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Yeoman Street, LONDON, SE8 5DF

Looking southeast from its junction with Plough Way. Typical of the dismal and depressing aspects too often found in some parts of South London.

Construction sites on both sides of the street.

First recorded in 1861 and closed in the 1950's. Originally at the junction with Napier Terrace that later changed to Jewett Street. In the early 1960's the distance between Yeoman Street and Plough Way, where it turned south, was the thickness of the wall that separated the two i.e. about 26 inches. Plough Way did not have the extended sweep it has today as the junction with Jewett Street had been absorbed into the Surrey Docks area and blocked by a brick wall. Building to the left of the image is Carinthia Court, 93 Plough Way.

The pumping station is in Chilton Grove but has been closed for years. It processed the water from Earl Sluice from the Thames.

It is not clear what the connection is between the Austrian province of Carinthia (Kärnten) and this apartment block. Nor what the framework on top of the building is for.

This building is not listed, perhaps surprisingly given its historical significance. It is a sewage pumping station, lifting water out of what was historically called the Earl Sluice - a river or drainage ditch running from Denmark Hill to the Thames near here - but since the 19th century a public sewer, into the Southern Outfall Sewer running towards Crossness. More detailed history at http://marlowe-shakespeare.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/getting-body-to-deptford-by-peter-farey.html An overflow takes surplus storm sewage into the Thames nearby, probably using the original course of the river. As of 2014 it is proposed to use the site for a major construction site for a "drop shaft" taking the waters of the Earl Sluice into the Thames Tideway, 30m or more deep under the Thames. The Earl Sluice was historically the boundary between Rotherhithe (Surrey) and Deptford (Kent) ecclesiastical and civil parishes, hence a county boundary. Chilton Grove (foreground) follows the course of the former sluice, and is still on the civil boundary between Southwark and Lewisham boroughs - see Image - but the present ecclesiastical boundary between Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe and St Nicholas & St Luke, Deptford runs behind the pumping station.

With modest Deco touches. Now operated by Thames Water. More info: Image

First recorded in 1863 and closed 1941. It stood directly opposite Croft Street. Building shown is 1 to 39, Chilton Street. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1579879