Print of a watercolour by an unknown artist,
1841
181 - 195 Hamilton Place now occupy the site. |
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Deptford
High Street was called Butt Lane until 1825.
Church Street was the shopping centre of Deptford
in the eighteenth century, while Butt Lane
was residential or agricultural, but the large
houses here were better adapted to the expansion
of Victorian retailing.
This illustration shows Tinderbox Row, fourteen
timber houses built c.1700, probably with
dockyard workers in mind.
They were demolished in 1843, when the opening
of the station prompted the owners to build
on the garden ground behind.
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