Feb' 12th 2014 .. Market street
Market street entrance to the town hall
Ceiling corner detail of the old 1842 town hall building in Calderwood street
Nov 21st 2013 .. Market street
Side entrance to the town hall
Sept' 16th 2013.. Market street health centre
Built in 1938 .. designed by the borough engineer Mr H W Tee and built by the councils own labour force.
July 26th 2013.. Calderwood street
disused side entrance of marks & Spencer copyright Chris Mansfield
June 29th 2013. Calderwood street , Sikh temple
Gurdwara Sikh temple in Calderwood street June 29 2013 copyright Chris Mansfield
Multi storey car park above Sainsburys
Feb' 12th 2014 .. Market street
The Magistrates court closed down in June 2011 and its looks from the sign as if it has been sold .
Feb' 12th 2014.. Market street
The old cottages on the left were built in 1832 and the police station was built in 1910.
Interior of the old 1842 town hall building in Calderwood street
Sept' 16th 2013.. 19th century Cottages in Market street
Before I started studying local history I had always assumed this row of houses were living quarters for the officers of the adjacent police station, But they are actually much older.. This was originally a terrace of nine small houses built in 1832..these five still remain.. In 1807 the Woolwich board of Commissioners came into being ( an early version of the council) They had the power to rebuild the market which at that time was an unregulated sprawl of traders on the north side of Woolwich high street .. roughly in the area of the present day entrance to the leisure centre car park. Without consulting the traders they decided it was a better idea to build a completely new market in the area now known as Market street / Bathway/ Polytechnic street.. The commissions laid out a nice new square with sheds around the edges but the traders were not interested... It was too far out on the fringes of town and the new market was a total flop. In 1824 they gave up on the idea and put the area up for sale. A man called Benjamin Davies took out a lease on a sizeable chunk of this area .. Much of the street would have looked similar to this row of houses.. The present police station arrived in 1910 and the magistrates court followed a few years later
July 18th 2013.. Calderwood street
looking up from Powis street copyright Chris Mansfield t
June 5th 2013. Woolwich Police station
Woolwich Police station , built 1909/10 photo taken 6th june 2013 copyright Chris Mansfield
Dec' 19th 2015 Calderwood street
library entrance
Feb' 12th 2014.. Market street
The health centre was built in 1938-39.. The modern building beyond is the Job centre.
The old swimming baths building and Bathway viewed from Market street
Stairway detail inside the old 1842 town hall in Calderwood street
Dec' 5th 2013 .. Old county court
Main door of the old county court building .. Nice VR cypher above door
Entrance to the old swimming baths .. now closed down, the property is used by Greenwich university
July 15th 2013 Calderwood st car park
opened in May 1973 copyright Chris Mansfield
!0th March 2014 New Cafe opens in Calderwood street
New Cafe opened in Calderwood street on the above date
Bathway , looking towards Market street
Dec 5th 2013 .. Old county court
Interior stairway detail of the old county court building
Oct' 12th 2013 .. Calderwood street
This building of 1891 was the original site of the "Woolwich Polytechnic young mens christian institute" . The school gre rapidly to fill the island site, bounded by Calderwood street, Thomas street, Polytechnic street and Wellington street.. Calderwood street was formerly known as Wiiliam Street.. It was renamed in 1938 in honour of a local industrialist, councillor and chairman of the Polytechnic governing body, William Calderwood
August 7th 2013.. Old County court house
This red brick building can be found in Polytechnic street ( formerly Lower market street ) It is attached to back of the old 1841 Town hall building.. Originally this site was the garden of the borough surveyor. The town hall next door was used for all sorts of things, including coroners court and pretty soon, as the town was expanding it bacame too small for all the demands put upon it. In 1892 this place, designed by H.H.Church was built to be the County court . copyright Chris Mansfield
July 9th 2013.. Calderwood street
retail units at the base of the Vista building copyright Chris Mansfield
rear of library building
Jan' 6th 2016 Calderwood street
Sikh temple
Aug 17th 2015. Market street, Police station building
These steps once led to a doorway .. not sure when it was bricked up
Dec' 5th 2013 .. Old Town Hall
Interior of the old town hall building in Calderwood street
Oct' 12th 2013 .. Calderwood street
Close up view of the entrance to the original polytechnic building
This building was actually the second town hall built for Woolwich. A couple of years earlier the board of works had built a very similar building just a few yards further up the road... just beyond the site of the old Library. As soon as this first building was complete it was bought by the newly formed Metropolitan police. The council made a good profit on the sale and immediately built themselves a new town hall as shown in this picture . copyright Chris Mansfield
July 8th 2013. Market street Police station.
Woolwich Police station July 8th 2013 copyright Chris Mansfield
