An apparently short-lived pub which appears on the renumbering plan of (Greenwich) South Street (22/4/1870). It does not appear in ‘A list of inns, alehouses and victualling houses at present licensed’ in Blackheath Division for 1863 nor in the corresponding list for 1889. On the renumbering plan it appears as (new) no. 127, that is the second house to the south after Lindsell Street on the east of (Greenwich) South Street.

A cul-de-sac running north from Grove Street, later Linsell Street, towards Blissett Street. It was in existence by the time of Morris’ map (1834) and there shown as a through road to Blissett Street but is shown as a cul-de-sac by the time of the Tithe map (1845). It is un-named on either of these but other maps (e.g. O.S. map 1869) call it Davis Place. It was renamed Brigade Street in .... by which time the Greenwich Fire Station occupied its right flank. It must have been named for the Fire Brigade that occupied the station. The area was heavily damaged in the War and when the Fire Station was rebuilt after the War, it faced Blissett Street with much easier access for fire engines, and Brigade Place disappeared.

The playing fields at the end of Deal’s Gateway linked by a footbridge over the Ravensbourne to the playground with an entrance in Brookmill Lane appears to have no official name – at least none is given at either entrance. It is sometimes reckoned as part of Ravensbourne Part but is not physically linked to it, being separated from it by the Deptford Pumping Station (Water). The area is part of the former Kent Water-works property and is leased by Thomas Water to Lewisham Council as a public open space. In the planning documents for the Docklands Light Railway extension to Lewisham, the open space is called Broadway Fields, presumably after Deptford Broadway near the Brookmills Lane entrance. This extension when built will destroy the fields though in a complex exchange of land, there will be a compensating small extension to Lewisham’s Ravensbourne Park.

Samuel Brothers’ New Map of London comprising an area of 100 square miles, May 1862. Scale 3 inches to 1 mile. H no. 86

The name shown on the 1869 O.S. map for the cul-de-sac later called Glaisher Street. It is too small to be named on any but the largest scale map but is clearly shown on Thompson’s map of 1823. According to the LCC; List of streets and places (1990) Glaisher Street was named in 1891 and the 1895 O.S. map so shows it.

A locally listed terrace of five houses on the West side of (Greenwich) South Street between the South Street Baptist Chapel and Devonshire Drive. It was listed in the 1850 rate book. The name was abolished and the houses renumbered 70-78 (Greenwich) South Street on 22 April 1870. The name was presumably taken from Cambridge Villas (q.v.), an earlier development on the other side of the Devonshire Drive turning.

One of a pair of houses to the right of Catherine House on the north side of Blackheath Road; see Brighton Cottage q.v. for more details. In 1878 it was renumbered 35 Blackheath Road.

There is some ambiguity in the location of Camden Place. When (Greenwich) South Street was re-numbered (22 April 1870), the plan showed Camden Place to be a row of six houses on the East side of the street mid-way between Green Lane (now Royal Hill) and Blissett Street. They were re-numbered as 85-95 but all but 85 (now 95) were pulled down some time before 1884 to make way for the Penn Almshouses (q.v.) that now occupy the site. However, according to the “Post Office London suburban directory” (Kelly’s) for 1868, this row was called Camden Place South (q.v.). According to the same source, Camden Place was the first three houses after Green Lane. These were re-numbered 77-81 in 1870 (now 87-91); no.81 (91) being Blissett House (q.v.). See also the previous entry.

Originally called Chapel Place, it was a cul-de-sac parallel to and a few yards West of what is now Norman Road. It is shown, though not named, in Morris’s “Plan of Parish of St Alphage, Greenwich” (1834). It changed its name on 8 June 1895 and, according to the 1955 edition of the LCC’s “List of streets and places”, the name was abolished ‘pre-1929’. But that is untrue, as voters are listed there in electoral registers up to and including 1938. The site is now part of the grounds of Greenwich Pumping Station and no part of the street survives, although its exact location can be determined from the curb alignment in Greenwich High Road.

