Over 20 women keen to find out about local women’s history joined a special walk in Ladywell & Brockley Cemeteries on Saturday 8 April, writes…
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CommunityLocal History
‘How my holiday in Malta took me back to Ladywell cemetery and the discovery of the burial records of ‘Napoleon’
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, on holiday in Malta which is late father ‘visited’ on a dangerous convoy in…
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Local HistoryLocal NewsNeighbourhoodTop Stories
The oldest shop in Ladywell – can you guess which one it is?
by CereliaIt’s none other than Ladywell Junction Express Dry Cleaners! Set up in 1966 by Arif Salih Enver and now run by his daughter Emine Enver,…
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AssemblyLocal News
Traffic alert: resurfacing work on Ladywell Road and Brockley Grove to start on June 10
by TonyTraffic alert! Ladywell is about to go through another few days of congestion and chaos. Lewisham council is planning to resurface sections of Ladywell Road…
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CommunityLocal History
Neighbourhood notables 7: A war-time diarist, short story writer and a social reformer who saved Hilly Fields from developers
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries and a local historian, reveals the stories of some of the people – the…
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Local HistoryTop Stories
Neighbourhood notables 4 – the royal marine who died on a secret mission with 43 tons of gold, a Welsh composer, and an ethical philosopher
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries and a local historian, reveals the stories of some of the people – the…
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Local History
Neighbourhood notables: head of the flying squad, Ripper victim and Queen’s nurse
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries and a local historian, reveals the stories of some of the people – the…
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Local History
Know your neighbourhood: when the Prince of Wales opened a workhouse in Ladywell
by Tony119 years ago on the 12th July huge crowds lined the streets from New Cross to Ladywell, writes Julian Watson. In Ladywell itself the crowd…
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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…