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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...

FOBLC Open Day Sunday 10th July 2022 11am-4:30pm including Guided Tours

Jun

2022

Burt Lancaster, Zulu Dawn and Colonel Durnford link uncovered in grave find in Brockley cemetery

Jun

2022

Burt Lancaster as Colonel Durnford. In the film Zulu Dawn he used an authentic break frame Webley revolver. He had to do all this acting and action with a crippled left arm and he devised a way he could handle and reload this type of weapon.. He proved a fit and skilful rider and comes ...

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING with talk by Tessa Boase: Saturday 24th July at 2.30pm

Jun

2022

The FoBLC will hold its Annual General Meeting on Saturday 24th July at 2.30pm in the Ladywell Cemetery Chapel. Both members and Non-members are welcome.Following the business, there will be a break for refreshments, then Tessa Boase, social historian, investigative journalist and author of Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds will speak about her ...

Inspector Secretan – The detective and the infamous outlaw Ned Kelly

Jun

2022

Ned Kelly, famous outlaw and folk hero, grew up in Australia in the late 1800s. His life of crime began as a teenager stealing horses and later escalated to murder. Kelly and his gang soon had a price on their heads of £8,000 - today's equivalent would be £732,600, which could be collected through his ...

Brockley Max 2022: Guided Walk Saturday 4th June 2:30pm-4:30pm

May

2022

Join us for our Guided Tour as part of Brockley Max 2022 and 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 birdsMeet at the Ladywell Road gate Saturday 4th June 2:30pm, the tour is free and ...

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

May

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. ...

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

Apr

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 ...

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

Apr

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

2022

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

Apr

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' ...