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ENGINE HOUSE, Greenwich High Road
See Bell House
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FAULKNER’S ROAD
According to R.H.G. Thomas’ “London’s first railway” this was the name in 1844 of the turning off Greenwich (High) Road later called North Pole Lane, and later still re-named Norman Road (qq.v.). The latter name was already in use by the time of Wyld ’s map (1848). The Tithe map and schedule of 1844 shows land either side of the railway on the east bank of Deptford Creek occupied by one ‘Faulkner’. The road, which stops short at that time, lead towards that land.
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Fisherman’s Arms, Cold Bath Place (John Penn Street)
A pub at the corner of Cold Bath Place (later Street and eventually John Penn Street) and the west side of Morden Street. It is recorded in Mason’s directory (1852) at no. 9 and is recorded on various maps. It did not survive the redevelopment of the area in the 1950s.
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Friends Wine Bar, Blackheath Road
A former wine bar on the South side of Blackheath Road near to the East (Lewisham Road) end; later closed and derelict.
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GALE’S ROW, Church Fields
First shown on Morris’ map of 1834, though it is likely to be the same as Galen Row (q.v.) that appeared earlier (Thompson’s map of 1823). It is sometimes shown as the same as Straightsmouth as a whole (possibly because of space restrictions on the map) but more usually as only the eastern half. By the time of renumbering in 1898 it had shrunk further to the far eastern end beyond Randell Place and on the south side only. No houses survive. With Brunswick Place on the north side opposite (which does survive), it was renamed Church Fields.
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GANG LANE
The earliest name of what is now ROYAL HILL. The name is shown on Rocque’s map of 1746 and most 18th century maps. The southern end from Point Hill/Prior Street to Greenwich South Street was called Green Lane for much of the 19th century while the northern end, developed by Robert Royal, was called ROYAL HILL. In 1881 that name was extended to include Green Lane (i.e. the whole of former Gang Lane). According to Beryl Platts’ “History of Greenwich” ‘its name [was] a legacy from the Danish occupation of 1012’ but the association is obscure; the centre of the Danish army’s activities was nearer the town centre (the site of their murder of St Alfege is traditionally where the parish church of St Alfege now stands). Another explanation that seems more plausible is that, in a town with many naval connections, the lane was reputed by the haunt of press gangs.
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George and Dragon P.H., Blackheath Hill
A pub on the corner of Blackheath Hill and Lewisham Road, technically outside the Triangle but here included on the grounds that, if both sides of boundary roads are to be included, so should all the corners of boundary cross-roads. It seems additionally appropriate that, according to Diana Rimel in her ‘The Ashburnham Traingle’, the Ashburnhams were once ground landlords. (However, as the site is shown on Traver’s survey map of 1695 as part of the Morden College estate and this was still the case on the tithe map of 1844, this seems unlikely.) This and the Coach and Horses opposite are all that remains of some half a dozen pubs within a few yards of the cross-roads. It is recorded in Pigot’s Directory for 1827 and appears regularly in directories, maps, etc. since then. The pub was rebuilt in the late nineteenth century (1890 according to Darrell Spurgeon’s ‘Discover Greenwich and Charlton’) and the building is locally listed.
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GLAISHER STREET
According to the LCC’s “List of streets and places”, it was named in 1891; it was a cul-de-sac on the north side of Straightsmouth between nos. 76 and 78. It was built on the site of Bryant’s Yard (q.v.) but extended further (eleven houses on the west side and eight on the east). It survived World War 2 largely unscathed but was demolished for extension to James Wolf School. Now all that remains is the turn-off from Straighsmouth, . and a gap between nos. 76 and 78 that is deeper than rear gardens of the adjacent houses. James Glaisher (1809-1903) was the chief meteorologist at Greenwich and there is a plaque to him at 20 Dartmouth Hill.
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Gloster Brewery, Deptford Bridge
This is shown on Morris’s map of 1834. It is not the same as the Brewery of Thomas Norfolk of Deptford Bridge, as the Gloster Brewery is shown to the east of the bridge on the south side of the road in the parish of Greenwich whereas the Norfolk Brewery was to the west of the bridge on the corner of Brookmills Lane, with the distillery between the two. According to Joan Read in her article ‘The Inn Crowd’, in ‘The Mercury’, July 19, 2000 (p.30), the brewery (called Gloucester Brewery) ‘flourished until 1914’.
