In this final part of his fascinating series on neighbourhood notables, Mike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, tells the stories…
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The spring that fed the stream running along Rushey Green … Victorian gems and Lewisham’s fragile heritage
by TonyThe former Catford Constitutional Club will be brought back into use as part of an ambitious plan for the regeneration of Catford Town Centre. The…
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Neighbourhood Notables 9: the inventor of traffic lights who lived on Wickham Rd and the bishop who spoke to anti-racist marchers on Ladywell Fields
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries and a local historian, reveals the stories of some of the people – the…
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Know your neighbourhood: Maude’s memoir recalls the rickets and deprivation of Ladywell’s Botany Bay
by TonyJulian Watson on Maude Ehrenstein (1894-1989) who spent her early childhood in Embleton Road. Ladywell. Her memoir recounts the deprivation she saw in Lewisham’s ‘Botany…
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Neighbourhood Notables 8: ‘Europe’s most dangerous woman’; architect of the Tabernacle; and the priests who fell vctim to a late V2 attack
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries and a local historian, reveals the stories of some of the people – the…
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Neighbourhood notables 7: A war-time diarist, short story writer and a social reformer who saved Hilly Fields from developers
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries and a local historian, reveals the stories of some of the people – the…
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Neighbourhood notables 6: A leading social reformer, a WW1 fighter ace, a brick maker and the victim of a battleship sinking
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries and a local historian, reveals the stories of some of the people – the…
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Neighbourhood notables 5: A victim of Christie, a World War Two artist, and a chronicler of life and love in wartime London
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries and a local historian, reveals the stories of some of the people – the…
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The Catford murder that led to big changes in the criminal justice system
by TonyOn April 22 1972 Maxwell Confait’s body was found by a fireman at 27 Doggett Road, Catford. A Seychelles born sex worker known locally as…
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How some forward thinking by a Lewisham architect created Ladywell’s curvy block of flats
by TonyStumble down the overgrown steps in the southeast corner of Hilly Fields and you are confronted by the curvy block – a mid-1950s crescent of…