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galina · 1 year

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A perfect still life, forgotten scene, debris of love,

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12ozstudios · 2 months

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Awesome xenomorph cover up tattoo done by Eric Camarota at 12 oz. Studios Deptford, NJ!

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unteriors · 3 months

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Rankin Avenue, Deptford, New Jersey.

#Deptford #New Jersey

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shihlun · 1 year

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Jah Shaka, Albany Empire, Deptford, London 1984,

photo: Stephen Mosco

#jah shaka #deptford #dub #soundsystem #dub soundsystem #1984 #albany empire #Stephen Mosco #reggae dub

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randomnotebookthoughts · 1 month

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Forever meant nothing when we had nothing.

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londonedge · 2 years

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Red and Blue- Deptford housing

#red #blue #housing #social #flats #urban #urban photography #documentary photography #doors #bins #Deptford #London #England #UK

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tsapco · 1 year

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(Aaja Music)

#SoundCloud #music #Aaja Music #aajamusic #london #deptford #radio

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londiniumlundene · 2 years

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St Nicholas Church, Deptford

On the quiet Deptford Green sits St Nicholas Church. No one is quite sure when the church was founded: the tower dates from the 14th century, though there was definitely a building on the same site prior to that. The rest of the structure dates from the 17th century, with some reconstruction required after the Blitz.

As London churches go, St Nicholas might be quite unremarkable on first glance, but one should of course always look further – in this case, firstly to the gateposts of the churchyard. Atop each post sits a carved skull and crossbones. Whilst rumoured to be the inspiration for the classic piratical flag the Jolly Roger (Deptford once had its fair share of visiting privateers), they are in fact memento mori – a reflection on mortality and life after death. They have associations to the church’s charnel house (still standing in the churchyard); at one point there were more burials than could fit into the ground, so bones were piled up inside to wait for the resurrection.

At the rear of the churchyard lies another type of memorial – that of playwright Christopher Marlowe, who is buried in an unmarked grave nearby. Marlowe is best remembered for Doctor Faustus, and may have become a playwright to rival Shakespeare, had he not been murdered in 1593 at the age of just 29. Marlowe was officially killed in a dispute over a bill, though conspiracy theories persist that he was in fact engaged in spying activities, and was assassinated on the orders of the Elizabethan secret service’s spymaster.

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clove-pinks · 1 year

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J H Boteler, a midshipman in HMS Orontes in 1813, also recalled with affection his seedy, dissipated and somewhat drunken schoolmaster and was pleased to meet him years later in Greenwich Park. By this time Boteler was a senior officer aboard the Royal Yacht refitting in Deptford dockyard and he invited his old mentor to join him on board for dinner. The following evening, dressed in his Sunday best, the old schoolmaster duly appeared and they spent an amusing evening, until the drink took its toll and the former ship's teacher was eventually carried from the vessel, placed on a barrow and wheeled through the yard to the dock gates. Yet despite this performance it is clear that Boteler had much respect for his old teacher, by this stage a pensioner at Greenwich Hospital, and was delighted to receive some days later a letter of thanks which he described as 'a flaming copy of verses expatiating on my kindness and hospitality and the glory of his visit'.

— Harry W. Dickinson, Educating the Royal Navy: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Education for Officers

Shipping on the Thames off Deptford by William Anderson, 1820s.

#midshipman monday #age of sail #royal navy #naval history #midshipman #schoolmaster #educating the royal navy #deptford #naval art #william anderson #h w dickinson #the best way to catch up with an old teacher tbh #maybe not the part where they get blackout drunk #alcohol

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zoezoegr · 9 months

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