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We need your help!... with the places & buildings below
If you have anything that can help please email me. Two houses in Roydene RoadJane Funnell asks: I am doing some research on a building (now two houses) in Roydene Road, Plumstead and I wondered if any of your contributors remember the building. It is about half way down Roydene on the right-hand side coming from Sladedale. It is set back from the road between the terrace of nos. 46 and 50. I believe it was most recently a car repair shop but formerly a haulage depot and before that stables.
I have had limited luck with my research and would appreciate anything anyone could contribute. Royal Arsenal Cooperative SocietyLorna Chudasama asks if anyone has more information on the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society:
This lovely old photo is on a used postcard dated Dec 28 1906. The wording high on the Building is Royal Arsenal Co-operative Soc. Ltd and above shop fronts is the wording Butchers Department, Grocery & Provisions, Drapery & Hosiery. I haven't been able to establish precisely when it opened or its exact location in Woolwich or whether indeed the building still stands. I would suspect however, that it was the Co-operative Store where my grandmother shopped (with the disapproval of my grandfather for whatever reason I don't know but probably political) and valued the dividends. I have
learned that in 1760 co-operative corn mills were built in Woolwich
by dock workers. The dock workers objected to the high prices
charged by mill owners who often supplied adulterated flour.
Quoting from publishers Adam Matthews:
My mother was looking at the postcard yesterday (24/4/2007) but didn't recognise it. She told me that quite often when they were living in the Army flats, she and her sister Winnie were sent to the Co-op to do the shopping. One day, on their way back with heavy bags, three young boys followed them and calmly helped themselves to the contents of the shopping bags. My mother and her sister were too frightened to do anything. They weren't scolded for losing the groceries but they were never sent again. Presumably the Co-op where my grandmother shopped was within walking distance from Artillery Place. Plumstead High Street - Austin's Sweet shopI'm looking for old photo's of Plumstead High Street, c 1900, as my Great Grand Parents had a shop along there, but no one has any photo's of the area in our family. It was a sweet shop and their surname was Austin' - Helen Jones If you can help in any way please email Colin The Four AcesPete Fisk wants to know if anyone can help him with this question; "It is said that my grandfather, Joseph Charles Howard, had a cafe just outside the Woolwich Arsenal in the early 1930s (possibly earlier) called 'The Four Aces ' (or similar). Apparently it was along the Arsenal wall somewhere. It could have been a permanent business with a proper address or, maybe, some sort of a mobile establishment, such as a caravan cafe. I'm not familiar with the area, so if my description is sketchy it is because it is only passed-down information from my mother and I am, sadly, no longer able to update this information. If you can possibly help in any way please email Colin Old Woolwich House
If you can possibly help in any way please email Colin Clisby's General Store
If anyone recognizes the shop and can remember where it was situated could they please let Colin know.
Janet Gardner (nee Clisby) asks; Barnfield Gardens Our family,
(Cyril Clisby was my Dad) moved into Cowan House, Barnfield
Gardens, when it had just been completed in 1947, our family
then moved to Slough in 1958. If anyone has any recollections please contact Colin. |
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Woolwich & Districts
Does
any one have any idea of what the attached building is/was?
And any story behind it? Its on Beresford St. (I think) and
is in Woolwich area.