Welcome to Gently – a gift shop, card shop, kids’ shop, bookshop as well as beauty and homeware! It’s opening on Saturday June 8 on…
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AssemblyLocal NewsTop Stories
There’s a housing crisis … but these two flats have been left empty for 20 years
by TonyIn 2011, the Ladywell Village Improvement Group ran a determined campaign to have the empty flats above the Coral betting shop on 228-230 Algernon Road…
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Local NewsNeighbourhood
Farewell foamy hand car wash and wax … hello to flats, shops … and maybe a gym
by TonySo is it farewell Ladywell car wash? Is that quick foamy wash, wax and dry with a wheel polish all for £12 about to go…
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Lewisham aims to increase cost of parking permits for high emission vehicles
by TonyLewisham Council is proposing to increase resident and business parking permit charges for vehicles with higher CO2 emissions and introduce an additional surcharge on the…
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Children of Lewisham – it’s time to reclaim the streets. Playing in urban areas is being threatened by encroaching development and the dominance of traffic.…
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CommunityLocal NewsTop Stories
Founded in 1906 and still flourishing in Hilly Fields – Francis Drake lawn bowls
by TonyLawn bowls has been played in England since at least 1299. It attracted players from all ranks of society from Tudor kings and queens to…
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Local NewsNeighbourhood
That’s it – Honeybourne’s says goodbye as gift shop is sold to local buyers
by TonyLadywell high street’s Honeybourne’s has been sold – but the good news is that it is set to remain as a gift shop. The new…
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AssemblyLocal NewsTop Stories
Mayor Damien Egan on tackling pollution, setting up People Panels and his hopes for the Play Tower
by TonyLewisham Mayor Damien Egan has talked to Ladywell Live about the environment; healthy neighbourhoods; recycling; social housing; knife crime, assembly funds and speeding. In response…
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CommunityLocal HistoryLocal News
Know your neighbourhood: Ladywell from rural hamlet to Victorian London suburb
by TonyLadywell developed as a wayside hamlet in the lane from Lewisham High Street to Brockley, a lane anciently called Vicarage Lane, later Brockley lane and…