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68-610: In 1311, the Royal manor of Eltham was established and this included the woods. The woods were leased to Sir John Shaw, 2nd Baronet , from crown occupation in 1679. His family managed them until 1811, when they were taken over by the War Department. The woods were then acquired by the London County Council for the use of public recreation in 1930, and then opened to the public in 1934. Ownership then passed from

136-490: A Greater London Council -backed Ringway Two). Green places in Eltham The Royal Borough of Greenwich maintains an online directory of open spaces. Most parks have active Friends groups In December 2010, the population of Eltham parliament constituency was 63,059, although this figure includes the wards of Coldharbour and New Eltham, Kidbrooke with Hornfair and Shooter's Hill. 63,082 people live in

204-542: A Non-League football club Cray Valley Paper Mills F.C. , which plays at Badgers Sports Ground (shared with Greenwich Borough F.C. ) in Middle Park. Cray Valley plays an annual charity match against their local non-league rivals Eltham Old Boys Football Club. Mottingham Mottingham is a district of south-east London , England, which straddles the border of both the London Borough of Bromley and

272-646: A 'detached part' of Bromley Rural District and had its own parish council . In 1931, the parish had a population of 2,120. In 1934, the rural district and the Mottingham civil parish were abolished and the area was transferred to Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District . In 1965, the urban district was abolished and the area was transferred from Kent to Greater London , to form part of the London Borough of Bromley. The boundary between Bromley and Greenwich, and between Bromley and Lewisham, around Mottingham

340-477: A basic business directory and tried to increase interaction between business and community groups. Both were offline as of June 2023. In 2007, the new Eltham Centre opened just off the High Street including council offices and a new swimming pool and incorporating the early 20th century library. The Eltham Society was founded in 1965 with the aim of "Preserving the past, Conserving the present, and Protecting

408-639: A distance. Police were forced to move the crowds on for fear of violence, and were involved in minor clashes, but Eltham did not have any riot damage. Primary schools in Eltham include: Alderwood, Christ Church (Shooters Hill Rd), Deansfield, Gordon, Middle Park, Ealdham, Eltham C of E (Founded 1814), Gordon, Haimo, Henwick, Holy Family, Kidbrooke Park, St Mary's, St Thomas More and Wingfield. Secondary schools in Eltham include Harris Academy Greenwich , St Thomas More Catholic School , Eltham Hill School for Girls, and Stationers' Crown Woods Academy (built upon

476-624: A housing stock of mixed age, particularly towards Eltham Park and the multiple streets with 'Glen' in their names. There are some fine houses scattered around Eltham. At least two roads, North Park and Court Road, contain million pound homes, and some of the older Victorian buildings have been subdivided into apartments. A Micropub , The Long Pond, was opened in December 2014 - the first pub in Eltham Park for at least 115 years as Archibald Cameron Corbett would not give permission for pubs and put

544-585: A lack of evidence. In 2011 as a result of new evidence coming to light, Gary Dobson and David Norris stood trial for the murder of Stephen Lawrence. They were convicted on 3 January 2012. Other instances of racial attacks were documented throughout the 1980s and 1990s, with Eltham compared to a " sundown town " a name used to describe communities in America's Deep South where black people were advised for their own safety to not be out in public after dark. Eltham was, for example, compared to Jasper, Texas . During

612-655: A licence will be granted. Several licensed premises in Eltham Park now offer "Off Sales". Domestic architecture In 1990, an IRA bomb outside the Eltham Palace headquarters of the Royal Army Educational Corps injured seven people (see 1990 Eltham bombing ). The area was targeted three times by the Mardi Gra bomber in the 1990s. Eltham has a varied topography . Map 6 shows contours, spot heights and water courses. The centre of Eltham

680-586: A restrictive covenant on the land. However, since the Licensing Act 2003 was implemented in 2005, Premise Licences are now granted by the local authority ( Greenwich London Borough Council ) instead of magistrates, as long as the applicant satisfies the council and the "responsible authorities" (such as Police, Environmental Health, Fire Service) that they will uphold the four licensing objectives (prevention of crime and disorder; public safety; prevention of public nuisance, protection of children from harm), then

748-478: A sinkhole had developed. The area is well coursed with streams, both above and below ground, and the collapse or shifting of subsoil might be attributed to them. The site of the sinkhole is now unknown, and the incident is also largely unknown. The only body of standing water that is in the area today is a lake at The Tarn Bird Sanctuary. Mottingham was originally a farming hamlet, with a few large houses on Mottingham Lane, one of them Fairy Hall. Development began in