Carey’s New plan of London and its vicinity. 1828 [4.2”: 1m.] – [Another edition] 1829 D&H no. 279 (5)&(6)

This street runs North from Blackheath Road, makes a dog-leg turn to the East and a further slight bend to the East before joining Devonshire Drive. According to the LCC’s “Origins of names of streets and places” (a set of loose-leaf folders at the Greater London History Library) it was named after Catherine of Arragon with the source given as ‘Besants S.London p.81’. In fact the reference there (Walter Besant. South London. Chatto & Windus, 1899, p.81) to Catherine of Arragon is in connection with Kennington, not Greenwich, and no other reference there is of relevance. Like most Tudor and Stuart royalty, Catherine of Arragon had links with Greenwich; but as a source for the name of Catherine Grove the connection is unproven. The immediate source for the name (as with Catherine Place and Catherine Row, qq.v.) is surely Catherine House (q.v. 31 Blackheath Road) in the grounds of which most of the street was laid. As all of these were part of the Morden College Estate, the name may relate to this. Little of the original housing survives. On the West side, the terrace North of the dog-leg, originally nos 24-38 (consec.) was pulled down in the 1920s to accommodate the expanding Miller Hospital. In the 1980s, on the close of the hospital (by then the Miller Wing, Greenwich District Hospital), the area was partially redeveloped with housing on a different axis (see Burgos Grove q.v.). A short terrace in the dog-leg (Devonshire Terrace, q.v.) was similarly redeveloped for the hospital and now forms a small public garden. Next on the same side of the street was Maurice Drummond House (q.v.) formerly a police sector House built in 1946 on the site of the garden to the former Blackheath Road Police Station, (now a hotel). The Southernmost section of the street (no.46) was a Victorian warehouse (before being sensitively re-developed as housing). The opposite, East side of the street, largely consisted of a single terrace (1-20, consec.) from Blackheath Road School in the grounds of Catherine House, North to just short of Devonshire Road (Drive), built by George Smith for the Morden College Estate in 1850 (see the property mark on no.1). In the 1920s nos 15-20 and another short terrace beyond it (Nos 21-23) set slightly back beyond the bend in the road were pulled down for a nurses’ home (now Dartmouth house, q.v.). Nos. 6-9 were bombed in the War and were redeveloped unsympathetically in the 1950s, leaving just 1-5 and 10-14 of the original terrace.

A late eighteenth century Grade II listed building mid-way along the North side of Blackheath Road. There is some dispute about its date. Alan Glencross in his “The buildings of Greenwich” (1974) states that it is early eighteenth century which is surely too early. Darrell Spurgeon (“Discover Greenwich and Carlton, 1991”) states ‘c 1776 by Michael Searles’. The statutory list simply says ‘late eighteenth century’ while a card index at the Greenwich Local History Library states rates were first paid in 1800. The house and its extensive grounds were shown on the Tithe map (1845) as belonging to Morden College. For a discussion of the name and that of Catherine Place and Row on Morden College land opposite and of Catherine Grove built largely on Catherine house land, see Catherine Grove. q.v. Michael Searles, the architect was the architect and developer of Gloucester Circus and also of The Paragon, Blackheath. More of its land was taken for a Board School in Catherine Grove (see Greenwich Adult Education Institute q.v.) and it was itself a school for a while. Before that it was a private residence, home at the time of C.J. Cambar, the coroner who conducted the inquest on Princess Alice disaster of 1878. Now offices.

A row of houses formerly on the south side of Blackheath Road towards the Deptford Bridge end. It ran from the end of Union Place (q.v) to the Skinner’s Row (q.v.) turning roughly opposite Catherine Grove. Like the latter and Catherine House, it was built on Morden College land and presumably all shared the same origin of name (see Catherine Grove). The Ravensbourne Water Works map (1809) shows the terrace built by then and the name appears on Crutchley’s map (1828). By 31 May 1878 when the name was abolished and the houses renumbered the terrace had been shortened by demolitions at either end and only Nos. 6-10 (consec.) remained; these were renumbered in the opposite direction as 40-48 (evens). Now even these have gone and the site is partly occupied by the Blackheath Road School (q.v.) and partly by the NewFix MOT Test Centre & Car Wash.

Recorded in the 1861 and 1871 census returns; it is plainly the same as Chapel Place, later Capella Place (qq.v), and appears simply to be the idiosyncratic spelling of the census enumerators.

Recorded in the 1871 census returns as at 58 South Street and in the 1881 census returns as at 58-60 South Street.

