Gasworks To Dome

Having just found your website, I was very pleased to see the photographs of Creed Place, where my great grand parents once lived, somewhat before 1920 though, Christchurch where they were married and "the New Public Baths?". It helped me to visualize their home and surroundings. Does anyone know where the "older public baths" may have been?

I have added below, a few brief notes of my family history research that concerns Greenwich and hope that it may encourage others to add information about ordinary Greenwich people and their lives.

Thanks for a very interesting site and best wishes for many future additions.

William Garlick.

"My great grandfather, William Garlick was born in Coventry in 1850 and sometime between the 1861 and 1871 census’ his family moved to Greenwich. In the 1871 census they were found to be living at 4 Fry’s Close, Greenwich. Then aged 20, both William and his father Thomas were shoemakers. There have been many generations of shoemakers our the family, which has helped me find some of my ancestors.

William married Mary Ann Welling at Christchurch Greenwich on 29 July 1872. Their marriage certificate describes him as a “Playter” both he and his wife were living at Creed Place.

Their first child, Elizabeth, was born on 14 July 1873 and her birth certificate gives the family’s address as 1 Bridge Street, Greenwich. William is here described as a labourer so maybe the shoemaking business was not going too well.

Their second child, my grandfather Thomas, was born on 12 July 1875 and his birth certificate gives the family’s address as 16 Ravenbourne Street, Greenwich. William is here described as a “Public Bath Attendant”.

Some of William and Mary’s other children were born and married in Greenwich.

However, in the 1881 census, William and Mary and family are living in Jarrow but back in the shoemaking business again."