Memories of Erith London UK- A Beautiful Poem from a long time residence of Erith
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- Memories of Erith London UK- A Beautiful Poem from a long time residence of Erith
"Memories of Erith" by pat butler given to my mother at Erith Bowling (cray cottage) Avenue road
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A Beautiful Poem from a long time residence of Erith
Once a bustling town over night turned into a ghost town
And lets not forget Edward Butler an Unknown Inventor
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The son of a Devonshire farmer, was apprenticed when 17 to the firm of Brown and Mays Ironworks in Devizes. A year later he moved to London and spent the next three years working for a general engineering company while he worked on ideas for a tri-car with a petrol engine. In 1884 he took out a provisional patent on this invention which specified:-
"A petroleum motor tricycle or small automobile carriage since it is not provided with auxiliary pedalling gear and was fitted with a comfortable seat and footboard"
All this a year before Gottleib Daimler patented his two-wheeled motor cycle and when Butler was still only 21 years old.
Butler's motor-tricycle, called the Velocycle, was announced in 1884 and by 1887 a syndicate was formed to exploit the machine. Butler then applied for another provisional patent for an improved tri-car to be called the Petro-cycle. This was made by Merryweather of Greenwich, (well known for their fire engines) and in June 1888 the one and only petro-cycle was tested at the Invicta Works, Bromley-By-Bow in East London.
The machine needed further modification and so Butler replaced the ignition system and invented a spray type of carburetor called the Inspirator. The petrocycle ran well; too well for the limits of the 4mph Locomotive Act and Butler again modified it to lower it's running speed. When the 'Man and Red Flag Act' was repealed in 1896 Butler and his wife (Erith's first lady motorist) drove the petrocycle at 12mph on the private roads inside Cory's at Erith. Mrs Butler drove with Edward running alongside shouting instructions.
(Cory's is now Morrisons Car Park)
Butler's hopes of commercial development were dashed by lack of financial backing and by what may have been Erith's first motor accident. "On the second occasion, a week or so later, I startled a baker's horse, which incident closed my careering about the road outside Shuttleworth's Shipyard". Shortly afterwards the petrocycle was taken to Coventry and scrapped for the 163 lbs of metal it contained.
Butler died in 1940, aged 77, a bitterly disappointed man whose work was unrewarded and, until the discovery of many of his manuscript notes and diaries in 1951, he was largely unknown even to early motorcycle enthusiasts.
The Town has also a charter for a market
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Thank you for this lovely reminder of the town I knew, as a child. I used to live above the menswear shop, opposite Fine Fare, and would go to Saturday morning pictures at the cinema, then across the road for six penn'orth of chips afterwards. We played on the wasteground behind the cinema, and in 'the caves' (until we were chased away), then, when the houses were being left empty, awaiting demolition, they also became our playground.
It was sad to see a once thriving town being reduced to rubble, replaced by an ugly concrete fortress, then become a ghost town where vandals and drug-users took over at night. Now that awful mess has been swpt away, and a new Erith has emerged from the ashes. Is it better? I cannot answer that, as I no longer live there.
Miss the old times even though im 13 years old i love the 60's 70's 80's 90's and the 20th century
What a wonderful use of words.So poignant.Those of us with the memories can associate with the verse.What ever you remember of those times,keep them close to your heart.It was a great place to live.
Really lovely 😊 I have seen 3 Eriths in my time since the 50s. Thank you for this..
Loved this apart from the background music
Thanks for the beautiful video of old Erith with powerful poem but so sad. Had heard about the changes within Erith high street so for the last couple of years, I've wanted to see this town. Yes stark concrete jungle for a shopping centre. Saw the river Thames with the tide out. This, with its long pier, looked enchanting.
Born in Colebrook St a stones throw from the White Hart and the Cross Keys. Could see the river from my bedroom window.
Look at the photo at 6.16. How they could tear down those magnificent buildings in Pier Road, I'll never know. And what is there now? An ugly flat car park. I worked in Barclays Bank the first building at the top of the road. Those buildings were beautiful inside and out. Well built, magnificent finish inside. Imagine the luxury flats above the shops below, if they had kept the south side of the street. The other side, 1960's shops are still there! No character or class. What a crying shame.
such a great poem but a shame about the town we have now
Me too! I think there was a Pamela
what a lovely poem and footage. Sad to see how it was and how it is now. The Erith I knew too :( Never go there anymore even though I only live a mile away :(
elizabeth golding I feel the same,, so thats why i put something together for people to see what Erith used to be like
@@TheCartell0 I live in Northern now I know old erith I was born there haynought hospital Upper belvedere was our stamping ground played in the reck I could go on I think I would run out of space iam 82 now
Beautiful
When this film was made it was Erith kent . Then in 1969 it became part of the London borough of Bexley .the start of the destruction of Erith. Councils have a lot to answer for
What on earth have the planners done, it's now a generic concrete sprawling suburb 😒. Should have preserved much.
beautifully poignant
Sad to see the news today about the children and it being necessary for riot police.
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