Black Lives Matter in South London, one year on

'ACAB' 'Floyd' - Albert Embankment SE1, April 2021A year ago today the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis sparked off the latest round of the global Black Lives Matter movement. The UK movement really started off with a march in Peckham on the 30th May and today Black Lives Matter activist ...

Brockley Max 2021 – join us for our guided tour Saturday 5th June 2.30pm – 4.30pm

Join us for our guided tour  on SATURDAY 5th JUNE  2.30pm – 4.30pm, meet at the Ladywell Road gate.  This walk is part of the amazing Brockley Max 2021  Discover the many facets of the two Cemeteries: the famous, not so famous and infamous people as well as the abundant natural world of trees, plants, butterflies and ...

Lewisham Museums of Migration and Neoliberalism

With museums and galleries reopening let's celebrate two small but perfectly formed and radical museums in the borough of Lewisham, with a few photos from pre-lockdown period.The Migration MuseumThe Migration Museum in Lewisham Shopping Centre reopens on 19th May 2021. I visited in that brief inter-lockdown window in Summer 2020 and saw The Singh Twins great ...

The link between Napoleon and Captain James McTernan, buried in Brockley Cemetery

On the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte's death in exile on St Helena, FoBLC vice-chair Mike Guilfoyle explores his link to Royal Naval surgeon Captain James McTernan, buried in Brockley Cemetery South London Press (p31, May 14th 2021 edition) Captain James McTiernan is not the only person with a link to Napoleon buried in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries.  We ...

Wild Flower Hunt

Nature and our mental healthhttps://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week?fbclid=IwAR16cGn5KzWXqapwBj0zXXbZMYeUCbfhakLiqfPqovcHoitgnig_8M9V5Ng I “Nature is so central to our psychological and emotional health, that it’s almost impossible to realise good mental health for all without a greater connection to the natural world”.  Perhaps on your healthy walk you’d like to try out our plant hunt. It was prepared in a year when ...

Music Monday: Elephants and Castles – Song for the Birds

We've featured some of  Elephants and Castles' South London-tinged songs here before, including Concrete Love (filmed in the now vanished Elephant and Castle subways) and The  World's Greatest Complainers, filmed in Jenny's cafe in Deptford.Their latest single, Song for the Birds, was inspired by hearing birdsong down Deptford High Street during lockdown  'so we wrote ...

Captain Sergei Ulyanin inventor of the original drone

The Russian aviator, inventor of a 19th Century 'drone' who turned them into vital reconnaissance during the First World War, is one of the more important and unusual people buried in the Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries.   We have previously featured Captain Sergei Ulyanin on this website and he is now the subject of a feature ...

Blue bells in flower on the lane

Following extensive work clearing the encroaching brambles we are being rewarded with the view of the bluebells. The existing seed bank is also getting a chance to flower along with the more recently added primroses. We are hoping to see invertebrates thrive along with foraging birds. Listen out for the black cap, they nest locally ...