..it was all fields around here. Apart from the mills, tanneries, gas works, wharfs, sewage works etc..
A fascinating insight into changing road names, land use, and particularly the revelation that there used to be a literary institute next to Deptford Station!
The map comes from Edward Stanford's 1862 map of London, which can be found online here. The idea was pinched from the Blackheath Bugle.
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Amazing how much it's changed! My flat seems to have been an engineering works...
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