Spare Parts was followed by Sound Pump in 1968, Macainsh formed Reuben Tice in Eltham, with Tony Williams on vocals.

His penultimate match, and the last in which he batted, was for Eltham Cricket Club at Grove Park on 25 July 1914, a week after his 66th birthday.

played in " was a couple of weeks later for Eltham v Northbrook on 8 August.

After some five years of siege, Manuel II entrusted the city to his nephew and embarked ( along with a suite of 40 people ) on a long trip abroad to seek assistance against the Ottoman Empire from the courts of western Europe, including those of Henry IV of England ( making him the only Byzantine emperor ever to visit England – he was welcomed from December 1400 to January 1401 at Eltham Palace, and a joust took place in his honour ), Charles VI of France, the Holy Roman Empire, Queen Margaret I of Denmark and from Aragon.

The first church in Mottingham was St Andrews Church on Court Road and was established in 1884, which further helped establish Mottingham as separate from Eltham.

It was worked on by a number of English craftsmen, and incorporates some English design ideas, being comparable to Edward IV's hall at Eltham Palace, built in the late 1470s.

Eleven days later a group of Titokowaru's followers, by now starving and subsisting on foraged food including fungus and grubs, surrendered in a swamp hideout at Ngaere, near modern-day Eltham, while their chief evaded soldiers and settled at Kawau Pa in the Upper Waitara Valley.

Philippa was born in Eltham Palace, Kent, England on 16 August 1355.

Stephen Lawrence ( 13 September 1974 – 22 April 1993 ) was a Black British teenager from Eltham, south east London, who was murdered in a racist attack while waiting for a bus on the evening of 22 April 1993.

Bland died in Eltham of a heart attack on 14 April 1914 and was buried in Woolwich cemetery.

In the 1860s John Pound, a developer, erected houses in the south-east quadrant, Orchard Terrace on Eltham Road and Crown Terrace on Burnt Ash Lane ( now Road ).

:“ I had been carried off by Thomas More, who had come to pay me a visit on an estate of Mountjoy ’ s ( the house of Lord Mountjoy near Greenwich ) where I was staying, to take a walk by way of diversion as far as the nearest town ( Eltham ).

Eltham was bestowed by Charles II on John Shaw and — in its ruinous condition, reduced to Edward IV's Great Hall, the former buttery, called " Court House ", a bridge across the moat and some walling — remained with Shaw's descendants as late as 1893.

Eltham Palace is listed on English Heritage's list of " most haunted places.

Peter Bottomley was elected as the Conservative MP for Woolwich West on 26 June 1975 with a majority of 2, 382, and held this marginal seat and its successor, Eltham, in Parliament for the next 22 years.

Eltham lies on a high, sandy plateau which gave it a strategic significance.

The latter two were built on Eltham Palace's former hunting parks.

The centre of Eltham is situated on a plateau, high enough to offer unrestricted views across South London.

Eltham Post Office opened on 1 February 1854.

His protégé, architect Robert Marshall, later Mayor of Eltham, went on to develop his own style of mudbrick and environmentally responsible architecture in Victoria, in his Hurstbridge practice which graduated a number of young, notable Australian architects.

Eltham Primary School, located on Dalton Street, was first established in 1856.

The timber trestle railway bridge across the Diamond Creek, just south of the Eltham railway station, is one of the few remaining examples of this type of construction in Melbourne, and the only one still in use on a revenue railway.

Eltham has a local train station, Eltham Station, located on the Hurstbridge Line.

For more information on the history of the town, the Eltham & Districts Historical Society is located on the corner of Bridge and York Street ( in the former Westpac building ).

There are also a handful of 3 / 4 storey blocks of flats ; 1 on Lingfield Crescent, and the others situated at the corner of Rochester Way and Riefield Road, close to the A2 junction and Eltham Cemetery & Crematorium.

Eltham developed around what is now Main Road from the 1840s.

Eltham station is located between Main Road and Youth Road, with station access from Main Road.

The Mangawharawhara Stream runs to the east of the Main Trunk railway line, flows under the central business district via a culvert, and on past Eltham School and the Eltham Golf Club to the south of the town.

It generally follows the creek and railway to Eltham where it joins the Main Yarra Trail ( also called Yarra River Trail ).

* 160 Catford Bridge Station-Sidcup via Brownhill Road and Eltham.

-London Buses route B15 runs between Bexleyheath ( Clock Tower-Shopping Centre ) via Eltham High Street and Horn Park ( Alnwich Road )

On 20 September 2010, Status Quo was honoured with a plaque commemorating their first gig at the Welcome Inn in Well Hall Road, Eltham, where the band first performed in 1967.

* 162 Beckenham to Eltham ( Stops in Bickley Road and Bickley Park Road )

* 314 Eltham to Addington ( Stops in Orchard Road, Sundridge Avenue and Elmstead Lane )

The road now runs through Lee High Road into Eltham Road, which in early days took the A20 through Eltham.

A little over along Eltham Road begins the Sidcup Arterial Road, opened in 1923, and which continues as the Sidcup Bypass, crossing the A222 at Frognal Corner and the A224 at Crittall's Corner.

It incorporated a fire station but the London County Council built a replacement in 1906 in Eltham Road.

* A20 road ( Lee High Road, Eltham Road )

Eltham was allegedly the only town in England with two fully functional police stations ( the other in Well Hall Road ), having been placed there due to the lawlessness associated with that area.

In March 1862, a deputation of Eltham residents approached the Commissioner of Railways and Roads, requesting the government buy the Templestowe Bridge then give it back to the Eltham District Road Board because, while its toll earning capability was not as remunerative as had been hoped, the bridge was a “ great public convenience ”.

The last ‘ bits ’ of the Templestowe Bridge, joining what was Eltham to Finns Reserve at Thompson ’ s Road, Templestowe, finally washed away according to local folklore in the 1960s.

In March 1862, a deputation of Eltham residents approached the Commissioner of Railways and Roads, requesting the government to buy the Templestowe Bridge then give it back to the Eltham District Road Board, as while its toll earning capability was not as “ remunerative ” as had been hoped, the bridge was a “ great public convenience ”.