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Woolwich Road, LONDON, SE7 7QY

The sign above the door reads "East Greenwich Fire Station" although the area this side of the A102 is generally thought of locally as Charlton rather than East Greenwich.

After nearly all the runners had gone through, the cleanup begins. Here the 5-mile marker is being dismantled.

Holmwood Villas is the name of a short street off Woolwich Road ending in this dead end. The quality of the stonework of these arches suggests they were the main entrance to a factory or other building (I have not yet found out what). See also Image on the far side of the currently derelict site.

This building and surrounding yard at the end of Holmwood Villas is apparnetly home to Balmoral Waste Management. There was a Hazchem sign, code 2R (acid) on the gate.

The Angerstein Wharf branch railway line is one of the very few freight railway lines left in the Greater London area which serve the River Thames and are still active. It branches away from the North Kent Line near Charlton station and heads north to terminate at Angerstein's Wharf on the Thames, one mile away. John Angerstein was a successful businessman from a Russian family and is thought to be the only individual to obtain an Act of Parliament for a railway. If the branch had not passed over a turnpike road he would not have needed to go to this trouble. Today long lines of hopper wagons can be seen passing over Woolwich Road and Bugsby's Way on their way to and from the Thames. For the scene at the other end of the line see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2372236 For more information, an update and photographs see https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/05/31/londons-alleys-fairthorne-road-se7/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklyemailblog