Crayford Past in Pictures
Bexley Local Studies & Archive Centre holds thousands of historic photographs, slides, negatives, glass plates, postcards and prints recalling the London Borough of Bexley over the last two hundred years and more.
You can view a small selection of Crayford’s past in pictures. If you would like printed copies of these images please contact archives@bexley.gov.uk
Surviving Reminders
Town Hall
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Princess Theatre Commemorative plaque on Princessess Court, Crayford 2009
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Princessess Theatre Lampost
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Remaining Vickers Buildings
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Vickers company emblem discovered during building works on the old Vickers factory in 2009
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Start of the demolition and rebuilding of a new retail park,1998
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The Princesses' Theatre
Log book of St Paulinus School, 1919
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School children welcome Prince to re-opening of the Princessess Theatre, 1919
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The-audience-at-the-Princesses-Theatre-Crayford
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VIPs including Prince Albert outside Shenstone House, Crayford 1919
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The Princesses' Theatre, c. 1916
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The Princesses' Theatre, c. 1916
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Princesses' Theatre, Crayford, c.1916
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Souvenir of the opening ceremony of the Princesses' Theatre
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Princesses' Theatre, c.1916
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Crayford High Street
Crayford High Street, 1835
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Crayford from the town hall roof, 1949
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Crayford High Street, 1905
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Crayford Town Hall, c. 1930
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Crayford High Street - St Ockwells Shop
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Crayford High Street
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Crayford - just off the High Street and Manor Road
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Crayford High Street, September 1955
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Old houses on Crayford High Street
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Crayford High Street, c.1920
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Crayford High Street, c.1902
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Crayford High Street, c.1900
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Crayford High Street
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Crayford High Street
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Crayford High Street
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Crayford High Street
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Crayford High Street
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Crayford High Street
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Maxim's Flying Machine
Mr George Court
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Maxim's Flying Machine at Baldwyns Park, 1894
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Maxim flying machines at Baldwin Park c1894
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Hiram Maxim (middle) with Crew, Baldwyns Park, 1894
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Hiram Maxim sitting with dignatories on support rail by his crashed aircraft, Baldwyns Park, 1894
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Artists impression of Maxim's Flying Machine
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Bexleyheath and District times, July 1894
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Flying Machine exhibition programme, c.1894
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Maxim's Flying Machine, c. 1894
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Maxim's Flying Machine, c. 1894
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Sir Hiram Maxim's Flying Machine in the workshop at Baldwyns Park
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Maxim and his flying machine engine
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Maxim at Baldwyns Park, November 1894,
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In and Around Crayford
Map of Crayford, 1860
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Swaislands Factory Crayford, 1850
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Station Road, Crayford c. 1900
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Birds Eye View of Crayford, c.1921
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Crayford Waterside, c.1906
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Crayford Waterside, c.1900
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Crayford - opposite Princesses
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Crayford Bakers backwater
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New Crayford from the station, c. 1928
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Rodney Hut YMCA
Rodney Hut YMCA, Crayford, c. 1915
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Rodney Hut YMCA, Crayford, c. 1915
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Rodney Hut YMCA, Crayford, c. 1915
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Rodney Hut YMCA, Crayford, c. 1915
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Vickers
Vickers Sewing Machine
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Casing of the Bouncing Bomb Tested at Reculver
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Demolition of Vickers main block 1964
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Gun advert from Vickers News, 1924
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Manufacturing wire stitching machines for the printing industry, 1974
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vickers machine gun factory crayford
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Vickers Machines
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Vickers Crayford Post WWII (visible traces of camouflage paint)
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Vickers Sewing Machine Works
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Constructing wings for Vimy aircraft, 1918
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Crayford Works Magazine, 1918
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Crayford Garden Suburb, 1916
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Vimy Production Line, 1918
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Messrs Vickers, Sons & Maxim's Works, Erith c. 1912
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Vickers, Crayford, Drawing Office Dept. Football Team 1917
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Crayford Volunteer Soldiers, World War I 1914-1918
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YWCA, Crayford, 1914-1918
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Crayford Volunteer Soldiers, World War I 1914-1918
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Crayford Way, c.1915
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Garden City, c.1916
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New Estate, Crayford, c. 1917
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