tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55555155942188687732024-03-14T07:53:25.938+00:00A Rotherhithe BlogThis blog is all about Rotherhithe, past and present. The main themes are heritage, wildlife and news items that may be of interest to local residents. If you have any questions or would like to comment or ask me to cover any particular topic you can email me at andie [at] rotherhitheblog.co.uk. I am also on Twitter @AndieByrnesAndiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.comBlogger659125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-58429720979262157852018-08-23T11:20:00.001+01:002020-12-16T13:15:33.649+00:00Blog closure
New room, new view
Just
a quick note to say that I moved house this year, and am now based in
mid-west Wales on the coast. I have had a lot of fun writing this blog
over the years, and met some really super people whilst doing so, both
in person and by email. My sincere thanks to all of you.
I will not be updating this site any more, as I have a new blog about my new home Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-10889200630986042972018-03-04T00:53:00.002+00:002018-03-04T00:55:25.508+00:00Thames Discovery Programme - Rotherhithe Ethical foreshore exploration (10th March 2018)
https://www.mola.org.uk/thames-discovery-programme-rotherhithe-ethical-foreshore-exploration
At previous Rotherhithe investigations by the Thames Discovery programme
a large number of nautical timbers were recorded; these are likely to
represent the remains of ship breaking on the foreshore during the 18th
century. Other structures of interest include access features associated
with Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-91411426165183312702018-03-01T15:14:00.000+00:002018-03-01T16:29:48.924+00:00Presentation: The Last Days of Rotherhithe Shipbuilding: The Clipper Ships
The clipper Coonatto in Port Adelaide. Built by Bilbe and Perry
at Nelson Dock, Rotherhithe, in 1863
Source: Trove PRG 1373-2-6
Many thanks to the Rotherhithe and Bermondsey History Society (http://www.rbhistory.org.uk/) for a very warm welcome on one of the coldest days I can remember. It was great to meet old friends, chat to some lovely people that I have only talked to on Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-21144901721534712022018-03-01T11:52:00.002+00:002018-03-01T14:55:35.061+00:00Shad Thames Trail and other booklets available to download
A new booklet entitled "The Shad Thames Trail" has been published, issued by the Shad Thames Area Management Partnership. It’s an informative tour of the Shad Thames area, including a map and descriptions of the main attractions marked on the map. It was written by Janet Morris from information supplied by the late and much-missed Stephen Humphrey. I don’t know where a hard copy Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-42299029694897797742017-10-04T23:41:00.003+01:002017-10-04T23:44:31.503+01:00A great night at the Docklands History Group
Enormous thanks to the Docklands History Group (www.docklandshistorygroup.org.uk)
for inviting me to speak tonight at the Museum of London Docklands. My
subject was the last days of clipper ships and the end of shipbuilding
on the Thames.
What a wonderful set of people! I was very nervous
about being an amateur on the subject amongst people with serious
expertise in this field, but Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-49948989741124254812017-06-27T20:25:00.001+01:002017-08-14T20:35:49.522+01:00Port of London Study Group moves to Canada Water Library
Stewart’s Dry Dock on the right and Glen Terrace on the left; the
bowsprit of the barque Milverton overhangs the dock wall at Manchester
Road, 1918. Copyright: Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
Great news that now that the Port of London Study Group has decided to change venues for their weekly meetings they are going to be based at Canada Water library.
The group wasAndiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-38838969645111222352017-06-14T11:35:00.000+01:002017-07-06T11:54:01.469+01:00John McGowan's Rotherhithe prints to go on display
Artist and printmaker John McGowan has been sending me photographs of his prints for years, and they are truly evocative, showing a new way of looking at old photographs of Rotherhithe or old features preserved in modern Rotherhithe. He has been planning an exhibition of his work for some time and has now finalized a venue and a date, shown below. There is also a video Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-89761813594385970612017-06-06T16:48:00.000+01:002017-06-06T23:28:05.880+01:00Launch of the lighter "Apprentice Lighterman" built at South Dock by Bill Robinson
Built at South Dock and launched today in high winds and pouring rain, the 15 ton Apprentice Lighterman was launched at noon today surrounded by a damp but very cheerful and splendidly heartfelt crowd of supporters.
