DEPTFORD MISC

Yesterday Bob from Brockley quoted George Orwell from 16 May 1939 . A few years later Orwell observed in his essay Some Thoughts on the Com...

Wally Crouch was born Walter Thomas Crouch in Portsmouth in 1877, the son of a shipwright. After his father died his mother remarried and he...

Benjamin Joseph Jacob became the first Mayor of Deptford on Friday 9th November 1900. He served two consecutive terms (until November 1902)....

According to the site electionchampion.com this somewhat irreverent alteration to a Tory billboard is near to New Cross Gate station.

The Metropolitan Borough of Deptford was created by The London Government Act 1899 , and abolished by the London Government Act 1963 . The f...

This morning I attempted to travel between Deptford and Whitechapel. Being aware that the re-opening of the East London Line had been postpo...

Leafing through the Times this morning my eye was caught by this photograph of the Master Shipwright's House in the Bricks and Mortar ...