The lost Eltham & Woolwich pictures ...... no. 40 .....

This is how I remember our river, not as an empty stretch of water but a busy place where the daily grind of hard work was carried out against a backdrop of the changing tides and ships from all over the workd.

For four decades it was one of the pictures I took of Eltham and Woolwich in the mid ‘70’s which sat undisturbed in our cellar.

But all good things eventually come to light.

They were colour slides which have been transferred electronically.

The quality of the original lighting and the sharpness is sometimes iffy, but they are a record of a lost Eltham and Woolwich.

Of course much of that work was hard  and dangerous and not always well paid but it supported a community.
And that is reassuring.

Location; Woolwich

Picture; Woolwich, circa 1978, from the collection of Andrew Simpson