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September 2018

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Deptford Panoramas

Deptford, London. Sat 29 Sep 2018



 The lift bridge replaced an earlier bridge, possibly in 1954. It has not been raised for several decades and was welded

 in the down position around ten years ago. The rail viaduct between Deptford station and Greenwich is listed.

 There was a foot bridge known as the Ha’penny Hatch before the first railway bridge was built in 1838 and
the railway company had to compensate the owners for any losses from their tolls. The railway company charged people

crossing a halfpenny to get the payment. The footbridge made £350 per year - around 170,000 passengers crossing
Tolls were last collected there around 1901.

 You can also cross on the DLR

 Continuous welded rail makes it impossible for the rail bridge to lift now

 but the footbridge can lift - and has to if lighters are to pass at high tide

 Prior's wharf is still in use by a concrete firm

 and the Creek Road bridge has to lift to get vessels like the Bert Prior through as it can only move at high tide

 

 There is a cabin for the bridge operator. This lifting bridge replaced an earlier swing bridge in 1954

 

 

 The flats on the opposite bank of the Creek are on what was once the South Metropolitan gasworks site with coal wharfs

 

On the walk we stopped outside Deptford Cinema for a talk by one of the people who set it up

From there we went to the Old Tidemill Garden, which has been occupied by locals since August 29th against plans to build on it

 The Big Red bus at the Birds nest pub

 

 Inside the Goldsmiths site which houses their MFA studios

 and the view through the chain link fence of the creek

 

 Inside the studios an artist shows us her work on the area

 and we leave to walk around the site next to the creek

 

 Buildings across the creek include a Holiday Inn

 There are moorings onan arm of the creek which I think used to lead to the Tidemill

 

 

 

 

 This now comes to an end here close to Deptford Church St

 

 

 

 Buildings on Creekside have yards leading to the creek

 Inside the the Art Hub where we looked at On Time by Joan Molloy

 

 Joan Molloy speaks about her work

 

 From Cofferdam Way beside the Laban building

The Laban Building

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