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816-462: Is a large variety of open green space in Eltham, in the form of parkland, fields and woodland. " Green Chain Walks " are signposted footpaths that run through or link the green spaces. Some are also bridleways or cycle routes. Eltham Parks North and South, Avery Hill, Sutcliffe Park, The Tarn, Well Hall Pleasaunce and Horn Park all have Green Flag status . In the 1990s the defence of Oxleas Wood to

884-668: Is a specialist environmental college offering land-based further and higher education on a campus that was previously part of Hadlow College . Eltham College , an independent day school for girls and boys 7–18, founded in 1842 as the London Missionary Society 's School for the Sons of Missionaries, has been housed since 1912 in the former Fairy Hall in Mottingham, which had earlier been the Royal Naval School from 1889 to 1910. Mottingham borders Eltham to

952-474: Is both 'suburban' and 'urban', and it forms part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich , an Inner London borough. The town centre supports a loyal core of shoppers, diners, and drinkers, but the nightlife is modest. In recent years there has been great effort by local town centre businesses and other important Eltham stakeholders, to drive business, community and tourism improvements, that will help sustain

1020-584: Is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London . The three wards of Eltham North, South and West have a total population of 35,459. 88,000 people live in Eltham. Eltham developed along part of the road from London to Maidstone , and lies 3 miles (4.8 km) almost due south of Woolwich . Mottingham , to the south, became part of the parish on the abolition of all extra-parochial areas , which were rare anomalies in

1088-412: Is on a plateau at about the 60m level with the High Street running along its centre. There is a scarp slope to the west of the plateau from the top of which are unrestricted views across South London . Eltham Palace occupies a commanding position on the edge of the scarp. Eltham Hill offers the steepest descent from the plateau, starting at Eltham High Street and descending 30m over 1 km due west at

1156-585: Is significantly higher than the Royal Borough of Greenwich average of 62.5%. Eltham's population by ward in 2011 was as follows: Eltham West Eltham North Eltham South Middle Park & Sutcliffe Eltham has an unusually high quotient of green space, with large areas of woodland to the north and east, including the historic woodland of Shooters Hill and Oxleas Wood, the Woodlands Farm community holding, Eltham Parks north and south and extensive parkland heading into Avery Hill park. Thus it

1224-499: Is surprising given the fact that it was constructed rapidly between February and December 1915 and is sub-divided by the South Circular Road and (until about 1988) by the even busier A2 Trunk Road . The Progress Estate was made a Conservation Area in 2007. Urban development After World War I the building of housing estates continued unabated. By the beginning of World War II, four large estates were in existence:

1292-818: Is the River Quaggy which runs to the south-west of Eltham and joins the River Ravensbourne at Lewisham. The Quaggy receives additional water from a tributary named Little Quaggy, flowing from the lake of The Tarn in Mottingham, and feeds the wetlands in Sutcliffe Park . The only other significant watercourse is the River Shuttle , which rises in Avery Hill Park and flows east to join the River Cray . Other nearby areas There

1360-532: The 2011 England riots , Eltham received national attention when, for three nights, a vigilante group of 300–400 people occupied the centre of Eltham, saying they were protecting people and property from rioters. Extra police from other UK forces were sent to maintain order. The group gathered after rumours that Eltham would be the latest place to be hit by unrest. A small number claimed to be EDL members. BBC reporters tracked fans of Millwall and Charlton walking along Eltham High St, with riot police following at

1428-537: The County of London and from 1900 formed part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich . The metropolitan borough was abolished in 1965 and Eltham then became part of the then London Borough of Greenwich. Eltham today is one of the largest suburban developments in the borough with a population of almost 88,000 people. Eltham lies on a high, sandy plateau which gave it a strategic significance. That, and

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1496-731: The Greater London Council to the Borough of Greenwich on abolition of the GLC in 1986. In 1993 plans for an East London River Crossing that would have cut through Oxleas Wood were withdrawn following opposition from local residents. People Against the River Crossing (PARC), the road protest group formed to oppose the crossing, comprised local residents, with support from established environmental organisations, radical environmentalists and pagans. The campaign's objective