As well as the lovely builder, Bill Robinson (of the Thames Barge Driving Trust), the barge's welder Matt and countless helpers, supporters and well-wishers was the Master of the Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-4946122407380479382017-05-29T16:48:00.000+01:002017-05-29T16:48:10.178+01:00Photographs of the Lavender Pump house from the Enthusiastic Gardener blog
A lovely collection of photographs on the Enthusiastic Gardener blog showing Lavender Pump house and its surroundings at their summer best. Great to see it all looking so great, but a shame that the woodwork is still being allowed to decay so badly.
https://enthusiasticgardener.com/2017/05/29/lavender-pond-nature-reserve/
If you're interested in the history of the Lavender Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-4662494572060795942016-12-05T23:42:00.000+00:002016-12-05T23:42:47.355+00:00Stephen Humphrey has passed away
I was terribly sorry to hear about the death of Stephen Humphrey at the age of 64 on 1st December 2016. A Southwark historian who worked from primary sources, published a number of books and booklets on the subject, was president of the Rotherhithe & Bermondsey Local History Society and was still lecturing regularly about the history of Rotherhithe and Bermondsey, he was awarded with Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-70626991685115784442016-12-05T23:40:00.003+00:002016-12-05T23:40:31.141+00:00South Dock website
I have assembled all the posts about South Dock from this blog and posted them on a website of their own. South Dock is now London's largest marina but used to be a part of the Surrey Commercial Docks, which closed in 1970. It can be found at: https://southdockse16.wordpress.com
https://southdockse16.wordpress.com
Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-1280084150146339622016-06-25T07:22:00.002+01:002016-06-25T08:24:51.385+01:00Stuart Rankin's Rotherhithe shipbuilding books are available online for the first time
After many years, Stuart Rankin has now managed to secure the copyright on the booklets that he wrote many years ago about shipbuilding and shipyards in Rotherhithe, at a time when the fringes of Rotherhithe were laced with shipbuilding and shipbreaking yards. Even better, he has made them available online for download.
Stuart's work is the result of years of trawling through archives Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-59526066556928887402016-06-15T11:01:00.002+01:002016-06-15T11:10:54.004+01:00Rotherhithe – Canary Wharf Bridge short-listed in New London Awards 2016
One of the designs proposed for a much-needed pedestrian and cycle bridge between
Rotherhithe and Canary Wharf has been short-listed in the Transport and
Infrastructure of the New London Awards 2016. The Rotherhithe Bridge
design is proposed by Sustrans and the reForm/Elliott Wood team and the
website dedicated to the structure, complete with animations, can be
found at: Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-7031789290146918822016-05-06T10:06:00.001+01:002016-05-06T10:06:20.899+01:00Russia Dock Woodland on a fabulously sunny day in May
Yesterday was stunning. I went to mark my crosses on ballot papers at the Docklands Settlement and then crossed the road and was submerged into a world of dappled light and bright green leaves. It was a particularly beautiful day, and everything in Russia Dock Woodland looked bright and new, everything fresh and sparkling. There was even a family of Canada geese at Globe Pond, Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-89180076898188145262016-04-28T18:28:00.000+01:002016-04-28T20:14:19.422+01:00Thomas Bilbe's "Coonatto," built at Nelson Dock, Rotherhithe, 1863
Coonatto by Thomas Goldsworth SuttonNational Maritime Museum PY8564
Coonatto was a three-masted clipper commissioned from the partnership of Thomas Bilbe and William Perry in 1863 by Anderson, Thompson and Co. (later Anderson, Anderson and Co.) for the Orient Line for the transport on their London to Adelaide route of cargo, mainly wool, and passengers.
