March 2022 - Brockley SE4

Dawn Chorus Walk

Mar

28

2022

We will be holding our first dawn chorus walk since 2019 on Thursday 31 March. Meet outside the cafe at 6 am. If you have binoculars, please bring them. We’ll do a circuit of Hilly Fields and and identify common bird songs and calls such as those of the blackbird, robin and wren, as well ...

Thomas Blackstone Churcher and the Murder of Hariett Monckton

Mar

19

2022

One of the undiluted pleasures of inquisitive cemetery research is lighting upon a serendipitous burial find with a compelling historic backstory in an area of the cemetery, this time close to the Ladywell chapel, I thought I had already fully explored!Foblc Vice-Chair Mike Guilfoyle aside the Churcher family headstone in Ladywell cemetery.Such was the moment ...

Thomas Blackstone Churcher and the Murder of Hariett Monckton

Mar

19

2022

One of the undiluted pleasures of inquisitive cemetery research is lighting upon a serendipitous burial find with a compelling historic backstory in an area of the cemetery, this time close to the Ladywell chapel, I thought I had already fully explored!Foblc Vice-Chair Mike Guilfoyle aside the Churcher family headstone in Ladywell cemetery.Such was the moment ...

Ukraine crisis on the walls of London

Mar

6

2022

Like most people watching terrible events continuing to unfold in Ukraine, I feel a sense of powerlessness. I have no armchair hot takes or new geopolitical analyses, other than to express solidarity with people in Ukraine subject to brutal invasion and with those opposing the war in Russia itself (as well as sympathy for those ...

Lieutenant Gilbert Price, a pivotal figure in the Anglo-Irish War of Independence Talbot Street gunfight, is remembered in the latest podcast by Mike Guilfoyle

Mar

4

2022

This bonus podcast by Mike Guilfoyle tells the forgotten story of Lieutenant Gilbert Price and his pivotal role in one of the most memorable and bloody events of the Anglo-Irish War of Independence - the dramatic Talbot Street gunfight and the killing of Republican leader Seán Treacy. You can stream this on the Tempest website https://www.tempestproductions.net/podcasts/episode/91435d12/london-epitaphs-12-lieutenant-gilbert-price or on Soundcloud ...

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Dawn Chorus Walk

Thomas Blackstone Churcher and the Murder of Hariett Monckton

Thomas Blackstone Churcher and the Murder of Hariett Monckton

Ukraine crisis on the walls of London

Lieutenant Gilbert Price, a pivotal figure in the Anglo-Irish War of Independence Talbot Street gunfight, is remembered in the latest podcast by Mike Guilfoyle