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Julian Watson on Maude Ehrenstein (1894-1989) who spent her early childhood in Embleton Road. Ladywell. Her memoir recounts the deprivation she saw in Lewisham’s ‘Botany…

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Wanted! Old photos, letters, newspaper cuttings and your memories … an appeal from Ladywell Society’s Robert Smith to all local residents

Deptford nurse Sophie Hilling – the ‘rose of no man’s land’ who died fighting the 1918 flu pandemic

Neighbourhood notables 10: A boxer, the author of Beau Geste, a link to Jack the Ripper, and a “grave crime” in 1894

So what did you do in the great lockdown? Work from home, volunteer, do the garden … here’s what some of my neighbours are doing to keep busy

How to stay busy in the lockdown: Lewisham Chess to organise virtual tournaments

Lewisham communities come together to support the old and vulnerable as Coronavirus crisis deepens

The spring that fed the stream running along Rushey Green … Victorian gems and Lewisham’s fragile heritage

Neighbourhood Notables 9: the inventor of traffic lights who lived on Wickham Rd and the bishop who spoke to anti-racist marchers on Ladywell Fields

Know your neighbourhood: Maude’s memoir recalls the rickets and deprivation of Ladywell’s Botany Bay

Broad range of projects possible as Ladywell assembly agrees priorities for £49k NCIL funding