Local History

The Ladywell Society ,which has been championing Ladywell since 1984, is showing two films – Memories iof Ladywell Baths and The Wonderful Mr Pink –…

Robert Smith, who founded the Ladywell Society in 1984, has carried out years of research into the Lady Well which gave this neighbourhood its name.…

As part of Brockley Max, the community festival celebrating its 25th year, the Ladywell Society will be hosting a film night on the Playtower at…

Foxborough Gardens residents are celebrating the restoration of two beautiful murals in the entrances of two six-storey housing blocks on the estate. The  murals date…

St Dunstan’s College traces its roots back to the parish of St Dunstan-in-the-East in the City of London, Shea Hollis, archivist at St Dunstan’s College,…

The Lewisham Local History Society holds history talks once a month and on November 27 the society will be hearing about the history of Algernon…

So what could become of the Playtower? Historic sites and local landmarks are being transformed and given new leases of life as these three examples…

The Tabernacle Church has announced plans for the restoration of the facade of the Grade II listed Temperance Billiards Hall it acquired more than 10…

A long forgotten Lewisham Street that disappeared from local maps in the 1950s is about to re-emerge – as Ladywell Park Gardens, the development on…

The old Coroner’s Court and Mortuary on Ladywell Road is one of four council owned sites that Lewisham has decided are surplus non-strategic assets and…