In the electoral register for 1899, a pub of this name is shown at no.53. A pub of the same name is shown in Orchard Hill in the 1881 census.

According to various directories, this lay between Greenwich Railway Station and Prince of Orange Lane. Logically it should be a subsidiary name for the short terrace now numbered 191-195 evens Greenwich High Road. It is recorded in the 1861 census returns as containing a public house (? The Prince of Orange) and nos. 1-4. It is not so shown on the renumbering plan of 19 November 1875. For an alternative hypothesis see Prince of Orange Yard.

This was briefly the name in the early 1920s of what was formerly just called the Cinematograph Theatre and subsequently the Cinema de Luxe (q.v.) in London Street. It is recorded under this name in the Kelly’s directory for 1921 and 1922.

A 1969 development (voters were first listed in the 1970 electoral register) of 20 maisonettes on what had been the last remnant of market gardens that had once covered much of the Triangle – the backland behind Egerton Drive, Guildford Grove and Devonshire Drive – with access via the latter. Postally, it is considered part of Devonshire Drive. George Peabody (1795-1869) was a self-made American millionaire who settled in London in middle age. He was one of the great Victorian philanthropists specializing in the provision of inexpensive housing for the respectable working classes.

Recorded in 1885 Kelly’s Directory (Blackheath). Appears to be alternative name for Ditch Alley.

Another development on the old Broomfield’s Bakery site (see ‘Wicks Home Improvement Centre’). Later, "Pets-R-Us".

This was established by the Pimlico, Peckham & Greenwich Street Tramway act (32-33 Vic. cap. xcv) on 12 July 1869. It was extended by further acts (33-34 Vic. cap. clxvii and 33-34 Vic. cap. clxxxiv) even before construction was completed. The first part (the Greenwich end) was constructed March-October 1870 and operations began on 13 December 1870 and the tramway was fully operational to Pimlico by 20 October 1873. The company was merged with its south London rival, the Metropolitan Street Tramways Co. by the expedient of creating a new company (the London Tramways Co. Ltd) in 1873 by the London Tramways Company Limited act 1873 (36-37 Vic. cap. cciv). The operations were transferred to the LCC on 1 Jan. 1899 and the line was electrified in 1903-4. Under the powers of the original legislation ‘land near the “Red Lion” in Greenwich Road was purchased upon which a depot and stables were built’. With the extension of the line, this ceased to be the terminus but continued to be a tram depot even after electrification.

The former White Swan, a traditional pub on a busy main road, had a major make-over and operated for a while as the Polar Bar. It then became almost derelict, while its future was contested through the Planning process.

In the Spring of 1999 a congregation of this name began to worship in the basement of St. Mark’s Church Hall, entered from Ashburnham Place. Earlier in the year the same venue began to be used by the Oasis Christian Centre. It would appear that the latter used the premises Sunday mornings and the Powerhouse Evangelical Ministry in the afternoon.

Booth’s survey of poverty in London (“Streets of London, South East”, 1897) records ‘On north side [of Royal Hill] is a narrow court leading to cottages between South Street and Brand Street. Look poor’. The ‘court’ is a very narrow alleyway (perhaps no more than 24” at its narrowest) and un-named. Contemporary maps show a single cottage only and the renumbering plan (1881) names it as formerly Primrose Cottage, Green Lane, renumbered as 128 Royal Hill. It no longer survives and 128 is now the number of the house in front of it, originally renumbered 126.

Recorded in the 1841 census returns as off Straightsmouth, Prince of Orange Lane ran through to Straightsmouth until the railway was extended and is not otherwise recorded so this is probably the same.

Recorded in the 1861 census returns as off Straightsmouth. Prince of Orange Lane ran through to Straightsmouth until the railway was extended and is not otherwise recorded so this probably the same. The matter is further complicated by the fact that both Orange Lane and Orange Place are also recorded.

