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    Ladywell Women celebrate local women’s histories

    by Tony April 10, 2023
    April 10, 2023

    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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    ‘How my holiday in Malta took me back to Ladywell cemetery and the discovery of the burial records of ‘Napoleon’

    by Tony September 14, 2021
    September 14, 2021

    Mike 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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    The oldest shop in Ladywell – can you guess which one it is?

    by Cerelia November 27, 2020
    November 27, 2020

    It’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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    Traffic alert: resurfacing work on Ladywell Road and Brockley Grove to start on June 10

    by Tony May 26, 2020
    May 26, 2020

    Traffic 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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    Neighbourhood notables 7: A war-time diarist, short story writer and a social reformer who saved Hilly Fields from developers

    by Tony January 17, 2020
    January 17, 2020

    Mike 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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    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 Tony October 1, 2019
    October 1, 2019

    Mike 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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    Neighbourhood notables: head of the flying squad, Ripper victim and Queen’s nurse

    by Tony July 16, 2019
    July 16, 2019

    Mike 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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    Know your neighbourhood: when the Prince of Wales opened a workhouse in Ladywell

    by Tony July 13, 2019
    July 13, 2019

    119 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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    Open day at the Brockley and Ladywell cemeteries: a bit of history with tea and biscuits

    by Tony July 8, 2019
    July 8, 2019
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    Know your neighbourhood: Ladywell from rural hamlet to Victorian London suburb

    by Tony May 12, 2019
    May 12, 2019

    Ladywell developed as a wayside hamlet in the lane from Lewisham High Street to Brockley, a lane anciently called Vicarage Lane, later Brockley lane and…

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