Editing Deptford (section)

=== 20th century ===
The yard was taken over by the [[War Office]] in 1914,<ref name="times-1926">''Sale of Deptford Market. Government to Pay £387,000.'' The Times, 13 March 1926, p.12, col F</ref><ref name="times-1924">''Future of Deptford Market. War Office decision to buy.'' The Times, 6 February 1924, p12, col B</ref> and was an Army Supply Reserve Depot in the [[World War I|First]] and [[World War II|Second World Wars]].<ref name="sh">Greenwich Industrial History [http://greenwichindustrialhistory.blogspot.com/2010/01/royal-dockyard-deptford_06.html Proposal to list the remains of the Royal Dockyard at Deptford] 6 January 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm PRO] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105104154/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm |date=5 January 2010 }} Works 43/614-6</ref> The site lay unused until being purchased by Convoys (newsprint importers) in 1984, and eventually came into the ownership of [[News UK|News International]].<ref name="lf">[http://www.london-footprints.co.uk/wkdeptmillwalladd.htm london-footprints.co.uk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720064552/http://www.london-footprints.co.uk/wkdeptmillwalladd.htm |date=20 July 2008 }} Deptford Dockyard</ref><ref name="rr">[http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/render.aspx?siteID=1&navIDs=1,4,22,132 Convoys Wharf London] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003221105/http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/render.aspx?siteID=1&navIDs=1,4,22,132 |date=3 October 2009 }}, Richard Rogers Partnership, 2002</ref> In the mid-1990s, although significant investment was made on the site, it became uneconomic to continue using it as a freight wharf.<ref>[http://www.london.gov.uk/archive/mayor/planning/docs/safeguarded_wharves_05.pdf Safeguarded Wharves on the River Thames - London Plan Implementation Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604095332/http://www.london.gov.uk/archive/mayor/planning/docs/safeguarded_wharves_05.pdf |date=4 June 2011 }}, Mayor of London, January 2005, pp 60-63</ref> In 2008 Hutchison Whampoa bought the 16[[Hectare|ha]] site from News International with plans for a £700m 3,500-home development scheme.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=29&storycode=3152565&c=1 |title=Mothballed £700m Deptford housing scheme on track |publisher= Building |date=6 November 2009 |access-date=5 July 2010}}</ref> The [[Grade II listed]] Olympia Warehouse will be refurbished as part of the redevelopment of the site.<ref name="rr"/>

Deptford experienced economic decline in the 20th century with the closing of the docks, and the damage caused by the bombing during [[the Blitz]] in the [[Second World War]] – a [[V-2 rocket]] destroyed a [[Woolworths (United Kingdom)|Woolworths]] store in New Cross Gate, killing 160 people.<ref>{{Cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=W9TODKJGzjwC&pg=PA170 |title=Easier Fatherland: Germany and the Twenty-First Century |isbn=978-0-8264-6320-3|year=2004 |author=Steve Crawshaw |page=170 |publisher=A&C Black }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.flyingbombsandrockets.com/V2_maintextb.html |title=Flying Bombs & Rockets |access-date=15 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214000651/http://www.flyingbombsandrockets.com/V2_maintextb.html |archive-date=14 December 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> High unemployment caused some of the population to move away as the riverside industries closed down in the late 1960s and early 1970s.<ref name=TownTalk>{{cite web |url= http://www.deptford.towntalk.co.uk/about/ |title=About | work = Deptford Town Centre |publisher= Towntalk |access-date=14 January 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130101074054/http://www.deptford.towntalk.co.uk/about/ |archive-date=1 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>