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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...

Photos from our 2021 Open Day (taken by Phillip Barnes-Warden)

Jul

2021

Friends of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries Open Day Sunday 11th July 2021 from 11am to 4:30pm with Guided Tours

Jun

2021

Captain William Veale 1791-1867 ‘The Deptford Robinson Crusoe’

Jun

2021

Most readers will no doubt be very familiar with the 1719 story by Daniel Defoe of Robinson Crusoe, based as it was on the experiences of a Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk who survived for five years on a desert island. But buried in Brockley cemetery is a seafarer with an equal claim to such maritime posterity ...

Brockley Max 2021 – join us for our guided tour Saturday 5th June 2.30pm – 4.30pm

May

2021

Join us for our guided tour on SATURDAY 5th JUNE 2.30pm – 4.30pm, meet at the Ladywell Road gate. This walk is part of the amazing Brockley Max 2021 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 ...

The link between Napoleon and Captain James McTernan, buried in Brockley Cemetery

May

2021

On the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte's death in exile on St Helena, FoBLC vice-chair Mike Guilfoyle explores his link to Royal Naval surgeon Captain James McTernan, buried in Brockley Cemetery South London Press (p31, May 14th 2021 edition) Captain James McTiernan is not the only person with a link to Napoleon buried in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries. We ...

Captain Sergei Ulyanin inventor of the original drone

May

2021

The Russian aviator, inventor of a 19th Century 'drone' who turned them into vital reconnaissance during the First World War, is one of the more important and unusual people buried in the Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries. We have previously featured Captain Sergei Ulyanin on this website and he is now the subject of a feature ...

150th anniversary of Jane Clouson’s death

Apr

2021

On the 150th anniversary of Jane Clouson's death, FOBLC's Mike Guilfoyle has written for the South London Press (p32) about her tragic death which became a cause celebre of Victorian London.One of the most famous and most visited graves in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries, Jane Clouson's unsolved murder was recounted in this moving account by ...

Charles Forjett and the Martyrs of Bombay

Apr

2021

As you pass along the meandering pathway from the Dissenters Chapel and round the corner walking towards the wall of remembrance in Ladywell cemetery, you could so easily walk past without noticing the drab headstone which denotes that a former Commissioner of Police from 1855-1864 for India's most populous city Bombay (known as Mumbai since ...

Captain Syder and The Pirates of the South China Sea

Mar

2021

Located alongside one of the circular pathways in Ladywell cemetery perched at a perilous angle lies a family headstone whose inscription is all but weathered away. In a serendipitous moment when undertaking tombstone research the sunlight caught the stone and the bare outline of the word 'Pirates' was briefly visible! Other lettering revealed the name ...

Jack London and the 1902 Cavilla family murders

Feb

2021

Located amidst the bosky acreage of Brockley cemetery in an unmarked grave lies the last resting place of five members of the Cavilla family, whose lives were tragically ended in September 1902 in a brutal murder that shocked the nation. An unemployed house painter called Frank Cavilla, aged 34 years of Batavia road, New Cross, ...