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GLOUCESTER HOUSE, (Greenwich South Street)
Recorded in the 1841 census returns
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Good Intent P.H., Green Lane (Royal Hill)
Mason’s 1852 directory records a pub of this name in Green Lane. Green Lane was that section of Royal Hill between (Greenwich) South Street and Prior Street, Royal Hill itself then turning Southward up what is now Point Hill. It is listed as a beerhouse in various of the LCC’s ‘List of Inns’ etc. and an un-named beerhouse is shown on the Royal Hill renumbering plan (1881) on the corner of Grove Place (later Renbold Street) which no longer exists. The site is now an open area in front of Darnell House near the junction with Blissett Street.
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GOSS PLACE, Greenwich (High) Road
A terrace of 12 houses on the North side of Greenwich (High) Road to the West of the Greenwich Pumping Station, which has long since disappeared. It numbered 1-12 from right to left. On 19 November 1875 the name was abolished and the houses were renumbered in the opposite direction as Greenwich (High) Road nos. 59-81 (odds). The smaller façade of the Merryweather Works (nearer to the Pumping Station), now a gym, occupied the site of Goss Place, though the terrace extended somewhat further in either direction. The newsagent next to the former Millers Pub (no. 83) was not part of Goss Place; it was next door and perhaps the terrace, though a good deal older was similar in character.
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Great Britain, Ordnance Survey, 1869
’25 inch’ O.S. map. Scale 1: 2500. Southampton, 1869. H. no. 128a
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GREEN LANE
Royal Hill was originally called Gang Lane (q.v.). In the 1820s, the area was developed by Robert Royal and Gang Lane was renamed Royal Hill by 1828 (evidence of Crutchley’s map) at the latest. Possibly at the same time but certainly by mid-century (evidence of Wyld map 1849), the Southern end was called Green Lane. This section ran from Prior Street and Point Hill to Greenwich South Street and was renumbered as part of Royal Hill on 18 February 1881. That section from Blissett Street to Greenwich South Street was sometimes known as Little Royal Hill.
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Greenwich Baths and Wash-Houses for the Labouring Classes, London Street (Greenwich High Road)
The public baths on the corner of London Street (now Greenwich High Road) and Royal Hill opened in 1851 (it was already recorded in Mason’s directory, 1852) and closed in 1928 when the new municipal swimming baths in Trafalgar Road (now The Arches) were opened (last recorded in Kelly’s directory for 1927-28). The handsome building, subsequently demolished, is illustrated in Barbara Ludlow’s ‘The Old Photographs Series: Greenwich’ (Sutton, 1994, p.104). After lying derelict for a while, Greenwich’s new Town Hall (q.v., now Meridian House) was opened in 1939 on the site.
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Greenwich Cinema Studio Bar, Greenwich High Road
The eastern end of Greenwich High Road (the old London Street), especially its southern side, was severely damaged during World War 2. Between Stockwell Street and Royal Hill all that had been destroyed in the War was demolished afterwards. For long the area was blighted and its principle use was as an open-air market. In 1988 the site was redeveloped and the central element, between a hotel (the Ibis) and some sheltered housing (Serica Court) was a cinema, the Greenwich Cinema. Part of the cinema complex was a separately-entered coffee shop and bar called the Studio Bar. Around 1995, it became a ‘Firkin’ pub as the Funnel and Firkin.
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GREENWICH HIGH ROAD
On 1 January 1939, Greenwich Road and London Street were together re-named Greenwich High Road. Only the former is within the Triangle. It is an ancient route-way as old as Greenwich itself (Saxon). Its alignment is determined by the crossing of the Ravensbourne at Deptford Bridge, and goes from there to Greenwich Parish Church (St Alfege) and the town centre at Greenwich Church Street and Stockwell Street. The numerous subsidiary names (see below) were abolished on 19 November 1875.
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Greenwich Pub Theatre, Greenwich High Road
When it was announced at the end of 1998 that the Prince of Orange P.H. (q.v.) was being redeveloped as a backpacker’s Hostel, it was also announced that the Prince Theatre (q.v.) annexed to it and closed as part of the redevelopment would not reopen. When the boardings came down and the premises were reopened in August 1999, it was seen that the pub was renamed the St. Christopher’s Inn and the theatre had actually survived, as a venue, and was renamed the Greenwich Pub Theatre. However, it was not until mid-2000 that the theatre actually opened for performance, by which time the theatre had been renamed yet again as the Greenwich Playhouse (q.v.).
