FROM BLACKHEATH TO THE CLOCK TOWER. 77 
from Blackheath down the slopes to the Ravensbourne at the Mill. 
The houses are of various dates in the latter half of the 19th century. 
Further on, at Lethbridge Road, we reach the site of the Lime 
Kilns in Loats Pit. Here a_ vast quantity of chalk has been cut 
away, making a steep cliff at the rear of Dartmouth Row, on 
Blackheath. It is said that a large amount of the lime required for 
rebuilding London after the great fire, was obtained from this spot. 
A view, engraved by J. Course. about 1750, is given in Plate 12. 
* The ground between the ‘‘ Plough” and Lewisham Bridge was 
an open green with trees thereon, called Plough Green, and a species 
of fair was held thefe on St. Thomas’s Day, 21st December. It 
PLATE 21.—THE ‘‘ PLouGH” INN, ABOUT 1840. 
was enclosed in 1810, and built on, from the ‘‘ Plough” to the 
‘‘Duke of Cambridge,” which later stood back from the road, the 
present house being built on the fore court of its predecessor. 
The ‘‘ Roebuck,” on the opposite side of the road, which 
formerly stocd some yards nearer London than its modern 
representative, was a picturesque wooden house, of which sketches 
are given in Plates 25 and 26. It is an old-established hcuse, 
although the earliest mention in the Parish Registers is in 1740 
‘when ‘‘ Wm. Hart from Mr. Edmonds at the Roebuck was buried 
by y* Yew Tree.” potas “ 
The old house occupied the site of Nos. 40 and 42 High Street, 
Nos. 34 to 38 being built’on the site of the garden or bowling 
