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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]
The river gate at the top of 'Drake's Steps', a long-established landing place on Deptford Strand.. In the 17th century the Navy Board's victualling operation was based on Tower Hill in a complex of offices, residences, storehouses and manufactories which had been established in the reign of Elizabeth I.
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.
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 ...
A 1908 Railway Clearing House map showing the LB&SC line from New Cross to Deptford Wharf. The project to own a wharf and build a branch line to it came from the London and Croydon Railway, who in March 1846 announced they had "made arrangements for possession of a large wharf and dock adjoining Her Majesty's victualling yard at Deptford ...
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
DEPTFORD — A second lawsuit is targeting township approval of a two-hotel project, but Deptford and the developer say all was done legally and only after major revisions to the original plan.
HMS Deptford was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions of the 1719 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 22 August 1732. [1] In 1752, she was cut down to a 50-gun ship. On 31 January 1759 Montagu and Deptford chased a French privateer that Montagu captured the next day.