Community groups: The Ladywell Society has been a campaigning force in the village for almost 40 years, writes Robert smith, founder and first chair. The…
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How printer turned Sotheby’s clerk George Snowden helped force a record bid for a Gutenberg Bible
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, uncovers the life of George Snowden, a printer turned Sotheby’s clerk who became a…
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Mike Guilfoyle is in a suitably Dickensian mood before Christmas. Here the vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries recalls the short life…
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A prince, a baroness, two wives and a French aristocratic furore made in Ladywell
by TonyLeafing through local archives Mike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, discovered a tangled tale of two French aristocrats who lived in…
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A swashbuckling performer who was murdered by an out of work actor outside the Adelphi Theatre
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, discovers another famous photograph from the George Mitchells studio in Lewisham and it leads him…
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The black inventor from America who once lived in Lewisham and helped brighten up the lives of Londoners
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, on the life of an inventor and draftsman made the light bulb more practical and contributed to…
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From Llanllyfin to Lewisham and a meeting with Lenin, the life of Silyn Roberts, a Welsh quarryman turned poet and presbyterian minister
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, on the life of an accomplished poet and minister at the Welsh Presbyterian Church in…
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The Forest Hill quaker who was educated at Harvard, spied for Russia … but was imprisoned and tortured by Stalin
by TonyFor readers of Cold War espionage novels the truly fascinating story of Lewisham born Noel Field will no doubt hold a grim fascination, writes Mike…
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Hunted by the FBI, Heinrich Hensoldt, the serial bigamist, fraudster, swindler … and one time resident of Ladywell
by TonyOne of the curious pleasures of undertaking historical research , especially research linked to unusual characters with local connections, is stumbling upon someone who seems…
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The Lewisham born barrister and the German dentist turned spy who was executed in the Tower in WW2
by adminMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, tells the story of Josef Jakobs, dentist, counterfeiter, spy and the last person to…