St Andrews Pictures
Yo! For a tiny window of time, I'm assuming, Blogger is allowing me to upload pics before having its next breakdown, so here are a couple of images of the lost St Andrew's Church we were discussing yesterday. We still know very little indeed about it - built in 1900 and demolished around 1986, a sad little unloved building that became redundant within a few years of its erection.
If I'm totally honest, looking at these pics, hand-on-heart, this isn't a completely tragic loss. It looks fairly bog-standard - non-conformist, I'd guess - maybe United Reformed, though to be honest no one seems to know what denomination it was. It's not great architecture, though it's nice enough and certainly no blot. What is sad is that nothing seems to have replaced it.
What this does highlight for me though, is how easily history can be lost - even today, in the days of cheap cameras and easy publication. I don't want to be rude, but these pics aren't exactly of the highest quality - especially the snow one - but they are the best we seem to have (though there is a charming little pic and a tiny snippet of info here courtesy of Kirsty.)
Most of us have some kind of camera these days. IMHO it's almost a duty to record what we have around us - from the extraordinary to the banal - for future generations. I recently spent some time at Greenwich Heritage Centre trying to find photographs of my road. Apart from one picture which had been wrongly labelled and was actually of a building two streets away, there was nothing. Not one single snapshot of a road that must have seen so much.
Get out this Bank Holiday weekend folks, and take a few snaps of your road. Not just the grand stuff; the little, ordinary things that make up the 21st Century. Future generations will thank you...
Labels: lost Greenwich, Places of Interest, St Andrews Church Greenwich
posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
08:51
7 Comments:
it was church of England
You can't take pictures now. You'll get arrested and branded a terrorist.
Well. Not quite. But my Father-in-law did get a warning for taking pictures of squirrels near New Scotland Yard. Apparently he was 'dressed and acting suspciously'. He was wearing jeans, a black t-shirt, and a black leather jacket.
So, word of advice. Don't take pictures of squirrels. They have connections and value their privacy.
If you are looking for Squirrel 'Moduls' I know one or two that will do any pose for you.......They're real pros!!!!
Mind you we're not talking peanuts here, they are very high classed.....so cashews only!! LOL
I'm surprised Benedict hasn't mentioned his Marilyn Monroe Toad yet........
St Andrews Church was active into the 1960's - I was baptised there in 1960 and all my Aunts and Uncles on my Mother's side were married there (1930's through the 1940's),so the Church was
not "redundant within a few years of its erection".
My Mum's family lived in Idenden Cottages which were over the road from St Andrews. We moved away from there in January 1970.
The pews from St Andrews were recovered and rehoused in St Nicholas Church Whetstone Road SE3 and are still in use today.
Thank you Keith. This is fascinating - and only goes to show how easily history is lost. You have provided us with the most information that seems to be available and yet this was hardly centuries ago. I oculd only go on what was left. Thanks to you we have a few more snippets. So - St Nicholas, eh...
The Phantom feels another trip coming on...
The Church was Church of England
and was called St Andrews with St Michaels.Thankyou for the Photos of the Church.I used To live at No 49 idenden Cottages.
St. Andrew & St. Michael was built 1900-2 to the designs of Basil Champney a much admired architect. There had been an iron church on the site since 1870 to serve the community on the Peninsula.
The bell was from the ancient church of St. Michael, Wood Street in the City of London. Sadly, while the church lay derelict thieves broke in through the roof and stole the bell using some sort of crane I believe.
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