Removals Deptford

Henry VIII founded a royal dockyard at Deptford in 1513, and for the next four hundred years it was one of the Navy's main shipbuilding yards, launching warships and trading vessels until it closed in 1869. The site — later known as Convoys Wharf — also covers the grounds of Sayes Court, once the home of the 17th-century diarist and gardener John Evelyn. That dockyard site is now being redeveloped into thousands of new homes and public riverside space, on top of the new-build flats that have already gone up across Deptford over the past decade.

That history is directly relevant to a move here: Deptford now genuinely mixes three different kinds of property — the older terraced streets around Deptford High Street and its long-running market, ex-council blocks from the mid-20th century, and new managed-entrance developments from the current wave of building. Each has a different access pattern, from street-level Victorian doors to lift-served new-builds with visitor parking permits or booked loading bays.

Deptford station (mainline and DLR nearby) sits close to the High Street, and with the Convoys Wharf site still years from completion, road layouts and access around the riverside continue to change as building work progresses.