Harvey House, Nightingale Place, Woolwich SE18

I know this is a strange thing to put amidst a gardening (& Adrasan) blog and apologies to all my avid readers.
Until the age of 8, I was brought up in Woolwich, London. We lived in a block of flats near the Common called Harvey House, it was so named because it was owned by the firm G.A. Harvey Ltd, they were a metal fabrications company based in Greenwich, my father – Jack Coe -  worked for the company. The years would have been 1952 to 1959 ish.
My reason for posting this (apart from being off work today nursing a heavy cold and being bored) is that I would be really interested if anyone has any memories or even a photograph of Harvey House, it was demolished many years ago. Google seems to pick-up very quickly on the topics in this blog and I wonder if anyone else out there is searching for similar information.
If I wanted to make a link to gardening, I suppose it would be that although we lived on the ground floor of Harvey House, we only had a small yard that was totally concreted. I remember once my sister and I succeeded in smashing through the concrete to the earth (rubble) below. We got in trouble for that but perhaps it is where my interest in growing things began?
So – Harvey House, Nightingale Place, Woolwich, London SE18. My sister and I went first to Notre Dame Convent and then to Mulgrave Primary. Any comments gratefully received.

P.S. I remember the general shop, around the corner facing the Common - its name was (I think) Lumsdens or was run by Mr Lumsden.

25 comments:

  1. Hi, I lived in Harvey house... Age 2-4ish, my youngest brother was born there. Ground floor too ! With access to a walled yard... I remember it was concerted over. We moved there in 62-63, I remember the parquet flooring and the brown tiles in the kitchen. I think my parents have photos... Would be good to exchange . I wonder if we lived in the same flat ? Tried to post before, with little luck, now signed up, maybe it'll work now. Cheers hugh pizey

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  2. Hi, I lived in Harvey House in the early 1960s. We moved to Margate in 1964 when my Dad moved to Harvey's Margate factory and I had never been back until 2 days ago when I went to Woolwich Barracks to watch paralympic archery. How it has changed - no Harvey House or Lumsdens or Rileys - all long since demolished. My old school (Fox Hill) now converted to flats. (Hi Robert - I remember you as my dad was friends with yours when they worked together and you lived in the big bungalow in Ramsgate Road!). Laura

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