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A 1954 report
apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/071159.pdf
There is a very comprehensive description of the industry on the North side of the river around Greenwich but nothing about the ROF.
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T.P.A.3 and T.1.B were there but no idea what they were!
A 1954 report
apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/071159.pdf
There is a very comprehensive description of the industry on the North side of the river around Greenwich but nothing about the ROF.
greenwichpeninsulahistory.wordpress.com/page/10/
I am confused Martin. Is your post in the correct thread?
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I wondered about the Delta Metals in the other link.
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The TOB/SOB huts were in the process of being demolished in 1987.
The nearby AA site
The huts in 1972
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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The only government buildings I know of in that area were the post war temporary office buildings that were in Chapel Farm Road. My auntie Marjorie Kirk used to work there in the early sixties and we went to a Christmas Party there in 1965(?). I have attached a photo from that party with me at the head of the table - of course and my younger sister on the right.
I don't know what department my aunt worked in but at one point she was in the Foreign or Home office, I don't know which. I lived in New Eltham until the eighties and often walked past those offices on the way to see friends or visit the Yorkshire Grey. I think they were still there when I moved away but can't be certain but they are now a housing estate.
Assuming I am talking about the same office buildings it would be great to see some photos of them as so much has changed since I left and I knew the Mottingham, New Eltham, and Chislehurst area very well. If I recall Mottingham had a toy shop (place of wonder) with a train set that ran in the window if you put a penny in the slot., was it called Gayes?
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WW2 People's War
Rhyl during the war by Gwenan
The hotels on the promenade were taken over by the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Works - quite a lot of local people worked for them.
Rhyl Life
ECHOES OF WORLD WAR 2
"At Marine Lake Fun Fair my father, the engineer Albert Barnes was resident director. When the war began I was only 13. The fairground was open as usual on summer evenings and I used to help out there. My father's workshops in Westbourne Avenue were requisitioned by the Army. He experimented with apparatus to be fixed on the front of tanks to explode land mines.
"The picture above shows an example of a rolling device. In the background is a government inspector. The outcome of the experiments was a device involving flailing chains, which was actually used by the military."
Former military science college building, Rhyl
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