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If you have any photos of Eltham, Mottingham or New Eltham that you would be willing to share with us, please . You can either send them electronically or arrange for us to scan them and return them to you.

Eltham | Mottingham | New Eltham | Bob Hope
New Eltham Coronation Fete | Eltham Heights | The Story of Severndroog

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Eltham

These are courtesy of Paul Ingram from Harrison Ingram Estate Agents and John Kennet, Eltham Society. Do you have any old photos or interesting facts about Eltham, New Eltham or Mottingham which you would like to share on the Web Site? . If you do not have a scanner, we can arrange to have them scanned and returned to you.

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Eltham High Street

Photos of the Lord Chancellor's lodgings in Court Yard before it was re-painted in 1980. It shows the original external woodwork and the un-painted cement in-fills.

Wilcox Newsagents, 2 Well Hall Road about the 1960's

Joan Wilcox of Wilcox Newsagents, 36 High Street, in 1939

Lord Chancellor's Lodgings in Court Yard, 1980

The following photos are courtesy of J.Metcalfe & Son (Eltham) Ltd who are celebrating having been in Eltham for 200 years this year. Visit their website, http://www.j.metcalfe.btinternet.co.uk/ for their fascinating complete history.

Just a couple of the photos of the buses and trams that used to service the area, courtesy of www.transporthistory.co.uk. They have a lot more covering the whole of the South East.

And our thanks to Dan Holland for these photos taken in 2002.

And some from walks around the woods and green spaces in Eltham.

The view towards London from Castlewood Drive

Looking across Eltham from Severndroog Castle

Excitement in Eltham Park, January 2004, when a dog fell into the duck pond through the ice and the owner tried to rescue it.
Photos taken by Ken Earl.

Eltham Park Station

The 'South Eastern & Chatham Railway Preservation Society', founded by Steve Earl (in the photo) on the 1st February 1984, has several Eltham Park Station items saved by railway staff who still miss the station. The society is on the web at www.secr.org.uk.

87 Craigton Road, Eltham SE9

Eltham Church 1959

Aerial photo of Eltham Park Gardens, taken around 1999.

The Former Brook Hospital and View overlooking Eltham from SE9 6RR
Courtesy of Thomas Murphy

The Lord Chancellor's House	Eltham Palace Gardens	Eltham Palace
The Tudor Barn, Well Hall Pleasaunce	The Tudor Barn, Well Hall Pleasaunce	Well Hall Pleasaunce
Well Hall Pleasaunce	Eltham Library	Eltham High Street
Eltham Swimming Pools 2005	Bob Hope Theatre
Photos courtesy of Vanessa Jackson

This is a copy of a postcard kindly sent to me of Well Hall Road, entitled WELL HALL RD, GARDEN CITY SE.
Frances Ward, from the local history library informed me that this is the Progress Estate. When it was first built it was one of several "Garden Cities" planned in London. The Progress Estate was built in 1915 in 9 months to house Woolwich Arsenal workers, to the design of Mr Frank Bains, later Sir Frank. He was knighted for his work on the estate.

Kindly provided by Phil Kane, with the following information:
"The address was 102 Elibank and we were the last house on the street. There was an alley way between our hut and Oxleas Wood (although we never knew it had a name -- it was just Crown woods). I'm the one standing and my sister was still in arms which dates it as about the spring of 1923. Photos were an expensive item back then so this is the only one I have."

Kindly provided by Guy Massey, with the following information and a request for any further photos or information:
Amyand House, North Park, was occupied by my Great grandfather Edmonds Massey and twelve of his fifteen children!!! There was a tie up with a house of a similar name in Twickenham now part of the NHS. My family also lived there previously, and again I have photographs. It could be that the Eltham house was named after it as I believe Amyand is an area of Twickenham.

To add a little colour to the story, I have just received the following from a cousin that I have found in Canada.

THE GHOST OF AMYAND HOUSE - Michael Massey, Vancouver Canada.
"The only first hand information I have of the ghost in grandfather's house came from my father (Hugh), who told me that he would sometimes see my grandmother (Catherine) downstairs when she had been upstairs all the time (or vice versa), and that there was one bedroom where the occupant would feel a cold clammy hand on their faces while in bed. It was also rumoured that when the house (which was sometimes referred to as the "coffin house" due to its unusual shape) was pulled down, a skeleton was discovered within a wall space!"

So it seems that the old house was pulled down at sometime after my family lived in it. I am fairly certain that the photograph that I sent you dates to 1910, because that would be contemporary with the others in the album.

These were kindly provided by Caroline Dewell. The sweet shop was run by her grandparents, Mr and Mrs A H Crisp in the covered market in Eltham in the 1930s. The cartoons were drawn by her grandfather and published in the Eltham Review. Does anyone still have a copy of any of the issues that we could publish?

When his daughters were evacuated during the Second World War, he sent them weekly letters with beautifully illustrated envelopes. see copies at the Leeds War Experience Museum.




And a photo of the Eltham Cinema on the corner of what is now Passey Place, plus 2 photos of the Eltham Chamber of Commerce - do you know any of these people? Do you have any more photos? Or do you know why 2 of them (including Alfred Crisp) were dressed in Pierrot costumes?

And a view of the cinema looking down the High Street, kindly sent by a seller of old postcards from France!