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Tunnel Avenue, Greenwich Peninsula, c. 1908

Tunnel Avenue, Greenwich Peninsula, c. 1908

The parish church of St. Andrew and St. Michael was built in 1900 on the site of an earlier Iron Mission Hall. St Andrew's Church became redundant once the industries and the workers had moved away and was later demolished. The Dreadnought School closed for similar reasons but the building survives as a museum store.

 

A view north along Tunnel Avenue towards the entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel.

The view is dominated by the two enormous gasholders, part of the giant East Greenwich Gasworks.

A complete urban community grew up around the industries on Greenwich Peninsula: housing for industrial workers, shops, public houses, restaurants, a church and a school.


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Images of Greenwich Peninsula
 
Telegraph Cable Works, Greenwich Peninsula, 1857
Telegraph Cable Works,
Greenwich Peninsula, 1857
 
Blackwall Tunnel, Greenwich Peninsula, c. 1950
 
Greenfell Street , Greenwich Peninsula, c. 1970
Greenfell Street,
Greenwich Peninsula,
c. 1970
 
   
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