This originally described the land in the angle between Church Street and what is now Greenwich High Road, no doubt the glebe land of Greenwich Parish Church, St Alfege. It stretched as far as The Thames and Deptford Creek but the development of Bridge Street (Creek Road) and the Roan Estate (Roan Street, etc.) reduced its area. London Street, the town end of the present Greenwich High Road, was never reckoned as part of Church Fields but the rest of it (Greenwich Road (q.v.) until 1939) was. Until well into the nineteenth century this was un-named but was simply described as ‘the high road to Greenwich’ or ‘the turnpike road from Deptford to Greenwich’. In the rate books, however, properties fronting this street are simply listed under ‘Church Fields’. By the 1840s (Crutchley’s map of 1843), Church Fields, formerly the whole area north of the present Greenwich High Road between the town centre and Deptford Creek, was the name of the present Straightsmouth. In Wyld’s map of 1849, it was only the western, railway station, end, the remainder being Gale’s Row (q.v.). In Wyld’s map of 1853 and Stanford’s of 1856, this had become Church Terrace (q.v.), almost certainly an error, and in Crutchley’s map of 1857 it had become Galen Row (q.v.), a double error – wrongly spelt and wrongly placed. Church Fields reappears in Wyld’s map of 1863 but already in 1862 in Stanford’s “Library map of London”, usually a reliable source, the road was called Straightsmouth, a name already used, in the form Straight’s mouth, in Mason’s Directory of 1852. All these names, Church Fields, Galen [i.e. Gale’s] Row and Straightsmouth were used on different maps for a number of years thereafter. By 1898 Church Fields had shrunk still further; on the renumbering plan it is shown as a row of houses midway along the north side of Straightsmouth, renumbered 26-36 evens. It no longer survives, being the garden/playground of James Wolfe School. The same renumbering renamed Straightsmouth east of Randell Place (formerly Brunswick Place north side and Gale’s Row South Side) as Church Fields, which it remains. Meanwhile the Straightsmouth name was given to the new road bearing south from this point to join London Street (Greenwich High Road) which replaced a warren of alleys destroyed in the railway extension of 1878.

A terrace on the north side of Straighsmouth that formerly existed at the station end of the road, west of Bryant’s yard (Glaisher Street). It lay immediately behind the old station and was destroyed when the line was extended in 1878 to Maze Hill and beyond and the station was realigned farther north. It appears named on Wyld’s map of 1852 but appears on various earlier maps un-named. On Stanford’s map of 1856 and some later ones it appears to be the name of the whole of Straighstmouth but this was never so. It is possible that the three houses went of Glaisher Street (now 78-82 Straightsmouth) were originally part of Church Terrace though by the time of renumbering in 1898 they were part of Brownings Place (q.v.).

This was the original name of the Cinema de Luxe (q.v.) which opened in Carlton’s Theatre (see ‘Greenwich Theatre, London Road’) around 1909 when the latter closed to live performances. It is recorded under this name in Kelly’s directories for 1910 to 1913 and as Cinematograph Theatre Royal in Kelly’s for 1914 to 1920.

A row of houses on the south side of Blackheath Road at the Lewisham Road end. Scattered housing is shown along this stretch of road on Rocque’s map of 1746, and Bowles’ map of 1787 show a continues terrace occupying nearly two-thirds of the street. Morris’s (1834) and Wyld’s (1848) maps both show a continuous row of houses from Lewisham Lane (now Road) to Ditch Alley broken only by West Passage (now disappeared) mid-way between the two and called Cold Bath Row. Crutchley’s map (1828) indicates that only the terrace between Lewisham Lane and West Passage was called Cold Bath Row and from other evidence it would seem that the terrace between West Passage and Ditch Alley was called Holwell Place (q.v.). By 1862 (Standford’s map) this terrace between Ditch Alley and West Passage (which lay directly opposite the alleyway leading to 75a Blackheath Road, see The Cottage) had been demolished to make way for Penn’s Engine Works (q.v.). By 1869 (O.S. map), the Engine Works had extended further, demolishing West Passage and extending behind the remaining terrace and bisecting it with a building (offices?) fronting Blackheath Road. When Blackheath Road was renumbered on 31 May 1878, Cold Bath Row referred only to the Western half of the remaining terrace and was re-numbered 90-104 (evens). These remained until World War 1 (O.S. map, 1914) but had disappeared by 1930 (O.S. map, LCC Revision) for yet a further extension of what had been Penn’s Engine Works (later Bloomfields Bakery and then Wickes DIY store). The origin of the name is closely linked to two nearby streets, John Penn Street at the Southern end of Ditch Alley and the road at the right-angle to this still called Coldbath Street. These at various times in the nineteenth century were known as Bath Place, Bath Street, Cold Bath Place, Cold Bath Street and Coldbath Street. Elsewhere in London (e.g. Coldbath Square, Islington) ‘Cold Bath’ referred to a bath house for medicinal bathing in (cold) natural spring water. Perhaps there was an incipient spa by the Ravensbourne between the Silk Mill (formerly Artillery Mill) remembered in Silkmill Path and the Kent Waterworks (formerly Brook Mill, hence Brookmill Road), now the Deptford Pumping Station (Water),ThamesWater (q.v.). Bowles’ map of 1787 shows a building called Cold Bath some 150 yards NW of the junction ot what is now Cold Bath Street & John Penn Street.

