Edith's Streets

Riverside. South bank east of the Tower. Woolwich Dockyard A major Crown owned industrial site from the 17th - now a housing estate This posting covers sites only on the south bank in this square.. The north bank is North Woolwich Post to the east Woolwich Poat to the south Woolwich West Post to the west Charlton Riverside Antelope Road The north/south stretch of the road is built roughly on the site of a rail line which went to the riverfront from the main line, via a tunnel under the dockyard wall. The blocked granite-ashlar entrance to 3 Slip remains discernible north of the road 87 Busy Bees Day Nursery . Community and training facility YMCA Woolwich Centre . Purpose built centre built as part of the Dockyard Estate for a long established Woolwich institution. It is on the site of the Dockyard chapel. Dockyard Chapel. Before 1812 there was no purpose built chapel in the dockyard. In the mid-19th this was thought necessary. A chapel was built in 1856–8 to designs b...

Riverside east of the Tower, south bank. Woolwich The old heart of this riverside town. The riverfront with old wharves and thee Free Ferry, and the heart of the Royal Arsenal, all regenerated to death. Post to the east Broadwater and Arsenal Post to the south Woolwich Post to the west Woolwich Dockyard Note that this post only covers sites on the south bank of the river. The northern half of the square is North Woolwich Artillery Square Building 17 (Paper Cartridge Factory or Firepower). In 1853 John Anderson suggested a new process for making seamless conical paper sugar bags for the manufacture of small-arms bag cartridges. A new building for making the bags was proposed in early 1855. Building work, probably the last job for the on-site Engineers’ Department finished in 1856 and the factory was in use by 1857. It is a two-storey block, iron-framed with two-colour brick walls which has considerable structural interest  and reflects developments in textile mills and...