Thursday, 20 June 2024

William Joseph Armitage

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  Greetings! My name is Wes Long and I am a writer with the Salt Lake City Weekly. I happened upon your website and thought you might have s...
Monday, 2 October 2023

Help for Tony

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  Hi, I read this morning, with great interest, your Old Deptford History, very good, so much information. My reason for looking on your sit...
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Memories all the way from Australia

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  G'day from sunny Queensland. I have just discovered your articles about old Deptford in SE London -  fascinating.    I was actually s...

Whitcher Street.

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  Hi there, I came across your blog whilst looking for information on Whitcher Street, which appears to have existed between the late 1940s ...
Friday, 30 June 2023

A Bedmaker ... Carrington House.

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I have just discovered your Old Deptford web site. I see a lot of comments from 2012, but I hope you are still involved and interested. I ha...
Friday, 17 March 2023

Emperor of the United States

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Hi All My name is John Lumea. I live in Boston and am the founder of a nonprofit, THE EMPEROR NORTON TRUST, that since 2013 has been working...
Friday, 14 October 2022

Deptford Memories by Jeff Manning

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 My name is Jeff Manning, and I was born and bred in Deptford (1950-1970) and I would like to share my memories of Deptford with other deptf...
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Wednesday, 7 September 2022

13 Deptford High Street.

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  Hello Thank you for creating the old deptford history website I have enjoyed reading the articles and looking at the old photos,it brought...
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Sunday, 28 August 2022

Help for Warren McIver tracing family History.

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Hi All The story I have is less a story about Deptford and more about a family mystery that led me to Deptford.  I live in Auckland New Zeal...
Thursday, 30 December 2021

Princess of Wales Pub

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  Hello,   Hoping the Deptford history community might be able to help me out with something...   My partner recently bought a ground floor ...
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Thursday, 25 November 2021

Patrick 'Patsy' Houlihan, Deptford born and bred.

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  Hi everyone, I'm a sports writer and historian and currently researching a book about the life of Patrick 'Patsy' Houlihan, De...
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Friday, 19 November 2021

Deptford Decades from the Deptford Ragged School Archives.

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  Residents of Deptford  tell their stories. My thanks to Katharine Alston of the Deptford Ragged School Archives for her permission to publ...
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Thursday, 7 October 2021

Buttons of Deptford

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The image is from http://www.thamesbuttons.com/page1.html The button was found on the Thames foreshore by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker Brian&...
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Sunday, 31 January 2021

Our Shop part 2

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Here's a story involving our shop which might interest you, and might even jog some memories I must have been about 9 or 10 years old wh...
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Our Shop part 1

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  I was born Rosemary Elizabeth Manning on the 6 th  of December 1926 in Number 8 Wilson Street, which is just off the New Cross Road. My mu...
Friday, 22 January 2021

Peppercorn Bros Furniture

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This post shows and example of a dresser made by Peppercorn BROS limited of Deptford Broadway.  
Monday, 21 December 2020

Brookmill Road Conservation Area (BRCA Society) online talk

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  Dear Olddeptfordhistory.com  I thought I’d let you know about the Brookmill Road Conservation Area (BRCA Society) online talk coming up in...
Monday, 9 November 2020

THE UNITED FRIENDS PUBLIC HOUSE

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            United Friends, 25 Wellington Street, Deptford - Licensee T C Entecott The address is listed as 25 Wellington Street in 1882 and...