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Lakedale Road Areas

The
cage, 1820. Was situated at the junction of
Lakedale Road and High Street in early Victorian
times.

Above and below: Schools, Lakedale Road, late
Victorian era c.1877. Photo:Alan Gibbs
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Front view of Mission Hall, 1880.
Photo: Alan Gibbs
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Bradshaw's Greengrocer, Lakedale Road, very
early years. (Click on picture for larger view).
Photo: Sid Blanch

Cage
Lane Mission (1905) Cage Lane renamed to
Lakedale Road.
Photo: Alan Gibbs.
The cobbled entrance way on the right of the
picture is to the Brewery.
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See story Joan
Doling Reminiscences

Lakedale
Road, Plumstead (1907). Photo: Alan Gibbs
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Fire
Station, Plumstead c.1910 (Click on picture for
larger view)
Photo: Alan Gibbs.

Cage Lane Mission with Beasley
Brewery gates in the distance (1910).
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Photo: Alan Gibbs.
HEADS THE GREENGROCERS,
LAKEDALE ROAD.

A Beasley's Brewery dray, just left the brewery,
heading down Lakedale Road going past 'Heads'
the Greengrocer's.
See Head's
Greengrocery Ancestry

Lakedale Road (mid 1950's.) Alley
next to R.A.C.S,, on right, was the entranceway
to the old horse-drawn tram depot. (Click on
photo for larger view)
Photo: Alan Gibbs.

Colin's dad, Frank Weightman, (Back row, left)
on duty as a fireman with the crew of the
Auxiliary Fire Service and their Tender at
junction of Winn's Common, on Lakedale and
King's Highway Roads sometime during the second
world war.

Photos above and below: Derek
Johnson Click on photo for a larger view)

My father was Company officer in the
AFS during WWII at Lakedale Rd and also served
at Red Lion Lane Shooters Hill. I regret that I
am unaware of the other names in the photos but
at one time my Ex-father-in-law, Albert Barton,
also served with my father.
My father is the officer in the middle front row
and the shortest fireman by the 'Green Goddess'
which was the nickname we called the fire
tender.' - Derek Johnson
Brian Herron states that the fireman
in the back row on the right as you look at the
photo is his father, George Herron, who lived at
15 Welton Road, Plumstead.

Tramps Supper held in the Ascension
Hall on Winn's Common 1958. [Double Eight Youth
Club] Photo: Ken Costin
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This group from the Tramps Supper
features (boys left to right) Mike Scotting,
Harry Parker, Brian Willoughby, Barry Bignell
and John Bennett but for the life of me I can’t
remember who the girls were……….isn’t that
terrible? Photo: Brian Willoughby
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Left
is the old “Brewery Tap” Pub. Next to it, on its
right, are two houses and then the two shops.
Note the R.A.C.S. Department store is in the
process of being demolished with its clock tower
spire roof removed.
Photo: Alan Gibbs.

Cage
Lane Mission, as it is today.
Photo: Bert Hooper.

Anther view of Cage Lane Mission as it is today.
Photo: Bert Hooper.
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Conway
and Lakedale Roads junction with Tewson Road in
distance (2005).
Photo: Alan Gibbs
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Beasley's
Brewery - the old site now long demolished and a
new housing development. (2005). Photo: Alan
Gibbs
Winn's
Common starts here, at the area known as the
rock slide,where tiny fossils could be searched
for amongst the stones that we used to slide
down on, now overgrown (2004). Photo: Alan Gibbs
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Up the back of here were the ‘Monkey
Trees’ that generations of ‘Common kids ’climbed
and played in amongst their easily reached
branches and from up in them you could also look
over the tall brick wall into where the St
Nicholas Hospital Mortuary building was
situated, which was part of the old original
‘Plumstead Workhouse’ building complex.
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