Mike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, on J B Buckstone – a 19th century actor, playwright and comedian who was…
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Mike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, located the headstone of James Smith Hepburn – a solicitor. His son Patrick, also…
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A Dublin pharmacist’s headstone and his family links to the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon and James Joyce
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, was intrigued by a cruciform headstone in Ladywell cemetery. His research uncovers links to…
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How a Tressillian Road resident with a keen interest in Slavic culture helped translate a Slovenian national anthem
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, discovers a how Alfred Lloyd Hardy, a one time resident of Tressillian Road, came…
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St Mary’s Church holds open day with guided history tour and host of activities in therapeutic garden
by TonyThe Church of St Mary the Virgin has been in existence since 918, when the monks from St Peter’s Abbey in Gent, set up the first…
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How Zeppelins and Gotha bombers brought terror to the residents of south-east London
by TonyWatching events in Ukraine unfold on TV has left us all moved, writes Valdez. The killing of civilians in the course of war has been…
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Operation Mincemeat and a famous coroner’s family links to Brockley and Ladywell
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, cannot help looking for that local connection when he reads a book or watches…
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How a decadent English poet and a Hollywood comic actor were brought together by the late night drinking ‘Bingers’
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, on the life of decadent English poet Ernest Dowson and his admirer, comic actor…
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Grape-picking nuns? Late-night drinking sessions with a bottle of Liebfraumilch? How nostalgia and a wedding celebration sent me on a search for Blue Nun, a 1970s favourite
by TonyBlue Nun, for those too young to remember it, is a sweet white German wine. It was a popular tipple in the 1970s and early…
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Ladywell’s ‘Claude Monet’ who helped gain equal rights for women in Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, is an admirer of impressionist painter Terrick Williams, who he describes as Ladywell’s Claude…