Editing Deptford (section)

==Demography==
[[File:Deptford slum.jpg|thumb|right|A cobbled street near the docks, around 1900]]

Deptford's population has been mainly associated with the docks since the establishment of the Royal Docks by Henry VIII, though there has also been some market gardening and potteries.<ref>''Demographic, social and economic indices for wards in Greater London'', Eric J. Thompson, Greater London Council (1972), ASIN B0006D80AS</ref> When the docks were thriving as the main administrative centre of the British Navy, so the area prospered, and fine houses were built for the administrative staff and the skilled shipbuilders, and a few grand houses like [[Sayes Court]] and [[Stone House, Deptford|Stone House]] on Lewisham Way were erected.<ref>
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There was a start of a demographic shift downwards when the Royal Navy pulled out of Deptford, and the docks moved into storage and freight.<ref>''Demographic review of Greater London 1983'', Greater London Council (1983), {{ISBN|0-7168-1348-3}}</ref> The downward shift continued into the 20th century as the local population's dependency on the docks continued: as the docks themselves declined, so did the economic fortune of the inhabitants until the last dock, [[Convoys Wharf]], closed in 2000.<ref>[http://emancipationofthedispossessed.com/pdfs/part2.pdf INFORMATION SHEET Deptford and the dockyards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710185032/http://emancipationofthedispossessed.com/pdfs/part2.pdf |date=10 July 2011 }} The Emancipation of the Dispossessed</ref>

In common with neighbouring areas of South East London, immigrants from the Caribbean settled in Deptford in the 1950s and 1960s.<ref>UCL Case Study - Deptford https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanbuzz/downloads/projects_09/Deptford_Case_Study.pdf</ref>

Deptford's northern section nearest the old docks contains areas of council housing, with some concentrations of people experiencing the forms of deprivation typically associated with the poverty of Inner London. Northern Deptford near the Thames, along with neighbouring [[New Cross]], has been touted as "the new [[Shoreditch]]" by some journalists and estate agents paying attention to a trendy arts and music scene that is popular with students and artists.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-to-rent/browse/all/uk/england/london/south-east-london/deptford/ |title=PrimeLocation.co.uk |publisher=PrimeLocation.co.uk |access-date=5 July 2010}} Shoreditch is a former working class area of East London that has a number of contemporary art galleries and is home to a number of creative and media companies</ref> To the south where Deptford rolls into the suburban spread of [[Brockley]], the previously multi-occupancy Victorian houses are being gentrified by young city workers and urban professionals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/guide/seat-profiles/lewishamdeptford |title=Lewisham Deptford |publisher=ukpollingreport.co.uk |access-date=5 July 2010 |archive-date=21 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421061309/http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/guide/seat-profiles/lewishamdeptford |url-status=dead }}</ref> Deptford has a growing Vietnamese community reflected in the number of restaurants in the area.

Deptford contains a number of student populations, including those of [[Goldsmiths College]], the [[University of Greenwich]], [[Bellerbys College]] and [[Laban Dance Centre]]. Goldsmiths College's hall of residence, Rachel McMillan, in Creek Road was sold in 2001 for £79 million,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111124032008/http://residential-investment.savills.co.uk/case-studies/rachel-mcmillan-greenwich.pdf Rachel McMillan, Greenwich, Opal] savills.com</ref> and was subsequently demolished and replaced with the McMillan Student Village which opened in 2003 and provides accommodation for approximately 970 students of the University of Greenwich, Trinity Laban and Bellerbys colleges.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gre.ac.uk/about/accommodation/halls/greenwich/mcmillan_student_village |title=McMillan Student Village |work=Accommodation - University of Greenwich |publisher=gre.ac.uk |access-date=29 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822024553/http://www.gre.ac.uk/about/accommodation/halls/greenwich/mcmillan_student_village |archive-date=22 August 2009}}</ref>