Lewisham council has finally launched its search for a new partner to restore and “secure the future” of the Grade II listed Playtower after Guildmore’s…
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Foxborough Gardens residents celebrate the restoration of two William Mitchell murals, important examples of local authority art
by TonyFoxborough 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…
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Algernon Road – a guide to its history and changing character
by TonyThe Lewisham Local History Society holds history talks once a month and on November 27 the society will be hearing about the history of Algernon…
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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…
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Grade II listed Coroner’s Court and Mortuary in Ladywell set to be sold for residential and workspace development
by TonyThe 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…
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Mike Guilfoyle 1955-2023 – the engaging conversationalist with a deep knowledge of military history and criminal justice
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, a local historian, writer, podcaster, longtime supporter of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries and inveterate taphophile was an enthusiastic and prolific…
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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…
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Ladywell’s link to the stormy politics of 1840s Germany – Ida Melos, favourite of Goethe and the wife of poet Ferdinand Freiligrath, a long time friend of Karl Marx
by TonyLocated aside the outer pathway in Ladywell cemetery, nestled between two larger headstones lies the cruciform edifice of Ida Melos final resting place, inscribed with…
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Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr, Stalin’s favourite linguist and his link with Ladywell
by TonyMike 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…
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Portrait of an artist … the son of a samurai who lived in Lewisham, studied at Goldsmith’s and enjoyed Bohemian London
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, stumbles upon a painting by a prolific Japanese artist who lived in Lewisham…