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GREENWICH RAILWAY STATION, Greenwich (High) Road
There have been three stations at Greenwich. The first was a strictly temporary affair completed in the summer of 1838 in use from the extension of the service to Greenwich on Christmas Eve 1838 until the permanent terminal was opened on 12 April 1840. It was set back from the main road (Greenwich (High) Road) in what was then Blue Stile. (q.v.)The street alignments are different now and the station (clearly shown on Morris’ map, though that was published before the station opened) occupied the site of the vacant land behind the filling station immediately West of the present station (later the NOVOTEL hotel) . Even earlier (1836) there was a temporary booking office at Rose Cottage, North Pole Lane (now Norman Road) and passengers had to walk across fields and a footbridge across Deptford Creek to join the train at Deptford. The second station (1840-78), the first permanent terminal, was on the same alignment as the temporary one but further forward, beside the Prince of Orange Tavern in Greenwich (High) Road at an angle to the road. It was designed by George Smith and built by Baker & Sons. The third and present station was necessitated by Greenwich becoming a through station when the line was extended under the Park. It is commonly stated to be the 1840 station rebuilt on a new alignment but this is not so. R.H.G. Thomas in “London’s first railway” states ‘There was a certain similarity between the two buildings, and some of the Portland stone from the old station was re-dressed and used in the new one but no attempt was made to preserve the original building’. Nevertheless the statutory list (it is a Grade 2 listed building) states ‘1840 by G. Smith, re-erected 1878’ and stylistically it is of the earlier date. It is set further back than the 1840 station (just east of where the temporary station stood) and is fronted by a forecourt now used as a car park.
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Greenwich Road Chapel, Greenwich (High) Road
An alternative name for the Greenwich Tabernacle (q.v.)
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GREENWICH ROAD TRAM DEPOT
Trams came to Greenwich in 1870 (see the Pimlico, Peckham & Greenwich Street Tramways Co. in Chapter ) and a depot, stables and terminus were established at 43-49 Greenwich Road, formerly Prospect Place. The tram service was soon extended eastwards and the Greenwich Road facility ceased to be a terminus but remained a stables until electrification in 1904 and a deport for longer.
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GREENWICH SOUTH STREET
An ancient route-way linking Greenwich and Lewisham and as old as each of them (Saxon). On 22 April 1870, Thornton Row (q.v.), reckoned a separate street, and South Street were merged under the latter’s name.The numerous subsidiary names (see below) were abolished at the same time and the street was re-numbered (odd numbers on East side, evens on West, numbering from the North (Greenwich High Road) end). On 1 January 1939, South Street was re-named Greenwich South Street to distinguish it from other South Streets in London (though locally the old name continues in use). Until well into the nineteenth century, the street was called Lime Kiln Lane (q.v.) but earlier still, before the liming industry developed in the locality, it was presumably known by some such designation as ‘the road to Lewisham’ (see Lewisham Lane) - at least at the Greenwich end of the route.
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Greenwich Studio Theatre, Greenwich High Road
The present Greenwich Theatre at the foot of Crooms Hill and the former Greenwich Theatre in London Street, now Greenwich High Road where Meridian House, the former new Town Hall, now stands are both outside the Triangle, but the Greenwich Studio Theatre was within. It occupied a building at the side of and part of the Prince of Orange P.H. (q.v.) now the St. Christopher’s Inn (q.v.) with an entrance in the station forecourt. The theatre opened in the late 1980s and the company put on a regular programme of mainly continental plays in English translation. In the summer of 1995, the company was reportedly in difficulty with the Prince of Orange over the use of the venue. Production resumed in October 1995 in the renamed Prince Theatre (q.v.) with a new company. The Greenwich Studio Theatre Company under Julian and Margarete Forsyth survived their eviction from their former venue though without a permanent home. (2016. Theatre now defunct)
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Greenwich Theatre Bar, London Street (Greenwich High Road)
This is not the same as the present Greenwich Theatre but one that was sited where the present Meridian House is in Greenwich High Road (q.v.‘Greenwich Theatre’). For the first half of its life the theatre was called the Greenwich Theatre, thereafter it was known as the Prince of Wales, Morton’s and Catton’s. Throughout its life, it no doubt had one or more bars for its patrons. Around 1909, it became a cinema under a succession of names: Cinematograph Theatre, Cinematograph Theatre Royal, Palaceum Cinematograph Theatre and Cinema de Luxe and may have continued to have a bar. It finally closed in the mid-1920s.