A pub has long stood on this site. The ‘Prince of Orange’ appears in the rate books for 1800, and Pigot’s Directory of 1827, and subsequently in numerous other directories, census returns, lists of inns etc. Named, one would imagine, from the Prince of Orange who became King William III. In turn, it gave its name to Prince of Orange Lane and Yard, and Orange Place and Lane. The present building is in the local list of buildings of architectural or historical interest, where it is dated ca. 1860. A sign saying ‘established 1860’ must refer to the building and not the pub. It is a handsome classical-style building, slightly old fashioned for its date, on the right-hand side of the station forecourt as you face the station. As the pub, even in the present building, predates the setting back of the station and the creation of the forecourt, the original main entrance must originally have faced the main road. Later it faced the forecourt. According to earlier editions of CAMRA’s ‘South East London Pub Guide’, the Prince of Orange was originally two pubs and retains two cellars; the 3rd ed. names the other pub as the ‘Railway Hotel’. The pub closed for renovation late in 1998 and reopened in August 1999 as the St. Christopher’s Inn.

The Greenwich Theatre (q.v.) in London Street changed its name to the Prince of Wales Theatre. It is first recorded under this new name in Kelly’s directory for 1885 and finally in 1889 after which it was called Morton’s Theatre.

The corner house at the apex of (Greenwich) South Street and Blissett Street and at the end of the terrace Prospect Place. It was re-numbered as 113 (Greenwich) South Street on 22 April 1870. It no longer survives and the site is a small garden belonging to Woodville Court, part of the Royal Hill Council Estate.

One of two Prospect Places formerly in the Triangle (there were others elsewhere in Greenwich). It disappears (the name and the properties) well before Greenwich (High) Road was re-numbered in 1875. In the 1841 census, it is placed between Madox Place and Hope Wharf (Hope Cottages). It is shown on Stanford’s map of 1862 on the North side of Greenwich (High) Road roughly opposite the Royal Kent Dispensary on a site now occupied by the western end of the Skillion Business Centre (Merryweather’s Works), formerly the tramway depot.

See Bell House

The College (q.v.) has a Chapel, founded 1576. The present chapel, built by Jesse Gibson, surveyor to the Draper’s Company, and Trustees of the College, in 1819, is in the middle of the central block facing the street. With the College, it is a Grade 2 listed building. By the door to the chapel there is an inscription: ‘The window above the altar was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 19th November 1974, the gift of the Draper’s Company to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the College’.

Almshouses founded by William Lambarde, historiographer of Kent, in 1574. Rebuilt by Jesse Gibson, surveyor to the Draper’s Company was administer the College, in 1817. The almshouses have been renovated and discretely enlarged 1989/92 and a community hall built. 136/138 Greenwich High Road (formerly Langdale Place, q.v.) and Lambard House, Langdale Road (q.v.) are part of the same Draper’s charity. The College is a Grade 2 listed building and the railings around the College are separately listed, also Grade 2. The College forms three sides of a square (the street forming the fourth) around a tree-lined lawn. There are inscriptions on the street end gables, on the left: ‘The College of Queen Elizabeth founded by William Lambarde Esqr., 1576’; and on the right: ‘Rebuilt 1819. Sir Thomas Plumer, Knt., Master of the Rolls, President, William Hammonds, Esqr., Samuel Weddell, Esqr., Upper Wardens of the Draper’s Company, Governers’.

A short-lived pub on the north side of Circus Street directly opposite the Morden Arms occupying the site of the present nos. 28-32. It is not recorded in Mason’s 1852 Directory but recorded in Wyld’s map of the same date.

