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| The Royal Dockyard, Deptford from an engraving dated 1793. Lewisham Local History & Archives collection |
"The Naval Dockyards Society are holding their Annual Conference at the National Maritime Museum on Saturday 20 April. Five Hundred Years of Deptford and Woolwich Royal Dockyards will mark the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Thames yards by Henry VIII and will be opened by Dame Joan Ruddock, MP for Lewisham Deptford ...."
Cost: £40 (£35 students, senior citizens, unemployed)
(includes lunch – rolls, sandwiches, fruit, cake, tea and coffee 1.25-2.25pm)
The King's Dockyard was first built in 1513 and lies under the present Convoys Wharf site in Deptford.
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Five Hundred Years of Deptford and Woolwich Royal Dockyards
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