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853: On your bike, Greenwich
If you cycle in the borough of Greenwich #8211; which I don 't, but I 'm thinking about it - #8211; you might like to know that Greenwich Council is looking at expanding and improving cycling facili...
Posted 7 hours ago
Simon Emmett: Greenwich Lib-Dems Not Happy With The Coalition?
My head is spinning, I am in a state of shock. Why? because I have received a newsletter from the Lib Dems in my ward, Shooters Hill. The shock being that in the eight years I 've been living in my ho...
Posted 11 hours ago
The Greenwich Phantom: Favourite Front gardens (15)
I 've just realised that I haven 't found any new favourite front gardens at all this year. There just doesn 't seem to have been the exuberance of previous years. But this one, in Mauritius Road, sto...
Posted 11 hours ago
Dartmouth Row - 18th century brick drain
A vintage subterranean photo probably taken during the 1940s, showing an 18th century brick drain found in the garden of a house in Dartmouth Row. At the same property we examined a well with a short ...
Posted 19 hours ago
Admiralty Western Reservoir - revealed
At the beginning of World War II the Admiralty Western Reservoir (the large subterranean structure a few metres uphill from the Standard Reservoir building) was opened for use as an air raid shelter. ...
Posted 23 hours ago
853: Greenwich gay group attacks News Shopper's homophobia prize
A group which provides counselling for gay and bisexual people has criticised the News Shopper 's awarding of a #8220;star letter #8221; prize to a correspondent who branded homosexuality #8220;perv...
Posted 1 day ago
Simon Emmett: Making The Wrong Call
A lot has been made of the non-story around William Hague, most of which I would expect to see in a gutter tabloid, as from what I can make out it is entirely based on innuendo. I have a lot of respec...
Posted 1 day ago
Watch out, the RSPCA's about
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Posted 14856 days ago
853: …
I 'm not a fan of chuggers. They used to be everywhere once, but, they still seem to stick to Greenwich town centre like dog muck on your best shoe, getting in the way, pretending to be friendly, and ...
Posted 1 day ago
The Greenwich Phantom: Greenwich Wildlife (8)
Haven 't had a Greenwich Wildlife pic for ages but there I was just walking along, and there was something I rarely see in the countryside #8211; a little grasshopper. To be honest I don 't know much...
Posted 1 day ago
853: Steam train through Lewisham (updated)
These people seemed happy to see this steam train pass through Blackheath last November #8211; and on Sunday, another steam train will leave London Bridge at 9.45am, passing through New Cross, St Joh...
Posted 2 days ago
The Greenwich Phantom: Happy Memories
I haven 't had a #8216;then and now ' for ages, but something Warren sent me today reminded me that I have this postcard from, I 'm assuming, around 1910 that I 've been meaning to share with you. Sa...
Posted 2 days ago
Sayes Court mine, Deptford
On John Evelyn's 1653 plan of Sayes Court in Deptford (Copyright © The British Library Board), there is a sand or gravel pit shown at the bottom right corner - with the entrance to a mine gallery cle...
Posted 3 days ago
The Greenwich Phantom: Tailors
Oh, that Dubois of Lewisham still existed. I 'm sure that the Outfitters to Gentlemen and the Sons of Gentlemen would have been only too happy to help Ruth with a small alteration issue. She says: I a...
Posted 3 days ago
853: Taking the bus into the country
Over the weekend, a little tweak to the bus network brought the countryside a bit nearer #8211; the extension of route 320 from Bromley to Catford means it 's easier to get down as far as Biggin Hill...
Posted 3 days ago