The family firm of Davy’s of London Ltd have been in business as wine merchants since 1870, but more recently it has branched into the wine bar and restaurant business. In 1972, Davy’s moved their headquarters to Greenwich and subsequently opened a basement steak-house restaurant and bar at 161 Greenwich High Road, next to their wine vaults. Several other of Davy’s Steak houses were called Colonel Jasper’s (at City Road, Barking and Bristol). In 1999, the Greenwich Colonel Jasper’s along with the adjacent Davy’s Wine Vaults closed for renovation and when reopened, Colonel Jasper’s had become function rooms (so called) for Davy’s.

In the electoral register for 1893 a property called Cornwall Villas [sic] is shown between 29 and 37 Devonshire Road.

A terrace of seven houses on the West side of (Greenwich) South Street near the Southern (Blackheath Road) end. An alleyway runs to the rear of this terrace, now usually blocked off, which was formerly called Laurel Gardens. The name of the terrace was abolished on 22 April 1870 and the houses renumbered 100-112.

The newest road in the Triangle, named in 1992. It is technically a cul-de-sac off the south side of Blackheath Road which is how it qualifies as being part of the Triangle. It is in fact the private road off which are the properties of Meridian Court (q.v.), a substantial development of Fairview New Homes plc.

Cruchley’s New map of London. [n.d] [4.9”: 80 chains (1m.)]

Cruchley’s New postal district map of London. [n.d] [4.95”: 1m.]

One of several blocks in the former Merryweather Fire Engine Works each alluding to some respect of the work of the factory. For more details see Bell House. q.v.

The first of a short row of four houses between Catherine Grove and Catherine House (31 Blackheath Road, q.v.) which with another part on the further side of Catherine House form a delightful group, deservedly listed Grade II, the most distinctive feature of which is a wooden trellised verandah at raised ground floor level which runs the length of the row. The stuccoed two storey plus basement row is dated early nineteenth century in the Statutory list but both Darrell Spurgeon and Diana Rimel are more specific, dating it 1848 which accords well with documentary evidence. The row does not appears on the Tithe map (1844) but is listed in Mason’s directory (1852). Brighton Cottage was on the corner of Catherine Grove with its entrance at the side and was renumbered as 23 Blackheath Road in 1878. Unusually the row did not have a name of its own but each house was separately named. The remainder were Riga Cottage (no. 25), Rainford Cottage, renamed Royalty Cottage in the late 1860s (no. 27), Morant Cottage (no. 29) and, beyond Catherine House, Monmouth Cottage (no. 33) and Camden Cottage (no.35).

See ‘Greenwich Industrial Estate, Greenwich High Road.’

A long terrace on the north side of Straightsmouth. It is un-named on any maps of the period but is clearly shown on Morris’ map of 1834. Originally it probably ran east from Bryant’s Yard, later Glaisher Street (q.v) but in the 1870s, after Church Terrace (q.v.) to the west was largely demolished for the realigned Greenwich Railway Station, the three remaining houses to the west of Glaisher Street became part of Brownings Place. On 10 May 1898 it was renumbered 38-82 evens, Straightsmouth. All survive.

A cul-de-sac off the east side of Greenwich High Road near its southern end developed in 1853 or 1854 in the grounds of Lawn House (now Wellington House) and originally called Wellington Grove. Wellington House (No. 2) is the oldest house surviving in the Triangle and dates from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century (Queen Elizabeth College predates this but the present almshouses were rebuilt in 1819). It is a grade II listed building. The rest of the south side (nos. 2-24 evens) date from the 1850s and are locally listed. The north side was demolished as part of the inter-War expansion of the Miller Hospital. After that closed in the 1970s, the north side was redeveloped again as housing which extended to Catherine Grove so that the road, though still a cul-de-sac for vehicles, has footpath access to Catherine Grove. On 10 November 1896 Wellington Grove was renamed Burgos Grove, an odd change of name as the battle of Burgos (Nov. 1812) must be reckoned as one of Wellington’s rare defeats.

