History: Kidbrooke School, the Dome of Discovery, and the elusive Mr. Chatterjee
I was turning over in my mind this morning what I will do for next week’s article and I was thinking over the options…
Historic Waterworks: Dawn raids, boiler room fights and tots of rum all round…
So – to continue a bit more with the history of the Kent Waterworks. This is my fifth article about it and I’ve hardly…
The growth of the Kent Waterworks – supplying South London
With the New Year I think it’s about time I returned to the history of the Kent Waterworks. This is about the water supply…
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 Greenwich and the surrounding…
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 the 19th century, writes…
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 famous are the armaments…
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 random from John Smith’s…