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Greenwich Town Hall, Greenwich (High) Road
Greenwich’s First town hall (1900-1939) is now West Greenwich House (q.v.). For the second town hall, see ‘Meridian House’.
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Faden, W, 1810
A new topographical map of the country in the vicinity of London … London: published by W. Faden …, January 1st 1800 Scale: 2” to 1 mile. D & H no. 250 (1)
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Fifty-seven Bar Restaurant, Greenwich High Road
After more than a century and a quarter, the Rose of Denmark P.H. closed in 2001 and the property was put up for auction. As it was surrounded on all sides but the street frontage by the Merryweather Factory, which was due for redevelopment, it seemed reasonable to suppose that the developers of the latter would buy it up and consolidate it with their property. This did not happen and in 2006 it reopened, first as Fifty-seven Bar restaurant (the address is 57 Greenwich High Road), and subsequently as part of a chain of Japanese restaurants.
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FRIENDLY PLACE
A cul-de-sac on the east side of Lewisham Road a few yards south of the junction with Blackheath Road and Hill, too small to be named on any but the largest of maps.
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Funnel and Firkin, Greenwich High Road
The Greenwich Cinema,built as a major component of the redevelopment of the townward end of Greenwich High Road in 1988, included a separately entered bar called the Studio Bar. Around 1995 it was taken over by the Firkin Brewery, refurbished and reopened as the Funnel and Firkin. In 2003, it was renamed yet again, first as The Market. It has subsequently changed names again - but like the cinema, continues to prosper.
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GALEN ROW, Church Fields (Straightsmouth)
First shown on Thompson’s 1823 map and repeated on other maps for at least 40 years (it is shown on a Crutchley map of 1865), this is almost certainly a mistake for Gale’s Row (q.v.)
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GANG LANE CLOSE, Lime Kiln Lane (Greenwich South Street)
A roughly rectangular piece of land in the angle of Gang Lane, now Royal Hill and an un-named road now Greenwich South Street, shown in Samuel Travers’ survey of the manor of East Greenwich (1695); described there as 4 acres, 1 road & 0 perches in extent. It corresponds to land owned by Morden College in the 19th century and it may have been acquired about the time of the survey.
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George P.H., Limekilns (? Blackheath Hill)
In a list of surveyors of the New Cross Turnpike Trust (q.v.) reprinted in Kimbell’s ‘Greenwich Charities’ (1816), Mr. Horton Ledger is recorded as responsible, among others, for the road ‘…from Deptford Bridge to the George Public House, near the Limekilns, Greenwich…’. Near the Limekiln’s is a bit vague as there were at least eight pubs in this neighbourhood at one time. This could be a ninth but it seems more likely that it was just a variant name of the George and Dragon (q.v.).
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GLENEVIN HOUSE, Langdale Road
In the 1881 census returns, this is indicated to be on the even-numbered (west) side of the road below number 10. In this position there are (and were in 1881) not one but two houses, both of them pairs of semi-detached, Nos. 2-4 and 6-8. Presumably Glenevin House was one of these. Built by Samuel Harris in the mid-1860s.
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GLOSTER PLACE, Greenwich (High) Road
Smith’s map of 1862 gives this name to the row of houses opposite Queen Elizabeth’s College in Greenwich (High) Road. No other map shows this name and it does appear in the 1861 census returns or contemporary directories. The map shows several errors (Holwell Place described as ‘Holywell’, for example) and at least one glaring omission (Queen Elizabeth’s College is completely missing) so ‘Gloster Place’ may be simply a mistake. This view is strengthened by the fact there was a real Gloster (or Gloucester) Place at the time (the northern, or rectangular, side of what is now Gloucester Circus, now largely occupied by the southern side of the Maribor Flats) and this is un-named on the map.
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Godfrey, Alan, 1914
Old Ordnance Survey maps. London sheet: Blackheath 1914. Reduced from the original Ordnance Survey: 1: 2500 map (Published … 1916) to a scale of approximately 1: 4340. Gateshead: Godfrey, 1989. Surveyed in 1862-67, revised in 1914.
