Alphabet of Greenwich – K
Okay, Nick – here it is – you are free to let loose all those ideas you’ve been storing up as today’s post is brought to you by the letter K.
Of course it’s not just Nick who can fill in my many gaps in things beginning with the letter K in Greenwich – I’d like to hear YOUR suggestions.
I guess given the Royal connections there are going to be a lot of things beginning with the same word:
But there are loads of others
So now folks – it’s up to you…
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Kestrel 1
King_Charles_Building,_Greenwich_small
king billy
henry stephen
knife edge 2 low
kent dispensary
knight
Joseph Kay – designed the whole Greenwich Market block, the very centre of Greenwich.
It’s also said that Louise de Kerouaille, King Charles’ baby-faced strumpet and the agent of Louis X1V, inspired the building of the Royal Observatory, when she’d championed a French Astronomer who claimed to have solved the problem of establishing the Longitude. Charles set up a group led by Flamsteed to investigate the claim.
It was Louise who Nell Gwynne was name-checking when she told a crowd, “Pray good people be civil, I am the Protestant whore.”
Well – as far as Greewich industry is concerned there was Kork ‘n Seal in Charlton. But much earlier was the Kampultican Co.
Kite flying on Blackheath (must be coming into season now) and
Kent, where Greenwich used to be.
KFC
Well, I was really only kidding (or that’s my excuse !). Here’s my puny effort….
King William Walk
King George Street
(The) King’s Speech film, filmed partly in Greenwich.
Henry Kelsey, explorer of Canada.
Notice how the word ‘King’ comes up a lot.
Kronenberg, Kebabs, kung fu, knuckles, knock out [Saturday night outside Wetherspoons]
Ohh you have used three of my photos.
I know you are onto K but I have thought of another J. Jonathan Betts Senior Specialist in horology at the Royal Observatory.
King William Court.
Keel of the Cutty Sark
…because your photos rock, Stephen!
Peter Kent, documentarian of all things lovely and Greenwichian