1564-412: The London County Council creating the Mottingham estate, with 2,000 houses, schools and shops, on Court Farm. The estate opened in 1935. The King and Queen pub, later used as a performance venue, opened in 1937; it was replaced by housing in 1992. In January 2019, Bromley council approved the borough's Local Plan, a document outlining how and where Bromley will be developed up to 2030. Policy 18 details

1632-520: The Metropolitan Police Act 1839 . In 1866, the same year the station was opened, Mottingham was separated from Eltham as a distinct civil parish. In 1881, the parish had a population of 779 and covered an area of 642 acres (260 hectares). When the County of London was created in 1889, Mottingham was excluded from the new county and formed a protrusion of Kent, bordering London to the west, north and east. From 1894 to 1934, it formed

1700-485: The Oxleas Wood Apiary which was managed by the late apiarist John Large obit . 51°28′01″N 0°03′58″E  /  51.467°N 0.066°E  / 51.467; 0.066 Eltham Eltham ( / ˈ ɛ l t əm / EL -təm ) is a district of southeast London , England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich . It is 8.7 miles (14.0 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross , and

1768-607: The Progress Estate (1915), the Page Estate (1923), Middle Park (1931–36), and Horn Park (begun 1936, completed 1950s). The latter two were built on Eltham Palace's former hunting parks. Coldharbour Estate was built in 1947. The small council estates of Pippenhall and Strongbow Crescent were completed about 1960. Since that time new house building has been limited to small private "infill developments" and replacements for demolished properties. Eltham residents occupy

1836-671: The Progress Estate in Well Hall and large estates of temporary hutments in 1915, to house the vastly increased numbers of wartime workers in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich . In the early years it was called, rather pretentiously, "Well Hall Garden City". Its name was changed to " Progress Estate " when it was purchased by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society in 1925. It compares well with later groups of municipal housing in south London – which

1904-542: The River Thames after flowing 8 km (5.0 mi). Within Oxleas Meadow is a cafe. The café building is of brick construction and is owned by the Borough of Greenwich. Public male and female toilets are also located in this building and are available for use during the café opening hours. The café part of the building is leased to the café operator. Within the woods there is a thriving honeybee apiary,

1972-512: The Royal Borough of Greenwich . It is located south west of Eltham , 1.5 miles (2 kilometres). It was historically within the county of Kent . The earliest records of Mottingham are from 862 AD during the Anglo-Saxon era when it was recorded as Modingahema , which means the land of Moda's people and is commonly interpreted as "the proud place". In William Henry Ireland 's 1830 work England's Topographer: Or A New and Complete History of

2040-458: The SE9 postcode district; of these, 30,398 are male and 32,684 are female. People over 65 make up 17.9% of Eltham's electorate. At the census of 2011, the white population of Eltham was recorded at 80.95%; the largest minority group in Eltham was Black-African and Black- Caribbean people, who comprised 7.46% of the total population with Asians comprising 6.62%. Eltham's proportion of white residents

2108-543: The Yorkshire Grey (now a McDonald's outlet). The land to the north of Eltham rises to form the southern slope of Shooter's Hill , one of the highest points in London at a height of 430 feet (130 m). The recently (2014) restored 18th century belvedere Severndroog Castle offers wide views from its observation platform which is 490 feet (150 m) above sea level. From Eltham Church at 200 feet (60 m)

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2176-543: The Chilean nitrate industry. A hothouse is still open to the public and contains temperate and tropical plants. There are also remnants of the formal gardens in the public park. The mansion was part of the University of Greenwich , which had a significant presence on two sites in the area. However, in 2014 the university announced its intentions to withdraw from the site and has now done so. The village streets adjacent to

2244-562: The County of Kent Volume 4 , he writes Mottingham is a hamlet, lying partly in this parish (referring to Eltham), and partly in that of Chislehurst , at about a mile southward from Eltham church. It was anciently called Modingham, from the Saxon words modig , proud or lofty, and ham , a dwelling. In King Edward the Confessor 's confirmation of the gift of Elthruda, King Alfred's niece, of

2312-442: The High Street rises gently to 233 feet (71 m) and continues east as Bexley Road at a slightly lower level. To the south the plateau slopes gently downwards to Mottingham (at 163 feet (49.6 m)) and New Eltham (at 151 feet (46.1 m)) Eltham is devoid of any major water features, although the River Thames is approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) away from Eltham's northern limits. The most prominent body of water

