General view of numbers 51 to 61 Hare Street, a cafe and restaurant, from the north-east, with the owner posed in the foreground

Date:
4 Mar 2024
Location:
51-61 Hare Street, Woolwich, Greenwich, Greater London Authority, SE18
Reference:
DP462512
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

Photographer's note: 'A corner building built in 1929 as Montague Burton’s first purpose-built shop in Woolwich. Harry Wilson, the firm’s in-house architect, deployed here a version using faience in a neo-Egyptian mode. The builders were W. H. Gaze and Sons of Kingston. Most of the original shopfront survives (behind shuttering), with Burtons’ usual black-granite surrounds, slender wooden mullions, and curved corner glass. The upper storey was probably a billiard hall, to attract working-class male customers. The shop was converted to a restaurant in the 1980s, with a bright yellow fascia.'

Content

This is part of the Job: 2K/32150 High Streets Heritage Action Zone: Woolwich - Phase II; within the Volume: VF000537 High Streets Heritage Action Zone: Woolwich; within the Series: HEC01/054 High Streets Heritage Action Zone: Woolwich; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Redgrave, Christopher: Historic England

Keywords

Shop, Cafe, Restaurant, People Posed