The Ladywell Pétanque League

Ryan writes:I was hoping that you may be able to help me try and gather together anyone who uses the Pétanque facilities in Ladywell fields behind the bowling greens.I have been playing pétanque there for the last year but the courses are becoming unusably overgrown. I'd love to set up a local Pétanque group/league to ...

Grover Lady’s Fun

Casilda's Nice Things is the latest addition to Place Ladywell, 261 Lewisham High Street. A gallery and gift shop, it will host a meetup with artist Martin Grover on July 28, from 6-8pm. They say:Martin Grover is an established artist and a former student of the famous Royal Academy Schools.  A playful narrative thread runs ...

Training centre for self-build homes in Ladywell

Ted, a trustee of self-build group RUSS, writes:A crowd funding initiative has been launched to help raise £57,000 to build London’s first training facility for would-be community self-builders. The innovative building will be constructed in Ladywell, Lewisham on part of the land set aside for a new 33 home affordable self-build housing project.The project is ...

Image workshops in July

One of Australia's leading image consultants - Donna Cameron, is coming to London in July to lead two workshops at The Talbot. One on Colour Analysis and one on Shapes, Styles & Silhouettes. Donna's become a great friend and she's offering these workshops at a very reasonable cost as she fell in love with this ...

Mobile hair and makeup artist

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Power serve problem delays Ladywell tennis plan

A plan to create a major floodlit tennis facility in Ladywell Fields is being held up by UK Power Networks, who haven't hooked up the site yet. Lewisham Council's Andy Thomas explains:"We are still waiting on the power supply to be installed by UK Power Networks but in the meantime we don’t want to keep ...

Fair Funding for School – Friday 26th May

This Friday, the Fair Funding for All Schools campaign have a day of action. It's a parent and teacher lead campaign* in response to the prospect of a significant reduction in funding for schools in our borough. See the poster below. (see here http://www.southeastcentral.co.uk/threads/heads-up-london-schools-face-funding-cuts.9987/ for our posts on this matter) *Please note that we the ...

Stephen Kovacevich at St Mary the Virgin in Ladywell

The acclaimed pianist will play at Ladywell's ancient church on May 19thRos writes:I’m a member of Lewisham Park (Crescent) Residents’ Association and we are organising a charity concert in Lewisham in aid of St Mungo’s the homelessness charity, and also to fund improvements to the park. Proceeds will be spilt equally between these two.Somewhat miraculously ...

Ladywell restaurant space comes on the market

Who wants to be my neighbour?? Lovely new premise up for grabs on fab #Ladywell high street - would be an amazing restaurant or bar! 😊 #SE13 pic.twitter.com/MvwAr4I0z9— Honeybourne's (@Honeybourne_s) April 21, 2017

Good Hope for New Jokes

Eleanor Tiernan is among the performersMikey writes:I just wanted to let you know about some great new local comedy happening over the next few weeks at the Good Hope Cafe in PLACE/Ladywell.Good Hope for New Jokes is an Edinburgh preview season, meaning now's the time to see established comedy names in intimate venues for bargain ...