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..?
Labels: Ask The Phantom
posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
14:52
8 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...
James Edwards (tailor) who occupied the Tea House in Circus Street n 1849 is my great great grandfather. His son, Friend Henry Edwards, was born on 3 March 1847 and baptized in St Alfege Church on 7 April 1847.
James Edwards then of Grange Road, Bermondsey, a bachelor and tailor, married Sarah Elizabeth Fauchon on 17 December 1846 in St James Church, Bermondsey. Her father, Friend Fauchon, had the Old Criterion on Broadway in Greenwich in 1832-34.
James and Sarah Elizabeth Edwards emigrated to Adelaide in South Australia. They departed St Katherine Docks on 17 September 1849 on the barque “Brightman” of 384 tons and arrived in Port Adelaide on 5 January 1850.
On 26 May 1870 my great great grandfather, Friend Henry Edwards, married Kate Stanford, the daughter of a pioneer settler who had arrived in Adelaide in 1836. They had a large family of 7 boys and 4 girls.
Does the Phantom have any further information on the Tea Warehouse in Circus Street or the Old Criterion on Broadway in Greenwich? The date James Edwards first occupied the building also would be of interest.
Robert Edwards (Sydney, Australia)
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