Common name of the Greenwich District Board of Works offices, later the first Greenwich Town Hall and now West Greenwich House (q.v.). The original Vestry Hall, subsequently (1855-76) the first Board of Works office, seat of Greenwich’s earliest local government, was adjacent to St. Alfege’s Parish Church, between it and the Mitre P.H. Subsequently the Vestry Hall, by now concerned purely with church affairs, moved .....

Recorded in the 1868 Kelly’s London suburban directory as the first house after Grove Street (now Lindsell Street) to the south in South Street. In the next edition it is shown as No. 125.

There is some confusion about the age of this pub. The council’s list: ‘Buildings of local architectural or historic interest’ (Dept. of Planning, 1979) dates it to ca. 1840 presumably on stylistic grounds (it also states ‘the building reflects a regency influence’). The CAMRA ‘South East London Pub Guide’ (1994) states ‘This historic pub was converted from a doctor’s surgery in 1822’. (This information is corroborated in a note by the pub itself which states with much more circumstantial detail but no sources that the building dates from 1796 and was constructed as a residence. In March 1808 it was bought by John Norfolk (Deptford Brewery), in November 1808 a beerhouse license was obtained, and it opened in January 1809. According to the pub record, in 1822 a full pub license was obtained under the name of the Guildford Arms (from Sir Henry Guildford, courtier in the time of Henry VIII and a Greenwich resident). The pub record records that Deptford Brewery sold it to Peckham Brewery in 1872, who sold it to Anchor Brewery (Charringtons) in 1916.) But the dates given for the pub's beginnings are surely too early. The tithe map of 1845 is blank in this area – there was no development at all, no roads and no buildings. No pub of this name is recorded in the Greenwich section of Samuel Bagshaw’s ‘History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Kent, 1847'. But it is shown, and named, on Wyld’s map 1849. This would therefore seem to date it close to the 1848 date as stated by Diana Rimel (‘about 1848’) in ‘The Ashburnham Triangle’ and Darrell Spurgeon (‘c 1850’) in ‘Discover Greenwich and Charlton’. The Council’s list does not take sufficient account of architectural conservatism (the Prince of Orange, somewhat similar in style, dates from 1860). CAMRA’s statement and the pub's own detailed record are harder to explain. The evidence is clear: the present building is the first on the site, was obviously a pub from the start and dates from the late 1840s. Perhaps a doctor’s surgery elsewhere (? in South Street) was converted to a pub and the license was subsequently transferred to the present Guildford Arms? But there is no evidence for this. Whatever its history, the building, as already indicated, is locally listed and occupies the apex site at the junction of Guildford Road (now Grove), to which it gave its name, and Devonshire Road (now Drive). It was the first building in either street and is so shown in Wyld’s map mentioned above. After years of neglect, the pub changed hands in 1993 presumably as a result of acceptance of the Monopoly and Merger’s Commission’s requirement for brewers to reduce the number of their tied houses. The new owners restored the pub to its handsome appearance inside and out.

Former name of GUILDFORD GROVE (q.v.). In the early 1860's a terrace of 22 houses was built on Guildford Road, and named Hammer's Terrace. It occupied most of the north side, numbering 1 - 22 from right to left (starting at the Guildford Arms end). In the 1871 census a "Mr William T. Hamme, builder", lived at 1 Guildford Rd, (now demolished) and must have been the builder of the terrace then named after him. The street was renumbered on 20 December 1878 in the opposite direction, with the north side as 9 - 51 odds, and the subsidiary name (Hammer Terrace)abolished. The whole street was renamed Guildford Grove in 1939.

The popular name for a footpath originally linking Faulkner’s Road, later North Pole Lane and now the southern (Greenwich High Road) end of Norman Road, via a footbridge over Deptford Creek to Deptford Railway Station. It dated from 1826 when Deptford was the temporary terminus of the London & Greenwich Railway, and was reconstructed as part of the new railway bridge on its south side when the line was extended to Greenwich two years later. It was very popular when it first opened, sufficiently so to damage the toll revenue of the Creek Bridge Company (Creek Road). In 1837 an Act of Parliament (7Wm4 & 1 Vic., cap. cxx) set the level of compensation to be paid by the railway company and permitted it to charge a toll of 1d on its own (foot) bridge. There was a turnstile (the ‘Hatch’) and a toll was still being charged in 1909 according to R.H.G. Thomas’ “London’s first railway”. But presumably it had long since been reduced to ½d, hence the name of the path. The footbridge lasted until 1938, exactly 100 years, but the path may not have been in use as long. In 1994 the Deptford Discovery Team proposed to reinstate the Walk and reconstruct the bridge as part of a series of walking trails through Deptford and West Greenwich. This was finally achieved in 2002.

A terrace of 22 houses occupying most of the north side of Guildford Road (Grove) built in the early 1860s (see Guildford Grove). It numbered from right to left (i.e. starting at the Guildford Arms end) nos. 1-22 and was renumbered on 20 December 1878 in the opposite direction Nos. 9-51 odds, Guildford Road (Grove). In the 1871 census a Mr William T. Hammer, builder, lived at 1 Guildford Road (later 62 Guildford, now demolished) who must have been the builder of the Terrace and the person after whom it was named.

A wharf on the east side of Deptford Creek with an entrance in Norman Road immediately north of the railway viaduct. It presumably took its name from the company Constable Hart Ltd which was based there between the Wars. It was previously called Railway Wharf.

The name given to a pair of locally listed houses renumbered on 22 April 1870 as 88 and 90 (Greenwich) South Street. Somewhat confusingly the next-door house (no. 92), a rather larger detached house, also locally listed, was called Heath Cottage in the singular. Occasionally all three had been numbered 1-3 Heath Cottages. According to the local list all three were built in the early nineteenth century before 1834.

In Kelly’s 1860 London suburban directory, no. 3 Holwell Place is called Holwell House

The formal name of the united parish when Holy Trinity, Blackheath Hill merged with St. Paul’s, Devonshire Drive (q.v.) in 1954.

This name appears in Davies’ map of 1848 and in several editions of Smith’s map (1860, 1862 and 1864) towards the east end of the south side of Blackheath Road, where other maps and directories record Holwell Place (q.v.). The latter, named after the Holwell Charity on whose land it was built, is certainly correct and Holywell Place is simply a cartographic mistake.

A pub of this name is recorded in ‘Norman Road’ in Mason’s 1852 Directory but its exact location is unclear. The present Norman Road existed only in part then, as a dead-end turning off Greenwich (High) Road called North Pole Lane. This had recently been extended beyond the railway viaduct and the extension is show in contemporary maps as Railway Place. By 1869 at the latest (O.S. map) Railway Place had been renamed Norman Road and this may have been an alternative from the start. If so the Hope and Anchor must have been close to the site of the subsequent Norman Arms P.H. (q.v.) and possibly is an earlier name for it.

Unrecorded on maps, from its relative position in directories etc., it was on the north side of Greenwich Road (now Greenwich High Road) towards the Deptford Bridge end, close to Hope Wharf (q.v.). The 1869 and 1914 O.S. maps both show a row of three houses (all that remained of a longer terrace) on the site. At present (c. 2004) no. 39 (the Inner London Probation Service offices) occupies the approximate site.

A wharf on Deptford Creek near the Southern end of Greenwich High Road where the Creek comes nearest to the road. ‘Hope Wharf’ was recorded as a subsidiary name of Greenwich Road (now Greenwich High Road) in the 1841 census. As a street name, it is presumably the same as Hope Cottages (q.v.), not otherwise mentioned in the census.

