Travel Reference
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Albury Street, Deptford
From here, one can either go along the High Street - noting the remains of eighteenth-
and early nineteenth-century houses above the carpet and wireless shops - to see the fant-
astic music-hall (no longer used for this purpose) in the Broadway, dating from 1899, or
go on to Greenwich. Greenwich is now emerging from a period of comparative neglect by
London visitors, the reason for its revival being, of course, the
Cutty Sark
. Still, Green-
wich is not yet sufficiently explored architecturally. In a quick review, I should include the
delightful junk shop selling Victoriana, so crowded that to move about the premises is an
occupational hazard, in a late Regency setting in Spread Eagle Yard, the little old-fash-
ioned shops such as the florists where they have bunches of flowers in big Victorian jugs,
and the Regency terraces by the market in College Approach. Looking down this street
