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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Drone’s eye view of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries

Jul

2019

One of the regular attenders of the Friends group Open Days is Bob McGowan and his family and it was following a chat at this years event that Bob asked if the friends group might like to take the opportunity of having a drone survey of the cemeteries undertaken. As Bob's company Helidrone utilises drones ...

The Deptford Poisoner, Amelia Winters, is the subject of the 5th podcast by Mike Guilfoyle

Jul

2019

Known as the Deptford Poisoner, Amelia Winters shocked late Victorian society with a string of brazen murders in order to claim their insurance.The fifth in a series of fascinating stories behind the epitaphs at Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery in South East London. Presented by FOBLC's very own historian Mike Guilfoyle and made by Tempest Productions.

The medals awarded to Gunner Arthur Howard, one of the heroes of Rorke’s Drift, have gone on sale for £50,000

Jul

2019

The medals awarded to Gunner Arthur Howard, one of the heroes of Rorke's Drift who lies buried in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries, have gone on sale for £50,000 according to the Daily MailGunner Arthur Howard's South Africa 1877-79 medal is being sold at auctionIn September 2012 a new headstone for Gunner Howard was unveiled ...

South Meadow Botanical Survey, 2019

Jul

2019

Hilly Fields South Meadow – Species found 13 July 2019 Flowers (39) Achillea millefolium Yarrow Anthriscus sylvestris Cow Parsley Centaurea nigra Common Knapweed Cirsium arvense Creeping Thistle Cirsium vulgare Spear Thistle Convolvulus arvensis Field Bindweed Crepis capillaris Smooth Hawk’s-beard Echinops sphaerocephalus Glandular Globe-thistle Galium aparine Cleavers (Goosegrass) Galium mollugo Hedge Bedstraw Galium x pomeranicum Hybrid ...

Ahmet Altan – our hidden relationships with trees

Jul

2019

From the flyleaf of his book "I Will Never See the World Again": Born in 1950, Ahmet Altan is one of Turkey's most important writers. In the purge following the failed coup in July 2016, Altan was sent to prison pending trail for giving 'subliminal messages' in support of the coup. In February 2018, he was sentenced to life in ...

Police Raid Forest Hill Gay Club (1987)

Jun

2019

From London LGBT paper 'Capital Gay' (2 October 1987), a report of police raiding a gay club in Forest Hill in 1987, prompting the headline: "Clear out of Forest Hill! Police Want Gays Confined to the West End." The target was Frolic at 240 Stanstead Road, SE23 which on Saturday September 19th was raided by '30 ...

Wild Flower Scavenger Hunt

Jun

2019

Our latest scavenger hunt is available from the café. The flowers maybe a little scarcer this week as it isn’t long since the green flag inspection lots of them were mown in favour of ‘amenity’ grass. You can also print here and cut so you have four separate sheets. (right click opens in new window ...

Friends of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries Open Day Sunday 7th July 2019 11.00am – 4.30pm

Jun

2019

Mary Ann Bevan: the Ugliest Woman in the World. The latest instalment of London Epitaphs, a collection of fascinating short podcasts based on the headstones of Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery

Jun

2019

In the 1920s, Mary Ann Bevan was known as the Ugliest Woman in the World but the story of how she came by the title is a tragic one. The third in a new series of true stories based on the gravestones of Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery in South East London. Read and researched by ...

45th Midsummer Fayre

Jun

2019

The 45th Hilly Fields Midsummer Fayre, Saturday 22 June 2019 12 noon to 5pm VOLUNTEER The Brockley Society still need volunteers! As always, the fayre is run entirely by volunteers. They need nearly 120 volunteers on rotas on the day. Many different roles for varied skills and time commitments at: www.brockleysociety.org.uk/hilly-fields-midsummer-fayre/ or express your interest by emailing: volunteer@brockleysociety.org.uk