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The Deptford area had been used to build royal ships since the early fifteenth century, during the reign of Henry V.Moves were made to improve the administration and operation of the Royal Navy during the Tudor period, and Henry VII paid £5 rent for a storehouse in Deptford in 1487, before going on to found the first royal dockyard at Portsmouth in 1496. [4]
Deptford Wharf was visited by a rail tour in 1958, which showed that the docks and railway were still in active use, and the branch down Grove Street to the victualling yard was still connected. [22] However, the victualling yard was closed in June 1961, and the rail branch serving Deptford docks was closed a year or two later with the tracks ...
English: Text: Deptford is not the most ancient of his Majesty's Yards, but at present is the greatest of the Royal Arsenals for the reception of Naval Stores, great Quantities of which are Constantly deposited here, and from its nearness of Situation to the Navy Board, is generally termed the first Royal Dockyard.
Title: "A plan of His Majesty's dock-yard at Deptford, 1774." British Library shelfmark: Maps K.Top.18.17.10. Place of publication: [London] Publisher: [producer not identified] Date of publication: 1774. Item type: 1 map on 2 sheets Medium: pen and ink drawing Dimensions: 74 x 153 cm, sheets differ in size
Text: Deptford, a large old town on the south bank of the Thames, in the county of Kent, about 3 miles from London Bridge, has two parishes and an ancient dockyard, used as a Royal dockyard, established by Henry VIII, who also first erected here a storehouse.
Deptford's economic history has been strongly connected to the Dockyard - when the Dockyard was thriving, so Deptford thrived; with the docks now all closed, Deptford has declined economically. [ 24 ] [ 35 ] However, areas of Deptford are being gradually re-developed and gentrified - and the local council has plans to regenerate the riverside ...
Convoys Wharf as seen from the Thames Path in 2009. Convoys Wharf in Deptford is a former commercial wharf on the River Thames in London, currently awaiting redevelopment.It includes the site of Deptford Dockyard, built in the reign of King Henry VIII as one of the first Royal Dockyards.
After the closure of Deptford's Royal Dockyard in 1869, the Victualling Yard expanded southwards into the old Dockyard precincts (the boundary wall separating the two Yards had already been removed, in 1852). [3] More store houses were built on the site, and the Dockyard's former mast pond provided additional wharfage. By the end of the century ...