bridge street,greenwich

[mayday]

hi

Does anyone have any information on Nelson Buildings,Bridge Street,West Greenwich? My gran was born at no 12 Nelson Buildings,Bridge Street. Apparantly Bridge Street amalgamated with Creek Road years ago so no longer exists as such. Have old map of greenwich for 1896ish and which is really interesting as shows who was trading on the street at that time.

Jacquie

[Romilly]

Hi Jacquie,

If you look at the Charles Booth Notebook site on:

http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?sub=retrieve_catalogue_notebook&args=b368,100,120

I think you'll find an entry for Nelson Buildings.

Back in the 1970's, when I was a student at Rachel McMillan in Deptford, - I used to cycle along Creek Road...

Romilly

[mayday]

Thankyou very much Romiley I will check out the site!


Jacquie

[Jeuel]

My grandmother, her brother, mother and stepfather were living at 19 Nelson Buildings, Greenwich in 1881. 

Nelson Buildings were 40 tenements described by The Times as "improved dwellings for the working classes" in 1869

and Charles Booths notebooks describe Nelson Buildings as "five-storied tenement facing on Bridge St. Belongs to the Improved Industrial Dwellings Coy ...all look comfortable...painted pink & green".

[mayday]

Hi
Thankyou very much for your comments it has give me a better picture of where my gran,and great gran used to live with the family and can add this in my family tree.

Kind Regards

Jacquie

[Sheila Hopkin]

hi my name is Sheila I also lived in nelson biuldings at no12 from 1942 until 1964 I would like to known more also my nan and granddad and my dad lived at no9

[Sheila Hopkin]

hi

Does anyone have any information on Nelson Buildings,Bridge Street,West Greenwich? My gran was born at no 12 Nelson Buildings,Bridge Street. Apparantly Bridge Street amalgamated with Creek Road years ago so no longer exists as such. Have old map of greenwich for 1896ish and which is really interesting as shows who was trading on the street at that time.

Jacquie