VicLondon-Deptford Greenwich
Deptford & Greenwich, Southwark
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Once towns in their own right, Deptford and Greenwich are now part of the easternmost edge of the metropolitan area on the southern side of the Thames. Deptford is dominated by shipping and train transportation. Several rail lines come together at New Cross Station, on the western edge of Deptford. Deptford is a working and middle-class neighbourhood. Instead of being commuters into London, many of the workers here have jobs in Rotherhithe, in Deptford, or in Greenwich.
There is a large contingent of workers who are employed by the military in Deptford. At the southernmost end of the dockyards and on the edge of Deptford, is the Royal Victualing Yard. Here naval vessels are supplied with coal, cannon, and ammunition from the nearby Woolwich Armoury and Proving Grounds, and there is a wealth of work for manual labour. There are some soldiers that live in the cheap tenements here when they aren’t assigned to barracks at Woolwich, home of the Royal Engineers and the Artillery Corps’ training grounds. Sailors and of cer trainees sometimes like in Deptford, in addition to the Victualing Yards, Greenwich hosts the Royal Naval School and the massive Greenwich Hospital, which specializes in care of soldiers and sailors. There is a wealth of work for groundskeepers at the Greenwich Park a massive public park attached to the Naval School, and location for the Greenwich Observatory – where the prime meridian runs through, splitting east from west.
