April 2022 - Brockley SE4

Reweirding: Lost Landscape and Found Lore

Apr

27

2022

A packed Amersham Arms in New Cross last month for the first of a series of 'Reweirding' events there. The theme for March was for 'Reweirding London: Authors on the Secret City', with interesting talks from Caitlin Davies on female crime, Lara Maiklem on mudlarking on the Thames shore and Tom Chivers on 'London Clay: ...

Reweirding: Lost Landscape and Found Lore

Apr

27

2022

A packed Amersham Arms in New Cross last month for the first of a series of 'Reweirding' events there. The theme for March was for 'Reweirding London: Authors on the Secret City', with interesting talks from Caitlin Davies on female crime, Lara Maiklem on mudlarking on the Thames shore and Tom Chivers on 'London Clay: ...

Flowers for Teon Campbell-Pitter in Fordham Park

Apr

26

2022

Flowers in Fordham Park, New Cross, where 16 year old Teon Campbell-Pitter was killed on 13 April 2022Another child killed, more children charged with his killing. Difficult to say anything meaningful, but Peckham-based Power the Fight are doing some good community based work around youth violence.

CONVICTS, CARTOGRAPHERS & CAPTAINS! Mike Guilfoyle will lead a guided walk Sunday 1st May at 2pm

Apr

25

2022

Sunday 1st May at 2pmAs part of National Cemeteries’ Week, sponsored by the National Association of Cemetery FriendsMike Guilfoyle will lead a guided walk starting from the Ladywell gateCONVICTS, CARTOGRAPHERS & CAPTAINS!A GUIDED HISTORY WALK BASED ON RECENT DISCOVERIES OF THE LIVES OF MORE CEMETERY LUMINARIES.The walk will last approximately two hours and end at the ...

South London Swans

Apr

15

2022

Redcross Way SE1The sadly closed White Swan pub in Deptford High StreetHamilton Street, Deptford

Culloden, Thomas Hastie Hay, a public beheading and the last battle to be fought upon British soil

Apr

14

2022

A recent and striking discovery of a familial link to the last battle to be fought on British soil at Culloden moor, which is located close to Inverness, on the 16 April 1746, was uncovered when tracing the ancestral links to a Glasgow born oil company merchant called Thomas Hastie Hay ( d.1891) whose headstone ...

Wildflower & Nature Guided Walk, Sunday 24th April 2:30pm – 4pm

Apr

14

2022

Anti-Refugee Bill opposed at Brockley Cross

Apr

14

2022

Billboard poster at Brockley Cross denounces the Government's plain evil plans to deport refugees to offshore detention camps. Press reports today suggest refugees arriving in the UK could be flown to Rwanda.

Nunhead Museum 2022

Apr

8

2022

It's been a while since the 'Nunhead & District Municipal Museum and Art Gallery' opened its doors to the public, but for one weekend only this idiosyncratic collection can be viewed at 80 Gellatly Road SE14 - part of the Telegraph Hill Festival Open Studios.Previous openings of the Museum in 2010 and 2011

Absalom Dandridge and the Captain Swing Rioter Transported to Van Diemen’s Land

Apr

3

2022

Nestled away in a section of Brockley cemetery sometimes dubbed the ' Mini-Valhalla' for it's grander funeral headstones, is the last resting place of the wonderfully named Victorian, Absalom Dandridge (d.1904) who is buried alongside his wife, Sophia Caroline (d.1906). Absalom who was described in the 1858 Directory of Kent as a 'Marine Store Dealer' ...

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