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New Cross was previously known as Hatcham and it
was originally in the county of Kent. The name Hatcham comes from Old
English and may have meant 'Haecci's estate'.
Roman New Cross
The Roman Dover road passed through Hatcham.
Medieval New Cross
1086 Hatcham, as New Cross was known then, is listed in the Domesday Book
as Hacheham. It is described as a manor containing land for
three ploughs, nine villagers and two smallholders, six acres of
meadowland and woodland for 3 pigs.
1319 Refence to Hachham
Stuart New Cross
1614 Haberdashers Company (founded in 1371 as a City Livery Company
purchased Hatcham Manor for £7,180.
1619 Map produced of Hatcham.
1630 Hatcham leased to Randolph Crew.
1651 Manor described as including a manor house, orchard, dove house,
stables, brick barn, winter pasture and other lands.
1660 Hatcham leased to Thomas Pepys, brother of Samuel.
Georgian New Cross
1718 New Cross tollgate established on Clifton Rise by New Cross
Turnpike Trust
(became known as New Cross Gate, New Cross after an inn and Gate after
toll gate)
1775 Hatcham House rebuilt (on site of old manor house?).
1778 Joseph Hardcastle leased Hatcham Park House until 1819. He was a
famous abolitionist. House was situated between Monson Road and
Hatcham Park Road.
1795 Signalling telegraph station situated on Plow Garlic Hill (later
Telegraph Hill).
1801 Hatcham had a population of 734.
1823 Signalling telegraph station removed.
1831 Hatcham had a population of 1,565.
Victorian New Cross
1839 New Cross station opened (named New Cross Gate in 1923) on London &
Croydon.
1840s Robert Browning lived near New Cross Road at Telegraph Cottage.
1843 Royal Naval School opened by Prince Albert (on site of present day
Goldsmiths).
1854 St James Church built.
1859 Haberdasher Aske's surveyor William Snooke wrote a report
recommending the laying out of wide tree-lined roads for the
construction of ³dwelling houses of a high standard.²
1865 Hatcham had a population of 17,168.
1865 Toll gate removed.
1869 Hatcham Park House demolished. Egmont & Casella Roads built.
1870s Haberdashers' Company laid out Hatcham Manor Estate (including
Erlanger, Jerningham, Pepys and Waller Rds).
1875 Haberdashers Askes School for Boys & Girls opened on Pepys Road.
1889 Royal Naval School moved to Chislehurst.
1891 Goldsmiths' Company's Technical & Recreative Institute opened.
Haberdasher Askes School for Girls opened on Jerningham Road.
1893 Church of St Catherine opened on Pepys Road.
1894 New Cross Fire Station built.
1895 Telegraph Hill Park opened.
Goldsmith's Tavern built on site of New Cross House pub (gave name to
area).
Modern New Cross
1900 Hatcham Manor Estate development finished. It covered over 200 acres
around Telegraph Hill supplying large houses for the middle
classes.
1903 Statue of Robert Aske (died 1689) moved to grounds of Haberdasher
Askes Boys.
1905 Goldsmiths' College became part of London University.
1909 Electric Cinema opened near corner of New Cross Road and Queens Road
(closed in 1925).
1925 New Cross Super Kinema opened on New Cross Road and corner of
Clifton Rise.
Later named Gaumont.
1960 Gaumont closed (became Venue nightclub in 1990s.
1976 Haberdasher Aske¹s went comprehensive.
Booklist
Hatcham & Telegraph Hill- An Historical Sketch - Raymond Thatcher (Lewisham
Historical Society 1982)
Goldsmith's College, A centenary Account - AE Firth (1991)
History of the Haberdashers Company - Ian W Archer (Phillimore 1991)
Discover Deptford & Lewisham - Daniel Spurgeon (1997)
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