A row of houses formerly on the South side of Blackheath Road at the Deptford Bridge end. There is some discrepancy between maps and directories as to the extent of Queen’s Place. Crutchley’s map (1828) and Wyld’s (1848) indicate that it stretched from Skinner’s Row (q.v.) to the banks of the Ravensbourne/Deptford Creek in Deptford Bridge. Other maps (as early as the Ravensbourne Water Works map, 1809) show that stretch of road without naming it continuously developed with housing possible in two terraces, certainly with a small gap at the junction of Blackheath Road and Deptford Bridge where later there was Deal’s Gateway (q.v.). Directories from Mason’s (1852) onwards indicate Queen’s Place to be confined to the Blackheath Row terrace. The maps may have exaggerated its extent because of limitations of scale or there may have been an actual change around min-century. When the name was abolished on 31 May 1878, it occupied the block between Deal’s Gateway and Skinner’s Row and was renumbered Nos. 2-28 (evens) Blackheath Road. Nothing remains of the original terrace. The Deal’s Gateway corner site is occupied by a 1925 building (No. 6), Young & Solon, Solicitor’s office and the rest by a Kwik-Fit Autocare Centre.

The London and Greenwich Railway was built on an arched viaduct for its entire length from London Bridge to Greenwich. The arches were originally meant to be inhabited, but this proved a failure though some arches were, and still are, used for industrial purposes. Turn of the century Kelly’s directories show 46 & 47 Railway Arches occupied between the Deptford Pumping Station and Railway Wharf on the west side of Norman Road. They ceased to be recorded by the First World War. Entrances are likely to have been on the South (Greenwich Pumping Station) side of the viaduct.

Around 1850, North Pole Lane (now the southern part of Norman Road), which had already been extended northward to the railway viaduct, was extended beyond it and the latest extension is shown on contemporary maps as Railway Place. Mason’s 1852 directory does not record this name but only Norman Road and Norman Cottages as subsidiary names of North Pole Lane. These must have been early alternative names for Railway Place which in any case was renamed Norman Road before 1869 (OS map). In 1884 this last name was extended to the whole street from Greenwich (High) Road to Bridge Street (Creek Road).

A wharf on the east side of Deptford Creek with an entrance in Norman Road immediately north of the railway viaduct. In the 1920 Kelly’s it was first shown as being occupied by Constable Hart Ltd and it was later known as Hart’s Wharf (q.v.).

Plan of an estate situate in the parish of St. Alphege Greenwich in the County of Kent, Property of the Trustees of the Holwell Charity [of John Rand, Esq., died 1706], n.d. [ca. 1840] scale 500ft= 10 ½ inches [ca. 1:571]

This is not the same as Orange Place as both appear in the 1861 census returns. It then contained six inhabited houses numbered 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 & 3 [sic]. It may be the same as Prince of Orange Lane which is otherwise unrecorded at that census, although a Prince of Orange Place is recorded and is a more likely candidate.

There has never been a Catholic church within the Ashburnham Triangle which lies equidistant between two parishes dedicated to Saint Mary – the Church of the Assumption, Deptford High Street and Our Lady Star of the Sea, Crooms Hill, West Greenwich. It lies wholly within the latter, Deptford Creek forming the boundary between the two. In penal times until 1735, Catholics, if any, in the neighbourhood, would have had intermittent access to a Mass Centre at Well Hall, Eltham, the home of the recusant Roper family. In 1738 there is reference to a ‘Popish Meeting Place’ at Grub Street in Bermondsey and in 1753 to the suppression of a ‘Popish Conventicle’ closer to hand on the ‘highway between Deptford and New Cross’ (? New Cross Road) built for the Spanish Ambassador ‘in case he should pass that way’. But, shortly after Catholic worship was legalised in 1778, the whole of South London formed a single mission based on the London Street Chapel (forerunner at St. George’s R.C. Cathedral, Southwark) although there was already a chapel at Dockhead, Bermondsey. In 1793, the first subdivision of the London Road Mission took place and the Greenwich Mission was formed with the opening of a chapel on 10th November that year in Clark’s buildings, East Street (later Eastney Street, now Feather’s Place), East Greenwich. The chapel was built in the back garden of Park Place, next to the Plume of Feathers, Park Vista and was entered through an arch between 12 and 13 Clark’s Buildings. It was destroyed to build the extension of the North Kent line to Maze Hill and beyond in 1878; its site is close to Thalia Close, Feather’s Place, Park Vista. But before this, the chapel was closed, and replaced by a new and much larger church built in Crooms Hill and opened on 8th December 1851 (architect W. W. Wardell) and dedicated to Our Lady Star of the Sea. The establishment of new parishes, offshoots of Greenwich (Woolwich 1815, Deptford 1842, East Greenwich 1868 (initially in Clerk’s Buildings), Blackheath 1873 and Lewisham 1894) has drastically reduced the size of West Greenwich parish but the Triangle has remained within it from the start.