2380-634: The Ironmongers' Company in 1912 to replace the almshouses in Hoxton that are now the Museum of the Home ; they were remodelled by the Greater London Council and additional housing built in the grounds. Martins Bank had a branch in Mottingham village, facing the war memorial; it was the first branch of the bank to undergo an armed raid, in 1967. It became a Barclays following their 1969 takeover of Martins,

2448-656: The Palace, and the surrounding land, remained rural until Archibald Cameron Corbett bought the Eltham Park Estate and developed it with well-built suburban housing between 1900 and 1914. The Bexley Heath Railway (see below) had opened what came to be known as the Bexleyheath Line in 1895. Suburban development of the district accelerated when the Government, through His Majesty's Office of Works, built

2516-456: The SEnine website. A community website "This is Eltham" provides updates on current events. High Street and environs On 22 April 1993, 18-year-old black student Stephen Lawrence was fatally stabbed in Well Hall . The crime quickly became one of the most high-profile racially motivated murders in modern Britain. Five teenagers were later accused of his murder but the case was dropped due to

2584-635: The Sidcup bypass to join the Quaggy, which continues to Mottingham playing fields (colloquially known as 'Foxes Field'). Source: London County Council bought the Court Farm estate in the early 1930s and planned a 2000 home cottage estate . The first houses were to the west of Mottingham Road and completed in 1935. The estate was fairly self-contained; the community facilities included a shopping centre and several schools. The British gangster film Piggy

2652-535: The Third held a Parliament at Eltham in 1329, and again in 1375. The nearby manor of Well Hall was home to Sir John Pulteney, four times Lord Mayor of London , and later to wealthy Catholic William Roper and his wife Margaret (daughter of Sir Thomas More, known to Catholics as Saint Thomas More , Chancellor to King Henry VIII ). In 1733 Sir Gregory Page bought this estate for £19,000 and demolished Roper House, building Page House – later known as Well Hall House – on

2720-678: The commitment to improve the vitality and viability of the Mottingham Local Centre and Kimmeridge Cross Neighbourhood Centre, and to enhance links to other areas of Bromley and adjoining boroughs, particularly in relation to centres of employment. Mottingham was originally a hamlet in Eltham parish, in the Blackheath hundred of Kent. In 1840 it was included in the Metropolitan Police District by

2788-515: The cultivated land are arable. ....This place had formerly a market on Tuesdays, and two fairs; one at the festival of the Holy Trinity, and the other at that of St. Peter and St. Paul; both of which have been long discontinued. By the 1880s the lathes and hundreds of Kent had become obsolete, with the civil parishes and other districts assuming modern governmental functions. Eltham was a civil parish of Kent until 1889 when it became part of

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2856-583: The fact of its position close to the main route to the English Channel ports in Kent, led to the creation of the moated medieval Eltham Palace , still its most notable landmark. Daniel Lysons described its origins. The Kings of England had a palace at Eltham at a very early period ... Henry the Third, in the year 1270, kept a public Christmas at his palace of Eltham, being accompanied by the Queen, and all

2924-496: The future". In 1993 it erected the Eltham Town sign in the high street. The Society is responsible for various publications. In 2006 the community magazine "SEnine" was launched. As of 2023 it is published monthly and distributed free. As well as news and discussion of current affairs it also lists forthcoming events. It also carries many illustrated articles about Eltham history. Digitised copies of old issues are available on

2992-515: The great men of the realm. Anthony Bec, Bishop of Durham, and Patriarch of Jerusalem, bestowed great cost, we are told, on the buildings at this place, and died there on the 28th of March 1311, having, as it is said, some time before given Eltham-house to Edward the Second, or, as some say, to Queen Isabel.... Edward frequently resided here. In 1315, his Queen was brought to bed of a son in this palace, called, from that circumstance, John of Eltham. Edward

3060-453: The hamlet to Bernard Cavell sen. of Chesilhurst. The late Cheesman's who held this estate was Thomas Cheesman, whose heir Alice carried it in marriage to Robert Stoddard and his son George Stoddard, and Anne his wife in 1560 built the present mansion-house called Mottingham place, which with the lands belonging thereto, continued in their descendant till Nicholas Stoddard esq., dying in 1765 unmarried and intestate, there appeared many claimants to

