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The 20th Century Panel
(The huge content of this panel was drawn from public suggestions collected during the display of the first seven panels in 2000) 


The Central Panel

The Edwardian Period

  1. Plumstead Library and Museum
  2. WT Vincent – author
  3. A suffragette
  4. Corbett houses
  5. The bandstand, Greenwich Park, a nursemaid walks the children
  6. Early motoring
  7. The staff of the Angerstein family at Woodlands House
  8. Badge of Woolwich Antiquarian Society
  9. Badge of the Rotary Club
  10. Woolwich Town Hall
  11. Will Crooks, MP
  12. The water tower, Shooters Hill
World War I
  1. Matchless Motor Cycle
  2. The Progress Estate, Eltham
  3. Soldiers of WWI convalescing at Charlton House
  4. Women workers of the Royal Arsenal
  5. HM Queen Mary visits the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, Woolwich
  6. An open air school
Greenwich & Woolwich 1920-1980

  1. A charabanc (coach) outing
  2. A Romany family and caravan
  3. ‘The Charleston’
  4. Pearly King & Queen of Greenwich & Woolwich
  5. An Austin 7 car
  6. 1930s semi-detached house
  7. The Courtauld House at Eltham Palace
  8. Charlton Athletic football team & FA cup
  9. The last London tram
  10. A public telephone box
  11. Woolwich market
  12. Crossing the road by a ‘Belisha beacon’
  13. The Granada Cinema, Woolwich
  14. Woolwich Equitable building
  15. A Lambretta scooter
  16. People queue at the bus stop
  17. A 1960s Mini car
  18. A Lollipop Lady & children
  19. Greenwich Town Hall
  20. Kidbrooke Comprehensive School & Dame Mary Green, the Headmistress
  21. A tower block of flats
World War II

  1. An Anderson Air Raid Shelter
  2. A pre-fabricated house
  3. Herbert Morrison MP
  4. An allotment for growing vegetables
  5. Children being evacuated from the town
  6. Wounded soldier from the Royal Herbert Hospital
  7. An Air Raid Warden at an ARP post
  8. The Blitz and a bomb damaged building
  9. A child rescued from a bombed building
The end of the 20th Century

  1. The London Marathon runners & a disabled participant
  2. The Greenwich Multi-Racial Festival on Plumstead Common
  3. ‘Boy George’ O’Dowd, a local lad
  4. A container lorry going to Sainsbury’s supermarket on Greenwich Peninsula
  5. Ecological design – wind power & solar panels (Sainsbury’s)
  6. Man with a shopping trolley
  7. The Millennium Dome
The Environment

  1. A cow at Woodlands farm, Shooters Hill
  2. Oxleas Wood
  3. A stag beetle
  4. An urban fox
  5. Fallow deer & other wildlife
River & Sky

  1. Francis Chichester’s boat, ‘Gypsy Moth’
  2. Greenwich Foot Tunnel
  3. The clipper ship ‘Cutty Sark’
  4. Zeppelin – WW1
  5. ‘Doodlebug’ flying bomb – WWII
  6. Tug boat and lighters
  7. Barrage balloon – WWII
  8. The cable ship at Enderby Wharf
  9. Spitfire and Heinkel 111 – WWII
  10. Woolwich Free Ferry
  11. A Salmon
  12. A Cormorant
  13. The Thames Barrier


 

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The Border Panels
Left

Greenwich Council Logo

London County Council Coat of Arms

20th Century Communication:
  Printed circuit board
 
  Mobile telephone
 
  Electronic calculator
  
  Computer
  
  Television
 
  A 1930s wireless set
 
  Typewriter
 
  Horn Gramophone
 
  Early ‘daffodil’ telephone

Right

London Borough of Greenwich coat of Arms

Faith Symbols:
  Christianity
   
  Judaism
 
  Yin and Yang sign
 
  Sikhism
 
  Islam
 
  Hinduism
 
  Buddhism

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