Cigar Warehouse
Benedict (who sent the above) asks:
Does the phantom know anything about the Cigar Warehouse near the station, at the junction of The High Road and South Street?
The Phantom replies:
In a word, no, but I'd like to. Whenever I walk past that little row of shops I look up and wonder. I guess it says it all on the wall - but as yet I know nothing about it. I wonder if anyone else does..?
Does the phantom know anything about the Cigar Warehouse near the station, at the junction of The High Road and South Street?
The Phantom replies:
In a word, no, but I'd like to. Whenever I walk past that little row of shops I look up and wonder. I guess it says it all on the wall - but as yet I know nothing about it. I wonder if anyone else does..?
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posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
14:52
7 Comments:
I have a framed picture of the exact spot on my wall - the date is around 1890, I believe.
Can't quite recall which building of the three (?) has the 'Cigar warehouse' on it but the buildings in the middle and at the end on the right - is/was Duncan's chemist - was a post office and a baker's. They had shop fronts a la Dring's. A very high flagpole was on top of the building.
The chimney behind - that's at the end of the alley between this building and the dentist's is still there today but was twice as high then.
There were two water troughs for horses and a series of drinking water taps around a large stone thing with a lovely lantern on top. This looks about 20 foot tall.
It would have been bang in the middle of the road - where the the pedestrian crossing now is.
A horse with a cart full of vegetables is drinking, a group is smiling at the camera and everyone, children included, are wearing hats.
Not an answer about the warehouse, sorry...
Was there a Post Office Opposite at the End of South Street at some time? I have seen the 'GR' coat of arms on the wall above the shops and often wondered what was there. It looks like it may have gone through to a small courtyard behind.
Amazing what you see when you look up in Greenwich.
Thanks! So we still need to find something about the Cigar Warehouse above...
Thanks SoC, I have just seen the picture you describe in West Greenwich Library with Justices Bakery on the corner of Prince of Orange Lane. Still nothing on the Cigar Warehouse, even a look round the back does'nt reveal any secrets. It just seems like a fairly ordinary house a bit like the Tea Warehouse in Circus St (hmmmm...another one for TGP?)
What about the house on Circus Street with the inscription 'Royal Circus Tea Warehouse'? Obviously been turned into a house now but would love to have seen what the area looked like in the era when all these warehouses were operating.
You never know - maybe someone who reads this might know the people who live there now - I know that if I lived in a place like that I wouldn't rest until I knew something about it...
All I can find out so far about the tea warehouse in Circus St is that it doesn't appear to have been a tea warehouse in 1849, when it was occupied by one James Edwards, a tailor...
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