As a street name, this is a ‘ghost’. It is shown in the Metropolitan Board of Works list of new streets approved in 1866 as a street off Greenwich Road (now Greenwich High Road) and is so listed in the MBWs “List of streets” for 1875 and 1884. But it is not included as such in the LCC’s “List of streets and Places” 1901 edition. Instead, under Langdale Road (q.v.) it is stated ‘Year of approval: 1866; approved as “Howe Street”’. The 1912 edition simply records Howe Street as a former name with the date of order as 4 July 1911. The order reads: ‘Extract from the Minutes of Proceedings of the Council of the Administrative country of London at a meeting held on Tuesday, the fourth day of July, One thousand, nine hundred and eleven – RESOLVED AND ORDERED that the street approved in 1866 under the name Howe Street in the Parish of Greenwich be renamed Langdale Road, by which name it is at present known; and that a copy of this order be transmitted to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich pursuant to Section 34 of the London Building Act 1894. Sealed by order of Council. Laurence Gomme, Clerk of Council. L.S’. It would seem that the LCC was bowing to reality and clearing up an anomaly (this order was one of several dozen passed that day).Under the “Metropolis Management Act 1855”, the MBW (and later the LCC and GLC) was the sole street naming authority in London, and Howe Street was legally the name of the street between 1866 and 1911. Despite this, the 1869 1:2500 O.S. map showed the street as ‘Langdale Road’ as did all subsequent maps and directories. It seems probable that the street was called Langdale Road from the start (but see the entry under Lambard Street) and that in practice Howe Street was never used to describe it.

Hard to identify as the name disappears early. It is recorded in the 1841 census and 1850 rate books and appears to be a ‘court’ in the angle between Skinner’s Row (q.v.), a cul-de-sac to the south of Blackheath Road and Queen’s Place (q.v.), a subsidiary name on the South side of Blackheath Road between Skinner’s Row and Deal’s Gateway; access was probably by the former.

Warehouses for a models and toys firm occupied a wedge-shaped site at the junction with Egerton Road, with the trade entrance at the rear in Ashburnham Place. Demlished and redeveloped c. 2006 (??)

Recorded in the 1871 census returns as located immediately west of the Blackheath Road Police Station (later Magistrates Court). This is obviously an error for Jean’s Place (q.v.) presumably due to the mis-hearing of the name by the enumerator.

A former cul-de-sac on the north side of Blackheath Road just west of the police station (now Magistrates Court). It was first clearly shown on Morris’ map of 1834 but un-named and with housing on the west side only. Earlier map evidence is inconclusive; both Bowles’ map and Carey’s map of 1787 and later maps show a break in housing along Blackheath Road at this point but the scale is insufficient to indicate clearly whether there was a lane there. The Tithe map of 1845 shows housing on both sides and Wyld’s map of 1848 first gives the name. This last appears on the O.S. map of 1869 although it was listed (misnamed as James Place, q.v.) in the 1871 census returns and in the re-numbering plan for Blackheath Road in 1878. Shortly afterwards the area was demolished as part of a Metropolitan Improvement Scheme for the widening of the approaches to Deptford Bridge, and Jean’s Place was not rebuilt. Jean’s Court was a variant name but Jean’s Place was the predominant form. The origin of the name, which sounds more like a 1960s coffee bar, is unknown.

The marine engineering firm of John Penn & Sons had two principal factories, the boiler works at a riverside site in Deptford and the engine works at Blackheath Road, see ‘Penn Engine Works’.

