003 Town Hall
🏛️ Interview

Inside Deptford’s changing future

A conversation about housing, bikes, and what comes next for Deptford.
🏛️ Interview

How Deptford keeps its Deptfordness

Spend more time in Deptford, and its true character starts to appear.
002 Visualising Deptford
🐶 Place names

A Deptford joke?

How the Isle of Dogs may have got its name.
🧭 Maps

Deptford in 1623

Can you navigate Deptford with a 400-year-old map?
⚓️ Panorama

Dockyard blueprint

One engraving from 1753 shows Britain’s naval power drawn to scale.
🎞️ Photography

Every shopfront

How to document all 186 frontages on Deptford High Street.
001 Crime and punishment
Featured

High Street murders

A quiet shop, two bodies, and the fingerprint evidence that rewrote police work.
⏳ Interactive

Crime timeline

Five centuries of murders, riots, executions, and wrongful convictions. In one place.
⚔️ History

Tax fight

In 1497, the Cornish rebellion turned Deptford Bridge into a battlefield.

Brookmill Park Birds

A tiny sliding-tile game about our local wildlife. Match the birds and meet the species you can spot in the park.
Beyond⚓️Deptford
Featured

Diplomatic debt

London’s diplomatic missions owe £173.8 million in unpaid congestion charges.
Next issues

Parks and recreation

Green lungs and muddy boots: the open spaces that shaped daily life.

Titans of industry

Shipyards, steam, cables: the people who built things bigger than themselves.

Shopping centre

From market stalls to pie shops: money changing hands and tastes changing fast.

About the diarist

I’m Elia Kabanov, science writer and habitual walker. Deptford has more history per square metre than most of London. I’ve been documenting it ever since I moved here.

Elia Kabanov
elia@kabanov.org

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