Between 1878 and 1882, as part of a Metropolitan Improvement Scheme for the widening of the approaches to Deptford Bridge, the Metropolitan Board of Works pulled down all the buildings on the south side of the street from the entrance to the Deptford Distillery to Deal’s Gateway (and beyond from there to Skinner’s Street in Blackheath Row). The terrace set back between the bridge and Deal’s Gateway was named Parade Buildings though it was more usually called The Parade. The last few buildings, derelict for some while, were in turn pulled down in 1997 to make way for the Docklands Light Railway extension to Lewisham.

The firm was established in 1799 by John Penn, snr (1770-1843), a millwright, to build agricultural machinery. It built its first marine engine in 1825 and under John Penn, jnr (1805-1878) it expanded by supplying marine steam engines to the Thames shipbuilding industry. At its peak in the 1880s, it employed around 2000 people at the Blackheath Road site alone and was a world-renowned company in its field. Boilers were made on the Deptford riverfront (at Palmer’s Payne’s Wharf) and marine engines at Blackheath Road. On his death, his widow founded the Penn almshouses, (Greenwich) South Street (q.v.) in his memory. Under his sons, the firm became a limited company and in 1899, it merged with the Thames Iron Works to produce a shipbuilding company which made its own engines and boilers. But Thames ship building was in rapid decline and the firm went into receivership in Dec. 1911 and was finally liquidated in Apr. 1914. The site was divided between F. Francis & Sons, tin box makers, long since departed (whose share was redeveloped as Meridian housing estate), and Broomfield’s Bakery. This closed and the site was cleared for redevelopment in 1992. The last original building of Penn’s Engine Works (the Pattern Shop of ca 1863), on the Council’s draft list of buildings to be added to the Statutory List, was pulled down. The name Penn, once a proud part of Greenwich's 19th century identity, is all but forgotten. It survives in John Penn Street, to the south of the Blackheath Rd site, whch contains three (???) houses built by the firm for its senior staff.

Recorded in the 1881 census returns as at no. 7 Commercial Place

A wharf along Deptford Creek, east side, just north of the railway viaduct (with Railway wharf in between) with an entrance in Norman Road. On the opposite side of Norman Road were the gas holders of the Phoenix Gas works, entrance in Roan Street, which became part of the South Metropolitan Gas Co. in 1880.

A four-storey block of 16 council flats built in 1957 on the North side of Devonshire Drive near the Eastern (Greenwich High Road) end. For a suggestion on the origin of the name, see Barnstable House.

A hostelry in London Street on the site of the present Meridian House in Greenwich High Road at the West Greenwich Library end of that building. It wastablished in the 1850's (it does not appear in Mason's Directory of 1852, but it is in Kelly's Directory for 1860). It lasted for about 80 years, last appearing in Kelly's for 1935. Shortly afterwards the building was demolished, with adjacent properties, and the new Greenwich Town Hall was built on the site (q.v.)

A flier for their first production in late 1995 announced that Praxis Theatre Laboratory had ‘set up shop as a permanent company at the North Pole Theatre Club (q.v.) in Greenwich… playing Wednesday to Saturday’. Shortlived.

