Comments on: In Old Deptford

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:49:22 +0000

Sarah Leedam, I may be able to help you out. Contact me if needed

By: Angela Beverley

Angela Beverley — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 11:08:27 +0000

Generations of my father’s family lived in Deptford (which I believe is named from Deep Ford), although pretty much all of that history has been bulldozed away in favour of the tower blocks. Several of them died in Greenwich Workhouse. One of the more notorious characters was Hannah Mary Cromarty, known as Annie. She was linked to the Stratton brothers who were convicted and hung for the murders of the Farrows at Chapmans Oil shop in the High Street. The transcript of the trial is on the Old Bailey website.

By: Sarah Leedam

Sarah Leedam — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 08:40:07 +0000

The house in Albury Street with the cherubs is for sale

By: Krz Mazeika

Krz Mazeika — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:58:09 +0000

Nice overview of Deptford’s remarkable history.
Note
Albury Street was originally named Union Street, commemorating year of completion having stated c.1704. Evelyn’s country seat is called Wotton.

By: Stella

Stella — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 06:49:32 +0000

What makes me sad when enjoying all these wonderful articles by the gentle author is how much of the past we have lost…the destruction of majestic homes, beautiful gardens, the old ways of life….or am I looking through rose-tinted spectacles?

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 07:12:48 +0000

A fascinating insight into Deptford’s past, and an interesting comparison to Maidenhead (in Berkshire) which was my married family home for 34 years. Maidenhead is also not the place it once was either!
Love some of the pictures on this post, especially of the displays of fruit & veg, street life, the markets, and the wonderful statues

By: Cherub

Cherub — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 13:59:38 +0000

Peter and Joan is just the sort of shop I love raking through. There are always great finds and bargains to be had. I loved places like this when I was getting things together for my first home 37 years ago. I actually still have some things like kitchen jars!

By: Frances Donnelly

Frances Donnelly — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 13:45:34 +0000

I really enjoyed Gillian Tindall’s wonderfully researched article about Deptford. I am a great admirer of Charles Nichol’s ‘The Reckoning,’ his account of the murder of Kit Marlow in Deptford, ‘a great reckoning in a little room’ as Shakespeare eloquently puts it. Nicholls’ book gives a vivid picture of the Elizabethan spy world, in which Kit Marlow may have been involved. Ms Tindall, by her comparison of Elizabethan Deptford with modern day Maidenhead does explain why he might have been there for a day’s pleasure- a mistake to automatically confuse modern and historic Deptford! This piece made me determined to see Sayes garden and magnificent mulberry tree.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 09:29:24 +0000

A shame that Wellbeloved closed last year after nearly 200 hundred years of serving meat to Deptford. Their meat pies were delicious.

By: Greg T

Greg T — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 07:03:59 +0000

“Manze’s in Deptford” – the Walthamstow High St one is closed, but it looks as though a buyer might be found – people were examining it very carefully, when I walked past it, yesterday (!)
No mention of one of Deptford’s best pubs: The “Dog & Bell” in Prince St