Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Outside Beech Road Police Station ........ revealing a little of the life of PC Frederick George Ross

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This is Police Constable Frederick George Ross standing with his colleagues outside the police station on Beech Road. Now I can’t be ...
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Two for the price of one original photograph ......... St Margaret’s Church, Plumstead in the summer of 1905

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Now this may seem rather indulgent to offer up two identical pictures of the same spot but of course there is a tad difference and that c...
Tuesday, 6 October 2026

When the historic picture postcards …. turn out to be street grids

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Once along time ago you could follow a friend’s holiday adventures by the picture postcards they sent back. Salamanca Firefighters, 2026 Lat...

Down on Maple Avenue with more rare pictures

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This is another of those wonderful images from Ray Jones whose family owned one of the houses on Maple Avenue for over a century, spanning ...
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Sweet Thames Flow Softly*

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The Thames Flows Down is another of those wonderful children's books written in the 1950s. It was the companion to   A Valley G...

The drab street ......the museum ...... and ....... the mural

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  There are some parts of the city that even a bright sunlit day in the middle of a perfect summer  will always be drab and uninviting. And ...
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Monday, 5 October 2026

Hardy Farm ..... on the edge of the Township

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  This is Hardy Farm at the end of Hardy Lane, and you will have to be of an age to remember it. Hardy Farm, 1965 It has gone now, but it ap...
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