3128-468: The hole; and before ten of the clock they were so overwhelmed, that no part of them might be discovered, the Concave being suddenly filled with Water. The compasse of the hole was about eighty yards, and so profound, that a sounding line of fifty fathoms could hardly find or feel the bottom. The cause of the incident, referred to as a "marvellous accident" at the time, was then unknown, and it is likely that

3196-471: The hundred of Blackheath, at the distance of eight miles from London, on the road to Maidstone. The parish is bounded by Woolwich, Plumsted, and the extraparochial hamlet of Kidbrooke, on the north; by Bexley on the east and south east; by Chislehurst on the south; by the extraparochial hamlet of Mottingham, on the south-west, and by Lee on the west. It contains about 2,880 acres (11.7 km ): of which about 360 are woodland; about 60 waste; about three fifths of

3264-497: The inheritance. After a long litigation in the court of Chancery, this seat with the estate was adjudged to an heir by the female line, to William Bowereman esq. of Newport in the Isle of Wight, who passed away his interest therein to Mr. Dyneley, and he nearly rebuilt the seat and resided there. In the old house were the following dates and coats of arms; on the inside of a turret, 1560; on a chimney, 1561; and on an outward gate, 1635. In

3332-487: The land and appurtenances belonging thereto, in Modingham and Chesilhurst; from one of that name it passed to Thomas de Bankwell, at whose decease in the 35th year of the same reign, it was found to be possessed of them and held of the king in gavelkind, as one of his manor of Eltham by service of 14s. 11d. per annum rent and performing service to the king's court at Eltham. In the 14th of Henry VI ,. these premises were in

3400-537: The land of King Henry VIII's hunting grounds, and until 2011 named Crown Woods School). One campus of the University of Greenwich was in Avery Hill Park, on the borders of Eltham and New Eltham , but has closed. In 1654, three men were prosecuted at Eltham for playing cricket on a Sunday, one of the sport's earliest references. Eltham Cricket Club, founded in 1863 and the last club for whom WG Grace played, are based at Footscray Rugby Club. Eltham has

3468-482: The manor of Lewisham and its appendages, to the abbey of St. Peter's, at Ghent, in Flanders, in 1044, Modingsham is mentioned as one of them belonging to that manor; but the succeeding grants of Lewisham manor make no mention of this place. In the reign of Edward I ., it passed as an appendage to the manor of Eltham, in the grant made by that king to John de Vesci ; since, which, it has always been considered as part of

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3536-603: The mid-19th century with the building of cottages on what is now Mottingham Road and the Terrace shops. Mottingham station opened in 1866, but was originally named for Eltham. In the 1880s the West Park estate, housing intended for the middle class, was developed and St. Andrew's church was built between the station and the village. The opening of the Sidcup arterial road in 1923 led to suburban development at Mottingham, with

3604-550: The north east of the town became a focus for a pan-European campaign to resist high capacity urban roads. Significantly the European Court of Justice found the UK government at fault for not adequately assessing the environmental impact of the planned road, that would have joined Beckton to Falconwood and perhaps – if objectors' fears are to be believed – been a first stage of a wider orbital road through Catford (a revival of

3672-514: The north, New Eltham to the east, Chislehurst to the south, Elmstead to the south west, Lewisham to the west and Lee to the north west. Since 2010, Mottingham has fallen within the Mottingham and Chislehurst North polling and policing districts. A tributary of the River Quaggy known as the Little Quaggy flows through Mottingham; rising on the borders of Chislehurst and Mottingham, it flows through The Tarn and emerges alongside

3740-526: The parish system. Eltham College and other parts of Mottingham were therefore not considered within Eltham's boundaries even before the 1860s. From the sixth century Eltham was in the ancient Lathe of Sutton at Hone . In the Domesday Book of 1086 its hundred was named Gren[u/v]iz (Greenwich), which by 1166 was renamed Blachehedfeld (Blackheath) because it had become the location of the annual or more frequent hundred gathering. Eltham lies in

3808-485: The possession of Robert Cheeseman, of Lewisham and East Greenwich, who by marriage with Joane, daughter of Bernard Cavell of Chesilhurst, had considerably increased his property in this place. The family of Cavell was possessed of lands in that part of Modyngham which lies in Chesilhurst, as early as the reign of Edward I., for John Mayo, jun, by his deed in the 18th of Edward I. conveyed several premises in that part of

