..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.
Amazing how much it's changed! My flat seems to have been an engineering works...
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