EPW060545 ENGLAND (1939). The area between Crescent Road and the River Thames, Woolwich, 1939

Salutation Alley

Empire Theatre in Beresford Street.

MacBean Street School.

Holy Trinity Church - closed and demolished in the 1960s

Woolwich Arsenal Gateway

Tram in the one-way system at Thomas Street

Woolwich New Road - well, it was in the late 1700s!

Anglesea Road

Sandy Hill Road - very steep due to previous sand extraction in the area.

Crescent Road

Woolwich Arsenal Station - road level entrance building

Part of the Royal Artillery Barracks

Zion Chapel

John Wilson Street - eventually converted to a dual carriageway to serve the new 1960s ferry terminal - much of the housing along this road was lost by demolition to make way for the new road.

St Mary's Primary School

Odeon Cinema

St Mary's church - the Parish Church of Woolwich

The 1930s Royal Arsenal Co-op Society's major department store.

Hare Street - another major shopping street - and where most of the ferry traffic had to queue as well.

Powis Street - not only the principal shopping street, but had to cope also with the ferry traffic.

The former Woolwich Equitable Building Society headquarters building.

Original ferry pier opened by the Great Eastern railway after it reached North Woolwich in 1847, before the main part of Woolwich received its railway. The railway ferry struggled on after the free ferry started in 1889 but stopped running in 1908. The pier was used for excursions, in part, and also for a towage company's tugs. It has been out of use since around the 1980s.

The Woolwich Free Ferry North pier, with a boat at it.

Woolwich Free Ferry South pier, with one of the steam paddle boats approaching, as another is just leaving. One can assume the tide is ebbing, as the boats always left and approached the piers into the current to aid their movements.