3876-406: The same, which at this time claims over the whole of this hamlet. The bounds and extent of the hamlet of Modyngham are thus described in an ancient MS. remaining among registers of the bishop of Rochester: Memorandum, That the lordship of Modyngham begins at Readhilde, and extends to the wood of the lord bishop called Elmystediswood , towards the south; and to the field, called Charlesfield, towards

3944-566: The seventeenth century Thomas Fuller recorded in The Worthies of England a curious incident that happened on 4 August 1585: ...in the Hamlet of Mottingham (pertaining to Eltham in this county) in a Field which belongeth to Sir Percival Hart . Betimes in the morning the ground began to sink, so much that three great Elm trees were suddenly swallowed into the Pit; the tops falling downward into

4012-570: The site and build their new supermarket. The new store opened for business in April 2023. Mottingham has a branch of the fraternal order Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity . Mottingham village contains a sign depicting Eltham College within the branches of a tree, a cricket bat and ball (making reference to W G Grace ) and the date AD 862. Mottingham and some of its landmarks appear in filmmaker Dewyne Lindsay's mini-documentary series London Districts . Capel Manor College

4080-435: The site. Until its demolition in 1931, Well Hall House variously served as a home to watchmaker John Arnold , and later to socialist Hubert Bland and author Edith Nesbit . Also of note is Avery Hill Park and its former mansion, accessed from Bexley Road and at various points along the three miles (5 km) of other streets that surround the park. Avery Hill was the home of Colonel North , who made his fortune working in

4148-600: The top of Shooters Hill (in the Royal Borough of Greenwich). There is an underground water reservoir in the grassed area called Oxleas Meadow. This serves the local area with water. This is associated with 'the hut' which is a building containing the equipment that Thames Water uses to control the reservoir. Several streams begin within Oxleas Wood, the longest being the Wogebourne which eventually joins

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4216-487: The town centre. These efforts resulted in the formation of an Eltham town centre partnership (ETCP), chaired by an elected local stakeholder. Greenwich council had a member and officer representatives along with the University of Greenwich. The ETCP encouraged the development of A new town centre commerce Association – The Association of Commerce for Eltham (ACE). ACE established a new Town Centre web portal, which offered

4284-417: The west; and to the woods and lands of the king in Eltham, towards the north-east." At the beginning of the reign of King William Rufus , Ansgotus, of Chesilhurst, the king's chamberlain was possessed of the fee of this hamlet, and gave the tithes of it to the priory of St. Andrew's in Rochester. At the beginning of the reign of Edward III ., a family of the name of Legh was possessed of certain tenements, with

4352-416: The woodland. Oxleas Wood, Jack Wood and Shepherdleas Wood are a Site of Special Scientific Interest called Oxleas Woodlands, covering 72 hectares with oak , silver birch , hornbeam , coppice hazel , and a great number of fine samples of the Wild Service Tree . A larger area including Eltham Common is designated a Local Nature Reserve called Oxleas/Shooters Hill Woodlands. The site covers most of

4420-469: Was adjusted in 1994. Most of Mottingham is contained within the Mottingham and Chislehurst North ward of Bromley constituency, but the area around Mottingham Station is in the Coldharbour and New Eltham ward of Eltham constituency. The first church in Mottingham was St Andrew's Church on Court Road, which was established in 1884 and further helped establish Mottingham as separate from Eltham. Sir Robert Geffrye 's almshouses on Mottingham Road were built by

4488-424: Was closed in 1992. Also by the war memorial stood the Porcupine Inn public house, licensed as long ago as 1688. The premises dated from about 1800 and were replaced in 1922. The pub closed in 2013 and was acquired by German global discount supermarket chain Lidl , who tried and failed to obtain permission to develop the site. In 2022, Lidl appealed over the head of Bromley Borough and were given permission to clear

4556-421: Was filmed around North Kent, Mottingham and London and one scene was filmed in The Prince of Wales pub on Mottingham Road. African American boxer Frank Craig trained at the Prince of Wales for the bout he ultimately lost to Australian Dan Creedon in 1895. In 1946 Woolwich Council built the Coldharbour Estate to the east of Mottingham Road, primarily to provide accommodation for local people made homeless by

4624-422: Was to halt the road scheme, by using all possible means within the established institutional framework. This involved 2 public inquiries and PARC's complaint to the European Commission, reinforced by legal action in conjunction with Greenwich Council, which led to the abandonment of the road project. Over 3,000 people and organisations signed a pledge in which they promised to engage in civil disobedience to defend

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