Comments on: Alphabet of Greenwich – K

By: DeeBee

DeeBee — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:02:12 +0000

Peter Kent, documentarian of all things lovely and Greenwichian

By: TGP

TGP — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:10:37 +0000

…because your photos rock, Stephen!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:00:47 +0000

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

By: scared of chives

scared of chives — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:07:23 +0000

Kronenberg, Kebabs, kung fu, knuckles, knock out [Saturday night outside Wetherspoons]

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:45:52 +0000

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.

By: Fatty Fatty BumBum

Fatty Fatty BumBum — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:33:24 +0000

KFC

By: JOF

JOF — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:16:01 +0000

Kite flying on Blackheath (must be coming into season now) and
Kent, where Greenwich used to be.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:27:42 +0000

Well – as far as Greewich industry is concerned there was Kork ‘n Seal in Charlton. But much earlier was the Kampultican Co.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:19:21 +0000

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.”