Jubilee Almshouses are unusual in two respects – in being the beneficiary of multiple benefactions and in being financed in several instances by public subscription rather than by a single charitable bequest. They date from 1809 but were not established as a charitable trust until 1873 when a scheme was approved by the Charity Commissioners. The almshouses originate in King George III’s Golden Jubilee (hence the name) which was celebrated in 1809 when he entered the 60th year of his reign (i.e. a year earlier than all subsequent royal jubilees). In the parish of Greenwich a subscription was raised and it was agreed that the surplus after the celebration (£447.65) should be used to build and endow four houses for poor women of the parish. These were completed in 1810 and the following year two more were added at the expense of the officers of the Loyal Greenwich Volunteer Regiment of Infantry. The same regiment added two more in 1815 to celebrate the centenary of the House of Hannover, and a further two in 1817 to celebrate the fact that George III had reigned longer than any other British Sovereign. This piecemeal extension of the almshouses continued: in 1832 Peter Vernez added two more houses, and later three more were added by the benefactions of Mary Cross and Samuel Enderby. In 1855 two more were added by subscription in memory of the Duke of Wellington; in 1859 Elizabeth Warham added a further two, and in 1866 more were added by subscription in memory of William Soames, the Vicar of Greenwich. Finally in 1881 two (or possibly four) more were built and endowed by Fanny Larwill. Although all part of the Jubilee estate, the last four benefactions for a while kept their own names (see Wellington Almshouses, Greenwich (High) Road, Warham Almshouses, Soames Memorial Almshouses and the Larwill Almshouses). The Greenwich (High) Road frontage was full after the erection of the Wellington Almshouses, and later additions fronted the newly formed Egerton Road. But latterly even this was filled up and the construction of the Larwill Almshouses required the pulling down of some earlier ones. It was soon afterwards decided to redevelop the whole complex in honour of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Thomas Dinwiddy was appointed architect and the almshouses were rebuilt between 1888 and 1893, again fronting both Greenwich (High) Road and Egerton Road (Drive). These lasted until 1974 when the almshouses were again rebuilt (see The Jubilee).

Alternative name for THE JUBILEE, q.v.

A hall within the block of council flats called Woodville Court (q.v.) intended primarily for the tenants but also used for public meetings by council sponsored organisations. There is no exterior indication of a hall of this name and it is unrelated to ‘The Jubilee’ in Egerton Drive. Indeed the jubilee from which it takes its name is obviously a later one, presumable the silver jubilee of the present queen, Elizabeth 2nd

When the London & Greenwich Railway was built, it approached Greenwich Station at an elevated level bridging over Straightsmouth. Forty years later in 1878 when the line was extended and Greenwich became a through station, this arrangement remained. But the construction of the Docklands Light Railway extension to Lewisham in 1997 meant. Straightsmouth was cut in two, and the short southern part became a cul-de-sac off Greenwich High Road. In 2000, this part was re-named Kay Way.

This was a narrow three-storey building with ‘Kent House’ prominently displayed on it parapet (see the drawing on p. 42 of Diana Rimel’s “The Ashburnham Triangle”, 1994). It stood next to the Greenwich District Offices of the School Board for London/ LCC/ILEA on the south side of Greenwich (High) Road near the Deptford Bridge end. The area was demolished as part of a Metropolitan Improvement Scheme for the widening of the approaches to Deptford Bridge (1878-82). Kent House was built shortly afterwards and, according to Diana Rimel, it was occupied first by South Eastern Publishing as offices and later by the Officer to the Sheriff of Kent and Borough Returning Officer from whom, perhaps, it got its name. By 1894 it was taken over by the School Board for London. With the abolition of ILEA, the District Offices became redundant and lay vacant for several years. In 1997 after renovation the main part of the District Offices were reopened as an extension to the Magistrate’s Court around the corner in Blackheath Road. Kent House was demolished as part of this redevelopment and its site is part of the adjacent car park.

A house on the north side of Greenwich (High) Road to the east of the North Pole PH. It was at the end of the row called Vansittart Place next to a vacant lot later occupied by the offices of the Greenwich District Board of Works (see West Greenwich House). When Greenwich (High) Road was re-numbered on 19 November 1875, it was designated as 139.

A detached house between Blissett Street and Grove Street (now Lindsell Street) recorded in the “Post Office London suburban directory for 1868” and shown on the 1869 O.S. map (and earlier maps – it is clearly shown on Morris’ map of 1838). It is not specifically named in the re-numbering plan of 22 April 1870 but became no. 123 (Greenwich) South Street. It probably gave its name to Grove Street, formerly Orchard Street and now Lindsell Street. It was pulled down before 1914. The site was recently a filling station and is now occupied by the Majestic Wine Store.

