These trees and benches, made of stone from the 1892 workshops for the blind formerly on this site, are part of a town centre improvement project completed in in March 1995 by the Greenwich Society with the help of The Burney Street Garden Project, The Civic Trust and local residents.
Site: Greenwich Workshop for the Blind (1 memorial)
SE10, Greenwich High Road
The plaque and the stones are in the walk-way leading from the High Street (to the south of Greenwich Picturehouse) to number 21, Burney Street.
There's no sign of a line or station on this block now and the 1886 map show the whole block built up with no station or railway one. But this 1895 map shows the Greenwich Terminus railway station on Stockwell Road with the London Chatham & Dover lines and platforms running through this block from Stockwell Road to the southern corner, right across the site of this plaque.
We can find no evidence that the Workshop ever moved so we think it must have been in a building close behind the shops on the High Road. The 1895 map does show one such building which seems likely. It would have been a little west of where the plaque actually is.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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