Ladywell resident Julie Robinson, who worked as a local studies librarian at the Lewisham Local History Centre, has written a fascinating booklet on South London’s…
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Ladywell family link to the designer of famous German Spring Derby course who died in the Holocaust
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, stumbles across a Ladywell link to a Hamburg merchant, entrepreneur and horse breeder who…
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Mike Guilfoyle’s investigative curiousity takes him from Tressillian Crescent to India as he follows the colourful career of the ‘bigamist barber’. The vice-chair of the…
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Well I never-never … how the son of a well-known Lewisham GP became the close friend and theatrical agent of Peter Pan creator JM Barrie – and embezzled his fortune
by TonyCuriosity piqued by the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens, Mike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, goes in search of…
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Mike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, located the headstone of James Smith Hepburn – a solicitor. His son Patrick, also…
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A Dublin pharmacist’s headstone and his family links to the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon and James Joyce
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, was intrigued by a cruciform headstone in Ladywell cemetery. His research uncovers links to…
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How a Tressillian Road resident with a keen interest in Slavic culture helped translate a Slovenian national anthem
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, discovers a how Alfred Lloyd Hardy, a one time resident of Tressillian Road, came…
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St Mary’s Church holds open day with guided history tour and host of activities in therapeutic garden
by TonyThe Church of St Mary the Virgin has been in existence since 918, when the monks from St Peter’s Abbey in Gent, set up the first…
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Ladywell women’s stories from the inspiring and uplifting to the sad victims of violence: local women’s group holds free history walk through cemetery
by TonyLadywell Women have organised a history walk with local historian Julie Robinson on Sunday August 28. Julie, a former Local Studies Librarian with Lewisham Local…
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How Zeppelins and Gotha bombers brought terror to the residents of south-east London
by TonyWatching events in Ukraine unfold on TV has left us all moved, writes Valdez. The killing of civilians in the course of war has been…