Greenwich & Woolwich have long been associated with the great national monuments. Since the seventeenth century Greenwich has been associated with `time`. The time-ball at the Old Royal Observatory still falls daily at one o`clock, just as it has done since 1833. But `time` also means change. This fascinating collection of over 250 photographs shows that many changes which the area underwent between 1858 & the 1970s. It is not a definitive history of the London Borough of Greenwich, its monuments & its institiutions, but a vividy authentic `taste` of the life & times of the people of a region which was, until 1889, still part of Kent. Farms, rural villiages, market gardens, open countryside, brickfields, heavy industry, bustiling High Streets, the sounds of ships` sirens, from the River Thames & of guns being tested at Woolwich Arsenal were all part of everyday social & industrial life for the ordinary people that the images in this selection represent. Throughout periods of immense change
- the amalgamation of separate communities into the metropolis, the 1920s & `30s, the heavy bombing of the Second World War, re-development
- & the rigours of modern city life, the people of the Borough are shown at work & at play. This extraordinary portrayal of a time gone by recreaes, revelas & perhaps reminds a few of a time that has now disappeared forever.