Now if you still live where you grew up the chances are that you take it all for granted.
For those of us who long ago moved away from Eltham that is something we can’t do.
So here for the next few days are a selection of Eltham High street on a December day just before Christmas.
They were taken by Ryan and are not in any order but take me back to the High Street I remember.
And here to start off the series is the Library.
It was built “with funds from the Carnegie Trust to a design by Maurice Adams. The classical frontispiece is recessed and on either side are oriel windows and tile hung gables flanked by urns.”*
Next door at nos 183-5 “is the old electricity showroom which was built in the early 1930s by the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich; upstairs at that time was the office of the Council’s Registrar [and] behind it was a building used from the early 1900s as the electricity works, Woolwich being the electricity supply authority at the time.”*
Picture, Eltham Library, 2015 from the collection of Ryan Ginn
*Spurgeoon, Darrell, Discover Eltham, 2000
So here for the next few days are a selection of Eltham High street on a December day just before Christmas.
They were taken by Ryan and are not in any order but take me back to the High Street I remember.
And here to start off the series is the Library.
It was built “with funds from the Carnegie Trust to a design by Maurice Adams. The classical frontispiece is recessed and on either side are oriel windows and tile hung gables flanked by urns.”*
Next door at nos 183-5 “is the old electricity showroom which was built in the early 1930s by the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich; upstairs at that time was the office of the Council’s Registrar [and] behind it was a building used from the early 1900s as the electricity works, Woolwich being the electricity supply authority at the time.”*
Picture, Eltham Library, 2015 from the collection of Ryan Ginn
*Spurgeoon, Darrell, Discover Eltham, 2000
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