Andrew Simpson

Now I know there will be plenty of pictures of the library knocking around and I dare say some better quality versions of this one which dat...

Cliefden House in 1909 Now I am back at Cliefden House. This grand 18th century property is still there on the High Street opposite P...

Now there are many ways of recreating a walk up the High Street on a day log ago. One of the easiest is to use photographs from the pas...

Well Hall House date unknown Now I am fascinated by Well Hall House. It was built in 1733, replacing the Tudor manor house and was de...

Looking down Shooters Hill in 1909 I am back on Shooters Hill in the June of 1841 thinking about the small community of 58 people who l...

Now I really wish I knew just what the “Tale at Eltham" was, but alas it is lost. Nor I suspect did anyone know just what had gone on i...

I am the first to say that history is messy and just when you think you have got a story from the past just right, the past throws you a wo...

Now, it is so easy to get lost in an old picture of Eltham. Eltham Village, date unknown This is one that my friend Tricia found and ...

Well Hall Parade in 1907 Now I am back with two more from Greenwich’s collection of old photographs. They are both of Well Hall Road...

Now sadly I doubt that the “The Tale” in the picture postcard refers to the short story written in 1916 by Joseph Conrad and published the ...

Another of those pictures of Eltham’s past which need no comment This is the old lane by the National Schools as it was in 1908.  The l...

Walking down the south side of the High Street in 1909 So this is a walk down the southern side of the High Street in 1908 or 1909. N...

This is the Eltham Cinema and was on the corner of the High Street and Westmount Road. Eltham Cinema, circa 1913 It was opened in 191...

This is the White Hart on a summer’s day in 1909, and it was going to be the subject of the story. Mrs Ann Nunn who ran the five roomed...

I don’t think I ever took a short cut and walked down Elizabeth Terrace. Elizabeth Terrace between Boots and W. H. Smith, 2014 It’s that uni...

So, despite living in Eltham for an important chunk of my childhood I never visited Eltham Park Railway Station. Eltham Park Railway Station...

Annie and her son William in 1877 I  am back with Annie Morris whose life in Eltham pretty much covered the period when the place shift...

I never tire of looking at this picture which takes me back to an Eltham I never knew. We are standing on Court Road at the beginning o...

Now, I have to say that this row of terraced houses is not what you expect to see off the High Street. And I had to think for a few min...

William Brefoot, date unknown Now I have to confess that for me William Barefoot was just a name on a plaque in the Pleasaunce, and i...