Deptford Docks History

Notes

  • 1513                Royal Dock built at Deptford
    Stuart Deptford
    1660s              Samuel Pepys visited Deptford on naval work
    1685 - 1688     James II
    1689 - 1702     William III & Mary II
    1697                Docks employed 697 men
    1698                Peter the Great worked at Royal Dock as carpenter
                          to learn ship design.
                          Stayed with the diarist John Evelyn at Sayes Court
    1702 - 1714     Anne
    1711                Docks employed 1100 men
    Georgian Deptford
    1714 - 1727     George I
    1727 - 1760     George II
    1730                St. Paul, Deptford by Thomas Archer completed
    1759                Sayes Court used as a workhouse
    1760 - 1820     George III

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