

I'm afraid that we have still have no news about what plans Greenwich Council and Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust have for the archive. There are various rumours but nothing definite and everything is held up for the General Election.
Meanwhile -here's some news from Greenwich Industrial History....
GREENWICH INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SOCIETY TALK
Deptford and Greenwich’s Industrial Riverside, 1982-92
We’re publicising July’s talk from Greenwich Industrial History Society earlier than normal, because we’re going to be distracted by the general election at the end of June and early July, as you know.
Mike Seaborne will be talking on Tuesday 9 July about his photographs of Deptford and Greenwich’s industrial riverside, taken from 1982 to 1992.
In this free talk, he will show a selection of his photographs taken between Deptford Creek and the end of the North Greenwich peninsula.
“I photographed around the creek in the early 1980s in black and white and then, in the early 1990s, along the peninsula in colour,” he says. “Deptford power station figures prominently, both in the early 1980s when it was still operational and during its demolition in 1992.”
Other subjects include Pope & Bond’s boat repair yard and the cement works on the site of the former Phoenix gas works, both on the Greenwich side of the creek.
Mike Seaborne is both a photographer and a former curator of photographs at the Museum of London. During the 1980s and early 1990s he undertook a major project to document London’s changing docklands, including the area around Deptford Creek.
In 2018 Hoxton Mini Press published a book of his photographs taken on the Isle of Dogs in the early 1980s, called The Isle of Dogs before the Big Money. Copies are available on Abebooks.
his free talk will be by Zoom only in the evening of Tuesday 9 July, starting at 19:15 for 19:30 UK time. · You must book your free slot by sending an email to greenwichindustrial@gmail.com with the subject line “GIHS talk on 9 July” before 19:00 UK time on Tuesday 9 July. · We will send you Zoom log-in details before the talk starts.
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AUTUMN PROGRAMME
10th September David Leal: Dartford and Crayford Creeks past and future.
8th October Sarah Palmer: Sugar bakers – in east and south London
12th November Steve Hunnisett:- Second World War bombing of Greenwich Industry
10th December Robert Bullard: Will Crooks. Early Labour MP for Woolwich,