Comments on: In Old Deptford

By: Bec

Bec — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:12:00 +0000

Looking for George James fuller born Greenwich depotford
1918 came to Australia 1939 after bombings

No family history could of changed names

Trying to find family
No one knows the storie behind my grandfather

By: Peters

Peters — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:21:31 +0000

Looking for any information of the peters family,
William peters
Sons William peters
George peters
Came out australia early 1900s

By: Derek Helling

Derek Helling — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 20:52:04 +0000

My paternal grandfather lived at #3 Hoopwick street before 1929 (when he died)
I would like to obtain some pictures of Hoopwick street. It was badly bombed in the war and no longer exists.
Thanks.
Derek Helling – dereklh99@charter.net

By: Bob Ball

Bob Ball — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:27:51 +0000

Dear Gillian… a very interesting article. I live near Dorking in Surrey close to the Evelyn’s country estate at Wotton. To St Johns church where many Evelyns are buried. I stayed in Wotton House on a work conference a few years ago. Whilst maintains the Jacobean influence the hotel group did do some damage. I vaguely remember Lucinda Lambton finding a Beastly Building there for one of her books. That apparently did not survive .
You mention the Evelyns planting trees. Back in 1987 shortly before the Great Storm there was a television drama in which Timothy West played John Evelyn. (Filmed at Polesden Lacey ..NT)And stated that they needed to plant far more trees. He certainly succeeded as that part of Surrey is glorious woodland.
Sadly the tomb at St Johns was desecrated some years ago and the skulls of the two main Evelyns stolen and never recovered. Thank you putting up with Bertie Bear too

By: Christine Best

Christine Best — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:49:34 +0000

There’s a very good short film on the history of Deptford on YouTube. ‘Vadum Profundum’ made in 2005. I found it by accident and thought it brilliant.

By: Ian Sewell

Ian Sewell — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:43:37 +0000

The shipbuilder, Charles James Lungley 1816–1871. Birth ABT 1816 • Hatfield Peverel, Essex, England. Death 5 MAY 1871 • Greenwich, London, England, was the uncle of husband of my 3rd great-aunt, Jane Elizabeth Stone, 1845–1922. Birth APR 1845 • Poplar Blackwall, London, England. Death 5 FEB 1922 • Peckham House, Camberwell, London, England. Her father was my 3rd great grandfather, Cornelius Stone, 1817–1900. Birth 20 DEC 1817 • Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England. Death 31 JAN 1900 • West Ham, Essex, England.

http://greenwichindustrialhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00:00:00Z&updated-max=2010-01-01T00:00:00Z&max-results=50

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 07:31:19 +0000

Excellent bit of history about Deptford, once an important and affluent part of London. I used to go shopping there with my Mum every Saturday back in the distant past. We walked through the foot tunnel from the Isle of Dogs. There was a shop called Pecry’s in the High St where she would “pay off” the items she’d bought previously. People would buy stuff on a pay-weekly basis until they’d paid the total and then they’d get the goods. It was a haberdashers shop with the old fashioned system of sending money in containers on wires flying around above your head. Deptford was also the home the band Squeeze and Jools Holland. Which reminds me, Chris Difford never returned the £5 I lent him to buy a round in The Harp…but that’s a another story.

By: David Gittins

David Gittins — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 03:04:23 +0000

Sales Court has been saved from the developers and is now run as a community garden.

On the other side of the coin Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden has a month’s notice before “Affordable” apartments replace the old school and councils flats
which border the last remaining green space in Deptford other than the ground between St.Paul’s church and the Railway line which is the site of the Thames Super Sewer.

See ‘Crosswhatfields’ website for more information

By: Delia Folkard

Delia Folkard — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:51:05 +0000

Thank you Gillian for a most enlightening and enjoyable week of stories so beautifully written. I’m now eager to buy your book. Best wishes to you.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:58:49 +0000

Another fantastic article, thanks! Valerie