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ambitious plans for a comprehensive redevelopment of the 11-acre site designed to consolidate in a single location facilities for the purchase, production, packing and dispatching of foodstuffs, beverages and other victualling supplies for naval use (while also providing residential and office accommodation for the Victualling Commissioners themselves). At the time, this plan (costed at almost £74,000) was purely aspirational; but it provided a framework for ongoing development. In the 1740s a mill for producing
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The Commissioners took possession the following year; they set about building a large new storehouse (to take items from Tower Hill), re-facing the wharf with bricks and repairing a number of buildings (which had been damaged in a fire a few years beforehand). At the same time, they drew up much more
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The biscuit bakery, staffed by just twelve men, could produce 30,000 ship's biscuits a day (though it only normally operated in the winter months). Around 450 tons per year were being manufactured in Deptford in 1900 (with biscuit-making also undertaken at the other two principal Victualling Yards).
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Certain provisions were purchased locally and then stored on site, including butter, cheese, peas and fish, as well as malt and hops for brewing and flour for baking. (Initially, flour was milled by the Board in a pair of nearby windmills in Deptford and Rotherhithe, but by 1802 these had been sold
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Deptford always provided more than just the staple naval provisions of meat, biscuits, rum and cocoa. In the 20th century a whole variety of stores were kept on site, including drugs and medical supplies, soap, lubricating oil and acid, as well as sizeable stocks of tea, sugar, jam, salt, raisins,
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After the 1870s live animals were no longer brought into the yard for slaughter, though fresh meat did continue to be salted on site. By 1900 it was estimated that 'in a year, something like 2,000,000 lb. of beef and pork will probably pass through the Yard'; the pork was from Ireland and Denmark,
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and the letter 'D' for Deptford. After baking, the biscuits were placed for three days in the upper-floor drying rooms, which were heated to 140 °F (60 °C) using surplus heat from the ovens downstairs. It was claimed that Deptford alone could, if needed, 'turn out sufficient biscuits to
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By the end of the Second World War the yard had become less and less of a storehouse, the functions of its staff being chiefly confined to inspecting and checking the quality.. of victualling stores.. all of which are today supplied by commercial firms. Certain quantities of dry and refrigerated
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It was only, finally, in the 1780s that HM Victualling Yard, Deptford, acquired the layout, scale and complexity of operations that it was to retain for the best part of the next two centuries. A comprehensive rebuilding took place, to designs by James Arrow (Surveyor to the Victualling Office,
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In 1832 the Victualling Board was disestablished and the civilian Agent Victualler was replaced with a serving naval officer, the Captain Superintendent, assisted by a Master Attendant. In 1869, these offices were abolished and the Yard was instead placed under the management of a civilian
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in the vats for around two years before being run into casks ready for despatch. By the end of the nineteenth century the vats at Deptford were 32 in number, providing a total capacity of 230,000 gallons. The other main beverage provided to sailors at this time was
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were installed at various points, in case of fires, and attachments on the wharf-side cranes allowed water to be delivered directly to ships moored alongside. A steam-driven flour mill was introduced in the 1820s and biscuit making was semi-mechanised in the 1830s.
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in 1869, the Victualling Yard expanded southwards into the old Dockyard precincts (the boundary wall separating the two Yards had already been removed, in 1852). More store houses were built on the site, and the Dockyard's former mast pond provided additional
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1774–1785). Behind a row of riverside storehouses, the yard's various activities were accommodated in a variety of purpose-built manufacturing areas and specialised storage buildings, arranged around a central open space. To the south was the
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on the river which were laden with dry stores ('biscuits, pease, &c.'). In 1755 the King's Mill was destroyed, likewise the New Storehouse in 1758; and 1761 the old Red House (which had been rebuilt in 1640) was once again burned down.
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was located in the yard, housed within a small wooden hut erected for the purpose on the lawn at the centre of the site. Its Superintendent was housed in the Terrace. Responsible for testing and ensuring the individual accuracy of every
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Grain was bought on the open market, and stored on site in a three-storey granary before being transferred to the steam-powered flour mill. In the course of manufacture, each hexagonal biscuit was stamped with the Government's
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Fire remained a serious threat in this period. In 1748 the new Victualling Office burned down (the fire started when a spark set light to some sacks hung up to dry by a hearth; it subsequently spread to 'a great number' of
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provisions continued however to be held in stock, together with materials and uniform clothing, flying clothing and special cold-weather kit. At the final closure these were transferred to.. Portsmouth and Plymouth.
