worker
1901census
Barnfield Road, Plumstead
????????????? Labourer
1911census
Fenwick Street, Woolwich head of family.
Electric Crane Driver
Buried
Plumstead Cemetery
Any information welcomed.
Family History. The Royal Arsenal Woolwich and associated works in and around Plumstead, Kent. Now Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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Friday, 25 January 2013
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Railway (narrow)
Transport
Post Card ...
Maker: Kingsway Real Photograph Series
Date: Unknown
The engine called "Woolwich"
under re construction at Crossness
see ...
http://www.therailwayproject.blogspot.co.uk/
not seen this book advertised on http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eighteen-Gauge-Arsenal-Railway-Woolwich/dp/0948951001/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361680464&sr=1-11
Updated ...
2013.02.24
2013.02.08
Post Card ...
Maker: Kingsway Real Photograph Series
Date: Unknown
The engine called "Woolwich"
under re construction at Crossness
see ...
http://www.therailwayproject.blogspot.co.uk/
not seen this book advertised on http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eighteen-Gauge-Arsenal-Railway-Woolwich/dp/0948951001/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361680464&sr=1-11
Updated ...
2013.02.24
2013.02.08
Friday, 18 January 2013
Frozen Thames at Woolwich
http://www.flickr.com/photos/londonmetropolitanarchives/6635604829/in/set-72157628717259721/
LMA have dated this photo c1890
Where about in Woolwich note possible pier and what looks like a light house?
LMA have dated this photo c1890
Where about in Woolwich note possible pier and what looks like a light house?
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Master General
The Master General of the Ordnance (4th Military Member of the Army Council)
The title revived on 1st February 1904
1904.02
Master General Sir JamesWolfe MURRAY KCB {Kane 3451
born: 1853.03.13
Lieutenant in 1872 with Royal Artillery
died: 1919
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe-Murray
1907.02
Master General Sir CharlesFrederick HADDEN KCB {Kane 3514
born: 1854.06.02
Lieutenant in 1873 with Royal Field Artillery
died: 1924
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hadden
1913.02
Colonel (Temp Major General in 1913) StanleyBrenton von DONOP {Kane 3927
born: 1860.02.22
Lieutenant in 1880 with Royal Garrison Artillery
died: 1941
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Brenton_Von_Donop
1916.02
Major General WilliamThomas FURSE KCB KCMG DSO {Kane 4283
born: 1865.04.21
Lieutenant in 1884 with Royal Field Artillery
died: 1953
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Furse
1920 to 1923
General JohnPhilip Du CANE GCB {Kane 4272
born: 1865.05.05
Lieutenant in 1884 with Royal Field Artillery
died: 1947
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Du_Cane
followed by General Sir JamesFrederickNoel BIRCH KCB KCMG (1865 – 1939)
see ...
Kane's List of Officers in the Royal Regiment of Artillery Volume 2 1862-1914
at RA- Archives in the Woolwich Arsenal
http://www.1914-1918.net/waroffice.html
Superintendent's Fund
badges/ medals
Lillie was very public spirited and a member of the Salvation Army.
Her husband was a police constable in Plumstead, PC Harry Manwaring; they lived in Manor Road, Erith; before that he was in the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, based at Woolwich.'
Spike (Hubert Manwaring-Spencer)
http://www.plumstead-stories.com/photos%20-%20Woolwich%20Arsenal.htm
group of workers(2)
worker
Munitions Workers at the Arsenal . Photo taken before 1920.
Indicated ...
'A' Frances Mary Card
'B' Jessie Goodrich,
Frances's cousin.
http://www.plumstead-stories.com/photos%20-%20Woolwich%20Arsenal.htm
1913 visit
royalty
1913.04.09 The King and Queen.
unnamed
where taken ?
Visited:
http://www.plumstead-stories.com/photos%20-%20Woolwich%20Arsenal.htm
2013.12.15
1913.04.09 The King and Queen.
unnamed
where taken ?
Motored from Buckingham Palace
King Edward; Queen; Duke of Connaught; Princess Mary; General
Sir John FRENCH; Lady Ampthill;
11.00 Military Review on Woolwich Common
Brigadier General J PHIPPS-HORNBY VC;
Left Royal Military Academy via Woolwich Town Hall
Middle Turnery
Boring Mill (south)
Shell Forging Shop (1,200ton
vertical press)
Bullet Factory
Royal Laboratory (manufacture of
fuses)
Central Office
4.30 left for Buckingham Palace
1913.04.10 Manchester Courier and Lancashire General
Advertiser
http://www.plumstead-stories.com/photos%20-%20Woolwich%20Arsenal.htm
2013.12.15
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Cartridge Factory 5
Shop
A female war workers operate an annealing machine.
Maker:
Date:
Notes: Unnamed ?
Updated ...
2013.02.08
A female war workers operate an annealing machine.
Date:
Notes: Unnamed ?
Updated ...
2013.02.08
Pathe News
workers
Writing on the lorry. Is it Woolwich Arsenal?
