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...
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A Local Cemetery Historian’s Retrospective

Sep

4

2023

I thought that I would depart from my usual pattern of offering historical vignettes of some of the illustrious deceased buried in the two cemeteries and instead present the reader with some of my more memorable personal recollections, out of many, that have charted my time as a member of the Friends group and former ...
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Cemetary · David Jones · Edgar 'Ned' Willsher · Ernest Dowson · Harry Albemarle Swepstone · Jane Clouson · Second Lieutenant Hugh Gordon Langton

First to the Corinthians: the story of England goalie Harry Albemarle Swepstone

May

17

2011

Thanks to Mike Guilfoyle for uncovering this story of a notable sportsman buried in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries Harry Albemarle Swepstone (1859-1907) who was born in Stepney, East London, made his England debut against Scotland in 1880. During this match he was beaten by a 'cannon shot' from the Scottish 'Rooney', Centre Forward George ...
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Corinthians · football · Harry Albemarle Swepstone