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Greenwich High Road, LONDON, SE10 8FU

The ground floor of the building on the corner in this photo is a hair salon, but the two adjacent shops have closed down and at least two of the flats above appeared to be "to let". It may not be long before this block faces the fate of other nearby properties and is demolished to make way for medium- or high-rise apartments.

This former car wash is one of several properties that was vacant and boarded up in 2009, possibly bought by a developer and awaiting better times for building. The solitary cyclist has no need of such facilities anyway!

This block on Catherine Grove, West Greenwich, was formerly a residential block for Metropolitan Police officers but was vacant and becoming derelict at the time it was photographed from Greenwich High Road to the west.

Given the rapid 'gentrification' of this area it can only be a matter of a few years before this site is occupied by yet another block of 'exclusive' apartments.

The building bears the monogram of the SBL (School Board for London) and is on the corner of Greenwich High Road (to the left in this photo) and Blackheath Road. I had originally mistaken it for the Magistrates Court Image

The inscription on the top of the building reads "1790 Mumford's Greenwich Flour Mill" although from various internet references, this building was erected in 1848. Maybe there was an earlier building on the site from 1790? It was at one time apparently "one of London’s most important flour mills", served by boats sailing up Deptford Creek. The mill was closed in the 1960s. A detailed history is apparently given in "Remnants of a Revolution: Mumford's Flour Mill, Greenwich", Jonathan Clarke, AIA Industrial Archaeology Review, Volume XXIV 2002.

Probably one of the most significant public buildings in the area not to have been photographed for this site before now. It is grade 2 listed (entry number 1272459) and was built in 1909, designed by John Dixon Butler.

This mill, served by boat along Deptford Creek, was active from the 1840s (replacing an earlier building) to the 1960s. It is seen from the Docklands Light Railway viaduct that twists along the creek here. For a view of the mill from the other side, and a more detailed history of the building, see Image

A student accommodation block for the University of Greenwich.

View across the small public garden in Catherine Grove: straight ahead is Charter Buildings, the former Blackheath Road Higher Elementary School built in 1904 and now converted into flats, and on the far right is the Hilton Doubletree hotel, formerly Maurice Drummond House a police sector House built in 1946. The garden, responsibility for whose maintenance is not clear (the Royal Borough of Greenwich do not list it in their directory), is in a poor state and is rarely mowed or otherwise cared for. That said, local residents do tend one of the flower beds and occasionally prune the shrubs. Layers of London provides a full description of the street https://www.layersoflondon.org/map?l=eyJmcmVlX3RleHRfcXVlcnkiOm51bGwsInNlYXJjaF9wYWdlIjoxLCJjYXRlZ29yeV9hbmRfdGVybV9maWx0ZXJzIjp7InRlcm1faWQiOm51bGwsImNhdGVnb3J5X2lkIjoxfSwiYWN0aXZlX2xheWVyX2dyb3VwX2lkcyI6W119&m=eyJjZW50ZXIiOls1MS41MDc0LDAuMTI3OF0sInpvb20iOjEwLCJsaWdodHNPdXQiOmZhbHNlfQ%3D%3D&record=11760