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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...

Guided walk tying in with International Women’s Day, starting Saturday 1pm 11th March, led by Julie Robinson

Mar

2023

There will be a guided walk, tying in with International Women’s Day, starting at 1pm on Saturday 11th March 2023, and led by Julie Robinson. Julie has carried out extensive research on prominent and forgotten women buried in the two Cemeteries.Meet at the gates to the Ladywell Cemetery. Please be aware that the walk contains some ...

Mr Hogg re-launches the Opium Eater

Feb

2023

Thomas De Quincey was born in Manchester in 1785 to a prosperous linen merchant. As a young boy he read widely and acquired a reputation as a brilliant classicist. "That boy," said his headmaster at Bath Grammar School, "that boy could harangue an Athenian mob, better than you or I could address an English one."Thomas ...

The Most Popular Man in New Cross’ – Rediscovering boxer-wrestler Jack Wannop and his pugilistic pals – Talk in the chapel in Ladywell Cemetery on Sunday 19th February at 2pm

Feb

2023

Talk in the chapel in Ladywell Cemetery on Sunday 19th February at 2pm As a wrestler Jack Wannop had a remarkable impact on pioneering and popularising wrestling as a sport in London before its early-1900s golden age.New Cross might not be well-known as the ‘home’ of British wrestling or boxing, but back in the 1880s and ...

Annie Parker ‘Wayward Inebriate’ – record breaker with a hair raising talent!

Jan

2023

Image from Workhouse Tales -The Daily Chronicle ( undated)The Habitual Drunkards Act of 1879 had enabled residential treatment as an alternative to prison for habitual drunkards, although its cost was prohibitive for many poor and working-class women. The 1898 Inebriates Act empowered local councils to establish and administer certified inebriate reformatories which were paid for ...

Unravelling the Mystery of Tannaker Buhicrosan buried Ladywell cemetery

Jan

2023

Drawing of a curiously reticent Tannaker Buhicrosan, c.1885 sporting a Chonmage- a traditional Japanese topknot haircut worn by men Source: Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News: (Wikipedia).Japanese Village, which was built in Hyde Park in 1885. Tannaker Buhicrosan had relocated 100 Japanese men women and children to London to populate his village and made sure everything ...

POETS , PIRATES AND PERFORMERS – NEW YEAR’S DAY GUIDED HISTORY WALK Sunday 1st January 2023

Dec

2022

Sunday 1st January 2023 - POETS , PIRATES AND PERFORMERS - NEW YEAR'S DAY GUIDED HISTORY WALK Meet at the Ladywell cemetery entrance gate at 14.00 This free walk will last around 2 hours and finish at the Brockley cemetery entrance gate.Led by Mike Guilfoyle : Chair of the Friends of Brockley & Ladywell cemeteries.It will include stops ...

The Family Graves of Charles Cain. Proprietors of the Deptford Show Ground, the last Permanent showground in London

Dec

2022

Charles and Hannah Cain in 1909 with sons Fred, Tom, Dave and Charles Junior (back row) and daughters Hannah, Daisy, Florence and Carolyn. (Copyright: Bell family archive)The following words were written by Angela Catherine Cain, in reference to her new book, Deptford Show Ground – the last permanent fairground in LondonDuring the 1820s ‘Deptford Fair’ ...

Christine de Montalk, Garibaldi and a brush with the Guillotine!

Nov

2022

Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807-1882, Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a pivotal role in the unification of Italy in his trademark poncho and brimless cap c.1864 Source : WikipediaGaribaldi at the Crystal Palace. Published in the Illustrated London News, 23 April 1864.Source : Look and Learn / Bernard Platman AntiquarianFrom the moment Garibaldi landed at ...

Herbert Henry (H. H.) Niles (1891-1918)

Nov

2022

The burial location (above|) and inscription (below) for Driver H. H. NilesHerbert Henry Niles and his parentsHerbert Henry NILES (1891-1918) was one of seven children born into a fishing and seafaring family with origins stretching back to Devonport and Cornwall. At the time of his birth, the family were living in the Deptford / Greenwich ...

2022 REMEMBRANCE DAY EVENT BROCKLEY & LADYWELL CEMETERIES: SUNDAY 13th NOVEMBER

Nov

2022

REMEMBRANCE DAY EVENTSUNDAY 13th NOVEMBER10.55am – 12.15pm approxMeet at the Ladywell Cemetery Cross of SacrificeFollowing the 2 minute silence:Wreath laying at the Cross of SacrificeLadywell CemeteryWalk to the Brockley War Memorial viathree relevant memorialsWreath laying at the Brockley Cemetery War Memorial.Join us for all or part of the event.All welcome.www.foblc.org.uk