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Fifteen acres to the south-west (namely that part of the land that had been purchased in 1856) was sold back to [[William John Evelyn]], who resolved to turn it into a public park.<ref name="EB1894">{{cite journal |title=Dockyards |journal=Encyclopaedia Britannica |date=1894 |volume=7 |page=270}}</ref> He planted the area with shrubs and trees taken from his grounds at [[Wotton House, Surrey|Wotton House]], erected a [[bandstand]] in the centre and another building to the side to serve as a museum to his ancestor Sir John.<ref name="Walford1878" /> When he tried to place the park and museum in public ownership, however, he found that there was no appropriately constituted public body to receive the gift (the experience helped inspire his friend and contemporary [[Octavia Hill]] to found the [[National Trust]]).<ref name="SayesCourtTimeline">{{cite web |title=About us - Timeline |url=https://sites.google.com/sayescourt.org.uk/sayes-court/about-us/timeline |website=Sayes Court |access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref> ===Foreign Cattle Market=== {{main|Foreign Cattle Market, Deptford}} [[File:Deptford Cattle Market.jpg|thumb|right|Foreign Cattle Market, 1872: the Central Shed (formerly No. 5 covered slip).]] The rest of the area (amounting to about 30 acres) was bought by a Mr T. P. Austin for £70,000 in March 1869;<ref name="Dews1884">{{cite book |last1=Dews |first1=Nathan |title=The History of Deptford in the Counties of Kent and Surrey |date=1884 |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall & Company |location=London |page=266}}</ref> he then 'almost immediately' re-sold 21 acres to the [[City of London Corporation]] for £91,500 (Austin was discovered to be the brother-in-law of the [[Solicitor to the Admiralty]], and questions were asked in Parliament regarding the propriety of these transactions).<ref>[https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1871-03-27/debates/8850dd44-644e-4a80-849f-581b61568a98/Resolution Hansard, House of Commons, vol. 205, cc681-685, 27 March 1871.]</ref> The site was swiftly converted to become the Corporation of London's Foreign Cattle Market (providing space for the sale and slaughter of imported livestock, in accordance with the terms of the [[Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act]], 1869).<ref name="Walford1878">{{cite book |last1=Walford |first1=Edward |title='Deptford', in Old and New London: Volume 6 |date=1878 |publisher=Cassell, Petter & Galpin |location=London |pages=143–164 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp143-164 |access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref> The old slips and docks were filled in and paved over, and the sheds covering them were joined and fitted up with animal pens,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Horace |title=On the New Metropolitan Markets |journal=Sessional Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects |date=21 January 1878 |page=115}}</ref> enough to accommodate 4,000 cattle and 12,000 sheep (with room, if required, for thousands more animals outside).<ref name="Walford1878" /> Numerous slaughterhouses were set up, filling most of the ground floor area of the Quadrangle Storehouse and adjacent buildings.<ref>[https://twitter.com/UKParlArchives/status/1059400259741323265/photo/1 Plan: Foreign Cattle Market at Deptford (UK Parliament Archives).]</ref> The Market opened for use on 28 December 1871.<ref name="Dews1884" /> A later periodical described how "Deptford Dockyard, dismantled and degraded from its olden service to the Navy, has just been converted into a foreign cattle market and a shambles."<ref name="aq"/> ===Supply Reserve Depot=== The area's use as a Cattle Market continued until 1913, when (rendered obsolete by the advent of [[refrigerated]] transport) the market closed.<ref name="Pevsner 2002">Pevsner, The Buildings of England - London 2: South (Yale University Press, 1983 & 2002).</ref> Not long afterwards, in October 1914, the site was leased by the [[War Department]] to serve as a Supply Reserve Depot (SRD) for the [[Army Service Corps (UK)|Army Service Corps]]: a centralised facility for the storage and distribution of food and provisions for troops mobilised overseas.<ref name="Sutton1998">{{cite book |last1=Sutton |first1=Brigadier John |title=Wait for the Waggon: the Story of the Royal Corps of Transport and its Predecessors 1794-1993 |date=1998 |publisher=Leo Cooper |location=Barnsley, S. Yorks.}}</ref> (It supplemented, and later replaced, a similar facility on the old Woolwich Dockyard site, which no longer had adequate space.)<ref name="Macdonald2014">{{cite book |last1=Macdonald |first1=Janet |title=From Boiled Beef to Chicken Tikka 500 Years of Feeding the British Army |date=2014 |publisher=Pen & Sword Books |location=Barnsley, S. Yorks.}}</ref> During the First World War, however, still more space was needed, and the War Department requisitioned all but 1.5 acres of W. J. Evelyn's public parkland for this purpose.<ref name="SayesCourtTimeline" /> The Depot and Victualling Yard were targets of a [[German strategic bombing during World War I|zeppelin attack]] in 1915. In 1924 the War Office purchased the land, which remained in use as No.1 Supply Reserve Depot. In the mid-1930s Deptford was the Army's only Supply Reserve Depot, but it was judged to be highly vulnerable to air attacks; additional depots were hurriedly built at [[Barry Docks|Barry]] and [[Norton Manor Camp|Taunton]], but Deptford remained in operation and indeed suffered much bomb damage during the Second World War: seven [[V1 Flying Bomb]]s hit the former Dockyard area in June–August 1944, and a [[V2-rocket]] hit, doing further damage, the following March.<ref>{{cite web |title=Deptford SE8 |url=http://www.flyingbombsandrockets.com/V1_summary_se8.html |website=Flying Bombs and Rockets |access-date=8 June 2021}}</ref> After the closure of the Royal Victoria Victualling Yard in 1961, the Navy retained a small parcel of land adjoining the SRD to serve as a Royal Naval Store Depot (RNSD Deptford). Comprising 134,000 sq ft of covered and 75,000 sq ft of open accommodation, the depot handled the sending of naval freight through London's docks and airports and it contained warehouses for naval stores of stationery, furniture and other items, and garages and workshops housing the London area naval [[motor transport]] organisation.<ref>{{cite journal |title=RN Store Depot, Deptford |journal=House of Commons Sessional Papers |date=15 June 1965 |volume=7 |page=248}}</ref> The RNSD continued in operation until 1984 (when it was closed in the wake of the cost-cutting [[1981 Defence White Paper|Defence Review of 1981]]).<ref>{{cite journal |title=Defence Budget |journal=Parliamentary Papers |date=1984 |volume=53 |page=10}}</ref> ===Disposal of the site=== In 1984 the site was sold by the Ministry of Defence to Convoys Ltd (newsprint importers) and so became known as [[Convoys Wharf]];<ref>[https://futurecity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Radical-Deptford-A-Social-History.pdf Radical Deptford: A Place in Constant Motion]</ref> later taken over by [[News International]], it was used for the importing and storing of paper products. 28 years later they vacated the site, which now awaits redevelopment as a residential complex. </textarea><div class="templatesUsed"></div><p id="mw-returnto">Return to <a href="/wiki/Deptford_Dockyard" title="Deptford Dockyard">Deptford Dockyard</a>.</p> <noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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