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In the early 20th century, if a Royal Navy ship required provisions her officers would order them directly from the nearest appropriate Victualling Yard. From Deptford, supplies were routinely conveyed downriver in
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Foodstuffs and other items continued to be stored in barrels: 30,000 a year were being manufactured at Deptford's cooperage in the early 20th century. By the 1870s, machinery for cask-making had been installed by
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in 1743 to serve as their main operational facility. Rebuilt in the late 18th century, it soon became 'the largest food-processing operation in Britain, if not in Europe'. After 1858 it was formally known as the
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In 1785 the Victualling Board closed the Tower Hill depot and Deptford became its centre of operations (though the commissioners themselves did not move to Deptford, instead transferring their office to
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the beef 'almost entirely from America'. Inside 'huge meat stores', the meat was salted in 100 lb (45 kg) barrels, to which a small amount of brine was added day by day, after which they were
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Deptford remained the largest of the home victualling establishments through the 19th century. The establishment was renamed the Royal Victoria Victualling Yard in 1858, following a visit by
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Deptford's proximity to the food markets of London made it especially convenient for victualling, and it served the requirements not only of its own neighbouring Dockyard but also those of
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had been installed in the brewhouse; it was used both to grind the malt and to pump beer from the vats. Furthermore, a complex network of pipes carried water from the
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Deptford's integrated approach to manufacture and storage provided a model for the new purpose-built victualling yards established by the Navy in the 1820s: the
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These officers related directly to their counterparts on the Victualling Board, leading to a lack of co-ordination and accountability in the yard.
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In response to this difficulty, a Board of Revision recommended in 1809 that the number of Principal Officers at Deptford be reduced to three:
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split peas and preserved milk (each kept in their own dedicated storehouse). Oatmeal, pepper and mustard continued to be milled on site.
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Brewing ceased in the yard after the beer ration was discontinued in the 1830s; the old brewhouse instead became a clothing store.
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Agent Victualler (having overall responsibility for the yard's operation, for negotiating contracts and distribution of victuals)
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was built, a cooperage was established for repairing damaged casks, and a perimeter wall was built. In 1747, the Commissioners'
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The senior personnel of the yard varied over time. Up to 1809, the Principal Officers of the yard were listed as follows:
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Early photograph of the Cooperage entrance, which faced the river gate across the yard at the end of a long avenue.
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estate. In the hands of private contractors, it continued to be used for naval victualling for the next 70 years.
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The Royal Victoria Victualling Yard closed in June 1961. Some staff (and stores) were relocated to the adjacent
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in a complex of offices, residences, storehouses and manufactories which had been established in the reign of
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had been available to the Navy since 1813, but for a long time its use was restricted for reasons of cost.
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into various parts of the yard, including the brewhouse, the bakehouse, the pickle-yard and the cooperage.
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activity on the site for the best part of 300 years from the mid-17th century through to the early 1960s.
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then became the main alcoholic provision of the Royal Navy and Deptford managed its supply. Rum from the
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was destroyed in a fire, and the decision was taken to build a new and larger one on site at Deptford.
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One characteristic that distinguished Deptford from the Board's other manufacturing facilities (in
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feed the whole Navy'; enough raw material for 11,000,000 biscuits was kept in stock in the Yard.
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New Clothing Store (left) and entrance to the Wet Dock (formerly the Mast Pond of the Dockyard).
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Pevsner, The Buildings of England - London 2: South (Yale University Press, 1983 & 2002).
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had wanted £10,000 for the sale), so instead it was leased to the Commissioners for £500
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The Colonnade (just inside the main gate: housed the Porter and the Inspector of Works).
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By 1813 the Victualling Yard at Deptford covered nearly 20 acres. A 10-horsepower
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The river gate at the top of 'Drake's Steps', a long-established landing place on
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meat was provided (and biscuit rather than bread). Use was made of by-products:
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View through the main gate towards the tree-lined central area of the yard.
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Elevated view of the main gate with the former livestock area beyond it.
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in naval service, it remained based in the yard for almost 50 years.
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Offices (left), Superintendent's house and North Storehouse (right).
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The Terrace (built to house the other senior officers of the yard).
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Livestock arrived either by boat or else on the hoof, usually from
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which had been stacked nearby, and went on to set fire to two
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New Stationery Store (left) and New Clothing Store (right).
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Photographs of the river frontage, 1937 (south to north):
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Nelson's Navy: the Ships, Men and Organisation, 1793-1815
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a private contractor, Sir Denis Gauden, was licensed as
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providing beer for the fleet, and towards the centre a
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Former stable block behind the Superintendent's house.
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In the late-18th and early-19th centuries, during the
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North Storehouse (left) and 'Old Storehouse' (right).
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was purchased at a strength of 'forty degrees above
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Royal Navy
Victualling Yard
Deptford Royal Dockyard
River Thames
victualling
Victualling Commissioners
Woolwich
Sheerness
Chatham
Nore
anchorages

Deptford Strand
Navy Board
Tower Hill
Elizabeth I
Commonwealth
Deptford
Restoration
Surveyor of Marine Victuals
Tower Hill
Royal Dockyard
Sayes Court
Victualling Commissioners
the Admiralty
Sir John Evelyn
oatmeal
bakehouse
Rotherhithe

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