London Bridge to Gravesend The railway continues eastwards Post to the west Greenhithe Post to the east Swanscombe Post to the north Ingress Abbey Abbey Road Sure Start Children’s Centre Alexander Road Greenhithe Community Centre Alkerden Lane Western Cross Farm .All that remains of this farm is a series of buildings perched on an island surrounded by cliff faces.The buildings were bombed in 1944 and there is now no sign of a farm house. There was once an oast here Millennium Milepost - The Cockerel Tunnel under the road for the J.B.White Cement Works railway built as the pits extended south. Barnfield Pit to the north of the road. This was owned by J.B White and Bros., and dug from the early 20th. A conveyor belt ran parallel to the road in the 1950s Barnfield Pit The pit is 39 metres deep of which 60% has been backfilled with Thanet sand and 40% partially backfilled with Whiting Dross This is slurry from the production of White Portland Cement. In ...

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...