| Stagecoach in London TA145. V145 MEV. in Bexley Road Erith, with the
Town Hall on the left of the picture. This once quaint town was utterly
destroyed by town planners in the 1960s and has never recovered. With the
exception of Morrisons the town centre can pull a Saturday shopping crowd
of up to 25 people.
16 February 2002. Photograph. John King. |
| A 99 at the Pom Pom Erith, bound for Erith town centre. The pub on
the left is the Nordenfelt Tavern, named for a 19th century gun factory
in the area. Hiram Maxim joined forces in 1888 to produce hi Maxim automatic
machine gun, the first of its kind. A heavier version of this gun was known
as a pom-pom. This gave the area the name it is still know by today. In
1897 the factory became Vickers, Sons and Maxim Ltd. Amongst the streets
in the area are:- Nordenfelt Road, Maxim Road, Vickers Road and even one
called Maximfelt Road. part of Nordenfelt Road is under the new Bronze
Age Way.
The road on the left in front of the pub is Riverdale Road and the one behind is Erith Road, this part is know locally as Friday Road. The wide road on the right is Alford Road, the one in through the middle in Fraser Hill. 16 February 2002.
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| Stagecoach in London TA265. X265 NNO. At the begging of Fraser Road,
named after the factory which took up most of one side of the road for
many years. The 99 began life as an L.G.O.C. route on 22 May 1916 and has
been plying the same route from Erith to Woolwich ever since. The only
thing to have changed in the last twenty or so years is the bus stands
at either end.
16 February 2002. Photograph. John King. |
| Stagecoach in London TA 315 X315 NNO. on the stand in Woolwich High
Street. The boarded up pub, The Crown And Cushion is the only building
left on the North side of Woolwich High Street. The rest having been demolished.
The South side is mostly still intact except for the gap up the building
with the mural on. This was demolished by a WW2 bomb. It was in front of
the pub where the local trolleybus terminal was until 1948, (when they
were extended to Parsons Hill) known as Market Hill. Just in front of these
buses was the plough to overhead current collection for the trams.
16 February 2002. Photograph. John King. |
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