Local History

RUSS, the commuity land trust that developed 36 flats at the Church Grove site, is aiming to raise £8,000 so that it can submit “a…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Mike Guilfoyle, a local historian, writer, podcaster, longtime supporter of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries and inveterate taphophile was an enthusiastic and prolific…

Mike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, on the life of a Bengal Lancer who died aged 29 after playing…

Located aside the outer pathway in Ladywell cemetery, nestled between two larger headstones lies the cruciform edifice of Ida Melos final resting place, inscribed with…

Mike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, finds a Ladywell connection to a Scottish-Georgian professor who had a class theory…