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The Central Panel
-
Hot Air
Balloon
- A Thames barge
- The ‘Dreadnought’ being towed by a paddle
tug
- The ‘Samuel Enderby’ whaling
ship
- The Woolwich Ferry
- A prison hulk
- The ‘Princess Alice’ disaster
- The East Greenwich Peninsula:
- Blackwall Tunnel
- The gas works
- Coiling cable for the Atlantic telegraph
at
Enderby Wharf
- Flower seller and artisan
cottages
- The Trafalgar Tavern famous for its
whitebait suppers
- Chimney sweep (from the Spurgeon
collection)
- The Beresford Gate
- Arsenal Football Club
- Greenwich station and its first railway
engine
- Match seller (from the Spurgeon
collection)
- Photographer
- Greenwich Union Workhouse
- The Royal Herbert Hospital and Florence
Nightingale
- Dr Rice, the Afro-American doctor
who trained with Dr Lister and worked at the Plumstead Union
Workhouse
- The Royal Arsenal Cooperative Society
store and Alexander McLeod
- Gladstone, M P for Greenwich, at the
hustings
- Gas street lamp and drinking fountain
(from the Spurgeon collection)
- Hay cart and horse drinking from water
trough
- Early Board school (Woodhill) and school
children
- Grimaldi, the famous clown
- Tom Cribb, the bare knuckle boxer
- Michael Faraday and the Royal Military
Academy at Woolwich where he taught
- General Gordon
- Sunbury St Fire Station at Woolwich
and Merryweather’s fire engine
- Observatory building, Greenwich Park
- Fair on Blackheath, carousel and donkey
rides
- Early post box set in wall
- Horse drawn omnibus
- Blackheath Rugby Football Club
- Combe Farm, the Roberts family and a
traction engine
- E Nesbitt rowing on the moat of her home
at Eltham Well Hall
- A hansome cab
- The Paragon
- St Michael’s Church, Blackheath
- John Stuart Mill, the philosopher, and his step-daughter Helen
Taylor, who was proposed as a Parliamentary Candidate long before women had the vote
- Blackheath Concert Hall
- Bicycles – penny farthing and lady in
bloomers
- Croquet players
- Avery Hill conservatory
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The Border Panels Left Greenwich Coat of Arms
Time
ball on Greenwich Observatory
Early flat iron
A
corset
Noah’s Ark
Top hat
Copper jelly
mould
Coal hole cover
Right Woolwich
Coat of Arms
Sewing machine
Aspidistra
plant
Poke bonnet
Victorian Tile
Bull’s eye
policeman’s lamp
Bun
Penny
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