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Airship over Nunhead

May

15

2022

The Goodyear Blimp airship has been in the skies of London and Kent this weekend, here seen over Lausanne Road in Nunhead on Saturday 14th May 2022

Adelaide Clunies-Ross, the Cocos Islands and Joshua Slocum the first person to sail solo around the world

May

8

2022

The Cocos Keeling Islands -' extraordinary rings of land which rise out of the ocean' (Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle), are situated in the Indian Ocean about 700 miles S.W. from Sumatra and 1200 miles from Singapore.'If there is a paradise on this earth, it is the Cocos Islands." Captain Joshua Slocum, 1897. ...

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.

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