Deptford

Deptford {{IPA|}} is an area of the London Borough of Lewisham, on the south bank of the River Thames in south-east London. It takes its name ('Deep Ford') from its position where the road to London from Dover and the channel ports cross the Thames tributary, the River Ravensbourne (the tidal reach of which is also known as Deptford Creek).

Famous residents

• John Gast (1772-1837) worked in the Deptford shipyards and helped to organise the Thames shipwrights strike in 1802. He was also a dissenting preacher and ran the King of Prussia pub at 6 Union Street (now Albury Street), Deptford.
• George Julian Harney, (1817-1897), radical Chartist, was born in Deptford, the son of George Harney, a sailor.
• Margaret McMillan, socialist and early years pioneer, opened one of the first nursery schools in Deptford in 1910. Rachel McMillan Nursery School is still open today.