70 years of the Cutty Sark in Greenwich – the sole surviving tea clipper ship in the world
Royal Museums Greenwich senior curator Louise Macfarlane tells us about the ship’s history and how it has become near impossible to ‘think of Greenwich…
The Remarkable Walter Tull
A pioneering, black footballer and soldier Greenwich Theatre, as part of Black History Month, will be hosting Our Little Hour, which tells the inspirational…
Putting Harry Beck on the Map
The Truth About Harry Beck is a new play about the designer of the iconic version of the London Tube map. Presented by the…
Chocolate House Greenwich exhibition is set to open at Old Royal Naval College
Opening later this month, a new exhibition at Greenwich’s Old Royal Navel College is telling the delicious history of the area’s chocolate houses Just…
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…
Kids Review: Legion – Life in the Roman Army at The British Museum
Legions of visitors are massing outside the colonnade of Ionic columns as we march towards the British Museum, writes Woody, Frida and Ed Gray… …
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…
For the first time ever, you can climb Greenwich’s Cutty Sark
I never thought I would ever find myself climbing up the side of the Cutty Sark – or up the side of anything to…
Shirley of Rotherhithe
Shirley Rose Mills was born during the war, one of ten siblings living in a two-bedroom flat in Swan Lane Estate’s Rye House, writes…
The history of the jean genies of Rotherhithe’s Lower Road
Here is a tale of some Eastern Europeans who immigrated to the UK and became Bermondsey and Rotherhithe legends They travelled many miles across…
Words from the Graveyard
Author Paul Slade has diverse interests that have provided the public with books on murder ballads and the USA’s first Black-owned record label. Now,…
