Results tagged “Deptford”

A 30 metre safety cordon surrounding a workshop fire in Deptford has been removed after firefighters brought the blaze under control.

Propane gas cylinders on the Mornington Road premises were cooled and removed from the premises and the fire was out just before 12.30pm.

A man had boiling water from a kettle poured on him in an aggravated burglary in Deptford.

In the incident before Christmas, three men forced their way into the victim's house with a mallet and an imitation firearm before torturing him in a bid to find out the code for a safe.

A fire has broken out on the fourth floor of a block of flats in Idonia Street, Deptford. London Fire brigade has six engines and 30 firefighters working at the scene.

The search for the missing crew member of a tugboat that sank in the Thames this morning has been abandoned. Marine accident experts will now begin an investigation into what caused Chieftain to sink.

Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus runs at Shakespeare's Globe and a quote from his most famous play is engraved upon a stone in St Nicholas's Church, Deptford, where he is bured in an unmarked grave following his fatal stabbing in 1593.

Charles Dickens has Abel Magwitch escaping from a prison ship in the Thames Estuary in Great Expectations.

These hulks were home to up to 200,000 inmates from age eight to 84, during the 19th century with redundant naval ships moored at Deptford and Woolwich.

Greenwich-based Lush Designs is the work of Maria Livings and Marie Rodgers.

They studied painting and printmaking at Maidstone Art College together and have worked with each other ever since, first as Rodgers And Livings Artists To The Stars and eventually as Lush Designs.

The funniest talking computer British comedy has seen is now finally, officially off-screen.

Comedian Norman Lovett has pulled the plug on Holly, the dead-pan virtual companion from classic sitcom Red Dwarf. But where does a man boldly go once he's already navigated the vastness of space?

PLANS for Deptford’s new food, art and fashion market are on track for an April launch.

The weekend market is the latest stage in Deptford’s attempt to shake off its ramshackle image and rebrand itself as a creative hub and visitor destination.

Last week saw the delivery of a 35-tonne, 57-seater railway carriage which is to act as the Deptford development’s headquarters.