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Goodnews Distillery, Deptford Bridge
The original name of the Deptford Gin Distillery opened in 1779 which became the Hollands Distillery in the nineteenth century and the Seager Distillery in the twentieth.
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Grace Outreach Church, Greenwich High Road
One of several new churches established in Greenwich recently, and based at Station House, 49 Greenwich High Road, in one of the buildings of the former Merryweather Fire Engine Works, until that site was re-developed.
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Great Britain, Ordnance Survey, 1897
’25 inch’ O.S. map. Scale 1: 2500. Southampton, 1897 ‘Revised and re-surveyed in 1893-94.’ H. no. 284
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Greenwich Adult Education Institute, Catherine Grove
Later flats and business premises.
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Greenwich Central Hall, London street (Greenwich High Road)
The Wesleyan Chapel, London Street (see ‘West Greenwich Methodist Church’) was reconstructed in 1906 and re-opened in 1906 as the Greenwich Central Hall. Bombed in World War 2, this name was discontinued when it re-opened after the war.
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Greenwich District Board of Works Offices, Greenwich (High) Road
Under the ‘Metropolitan management act 1855’, the same which established the Metropolitan Board of Works, the fore-runner of the LCC, the smaller parish vestries in the metropolis were amalgamated for civil purposes to form District Boards of Works. The parishes of St. Nicholas, Deptford, Charlton and Kidbrooke were joined to that of Greenwich to form the Board of Works for the Greenwich District. Its first offices were the old Greenwich Parish Vestry House next to St. Alfege Church, between it and the Mitre Tavern. In 1876 the Board moved into purpose-built offices on the north side of Greenwich (High) Road half way between Straightsmouth and North Pole Lane (Norman Road). Commonly called the Vestry Hall, it became Greenwich’s first Town Hall on the formation of the Metropolitan Borough in 1900. It is now West Greenwich House (q.v.).
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Greenwich Industrial Estate, Greenwich High Road
A council-run industrial estate of small units which used to exist on the backlands between Greenwich High Road and the railway and between Norman Road and the un-named cul-de-sac leading to the warehouse at the back of Davy’s Wine Vaults (at the side of ‘Colonel Jasper’s’). The address was 159 Greenwich High Road and there was an exit-only gateway to the estate in the cul-de-sac at the rear but the main entrance was round the corner in Norman Road. The London Borough of Greenwich still owns a second industrial estate in Norman Road, Brookmarsh Industrial Estate at 70 Norman Road, on the opposite side of the road and somewhat further north – just too far away to be eligible for inclusion as a separate entry. Later (c.2012) redeveloped privately as flats, a gym, and student accomodation, under the name of "The Movement", with public access between Norman Road and the Davy's cul-de-sac via the newly named Lovibond Lane.
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Greenwich Pumping Station, Greenwich High Road
An important element in Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s Sewerage system undertaken for the Metropolitan Board of Works. Two of the southern main sewers meet here, where the lower is pumped up 18 feet to meet the other. The two then continue as the Southern Outfall Sewer to Crossness. Opened in May 1864 by the MWB and administered successively by the London County Council (1889), the Greater London Council (1964) and the Thames Water Authority (1986); the last was privatised in 1989 as Thames Water Utilities PLC and is currently responsible for the station. It was for long called the Deptford Pumping Station (q.v.) being renamed in 1986. The main pair of engine houses were built in 1862 to a design by Bazalgette himself or under his direction in an Italianate style. The smaller outfall building in a similar style near the main road is somewhat later; the Western side of the Chapel Place (later Cappella Place) was demolished to accommodate it. (In 2016 the Pumping Station became the site of one of the shafts for the building of the Thames Tunnel, a massive new sewer designed to come into operation early in the 2020's to relieve the overload on the original Bazelgette system. Note also the Grade 1 (?) listed Coal Sheds on the site, part of the original Bazelgette scheme. Their purpose was to keep dry the coal brought in by barge up the Creek to power the original beam engines lifting the contents of the lower of the two original sewers the 18 feet necessary to allow it to flow into the Southern Outfall Sewer - see above).