The relationship between Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-51453053565255553282016-04-28T17:41:00.000+01:002016-04-28T21:22:19.540+01:00The 1875 Albion Dry Dock at the former Decathlon site
I have updated this post since I first wrote it on 9th April 2016,
with information provided most generously by the Museum of London Archaeology's Magnus Copps, who came to
the site on the 27th April 2016 to explain the site, its past and its
future. He provided some excellent new information about the brick work, the use of concrete and the structure that sat over the dry dock Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-21310905289200290102016-04-09T21:21:00.000+01:002016-04-09T21:42:20.073+01:00A super visit to Stave Hill Ecological Park
I went to have a look at the Albion Dock dry dock currently available to see via a viewing platform at the former Decathlon site (about which I have posted here), and at the last minute decided to cut back home via Albion Channel and Stave Hill Ecological Park. It was threatening rain but apart from spitting at me occasionally, it obliging held off. The snake's head fritilleries Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-20937451625560769582016-03-25T12:05:00.000+00:002016-03-25T17:41:40.236+00:00Ada's Garden and the Ada Salter statue: Celebration of the pioneering work of Ada Salter
Ada Salter
I am currently writing a post about Alfred and Ada Salter. Although they achieved a considerable amount independently, the Salters were very much a partnership but here I want to look very briefly at Ada and how she has been recognized and celebrated locally in recent years. The Salters were social activists in Bermondsey in the first half of the 20th Century, Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-24391164072085830952016-03-19T16:02:00.001+00:002016-03-20T20:53:31.228+00:00The Peter Hills Charity School statues now restored
It was great to have the opportunity to have a look at the Peter Hills Charity School statues now that they are fully restored before they go back up on the building.
70 St Marychurch Street, the former Peter Hills School in Rotherhithe village is one of the few 18th Century buildings left standing in Rotherhithe. Now converted for use as offices, it was established in 1742 as a Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-52513867730203702022016-03-15T10:37:00.000+00:002016-03-15T10:37:14.707+00:00The Mockfords in Rotherhithe
https://mockford.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/st-marys-rotherhithe-300th-anniversary
In case there is anyone in the Mockford, Bradshaw or Jones families looking for family information, there is a really nice account on the above page of a visit by an American branch of the family to Rotherhithe in July 2015 and the research they conducted whilst they were here.
Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-74407583198865972702016-03-14T15:30:00.001+00:002016-03-14T20:02:21.918+00:00The 1212 fire of Southwark - 450 years before the Great Fire of London in 1666
There's an interesting article in this week's edition of Southwark news by Joey Millar about a fire that took hold of London in 1212, killing over 3000 people. That was 454 years before the famous Great Fire of 1666. It's not Rotherhithe, but it's only down the road at London Bridge, and it's interesting! The fire broke out in Southwark where wind carried it across the bridgeAndiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-12139790537544457642016-03-12T19:29:00.002+00:002016-03-13T21:18:49.894+00:00Stuart Rankin's Rotherhithe History Walks available online
Newly available for download (each priced at £1.05) on the British Transport Treasures website:
Maritime Rotherhithe History Walk – Transport, Industry and the Docks by Stuart Rankin, Southwark Council 2005.
Maritime Rotherhithe History Walk – Shipyards, Granaries and Wharves by Stuart Rankin, Southwark Council 2005
Rotherhithe Then and Now History Walk by Stuart Rankin, Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-69076518502908769772016-02-07T14:37:00.001+00:002016-02-09T19:04:16.779+00:00Notes re Canada Water Masterplan exhibtion 5th February 2016
I've at last written up some thoughts re the Canada Water Masterplan as revealed on Friday 5th February 2016 at British Land's exhibition in Surrey Quays Shopping Centre. Not my happiest day of the year to date http://bit.ly/1NYhZMs
Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-68627508197262590812016-02-05T19:43:00.001+00:002016-02-08T11:12:37.111+00:00Canada Water Area Action Plan exhibition 5th February 2016
Update: The full story with more pictures is now on my SE16 planning blog at: https://trackerzone.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/canada-water-masterplan-exhibition-on-5th-february-2016/
I said that I would put all my planning stuff on my other blog, and I will do so with a commentary, but in the meantime, whilst I try to feel a bit less depressed about the whole thing and get my head around Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555515594218868773.post-14774364232383977302016-02-05T16:31:00.000+00:002016-02-05T17:19:09.499+00:00The Manor at the end of the Howland Great Wet Dock (now Greenland Dock)
Update: Thanks to Phil (@BermondseyBeat) on Twitter for solving the mystery. There is a colour image of it and a full record for it at Collage (Guildhall Art Gallery and London Metropolitan Archives) here: http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app;jsessionid=81444C987D188671B61EE87B615CC857?service=external/Item&sp=ZGreenland+Dock&sp=30022&sp=X
This Andiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342690442454499340noreply@blogger.com1