A locally listed pair of houses dating from ca. 1830. They are on the West side of (Greenwich) South Street immediately south of the Devonshire Drive turning. The name was abolished on 22 April 1870 and the houses were renumbered 80-82 (Greenwich) South Street. Cambridge Terrace is on the same side of the road further North, on the other side of the Devonshire Drive turning. There is no known connection with the city of Cambridge so the Villas are probably named after Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850), seventh son of George III, and Queen Victoria’s uncle. Cambridge Villas, and even the later Cambridge Terrace, are too early to be named after his more famous son, Field Marshall H.R.H., the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army for an extraordinary 40 years (1856-1895).

Recorded as such in the “Post Office London suburban directory” (Kelly’s) for 1868 but it does not appear in the list of abolished names for (Greenwich) South Street two years later, nor does it appear in the re-numbering plan. The 1861 census returns record the houses South from the corner of Green Lane (now Royal Hill) as 1 & 2 Camden Place, Blissett House, and 1-6 Camden Place. The second sequence of numbering (not an uncommon occurrence at that time) appears to coincide with both the ‘Camden Place South’ of the 1868 Kelly’s and the ‘Camden Place’ of the street re-numbering of 1870. It would seem that the row of houses either side of Blissett House were sometimes known as Camden Place (q.v. following entry) in which case those South of Blissett House were called Camden Place South but more usually only the latter were considered part of Camden Place and the ‘South’ was therefore redundant.

The popular name in the Middle Ages for the pilgrimage route from London to Canterbury and the martyr shrine of Thomas Becket, St Thomas of Canterbury. Throughout its length it followed the route that continued to the Kent coast – the Dover Road or Watling Street. This is the modern A2 and the part by the Ashburnham Triangle is Blackheath Road.

Carey’s New and accurate plan of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark and parts adjacent. 1787. Engraved by S. J. Neek. [6.5”: 1m.] D&H no. 184(1)

The final name of the Greenwich Theatre (q.v.) in London Street was Carlton’s Theatre. In the Kelly’s Directory for 1901, Carlton is shown as the proprietor of what was then called Morton’s Theatre. The following year it was called ‘Carlton’s Theatre, late Morton’s’, and after that, Carlton’s Theatre until 1909. In the 1910 Kelly’s, it had become the Cinematograph Theatre and it remained a cinema (see ‘Cinema de Luxe) until final closure in the mid-1920s.

The workshop and exhibition studio of a co-operative of artists and sculptors occupying the premises of the Blackheath Road School in the mid-1990s. A similar co-operative had occupied the former Roan School In Devonshire Drive until it was developed for housing.

This is recorded as such in the Greenwich rates book for 1850 between Skinner’s Row and Catherine Row. It therefore would appear to be distinct from the latter. It is, however, not recorded in the 1851 census returns, Mason’s Directory of 1852 or the Deptford Directory for 1853, nor, indeed, anywhere else. Moreover Catherine Row is shown on several maps as reaching right up to Skinner’s Row (Crutchley’s, 1828, Morris’s, 1834 & Wyld’s 1848) though this might be due to the limitations of scale. Two further considerations complicate the issue. The 1850 rate book refers to Catherine Row as ‘Catherine Row continued’ though it had not been previously mentioned – perhaps it meant ‘Catherine Row in continuation of Catherine Place’. Also at the time of the re-numbering (31 May 1878), Catherine Row (40-48 Blackheath Road) did not reach Skinner’s Row (which lay between 28 and 30) despite the evidence of earlier maps. Catherine Place may have been reckoned as a part or extension of Catherine Row but whatever its status (unless it is just a slip of the pen), it lay immediately to the East of Skinner’s Row.

Former name of CAPELLA PLACE, (q.v.) name changed 18 June 1895. It is not clear which (if any) chapel gave the street its name but the nearest would be the GreenwichTabernacle on the opposite side of Greenwich (High) Road and a couple of hundred yards further West.

