Blackheath Gallery

View down Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Village, London

A superb postcard view down Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Village, London - the detial is incredible, with individual shops identifiable, the pavements as busy (as they ever are!) and the impressive form of the Victorian schoolhouse on Independence Road, now a Montessori Centre and Private Hospital. Date: circa 1909

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

3/20th London Regiment (Blackheath & Woolwich) in training

The Army in training, in this instance the 3/20th London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich). 1. Round the cook house, 2, the boot repairers, 3, bayonet practice, 4. non-commissioned officers 5. instruction in the use of the rife, 6. the sergeants cooks, 7. Group of officers, back row, left to right - Sec.-Lt H. J. Goodale, Sec.Lt. J. Crawford, Sec. Lt. F. S. Buliner, Sec.-Lt. C. Stevenson, Sec. Lt. C. V. Troughton, Sec-Lt. E. A. Osmond, Sec-Lt. J. Crossland. Front row, left to right, Sec.-Lt. L. A. Young, Sec.-Lt. C. Renton, Capt. and Adjt. C. Rowton Hefford, Major F. C. Bentley, Capt. E. Fitzgerald, Lt. F. A. Pring, R.A.M.C, Sec.-Lt. E. F. Gumming. Date: 1916

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Prince Albert visiting the London Regiment at Blackheath

Prince Albert (future King George VI) (1895-1952) visiting the 20th Battalion, The London Regiment at Blackheath - April 1920. Here the Prince is seen presenting the Kings Colours. Date: 1920

© Bubblepunk / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection