The Friends of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries are holding their 15th anniversary open day on Sunday July 10 from 11.00am until 4.30pm. There will be…
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How a decadent English poet and a Hollywood comic actor were brought together by the late night drinking ‘Bingers’
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, on the life of decadent English poet Ernest Dowson and his admirer, comic actor…
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Grape-picking nuns? Late-night drinking sessions with a bottle of Liebfraumilch? How nostalgia and a wedding celebration sent me on a search for Blue Nun, a 1970s favourite
by TonyBlue Nun, for those too young to remember it, is a sweet white German wine. It was a popular tipple in the 1970s and early…
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Ladywell’s ‘Claude Monet’ who helped gain equal rights for women in Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, is an admirer of impressionist painter Terrick Williams, who he describes as Ladywell’s Claude…
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Alfred Graham & Co, once the biggest employer in the area, made the loudspeaker phones on the Titanic which sank 110 years ago
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, discovers that Ladywell Heights was the site of Alfred Graham & Co’s St Andrew’s…
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Victor Hugo’s friendship with a Guernsey archeological dynasty and a Ladywell link to the author of Les Miserables
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, traces a Guernsey archeological dynasty’s link to Victor Hugo, author of Les Miserables, and…
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Ladywell’s Winter Olympic connection: Audrey the aviator and alpine skiing champion
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, delves into his Rolodex and tracks down Audrey Florice Durell Drummond Sale-Barker and a…
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A Ladywell inventor of fire alarm systems who worked alongside Alexander Graham Bell deserves more recognition
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, believes Alfred Charles Brown should be better known for his pioneering work on London’s…
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Benedict Cumberbatch, an eccentric artist of cute cats, and Amazon’s latest film … surely there’s a Ladywell link here …
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, is surprised to discover that one of his favourite actors, Benedict Cumberbatch, has taken…
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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 TonyMike 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…