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Charlton Lane, LONDON, SE7 8LR

This three-storey apartment block gets its name from the Anglican church (Holy Trinity, New Charlton) which stood on the site from 1894 to 1975. See also Image

This three-storey apartment block gets its name from the Anglican church (Holy Trinity, New Charlton) which stood on the site from 1894 to 1975. See also Image

One of several gates into the park, this one leads from the Gilberts Pit SSSI into the flat lower section of the park where there used to be houses.

The road/rail excavator in the foreground was unloading ballast from a train on the adjacent track, on the level crossing at Charlton Lane. Viewed from the steps to the adjacent footbridge. Behind the ballast wagons is the signal box seen in Image

The tunnel portal is seen in Image The train is the one seen in Image and was hauled by a pair of class 73 electro-diesel locomotives.

West portal of Charlton Lane tunnel. The railway lines burrow under Maryon Park en route to Woolwich Dockyard Station.

This building on the corner of Woolwich Road (foreground) and Charlton Lane was until a few years ago the Horse and Groom pub. The bracket for its inn sign can still be seen. It is now the base of a branch of the Cherubim and Seraphim church.

Steps leading to the summit of Cox's Mount from a gate on the Charlton Athletic Football Club side of Charlton Lane, adjacent to the Charlton Lane railway crossing. Cox's mount is the highest point of Gilbert's Pit, an area that was worked for fine sand from c.1780s until 1889. This former pit is now part of Maryon Park but is separated from it by an ascending spur of land that juts out in the direction of the River Thames. Evidence has been uncovered in the past of a Romano-British settlement on Cox's Mount between C1st-C5th.

Three short tunnels with brief open stretches of line in between take the railway through Maryon Park. This is the westernmost portal with the footbridge adjacent to Image

Nine months on from Stephen's Image and the pub, with its carved eagle over the entrance door, still exists. Truman Hanbury and Buxton's brewery was the Black Eagle in Spitalfields, and their beers were named after it, as evidenced by the sign on the right side of the building. The brewery was one of the oldest in London, having been acquired by Joseph Truman in 1698. The Truman Hanbury and Buxton name eventually disappeared when they merged with Watney Mann in 1974, the latter having been bought themselves by Grand Metropolitan Hotels in 1972. The pub, which is at 757 Woolwich Road, is under threat but it is to be hoped that it can be incorporated into whatever is subsequently built on the site.