Mike 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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CommunityLocal History
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…
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Neighbourhood notables 2: England’s shortest cricketer; aviation pioneer; and a German preacher
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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On Sunday May 12th local historian Mike Guilfoyle of Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries led a guided walk round the cemetary. In two hours…