General Local History

My personal local history posts

Rotherhithe Chronology
Brit Hist Online - Rotherhithe
Brit Hist Online - Roth # 2
St Mary’s - Historic Rother
Rotherhithe & Southwark Park
Rizzello Sculpture Stave Hill
St Mary’s - Prince Lee Boo
BBC - Free school
Dark Waters Piers, Rotherhithe
History of Rotherhithe - Perseus
East London Line
LDDC public art
Deal Porters Rotherhithe 1910
National Archives -Rotherhithe
Pictures of Bermon and Rother
Rotherhithe Town Hall
St Mary’s Free school

 

Ships & Building

Painting by Thomas Whitcombe
Clippers Quay
Ships of the old Navy
British 4th Rates


 

Museums

Pumphouse Educational Museum
Brunel Museum
BBC- Brunel Museum

 

Tunnels

Brunel Tunnel

Thames (Brunel)Tunnel
Article in The Guardian


Rotherhithe Tunnel

Rotherhithe Tunnel 100
Tunnel Centenary


 

Churches

St Mary’s Rotherhithe online
BBC- St Mary’s
Wiki - St Mary’s

St Olav’s - Portcities

Docks

Surrey Commercial Docks

Wiki Surrey Commercial Docks
Working on the docks audio
LDDC Guide to Surrey Docks
PortCities brief hist + pics

Greenland Dock

Wiki Greenland Dock
James Walker Bust details
BBC - Greenland Dock


Lavender Dock

Lavender Pumphouse

Grand Surrey Canal

Wiki Grand Surrey Canal


Russia Dock

Porticities photo


South Dock

Portcities photo c.1880


 

Heritage Walks

Surrey Docks Walk
BBC Thames Tour Rotherhithe
BBC Rotherhithe Walk
Maritime Rotherhithe (Rankin)
Rotherhithe History Walk (Rankin)

Deptford & Millwall Walk
Deptford architecture walk
Deptford People Walk

Other Local Areas

Deptford

Deptford, Wiki
Deptford Town Talk

Diary of John Evelyn in HTML
Sayes Court - Wiki

Deptford ship launch paintings
Deptford Dockyard prints
NMM - Royal Dockyards

Ferranti Power Station -Portcities
Ferranti Pwr photo - Portcities

Deptford People Walk
Deptford & Millwall Walk

St Nicholas, Deptford
St Nicholas - Greenwich.gov
St Paul’s Deptford
 

Bermondsey

Bermondsey Abbey Dig
Bermondsey Prehistoric Lake
Peek Freans exhibit
Brit Hist Online - Bermondsey Abb
 

East London

Brit Hist Online West India
Execution Dock
London Canals
Shadwell Basin
St Anne’s Limehouse Wiki
St George in the East Wiki
St Paul’s Shadwell Wiki

 

Other

Liner unloading, Greenwich Reach



 

Dockers, Ship Workers & Individuals

Mariners UK
Alfred D Canning
William Patterson, Naval Archit
Alfred Salter - Wiki
 

Maps

Cary’s map 1837
Cross’s 1850 plan
Cross’s 1861 plan
Stave Hill Google Satellite



 

Wildlife

Rotherhithe

Bermondsey

General

Botanical plant name index
Endangered tortoiseshells
Frogs found in British gardens