According to a card index of street names at the Greenwich Local History Centre, Guildford Grove is named after the Guildford family related to the Courteneys, Earls of Devon, who formerly owned the area. As the Courteneys disposed of the land in the sixteenth century, the connection is tenuous. In fact the street obviously takes its name from the Guildford Arms PH at its eastern end, in the fork between it and Devonshire Drive, which was the first building in the street (q.v.). According to a leaflet produced by the pub, it was named after Sir Henry Guildford, Controller of the Royal Household to Henry VIII who attended the chapter of the garter at Greenwich in 1531 and thereafter lived in the parish. There are major problems with the leaflet’s dating of both the pub and the street but this attribution seems reasonable. In fact the pub can be dated fairly precisely to 1848 (not 1808 as in the leaflet) as explained in the entry for the pub (q.v.) The street (and Devonshire Road, now Drive) was laid out soon afterwards, and named Guildford Road. The south side was soon completed. The north side, mostly Hammer’s Terrace, dates to 1862. Subsidiary names were abolished in 1878 and the street renumbered as Guildford Road - which was renamed Guildford Grove in 1939.

On 10 September 2002, after eight years of effort by the Deptford Discovery Team, a new footpath called the Ha’penny Hatch was officially opened. It runs between Creekside and Norman Road, alongside and to the south of the mainline railway (between it and the DLR line) and crossing Deptford Creek. The bridge over Deptford Creek is a drawbridge to allow the occasional passage of a taller vessel this far up the Creek. The path and bridge replaced earlier ones of the same name 64 years after the original was dismantled (see the following entry), but unlike the original there is no toll so the name is now somewhat anomalous. On the Deptford side, the path connects with the original Mechanics Passage to Deptford Station but, on the Greenwich side, the corresponding footpath to Greenwich Station (Railway Passage or Lovibond’s Passage, qq.v.) has long since disappeared and cannot now be recreated even through a short stretch remained next to Straightsmouth (now Kay Way) behind ‘Wines Galore’ (ex-Lovibond’s Brewery) as late as the 1980s. The path therefore finishes on this side at Norman Road.

The Guildhall Library has two ‘view[s] of Halfway House Inn on Greenwich Road’, one a pencil sketch, the other a watercolour, both by G. F. Sargent in Vol. 1 pp. 42 and 43 of the Sargent Collection in the Library’s Print Room.

Mrs Elizabeth Dry, widow, in her will of 1732 bequeathed to the Trustees of the Blue Coat Girls School ‘all that freehold field, or piece or parcel of ground, … called Harp’s Mead’. In the will it is described as "next adjoining to a messuage at Blue Style". A plan printed opposite p. 143 of Kimbell’s “Greenwich charities” shows the property as occupying the whole frontage on the north-west side of Greenwich (High) Road between the un-named service road at the side of Colonel Jasper’s / Davys (shown as a gated path described as a ‘way-leave open only to Mrs Dry’s tenants’ on the plan) and another gated path (called ‘Gate or Manor Way’) where Norman Road now is. The property was wedge-shaped with the narrowing at the Norman Road end; it was bounded by a ditch for most of its length at the rear and was divided into two plots with the division immediately to the right of the present West Greenwich House. In the 1830s a substantial corner at the rear was taken for the railway.

The name given to no. 92 South Street; it was distinct from Heath Cottages, the name given to the pair of houses, nos. 88 and 90, though sometimes all three were identified as nos.1-3 Heath Cottages (q.v.)

The name for much of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century of the Deptford Gin Distillery which became the Seager Distillery in 1979.

