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Samuel Close, LONDON, SE18 5LR

Housing on Marshalls Grove, close to Woolwich in south east London.

An urban footpath or snicket running parallel to the railway line, between the junction of Maryon Road and Woodhill (the end shown here) and Prospect Vale.

A modern access ramp leading from Woolwich Church Street down to the 19th century subway shown in Image, which is in the next grid square (the line being crossed roughly at the subway entrance).

A photograph from a train on the down line looking at the former railway link via a tunnel under Woolwich Church Street into the Royal Dockyard, taken in 1962 after the line had become disused. The tunnel was eventually converted into a pedestrian underpass when the dockyard redevelopment was started. See Image in the adjacent northern square. The thin object on the skyline over the tunnel entrance is a large brick chimney at the far end of the dockyard. Scanned from a 2.25 inch square black and white negative. Slight blurring due to the train movement. Picture cropped to remove large sky area.

Low-rise and high-rise flats on Samuel Street, near Woolwich in south east London.

A short brick-lined pedestrian tunnel connecting Prospect Vale to what is now Boneta Road on the north side, but was originally part of the Woolwich Royal Dockyard. It is still a useful way to get down to the river without crossing the main road. But it was originally built for a railway line into the former dockyard - see Image taken from the square to the south - and has had the floor raised considerably to minimise the access ramp and steps. Construction of the dock railway, including this tunnel, required the demolition of fourteen houses, and took from 1873 to 1880.

Taken from a little further away than Stephen's Image with Image on the right and the roof of Image just visible on the left, the pedestrian subway goes under the railway line about 500 metres west of Woolwich Dockyard railway station. The silver car visible through the subway is on Woolwich Church Street.