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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...

Lance Corporal Debenham, killed in action 100 years ago at the Battle of Loos

Sep

2015

On the pathway adjacent to Ivy Road in Ladywell cemetery, mournfully cradled by wreaths of ivy, lies the family grave of Lance Corporal Frederick Ernest Debenham -1894-1915 (1/20th London Regiment) killed on the first day of one of the most intense and bloody battles fought by the British Army in 1915 namely the Battle of Loos ...

Welcome To Hell: The battle for Lone Pine

Aug

2015

PRIVATE HAROLD GREENAWAY AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY KILLED IN ACTION7th AUGUST 1915 GALLIPOLIOn the pathway heading away from the Ladywell Chapel just before the wall of remembrance (Heroes Corner) lies the family grave of Private Harold John Greenaway who was killed in action on Saturday 7th August during the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of 1915. Born in Catford in 1893, Harold ...

FOBLC OPEN DAY SUNDAY 12th JULY

Jun

2015

Jeff Hart leads a walk on the 2014 FOBLC Open DayPlease join us for our 8th anniversary Open Day on Sunday 12th July, from 11am to 4:30pm. There will be FREE guided walks of the Cemeteries visiting the graves of sportsmen, poets, war veterans and local figures as well as flora and bird life. In ...

Elizabeth Watkins, Waterloo veteran

Jun

2015

With the 200th anniversary of Waterloo it is time to celebrate the incredible life of Elizabeth Watkins, the last survivor of the battle who died aged 94 and is buried in the Brockley & Ladywell cemeteries.Elizabeth Watkins, photo taken 1904, 89 after the Battle of WaterlooElizabeth was only 5 years old when she accompanied her ...

‘WILFUL MURDER’ : THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA – MAY 7th 1915

May

2015

'The departure of the Lusitania on her last fateful voyage, New York, New York, May 1915. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images) Photo: Library of CongressIt was with a considerable frisson of excitement that I chanced, when looking at unrelated family headstones, upon the overgrown lettering at the foot of a family grave in Brockley cemetery (close to the former Catholic ...

Spring Flowers Walk Saturday 18th April

Mar

2015

Lesser Celandines in Brockley and Ladywell CemeteriesMany thanks to the large crowd who joined us for the Spring Flowers walk around the cemeteries on Saturday 18 April at 2.00 pm, making it one of our most succesful events. Ably led by Tom Moulton and Pete Robinson this tour looked at some the flowers in bloom ...

NUNHEAD CEMETERY 2015 OPEN DAY

Mar

2015

Historic and Beautiful Victorian NUNHEAD CEMETERY OPEN DAYSATURDAY►16 MAY 2015◄ 11.00 am ~ 5.00 pm WOODCRAFTING DEMONSTRATIONSHISTORY, ECOLOGY & LOCAL GROUPS STALLS PLANTS FOR SALE; BIRDS OF PREYTOURS OF CEMETERY & CRYPT HOMEMADE REFRESHMENTSCHOIRS IN THE CHAPEL; CHILDREN’S BUG HUNTEXHIBITION IN THE MAUSOLEUM & MORE (All subject to availability)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NUNHEAD CEMETERY, LINDEN GROVE, LONDON SE15 P12 bus and Nunhead Railway StationOrganised by the Friends ...

DEATH UNDER THE WAVES – GUIDED WALK SUNDAY 15TH FEBRUARY 2PM – 3.30PM

Feb

2015

sinking of RMS LusitaniaThis free guided walk will be co-led by FOBLC members Mike Guilfoyle and Peter Mealings and cover visits to family graves in the cemeteries associated with famous civilian and military maritime disasters , including the recently located headstone to victims of the sinking of RMS Lusitania as well as the Princess Alice, SS Yongala, HMS Black ...

A Day of Surprises: Henry Williamson’s account of the Christmas Truce

Nov

2014

The Christmas Truce portrayed rather romantically by the Illustrated London News in January 1915On Boxing Day 1914, Pte. 9689 of the London Rifle Brigade, wrote to his mother Mrs Williamson at 'Eastern Road, Brockley, S.E.' :"Dear Mother, I am writing from the trenches. It is 11 o'clock in the morning. Beside me is a coke ...

A look back at the tragic sinking of the HMS Good Hope

Oct

2014

With the hundred year anniversary fast approaching of one of Britain's worst naval disasters, there is something quite mournful about the leaf covered wording on the side of the Hawkes family grave a few yards from busy Brockley Road. It records the death of Able Seaman Reuben Ernest Hawkes, son of George and Amelia of Woodpecker Road ...