A row of houses formerly on the south side of Blackheath Road towards the Lewisham Road end. The houses had disappeared by the time that Blackheath Road was renumbered and subsidiary names abolished, but the name was well established by mid-nineteenth century [Mason’s Directory 1852, “Deptford Directory 1853”, Laurie’s map 1854 and several undated (ca. 1850s & 1860s) Crutchley’s maps] and probably for some time before that. It still existed in 1840 (Kelly’s). From the directories, it is clear that Holwell Place lay between Cold Bath Row and Union Place. Both Morris’ map (1834) and Wyld’s (1848) seem to suggest that Cold Bath Row (q.v.) stretched between Lewisham Lane (now Road) and Ditch Alley from where Union Place began but this may be due to the limitations of the scale of the maps. Crutchley’s map (1829) shows Cold Bath Row extending only between Lewisham Lane and West Passage (q.v.) leaving the terrace between West Passage and Ditch Alley un-named. This is almost certainly Holwell Place. If so, it was already in existence by 1809 (Ravensbourne Water Works Map). It was built on land owned by the Holwell Charity (Tithe map list). John Rand endowed a charity in 1706 to equip for a trade the poor children of Holwell, a village a few miles North of Hitchin in Bedfordshire (now Hertfordshire) where he was born, with land he owned in Greenwich. From the Tithe map the bounds of this land were Blackheath Road, Lewisham Lane (Road), Cold Bath Street (now John Penn Street) and Ditch Alley, with a small parcel of land beyond Ditch Alley to the West. According to the 12th report of the Charity Commissioners (1823) the property comprised 6 acres & 35 perches leased to George Baths (?) in 1765 for 70 years and worth over £600 p.a. to let. It contained 31 messuages, (dwellings with their grounds – Cold Bath Row and Holwell Place) totally ca. 2 acres, some ‘garden ground’ (? market gardens) of ca. 3 acres and a meadow of ca. 1 ¼ acres. In 1861 the charity sold the land to John Penn for £21,500. Significantly Holwell Place last appears in directories in 1860, and in Stanford’s map of 1862. Penn’s Works already occupies the area between West Passage and Ditch Alley before expanding in both directions.

Parish separated from St. Alphege and church built 1839; church was bombed several times 1940-45 and was demolished 1954 and Parish merged with St. Paul’s, Devonshire Drive (q.v.)

A pub of this name is recorded in Mason’s Directory for 1852. Its number was not given (the numbering of Blackheath Hill was erratic at this period) but it lay between the Yorkshire Grey and the George and Dragon and so near the bottom (Ashburnham Triangle) end of the Hill, roughly where Blackheath Hill Railway Station used to be and where Robinscroft Mews (entrance in Sparta Street) backs onto Blackheath Hill. It is not listed in the 1860 Kelly’s Directory or subsequently and had therefore disappeared well before the railway was developed.

The earliest part of Devonshire Road, now Drive, to be developed has now been entirely redeveloped after severe War damage – that part between Greenwich (High) Road and Egerton Road (Drive). The 1869 O.S. map shows all of that part of the street developed both sides, except one plot, but nothing beyond Egerton Road (Drive) except St Paul’s Church, recently built (opened 1816), one house beyond, and a pair of houses opposite. First to be developed and in existence by 1860 (Kelly’s directory) was the south side between Greenwich (High) Road and Catherine Grove (nos. 1-13 odd) and a couple of houses beyond. The first was later numbered 15 but the remaining one was identified by name not number – as Hope Cottage. Although Hope Cottages in Greenwich (High) Road backing on to Hope Wharf are not far away, there is no obvious correction. Curiously both were also known as Oak Cottage/Cottages. As the rest of the row between Catherine Grove and Egerton Road (Drive) were developed over the next few years, they too were named – in sequence, Lime Cottage (by 1865), Devon House and Dartmoor Lodge (by 1868) and Jessamine Villa (by 1872). All were destroyed in the War and Plymouth House now occupies the site.

