Here is the full text of the statement put out by the Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust a couple of months ago. I must apologise for not doing this earlier - although it went out as a news item, we thought you should have the full text.
hopefully there will soon be more news on this
I am also attaching information about our next zoom talk on the Greenwich riverside - please book up and come. It would be good to see you.
Royal Greenwich Heritage Trustare opening a Reading Room from the 27th of May 2024,at the Greenwich Archives site at Anchorage Point, SE7.
The Reading Room will be open four consecutive days, once a month and by pre-booked appointment only. The Reading Room service will be available for researchers who need to view primary source material from the archive collection. Anyone wishing to research general history, family tree, or newspaper archive information, can access these records free of charge at their local library.
Archival material will need to be requested at the point of booking in order for the Archivist and volunteers to review the availability and condition of requested material.
Pre-booked researchers will also have open access to local history books, microfiche records, electoral registers, and some historic maps within the Reading Room.
The opening of the Reading Room is a first-step as the Trust works with the Local Authority on a more suitable longer-term solution for the Archive and the Borough’s Heritage Collection.
Information regarding how to access and book the Reading Room service will be made available shortly on the Trust website www.greenwichheritage.org or contact archive@rght.org.uk for further information.
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Deptford and Greenwich’s Industrial Riverside, 1982-92
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.
How to reserve your FREE place PLEASE read this important information about how to register to see this talk. · This 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 · VERY IMPORTANT: Please don’t log in until 19:15. · If you don’t receive the link by 19:15, please check your spam folder – Zoom registration details often go there. · The talk starts at 19:30 on Tuesday 9 July.
· You can ask questions via Zoom’s text chat function.We will record the meeting and plan to put the recording on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@GreenwichIndustrialHistorySoc in time – though this might take a few weeks. You can already see some of our other talks, dating back to 2020, listed on that YouTube