Genealogy Chat

When I went I was the second year intake of the new Plumstead Manor School formed by the merger of Kings Warren, Waverley and Church Manorway. schools. My aunt went whilst it was still Kings Warren.

We may have had the same teachers as some were there for years like Miss Hunt, Catherine Dyer, Miss Cole and Miss Saville.

They are doing a lot of building work there now.

Another coincidence - I also went to school in Plumstead - King's Warren on Plumstead Common.

Yes they are still there.
The lido reopened a few years ago but appears to have closed again now.
Maryon Wilson still has the animals.
And the Hornfair is still held in Charlton House.

We went to an exhibition at Charlton House this week about the Charlton Parks and the historical relationship of the Parks with the House.

We saw some photographs of the lido around the sixties.

I know Prince Henry Road. Our business is on Charlton Road. I nad not realised what a strong connection my family has in the area.

I lived in Plumstead and went to school there before moving to Catford.

LadyKira, just read your post re walking from Woolwich Ferry to Hornfair Park and it brought back loads of memories.

I lived on Prince Henry Road which ran the length of the Park. I remember swimming in the Lido. In fact on warm summer days (yes, we had them then!) I would go off in the morning with 3d and a sarnie and spend all day there. Our parents never worried about us being on our own.

I used to do the walk you mention in reverse but not as far as the Ferry, just to a friend's house just beyond Maryon Park. I wonder if all those parks are still there or if they have been built over.

Spoke to someone from Greenwich tourist office yesterday and she said it rang a bell and she will see if she could find anything.
LK

London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 about Lieutenant General George Fead
Name: Lieutenant General George Fead
Record Type: Burial
Estimated Death Date: abt 1815
Burial Date: 27 Nov 1815
Age: 86
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1729
Parish or Poor Law Union: Woolwich St Mary Magdalene
Borough: Greenwich
Register Type: Parish Register

There is a Fead here in case you have not seen it.

http://saobits.gravesecrets.net/f.html

Hi
Thanks to all for your messages, URL's and comments. They will all be
investigated.

Regards
Stuart

You might find that one of the best places to enquire is the Heritage Centre (based behind the Firepower museum).

Just google - then you can call them. They may be able to help.

Stuart
What was your source of information?

Oh well, at least you got some 'fresh' air.

Try the Tourist Board before your next excursion....they may have moved the statue.

Hi to everyone,

Thanks for all your comments and ideas. This mornings excursion was not fruitful in finding the monuments but very enjoyable all the same as the weather as extremely good.

Will persevere with my searches. I am sure something will turn up

Regards
Stuart

There is no park opposite St. Marys Church that I can think of. Unless the memorial is in the church gardens.

The Royal Arsenal Gardens are farther down Woolwich Road, I think they are the new gardens by the Thames Barrier.

The Woolwich Park I found on Google is not any where near Woolwich Common. It appears to be opposite St Mary's Church.

When I was a child we regularly walked from Woolwich ferry through maryon Park, Maryon Wilson Park, Charlton Park and then Hornfair Park where we would swim in the lido.

You may find some help at the firepower museum nearby. Unfortunately it is closed on Sunday.

The Olympic site at Woolwich looks like a kids construction set. And as for Blackheath it is tragic how they have knocked down the gates of the park and made such a mess.

I am not looking forward to it at all.

I see you are researching Harringtons Piglets Pal. I have some of those too in the Chigwell area.

Woolwich Common at present has been completely taken over by the Olympics. Limited access to 'common' ground.

The only thing you can really spot with ease is the War Memorial (which has recently been restored) which is on the corner of Academy Road/Ha Ha Road.

Hope you find your memorials.

http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/woolwich_park/map

have you tried this site ? lots of info on members of the Fead family


http://genealogy.kirkpatrickaustralian.com/archives/index.php

Hi Choccy,

Thanks. I had the background info, however I am led to believe that this monument has sons, daughters, wives, etc etc, names inscribed with where
they all died and at what age they were.
This is the reasson for going to get photographs of the monument. There may
infact be two monuments as the info I have is that there is a South Monument and a North Monument.

Regards
Stuart

Hi Detective,

Thanks for the info much appreciated. We were going tomorrow anyway for other reasons so hopefully searching Royal Arsenal Gardens would be an opportunity also.

Regards
Stuart

after Googling -


FEAD, GEORGE (1729?–1815), lieutenant-general, colonel-commandant fourth battalion royal artillery, entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as a cadet 1 Sept. 1756, became a lieutenant-fireworker royal artillery 8 June 1756, second lieutenant 1760, first lieutenant 1764, captain-lieutenant 1771, captain 1779, brevet major 1783, regimental major 1792, lieutenant-colonel 1793, brevet colonel 1797, regimental colonel 1799, major-general 1803, lieutenant-general 1810. As a lieutenant-fireworker he was present at the famous siege of Louisburg, Cape Breton, in 1758. He was afterwards taken prisoner at Newfoundland, but exchanged. Returning a second time to America he served there six or seven years, part of the time at Pensacola. He served in Minorca from 1774 to 1781, and commanded the artillery during the memorable defence of Fort St. Philip from August 1780 to February 1781, during which he lost an eye by the bursting of a shell. He was one of the witnesses on the trial of Lieutenant-general Hon. James Murray, the governor, on charges preferred by Sir William Draper [q. v.] He went to Newfoundland a second time in 1790, and in 1794 served under the Duke of York in Flanders. He went to Jamaica in 1799 and commanded the artillery there many years. He was made lieutenant-governor of Port Royal in 1810.

Fead died at his residence, Woolwich Common, 20 Nov. 1815, in the eighty-sixth year of his age and the fifty-eighth of his military service, thirty years of which had been passed abroad. He had nine sons in the service, several of whom were killed or died on duty abroad.