Re-numbered as 41 Greenwich Road in 1875, the name nevertheless continued to be used (e.g. electoral registers around the turn of the 19th century). It was not part of the Hope Cottages (q.v.) which were re-numbered 33-37 at the same time. The 1914 O.S. map shows three houses in Greenwich Road backing on to Hope Wharf (Hope Cottages), a building to the right set back from the road and running back to the Creek [notionally no. 39] and then a single building to the left of the Tram Depot entrance. This presumably was Hope House and if it was so, it was sited opposite to the entrance to Binnie House (q.v.).

Luffman’s map of 1820 shows a pub of this name at the foot of Blackheath Hill close to the junction with Limekilns Lane (Greenwich South Street) and Lewisham Lane (Road). But the map is not particularly accurate cartographically and it is almost certainly the same as the present Horse and Groom some 250 yards further up the hill (60 Blackheath Hill) already listed in the ‘Universal British Directory’ of 1792. If they are indeed the same, it is bneyond the boundaries of the Ashburnham Triangle.

A rectangle of land on the south side of Blackheath Road shown on Samuel Travers’ survey of the manor of East Greenwich (1695), and described there as 3 acres, 2 roods & 25 perches in extent. It appears to correspond to the Morden College property of "Catherine House and its gardens" shown in the Tithe map of 1845. Catherine Grove was built upon it.

A pub of this name is recorded in the 1881 census returns.

A part-time theatrical venue used principally during the Greenwich Festival for fringe productions, and situated underneath the South Street Baptist Church.

This name appears in the 1850 rate book and in the 1861 census return and in both cases it is clear from the sequence of information that it is the same as Jean’s Place. Unlike James Place (q.v.), it does not appear to be an error and it is not a change of name as such, as other sources give Jean’s Place throughout. It appears, therefore, to have been a genuine variant name for a number of years.

A slightly larger house than the rest of row in which it stood on the west side of Blissett Street. Originally numbered no. 10 (one of three houses so numbered in the street), it was renumbered 37. It was pulled down with most of that side of the street to make way for the Greenwich Park branch of the London Chatham & Dover Railway, completed in 1888. A new terrace was built set slightly back in 1891 and Jessamine House was roughly on the site of the present no. 37.

Formal name of PENN’S ALMSHOUSES, (q.v.). Widow Smith almshouses were originally a separate charity founded by Mary Ann Smith, widow of George Smith, a wine merchant, in Trafalgar Road, Greenwich. The almshouses there were destroyed in WW2 and the charity was subsequently merged with the Penn almshouses which were extended to take account of this in 1955.

A beerhouse of this name is given in the LCC’s ‘List of Inns’, etc. for the Blackheath Division for 1889, 1891 and 1896. Pubs and beerhouses in these lists are located only by street, in this instance ‘Greenwich Road’, and not by street number. Obviously named from the Jubilee Almshouses (q.v.), it is not a former name of the Miller Arms pub almost opposite the almshouses as that is separately listed as the White Swan, its name until it was demolished (c. 2012). However there is a public house indicated on the 1869 O.S. map six doors down from the White Swan, directly opposite the Jubilee almshouses. This was in the middle of a terrace which was pulled down before 1914 (O.S. map). The approximate site is occupied by the redbrick house in the grounds of the Greenwich Pumping Station behind the wall to the left of the main gate.

Alternative name for THE JUBILEE, q.v.

Jubilee Walk is one of several names used for what is now Ashburnham Place, and is shown as on Wyld’s map of 1852. Wyld’s map of 1848 calls it ‘Walk’ (q.v.), clearly a variant of the same. Named from the Jubilee Almshouses (q.v.) at the West end of the road and therefore no earlier than 1809; it was re-named Ashburnham Road no later than 1/1/1856. Back Road and Cut Throat Lane (qq.v.) were also used during the same period.

See ‘Royal Kent Dispensary’

Alternative name for the Dover Road (cf. ‘Old Kent Road) including Blackheath Road, q.v.