Riverway – this was once a road which went down to the river – to Bugsby’s Hole.. It was once called Marsh Lane and ran off Blackwall Lane turning east to the river having passed The Pilot pub. Today The Pilot stands in a square with its adjoining cottages – and there is a wall between it and the river built by the landscape designers of the Dome.
Before these designers got busy Riverway had houses, and people, and also industries – Blackwall Point Power Station, Redpath Brown’s steel works, and the back end of the gas works with their Phoenix Wharf built on the site of Frank Hills chemical works. Before that there had been a tide mill built in 1801 where the history of the steam engine had been changed. On the other side of the road from the mill was a big house – East Lodge.
General information and articles about Bugsby’s Hole here
Information on the building of New East Greenwich and the East Greenwich Tide Mill and the explosion in the boiler of Richard Trevithick’s Engine here
Frank Hills Chemical works information here
Redpath Brown information here
Blackwall Point Power Station further information here
Letter from Pat O’Driscoll a walk along the riverbank, and a reminsence
The Pilot Ceylon Place East Lodge – information about these here
Fuel Research
Charlton Research Works Fatality
Coalite Plant
Greenwich Peninsula History 
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