Victualling Yard, Deptford
An information board Docklands Heritage Deptford River Walk gives a good introduction to the area so we have transcribed it: "Alongside the Dockyard a Navy victualling and supply centre grew u...
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Royal Naval Dockyard / Royal Victoria Dockyard
An information board Docklands Heritage Deptford River Walk gives a good introduction to the area so we have transcribed it. For at least five centuries Deptfords history was bound up with t...
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Pepys Estate
Built by the GLC, the Pepys Estate was opened by Earl Mountbatten. The section to the east of Grove Street stands on the site of the Royal Victoria Victualling Yard. The excellent Municipal Dreams...
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Vauxhall Park
An information board near to the Fawcett house plaque gives: "Vauxhall Park was created by a special Act of Parliament in 1888 on land whose history can be traced back to the 11th Century. A group ...
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The Potteries and the Piggeries
A notorious Victorian slum in Kensington. From the late 18th century this was an area where bricks were made to supply nearby construction sites. As London was developed agricultural activities w...
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Kensington Hippodrome
A horse race course built by entrepreneur John Whyte. It was not a success partly because the clay ground was not suitable and partly because the local population (slum-dwellers, basically) unlike ...
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Willesden Maternity Hospital
Also known as the Kingsbury Hospital.In 1972 it was refurbished as the Kingsbury Community Hospital, a specialist resource for mentally handicapped people.
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St James's Gardens, W11
RBKCandBritish History Onlinehave a lot of information about the creation of this square, with plans and drawings.
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Northern Outfall Sewer
A major 'gravity' sewer running from Hackney to Beckton. Mainly designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgetteafter an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and the 'Great Stink' in the Thames of 1858. Our picture shows...
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Reinickendorf
The twelfth borough of Berlin. It encompasses the northwest area of the city,
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