Five Hundred Years of Deptford and Woolwich Royal Dockyards will mark the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Thames yards by Henry VIII and will be opened by Dame Joan Ruddock, MP for Lewisham Deptford.
Speakers include:
Chris Ellmers, Dockland History Group
Deptford private shipyards and their relationship to Deptford Dockyard, 1790-1869
Peter Cross-Rudkin, ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works
John Rennie and the Naval Dockyards, 1806-1821
Philip MacDougall, Naval Dockyards Society
Launch of the 120-gun Nelson - an exploration of Woolwich Dockyard based on a carefully executed print of 1814
Duncan Hawkins CgMs
The archaeology of a Dockyard: Investigations at Deptford Dockyard 2000 to 2012
Mark Stevenson, English Heritage
Block and Tackle: raising significance. English Heritage, archaeology and development management
Chris Mazeika and William Richards, Deptford Master Shipwright’s House
The role of post-closure documentation in understanding the history of the dockyard officers’ terrace at Deptford
Cost: £40 (£35 students, senior citizens, unemployed)
(includes lunch – rolls, sandwiches, fruit, cake, tea and coffee 1.25-2.25pm)
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Launch of a 60-gun ship at Deptford Dockyard, attributed to John Cleveley the Elder (c.1712-1777) © Ministry of Defence Art Collection
