The fight to keep the historic river walk open from Deptford all way to the boundary with Bexley
I see that the Royal Borough of Greenwich has a consultation out about what people feel about the Riverside Path....
The Old Kent Road kid who rose to great heights in gas
A gas works does not seem to be the best place for a child to grow up in. But George...
A history of Penn’s engineering works and the early vehicles made in Blackheath Road
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve written articles about various steam road vehicles which passed through or originated in...
Making Merry: Merryweather & Sons steam powered trams
In the past five articles I’ve been talking about manufacturers and experimenters with mechanically driven road transport in Greenwich in...
Getting up Shooter’s Hill under their own steam (or gas)
Nineteenth century Greenwich was home to any number of innovative engineers – with a reputation for skilled metal working. Most...
William Jones and his locomotives
I was wondering what to write about this week so I picked up a pin and chose a firm at...
Harveys’ vast ambition
You must be thinking that I will never finish writing articles about Harveys. This will be article No.4 and I’ve...
Driving a distillation column across the country
Well, I left you last week with an article which was Part 2 of my account of G.A. Harvey’s Greenwich...
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