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GREENWICH ROAD
This is the former name of that part of the present Greenwich High Road (q.v.) within the Ashburnham Triangle that is between Deptford Bridge and Prince of Orange Lane on the north side and Blackheath Road and (Greenwich) South Street on the south side. The remainer of Greenwich High Road was formerly London Street (q.v.). The road must be as ancient as Greenwich itself being the direct route from London, branching off the main road from London to the Kent coast (the Dover road) immediately it crosses the Ravensbourne at Deptford Bridge. The name however in official usage is relatively modern, appearing on no map earlier than Morris’ (1834) although Rocque’s (1746) shows it well developed with housing at least on its north side. The rate books of the period include it in ‘Church Fields’ which then encompassed everything west of the town to the Creek. A document of 1805 formally calls it ‘the turnpike road leading from Deptford Bridge to the town of Greenwich’ and elsewhere, less formally ‘the road leading from Deptford to Greenwich’ (see Kimbell’s Charities of Greenwich). From these descriptions (they are not really names), it is but a short step to ‘the road to Greenwich’ and ‘the Greenwich road’ which had probably long been used before being formally adopted.
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Greenwich Road Tabernacle, Greenwich (High) Road
An alternative name for the Greenwich Tabernacle (q.v.)
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Greenwich Seventh Day Adventist Church, Devonshire Drive
The former parish church of St. Paul’s, Devonshire Drive (q.v.), lay derelict for over a decade until purchased in 1992 by the Deptford Seventh Day Adventist Church, formerly at 470 New Cross Road. After extensive restoration, it opened for services late in 1993. It changed its name late in 1997 to Greenwich Seventh Day Adventist Church.
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GREENWICH STATION (D.L.R.), Waller Way, Greenwich High Road
The Lewisham extension to the DLR authorized by the “London Docklands Railway (Lewisham, etc.) Act 1991” provided for a station interchange with the mainline station in Greenwich High Road. The up line of the main line was moved further north immediately adjacent to the down line and the up line platform extended to form the roof of the cut-and-cover portion of the DLR tunnel which emerged at the west end of the mainline platforms. This necessitated the closure and blocking up of Straightsmouth (q.v.) where it went under railway bridge and provided subway access to the down line platform. The latter was restored along the line of the Straightsmouth underpass. Access to the DLR station was via the up platform of the mainline station (to the up platform of the DLR station) but independent access from both Greenwich High Road and Tarves Way was via the service road at the side of the (then) Colonel Jasper’s (Davys) which was extended by a pedestrian tunnel under both railways to Tarves Way which was named Waller Way. The station opened in November 1999.
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Greenwich Tabernacle, Greenwich (High) Road
This was formed in a wooden barn on the opposite (North) side of Greenwich (High) Road ca. 1750. John Wesley preached a funeral sermon for George Whitfield here on 23rd November 1770. The foundation stone of the present building was laid on 23rd September 1799 and the church opened on 29th March 1801. It is a Grade 2 listed building possibly by D. R. Roper. The church, also known as the Tabernacle, the Greenwich Road Tabernacle, Greenwich Road Chapel and the Congregational Chapel, Greenwich Road, was closed in 1921 and the site was sold to the Miller Hospital (q.v.). The proceeds were used in part to build a new church at Bellingham.
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Greenwich Theatre, London Street (Greenwich High Road)
This was not the same as the present Greenwich Theatre at the bottom of Crooms Hill but an earlier one sited where the present Meridian House is, roughly halfway between the present West Greenwich Library and the Royal Hill turning. At the time it was between the Public Baths on the Royal Hill side and the Portland Hotel. It was established around 1864 (recorded first in Kelly’s directory for 1865). Edgar Wallace’s mother was an actress here until shortly before giving birth to him at 7 Ashburnham Grove in 1875. In 1885 it became the Prince of Wales Theatre, in 1890 Morton’s Theatre and finally in 1902 Carton’s Theatre, in the last two cases being named after the proprietor (the dates in each case are the first appearance in Kelly’s directories and the change may have been a year earlier). In 1910, it became a cinema (see ‘Cinema de Luxe’) until closure in 1925 when the site remained unused until redevelopment in the late 1930s for Greenwich’s new Town Hall.
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Meridian House, former Greenwich Town Hall, Greenwich High Road
Greenwich’s second town hall (1939-1964) is now Meridian House (q.v.). For the first town hall, see West Greenwich House.
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