Deptford
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Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and London Borough of Lewisham. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne. Fro
Deptford High Street, SE8 geograph.org.uk 1498383
St Paul, Deptford High Street, London SE8 geograph.org.uk 2076169
Deptford Victualling Yard Main Gate
Deptford Town Hall from the Northwest
Dire Straits
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Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler, David Knopfler, John Illsley, and Pick Withers. The band was active from 1977 to 1988 and again from 1990 to 1995.
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…born in Deptford is Henry Courtney Selous, who is known for The Opening of The Great Exhibition, painted in 1851. Members of rock groups Squeeze and Dire Straits lived on the Crossfield Estate in Deptford in the late 1970s, along with Mark Perry, founder of the punk fanzine Sniffin Glue and punk rock band…
Dire Straits performing at Drammenshallen in Drammen, Norway, October 1985
PRS for Music heritage plaque commemorating Dire Straits' first performance in Deptford, London
The original Dire Straits line-up in Hamburg, Germany (1978); L to R: John Illsley, Mark Knopfler, Pick Withers, and David Knopfler
Mark Knopfler and Hal Lindes