A pub formerly on the corner of Greenwich (High) Road and Straightsmouth (East side). Despite the popularity of the Arthurian legends, Arthur has not been a popular name for English royalty and there have been but four Prince Arthurs – Arthur of Brittany (1187-1203) killed by his uncle King John, Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486-1502) elder brother of Henry VIII who died young, Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942) and his son Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883-1938). The first two are unlikely sources for the pub’s name but either of the latter are plausible. Prince Arthur, named from his godfather Arthur, Duke of Wellington, ceased to be known by that name on being created Duke of Connaught in 1874. The pub appears in Kelly’s Directory for 1872, before then, and well before the birth of his son.

A cul-de-sac on the North side of Greenwich High Road, a short way to the East of Greenwich Railway Station. Formerly it marked the junction between Greenwich Road and Bexley Place, a part of London Street. Formerly, when the Railway Station was a terminal (1878), the lane was not a cul-de-sac but extended to Straightsmouth and, indeed, was continued beyond that street by Glaisher Street (q.v.). When the railway was extended, Prince of Orange Lane reached right up to the railway lines but now is barely half the length and no longer contains any residential housing. Formerly it was at the centre of a network of courts and alleyways that are difficult to sort out. For these see the entries for Orange Lane, Orange Place, Prince of Orange Yard, Wood’s Buildings and Wood’s Cottage.

Not the same as Prince of Orange Lane as both names appear in the LCC’s “List of streets and places” in the 1901 edition though Prince of Orange Yard has disappeared from the list by the 1912 edition. The exact location is a problem as it is not marked on any contemporary maps. There are three possibilities. Firstly, but least likely, is an alleyway running back from Greenwich High Road at the back of the Prince of Orange PH and parallel to Prince of Orange Lane. This now forms part of the rear courtyard of the pub and seems likely always to have done so. A second alleyway formerly ran at right-angle to this between the station forecourt and Prince of Orange Lane giving access to Wood’s Buildings/Wood’s Cottages (q.v.). The third possibility is a short cul-de-sac branching to the right of Prince of Orange Lane, now just the entrance to a business premises. Any of these might also be Orange Place (q.v.).

A pub recorded in Mason's 1852 Directory. No house-numbers are given, though later it was no. 47, but it was on the North side of the road near the bottom of the hill about half way between Trinity Church and the Sun P.H. (q.v.). A beer-house is shown in about the same position in the 1903 LCC Map of licensed premises. (1881 census.)

According to Diana Rimel, named after Dr Prior Purvis, a prominent local resident and philanthropist in the second half of the 19th century.

The second of two Prospect Places in the Triangle and, like that in Greenwich (High) Road, nothing survives of it. It was a terrace of seven houses which was re-numbered 99-111 (odds) (Greenwich) South Street on 22 April 1870 and may well have subsequently been re-numbered again as 109-121. It occupied the site on the East of (Greenwich) South Street between the Old Vicarage and the corner house at the junction with Blissett Street (Prospect Cottage). The site is now occupied by Woodville Court, part of the Royal Hill Council Estate.

See ‘Greenwich Baths and Wash-Houses for the Labouring Classes, London Street’

A mixed terrace on the south-east side of Greenwich (High) Road to the East of Egerton Road (Drive). The predominant form of the name is as above but Queen Elizabeth’s Row (with an apostrophe ‘s’) is occasionally to be found (e.g. Morris’ map of 1838, the 1861 census return). At the time that the terrace was renumbered and the name abolished (19 November 1875), the house nearest Egerton Road was not part of the Row (see Simmons Cottages). The rest, numbered 1 to 15, were renumbered Nos 92-120 evens Greenwich Road. The remaining houses (Nos. 98-104) are Grade 2 listed buildings. The statutory list describes them as early eighteenth century but the Row does not appear on Rocque’s map of 1746. The fine detail of this map is not entirely reliable but it seems safer to conclude that the Row dates from the second half of the eighteenth century, probably the 1770s when building leases were let for adjacent properties (see Maitland House). It survived entire until World War 2 but was badly damaged in the War and most was subsequently demolished and redeveloped in the 1950s as part of the Maitland Close council estate (q.v.). The Row was built on land owned by the Draper’s Company as Trustees of Queen Elizabeth’s College, the almshouses further down the road, after which the Row was named.

