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The Central Panel
- View of the Fire of London from Greenwich
- Shipping on the Thames
- The Sovereign of the Seas with Samuel
Pepys and the shipbuilder Peter Pett in front
- A rope maker in front of the rope yard at
Woolwich
- Starting to build the Royal Hospital (the
Royal Naval College)
- Trinity Hospital almshouses
- The Queen’s House
- Le Notre’s plan for Greenwich Park.
The seated figure is Inigo Jones. The Portraits are of James
I with Anne of Denmark and Charles I with Henrietta Maria
- The Royal Observatory with Flamestead, the
first Astronomer Royal, and Sir Christopher Wren
- Plague victims at Combe Farm are being
buried (mentioned in Samuel Pepys’ Diary)
- St Luke’s Church, Charlton
Horn Fair at Charlton. A ‘rude band’
leads the masked procession
- A Puritan family
- The Presbytery, Crooms Hill
- The Gazebo, Crooms Hill. In front on the left is a
plague doctor and on the right Sir William Hooker, Lord Mayor
of London, saves a child from
the plague
- The young prince plays golf on Blackheath
- Charlton House and
- mulberry tree. Sir Henry Newton and
his family parting because of civil war
- A Stuart family, boy with kite, girl with
horn book and toddler in walking frame
- Eltham Lodge and garden in contemporary
style of embroidery
- Horse and cart
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The Border Panels
Left Sir Adam Newton’s Coat of
Arms
Tile from a house in Park Vista
Dark
Lantern
The Tulip Staircase in the Queen’s
House
Linenfold panelling*
Roundhead
helmet
Clay pipe and tobacco pouch*
Woolwich
penny
Right Pepys’ Coat
of Arms
Tile
Strapwork from a ceiling in Charlton
House
Shoe from a portrait in Ranger’s House
Isaac
Newton’s telescope
Deer from contemporary
embroidery
Design on pottery used for the Borough Museum
logo*
*These artefacts are in the Borough
Museum
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