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/women-munitions-workers
Munitionettes
workers
At the beginning of the war Woolwich employed 10 women, by the end of the war there were an additional 24,030 women. Lilian Baker, who has become a legend, had been in the forefront of women's involvement form the early days of the war
IWM EdwardFrederick Skinner, For King and Country (painted c1918)
Was this painted at the Woolwich Arsenal?
http://www.thehistorypostblog.co.uk/?cat=4
see ...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmunitions.htm
At the beginning of the war Woolwich employed 10 women, by the end of the war there were an additional 24,030 women. Lilian Baker, who has become a legend, had been in the forefront of women's involvement form the early days of the war
IWM EdwardFrederick Skinner, For King and Country (painted c1918)
Was this painted at the Woolwich Arsenal?
http://www.thehistorypostblog.co.uk/?cat=4
see ...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmunitions.htm
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Sunday, 6 January 2013
WW 1- On War Service 1916 brooch
Badges/ Medals
Introduced in 1916.05
Triangular pinned badge/ brooch was issued to female workers "engaged in the manufacture of war or other urgent work" aged 16years and older and worked more then 2months. (1914/5 were lapel stud) No form of certificate was issued (unlike the male badges)
Manufactured by:
JR Gaunt & Son Ltd. London and Birmingham
Reference:
GREAT WAR MEDAL COLLECTORS COMP by Howard Williamson (2011)
updated
2013.03.05
Introduced in 1916.05
Triangular pinned badge/ brooch was issued to female workers "engaged in the manufacture of war or other urgent work" aged 16years and older and worked more then 2months. (1914/5 were lapel stud) No form of certificate was issued (unlike the male badges)
Pinned OWS
Miniature OWS
Manufactured by:
JR Gaunt & Son Ltd. London and Birmingham
Reference:
GREAT WAR MEDAL COLLECTORS COMP by Howard Williamson (2011)
updated
2013.03.05
Saturday, 5 January 2013
Royal Arsenal Reference Library
3B Plumstead Road,
WilliamDavy HOLT librarian
Telephone Directory 1914
was this the Arsenal or the Co-op or other ?
WilliamDavy HOLT librarian
Telephone Directory 1914
was this the Arsenal or the Co-op or other ?
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
Gridiron
pier
................
At a curve in the riverbank is the Gridiron which was built as a roll-on dock for 100 ton guns to be loaded onto special 'Gog or Magog' barges After manufacture in the Arsenal the gun would be put on a railway wagon, taken to the dock, and rolled (wagon and all) directly onto one of the barges for transport to Shoeburyness or wherever. Although this dock is now overgrown it is in reasonable condition and it is hoped to restore it.
............
see ...
http://greenwichindustrialhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/from-woolwich-to-tripcock-point.html
updated ...
2013.03.02
................
At a curve in the riverbank is the Gridiron which was built as a roll-on dock for 100 ton guns to be loaded onto special 'Gog or Magog' barges After manufacture in the Arsenal the gun would be put on a railway wagon, taken to the dock, and rolled (wagon and all) directly onto one of the barges for transport to Shoeburyness or wherever. Although this dock is now overgrown it is in reasonable condition and it is hoped to restore it.
............
see ...
http://greenwichindustrialhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/from-woolwich-to-tripcock-point.html
updated ...
2013.03.02
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Office Workers
worker
Group of twenty
Left --> RightBack row standing elevated
---; ---; ---; ---; ---;
Middle row standing
---; ---; ---; ---; ---; ---; ---;
Front row seated
---; ---; ---; ---; ---; ---;
In front
---; ---;
FL 2012.12
BOGG, FlorenceE
worker
FL 2012.12
Group of six
Left --> Right
back standing
---; ---;
middle sitting
FlorenceE BOGG; ---; ---;
in front
---;
1915
Overlooker in charge of 100 female workers in the Cartridge Packing shop until April 1917. FL 2012.12
SMITH, Alfred(1861-1932)
worker
Employed as: engine driver
From:
To:
Employed as: engine driver
From:
To:
Awarded The Victoria Cross in 1885 (Gazetted 12 May 1885). For action after the "square" was broken during a native attack. Now kept in the Royal Artillery Regimental Museum, at Woolwich.
The back was wrongly engraved as Gunner Albert SMITH.
Buried on the 12th January 1932. The grave was left unmarked until 1986 when a memorial was raised by his 176(Abu Klea) Battery.
Grave Number: N885
Artyvics The Victoria Cross and The Royal Regiment of Artillery
by Marc J SHERRIFF (2006)
updated ...
2013.06.22
Progress Estate.
1915
Originally named Well Hall Estate. To house senior and skilled Woolwich Arsenal workers. Well Hall Road, SE9. Linked Woolwich to the north and Eltham in the South. As part of the LCC tram way system.
1925
The Royal Arsenal Cooperative Society (RACS) bought the 1250-home Royal Arsenal workers estate at Well Hall from the Government, which it then renamed the Progress Estate.
1975
Became a conservation area, granted because of its unique architectural character.
see ...
http://progressestate.blogspot.co.uk/
no longer available
http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/greenwich/assets/galleries/progress-estate/well-hall-road-2-1916
2013.12.17
Originally named Well Hall Estate. To house senior and skilled Woolwich Arsenal workers. Well Hall Road, SE9. Linked Woolwich to the north and Eltham in the South. As part of the LCC tram way system.
1925
The Royal Arsenal Cooperative Society (RACS) bought the 1250-home Royal Arsenal workers estate at Well Hall from the Government, which it then renamed the Progress Estate.
1975
Became a conservation area, granted because of its unique architectural character.
see ...
http://progressestate.blogspot.co.uk/
no longer available
http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/greenwich/assets/galleries/progress-estate/well-hall-road-2-1916
2013.12.17
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