Greenwich, Woolwich and Deptford from the Ordnance Survey [being a map of the Parliamentary Borough of Greenwich]. G. G. Chappell, del. [1832] [2.05”: 1m] In: P.P. 1831-32 (141) xxxix.1 Parl. representation (Bromley reprts).

One of several BME evangelical churches that established themselves in Greenwich at the end of the 20th century. It was based at Siren House, Unit 521, 49 Greenwich High Road in one of the buildings of the former Merryweather Fire Engine Works.

This is shown on Mogg’s map of 1845 as the same as the present Straightsmouth which is certainly not the case. It is recorded in Mason’s directory of 1852 in addition to both Straightsmouth (including Brunswick Place, Gale’s Row and Rymer’s Buildings) and Church Fields. As Church Terrace (q.v.) was not recorded by Mason, it is probable that this was an earlier or alternative name for the latter. This view is strengthened by the fact that Mason records a Railway Tavern at one end of Church Row, suggesting that it should be located at the railway station end of Straightsmouth.

Also called Cinema de Luxe (Greenwich) Ltd. The live theatre in London Street (see ‘Greenwich Theatre, London Street’ qq.v.) was replaced by a cinema as early as 1909 (first mention in the Kelly’s directory for 1910). The cinema had a succession of names: Cinematograph Theatre (Kelly’s, 1910-13), Cinematograph Theatre Royal (1914-20), Palacean Ltd Cinematograph Theatre (1921-22), Cinema de Luxe (1923), and finally Cinema de Luxe (Greenwich) Ltd (1924-25). The building appears to have remained vacant from the mid-1920s until it was redeveloped with adjacent properties for Greenwich’s new Town Hall just before the war. The theatre and cinema was situated between the Public Baths on the corner of Royal Hill and the Portland Hotel next to the present West Greenwich Library.

It is one of the oldest pubs in the area being recorded in the note-books for 1800 and regularly appearing in directories thereafter. Given its name and its location (on the Dover Road at the foot of the steep Blackheath Hill), it was presumably originally a staging post for coaches to the Kent coast. It was rebuilt in late Victorian times and is no longer obviously an old coaching inn. The present building is locally listed. After refurbishment, it reopened in 2000 as the Graduate P.H. (q.v.).

Marked on Crutchley’s map of 1828 on the West side of what is now Greenwich South Street between Laurel Place and Blackheath Road. The map is not detailed enough to show whether it is a single house or a row of houses but Crutchley’s map of 1843 shows it to have been a row. The name, if not the buildings, had disappeared before mid-century. Later maps show a row called Cottage Place in much the same place. This may indicate a change of name around 1850 but more likely it is a case of misnaming on the earlier maps.

An alternative name for the Greenwich Tabernacle (q.v.)

Cornwell & O’Neill’s wrought ironworks and blacksmiths works occupied two adjacent properties in a terrace (nos. 19 & 21) on the West side of Greenwich High Road near the southern (Deptford Bridge) end.

Plan of the Parish of Greenwich in the County of Kent, 1844, Messrs Crawter, Surveyors, etc. … Scale 4 chains to the inch, deposited in the Parish … 13th January 1845 [Tithe map] 1: 3168

By an act of parliament (11 Geo. 2 cap. 36) of 1738, the turnpike along the Dover Road (now the A2) through Greenwich was extended ‘from a place called the Crown and Boot to the stones-end in London Street in the Parish of East Greenwich aforesaid being about half a mile in length’. London Street is the former name of the Greenwich end of the present Greenwich High Road so the Crown and Boot must have been at the other end, the junction with Deptford Bridge/ Balckheath Road, which is the implication of ‘from’. It may be an earlier name for the Red Lion, now the Greenwich Inn, but this is supposed to date from 1742 and is some yards from the junction. It is therefore more likely to be an earlier name for the Rose and Crown, formerly on the corner of Blackheath Road and Greenwich (High) Road and demolished on a road widening scheme of 1878-82 and replaced by Greenwich District Offices of the School Board for London, or else an earlier pub on this site or elsewhere at that junction. At that date, there were no house numbers and it was not just pubs that had signs; nevertheless, the ‘Crown and Boot’ does sound like a pub that may have been a boot-maker, cobbler or a shoe-shop.

Cruchley’s New railway map of London & its environs. London, Cruchley, [n.d] [5”: 1m]

Cruchley’s New plan of London and its environs. 1829 [5”: 1m.] D&H no.320(1)