Mike 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…
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Mike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, follows a trail that takes him from a William Hillyard Baglehole buried in Ladywell…
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Life at a first school in Victorian Ladywell – learning the virtues of ‘unthinking obedience’ for one shilling a week per child
by TonyLocal historian Julian Watson rediscovered a much amended and incomplete photocopy of Maude Ehrenstein’s memoir of her childhood in Ladywell. This memoir was a contribution…
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Mike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, delves into the case of William Dean Dowell who was accused of shooting a…
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Reginald Bray, the ‘human letter’ and postal prankster who amassed the world’s largest collection of autographs
by TonyW Reginald Bray had a passion for testing the limits of the postal delivery services – and collecting autographs. Mike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends…