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Bartram, The Blitz and Beyond: Learning Resources
13/08/2018
A 62-page booklet and activities sheet.
Animated film: Bartram, The Blitz and Beyond
13/08/2018
In 2005 Charlton Athletic celebrated their centenary year by building a statue of their most illustrious player Sam Bartram outside ...
Interactive booklet: Crayford's role in aviation history
12/08/2018
Crayford resident and teacher, Peter Daniel, wrote an education booklet telling the story of Crayford’s role in aviation history. The booklet contains a ...
Introducing Admiral Shovell and the Longitude
12/08/2018
How the death of Crayford’s famous Admiral shaped the Modern World
Introducing the Fabric of our Town project
11/08/2018
The Fabric of Our Town web pages were put together by Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, in partnership with ...
Introducing Private William White
10/08/2018
Private William White was the first Crayford soldier in WW1 to be buried at home . His funeral became a focus for local families who were also grieving their loved ones.
Wilfred Salmon interactive booklet
06/08/2018
This interactive booklet about Wilfred Salmon was created to spread the word about this remarkable story. You can see the ...
Teaching and Learning Events
02/08/2018
Vickers Crayford Learning Resources
30/07/2018
Bexley Local Studies have produced a number of information leaflets on subjects relating to the history of Crayford. You can ...
Your epitaph for Chalky
22/05/2018
Now try and write your epitaph for your soldier. Remember the epitaphs are usually quite short, four lines are normally ...
Sniper's bullet in Flanders
22/05/2018
On 16 January 1915, Private Bill White and the 2 / Buffs embarked for France by camouflaged troopship. Arriving at ...
With the Buffs to Ireland and India
22/05/2018
Private White – the nickname ‘Chalky’ was inevitable – began his military service with the Manchester regiment in Ulster before ...
Kentish soldier
22/05/2018
Recruits from tough industrial and agricultural backgrounds have a long pedigree in the British Army. William James White fitted the ...
Remembrance
22/05/2018
This November Remembrance services will as ever recall the sacrifice of all British and Empire soldiers in the Great War ...
Disaster 1916
22/05/2018
During the night of Saturday, 2nd December 1916 the theatre was destroyed by fire. The cause of the fire was ...
The Opening Ceremony
22/05/2018
The new hall was to be called “The Princesses Theatre” and the opening ceremony on Wednesday, 26th July 1916 was ...
The Princess Theatre
22/05/2018
The Vickers management recognised that a large centre of entertainment was essential to maintain the morale of both the workers ...
The Rodney Hut
22/05/2018
At the start of the First World War Crayford’s meagre housing stock was overwhelmed by the demand for accommodation by ...
Housing
22/05/2018
In 1915 land to the north of the River Cray was used for a large housing development to alleviate the ...
Transport
22/05/2018
With a very large workforce spread over a wide area getting the workers to and from Crayford was a problem. ...
Before the First World War
22/05/2018
Crayford in the years leading up to the Great War was a town in decline. Armaments production at the town’s ...
Vickers During the First World War
22/05/2018
At the start of the War the Vickers factory at Erith was responsible for the design and manufacture of the ...
Visit to Westminster Abbey
22/05/2018
On the 7th November Y6 pupils from St Joseph RC School, and St Paulinus C.E. School came to Westminster Abbey ...
Chalky 'the Crayford Swallow' Musical
22/05/2018
Children from Y6 at St Joseph’s R.C. Primary performed the Chalky ‘the Crayford Swallow’ musical at Hall Place on 2nd ...
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Robert Sutton
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David Evans – The Last of the London Fabric Printers.
11/07/2026
My Grandad George Hammond worked there for many years until he retired, I believe he was a foreman in the...
Peter Rawlings
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Vickers Factory at Crayford 1918-1985
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My Great Grandmother Mildred Swift worked in the bayonet shop in WW1
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Thomas Schindler is also my great-great-grandfather!
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Vickers Factory at Crayford 1918-1985
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My Dad, Joe Chadwick, worked at Vickers in the 1940's and 50's. We migrated to Australia from Dartford in 1965....
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