William Lambarde founded the College in 1574 and acquired the land for it in February 1575 by an exchange for part of his properties in Westcombe with Edmund Chapman. The land acquired for the College was bounded by the modern Greenwich High Road, Greenwich South Street and Ashburnham Place and the College was built in the north-east corner at the junction of the first two roads. Lambarde was a member of the Drapers’ Company and made that Company the Trustees of his foundation. In 1771, the estate land not actually occupied by the College, which had hitherto been used as pasture land, was divided into 6 lots let on building leases. The freehold was retained by Company. In 1952 Maitland House and properties west of it in Greenwich High Road, badly damaged in the War, were compulsorily purchased by the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for council housing (the Maitland Close Estate). Most of the remainder of the Estate was sold in the 1970s; all that remains of the Company’s freehold is the College itself including 134-136 Greenwich High Road and Lambard House in Langdale Road which are part of the almshouses. There was also the only non-residential property,the Perkins Warehouse at the junction of Greenwich High Road and Ashburnham Place.

Recorded in the 1841 census; it appears to be the name of a section of Queen’s Place (q.v.) or an alternative name for all of it. The sequence in the census returns is ‘Skinner’s Row, Queen’s Place, Hughes Court, Queen Elizabeth’s Place’. All are subsidiary names within Blackheath Road and Hughes Court is additionally a subsidiary name in Queen’s Place. This would suggest that Queen Elizabeth’s Place was reckoned as a distinct name at the time and that it was at the extreme Deptford Bridge end of Blackheath Road, as it ends the entries for Blackheath Road. Indeed, if it had not been clearly labelled a subsidiary name of Blackheath Road, it would have been convenient to regard it as being that part of Queen’s Place shown on Crutchley’s map (1828) and Wyld’s (1848) a being in Deptford Bridge. It does not appear on any maps nor in any directories and must have disappeared before the 1850s but does at least indicate which queen is meant in Queen’s Place and Queen’s Cottages (q.v.), a subsidiary name in Skinner’s Row. These developments were, in any case, too early to refer to Queen Victoria.

West side of SKINNER’S ROW (q.v.). Name abolished 1938 and re-numbered as part of Skinner’s Row.

The renumbering plan of 31 May 1878 shows Queen’s Place to be a row of 14 houses on the south side of Blackheath Road, east of Deal’s Gateway (renumbered as Nos 2-28 evens). The 1871 census returns records the same houses from west to east as 1-7 Queens Pace and 7-1 Queen’s Row. None of the row survives, the site being occupied by a Kwik-Fit Autocare Centre

The name of the footpath formerly running between Straightsmouth and Norman Road just south of the railway. It formed the last section of the path between Deptford and Greenwich stations which included Mechanics Passage in Deptford and the Ha’penny Hatch (see Ha’penny Hatch Walk). The section between Straightsmouth and the service road by the side of the ‘Colonel Jasper’s’ restaurant (now Davy's) behind the former Lovibond’s Passage, survived until the early 1980s when it was blocked off by Davy’s Wines. It had long been neglected and largely unused. The remaining section to Norman Road disappeared earlier.

A pub of this name is recorded in Mason’s 1852 Directory.

One of short row of houses between Catherine Grove and Catherine House on the north side of Blackheath Road; for more details see Brighton Cottage. Rainford Cottage was renamed Royalty Cottage between 1865 and 1868 (evidence of Kelly’s directories) and was renumbered 27 Blackheath Road in 1878.

See BROADWAY FIELDS, Deal’s Gateway