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I have just come across a picture of Wile Street dated 1907. I can't find this road listed in Woolwich or North Woolwich which was also in Kent at this time (Now Essex) any help would be great thank you.
Veggie

Is "Wile Street" handwritten?

Any chance it could read Nile Street or something else???

Maureen

Thank you Maureen for getting back so quick, what was printed under the picture was not handwritten, so could have been transcribed wrong I will check for Nile Street ect I hadn't thought of that, as it is very clear.
thanks again
Veggie

Woolwich is now part of London not Essex Its SE London. I come from that area

North Woolwich is the other side of the Thames and is in the London Borough of Newham

veggie

small world I was born in Wood Street maternity home and we lived in Charlton. still have family in the area

Snap Shirley

I was also born Wood Street and lived in Plumstead still living off Shooters Hill. I think North Woolwich also came under Kent until LCC took over not sure what year.

Thanks all Veggie

Wow Veggie tis a small world . we spent many happy summer days at the Charlton Lido . Was a bit of a walk to get there cos we lived near Charlton Football Club but then in those days you did a lot of walking .

I too have family still in the area of Woolwich and Blackheath although we moved to Kent in the 1960,s


I love going back to old stomping grounds even though loads has changed over the years.

Remember too the Military Hospital in Shooters Hill and the Memorial Hospital . an Aunt of mine went there from Kent for a neurological operation .

Small world !!

Those were the days Shirley we had summers then. Charlton Lido and soggy sandwich unforgettable ( I think it's reopend for 6 weeks during school holidays now days)
I used to take my kids to the park and play area with paddling pool, I don't suspose that's still there, will have to go and look not been there for years.

I use to love Woolwich, worked at the Equitable in the 60's Nothing worth going there for now shame, Woolwich was the main shopping centre with great market not any more, you need to hang on to your bag.

The Heritage Centre in the old Arsenal has a lot of local history infomation, quite a nice place to spend some time on a nice day, you can sit on the "front " and there's a pub for lunch. How long have you been treeing.
Rita

Hi Rita
Been "doing" the tree since 2001 approx. started when the 1901 census came on line and SIL who had a PC and internet but no subs to sites asked for my help in trying to find FIL family. He was born in July 1901 so not on the 1901 but she had his birth cert so knew parents names. He was put into a childrens home at a very early age and never saw his parents again,

After getting as far as I could at that time I had the bug so decided to look at my own family and took off from there,

Still looking for some of em now. !!


Re the play area and babies paddling pool as we called it we too would go there if mum couldn't afford to give us the entrance fee for the BIG pool as we called it . still had some good fun and soggy jam sandwiches that mum would give us for a picnic.

This must have been in the late 1940,s cos I started work in 1952..

My dad worked all his life at the Woolwich Arsenal , started there aged 14 when he left School in c1921. he retired from there aged 63 . they were officially retired at 60 being classed as civil servants but would work on to aged 65 on a yearly contract. he had a stroke aged 63 so never worked again after that .

My younger sister still lives in Charlton , our youngest brother lives in Blackheath. don't get t see them often though . we do phone each other regularly .

Used to love Woolwich Market and the indoor covered market . If we went late on a Saturday as the stalls were closing up would get some fruit and veg bargains .


;-)

Hi
what a lot you got for your money then days I remember my mum sending me late on a saturday with 5 bob to buy sunday/monday dinner which included a joint of beef from the butchers I think was on the high pavement and veg and it tasted wonderfull then, I cant cook a sunday roast like my mum did ( Feeling hungry just thinking about it) will get leg of lamb for tomorrows dinner.

My uncles also worked at the Arsenal as did my grandfather and g grandfathers who came from Guildford and Wiltshire may have come to Woolwich for work. they lived Woolwich Dockyard area. as far as I can tell records of civilian personnel were only kept at Kew for 50 years but will keep looking.

I started treeing in 1980's traveling to St Albans where my grandfarther was born he came to Woolwich with the army, and married my grandmother I found a lot of info on my mums family. I then went on to try and trace my fathers family he died very young, he came to woolwich to work on the railway. As we lived in Woolwich we lost contact with his family. So with very vague info my mum could remember from 40 years before I got started with a few photos and 2 burial cards my dad had kept. I was told my dad came from Somerset not so he was born Shaftsbury Dorset (bottom of hill in the Hovis bread advert) The 3 most exciting thing I have come across are that my dad had 2 more sibling I'd never heard of they were twins a boy and a girl, 9 years younger than him. We come across a cottage in Hampshire where my g grandmother lived and died the photo I have showed her and my grandmother and children in the garden, and my dad on 1911 cencus with his grand parents, living Gillingham Dorset
I think I have come to and end with my family research, But new records coming on line all the time like you I have the bug so will keep looking.
Rita





civilian personnel

We always knew there is German in the family. I though it was way back but no its was our dads father. Dad was named after him . He was Frederick Albert FAHSE born c1871 in Gernamy , the first record is a brother born in Bradford Yorkshire in 1889/ By 1891 they had moved to Limehouse London and grandfather and his elder brother Karl had anglicized their name to Fasey and both joined the British Army and served in the second Boar war.

Grandfather was a squaddy at the Woolwich Barracks when he met gran and they married in 1904.

The recent awful event brought it close to home again.

Cant go back on the German side cos no idea where in Germany they came from. Grandad Fasey died in June 1911 , he was in the Merchant Navy by then and got lost overboard from the sailing vessel Port Logan on route from Melbourne to Bremen. I got the ships log from Kew with the record of him being swept overboard in bad weather

On dads mums side I am back to the mid 1700,s which is great.

Still looking though records now are few and far between plus if you don't live in the area hard to follow up