It had long been abandoned as a home for royalty and its grand days were a thing of the past.
The occasional tourist up from London called in along with an interested artist keen to capture its former splendour but that was about it.
All very different from now, and a prelude to more stories of the building and its history.*
But in the meantime here then over the next few days are the Palace as you might have seen it during the early 19th century, all taken from that wonderful book on the history of Eltham published in 1909.**
Location; Eltham, London
Picture; The Banqueting Hall used as a stables from an old engraving, from The story of Royal Eltham, R.R.C. Gregory, 1909 and published on The story of Royal Eltham, by Roy Ayers, http://www.gregory.elthamhistory.org.uk/bookpages/i001.htm
*The Story of Eltham Palace, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Eltham%20Palace
** The story of Royal Eltham, R.R.C. Gregory, 1909 and published on The story of Royal Eltham, by Roy Ayers, http://www.gregory.elthamhistory.org.uk/bookpages/i001.htm
fantastic,when i was pupil at the gordon school eltham in the late 1950s,my school project was the history of eltham,i did lots of research at eltham library,thank you for this,
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