In 1853 the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway began installing a railway telegraph system along its line from London Bridge through Forest Hill. This involved erecting an electriccable on poles alongside the line, connecting the signal boxes. Also in 1853 a plot of land at the edge of a very large field was leased by the Earl of Dartmouth, Lord of the Manor of Lewisham and owner of the field, to Harry and Vincent Nicholls, two brothers with a brewery at Lee. They built a pub on the site and called it the Railway Telegraph, apparently a very early example of a pub tied to a particular brewery.
112 Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, Greater London, SE23 1PS
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http://www.railwaytelegraph.co.uk/
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