Lewisham Archives - Page 2 of 37

Music Monday: Hope 4 Justice with Eska and John Stainer School Choir

Mar

25

2024

In 2022 over 1,000 young people, including students from 27 South London schools took part in Hope 4 Justice, an urgent call to action on the climate emergency highlighting issues such as air quality, ‘throw-away’ culture and housing inequality through performances of music, dance and spoken word. Created and produced by Trinity Laban as part ...

Music Monday: Hope 4 Justice with Eska and John Stainer School Choir

Mar

25

2024

In 2022 over 1,000 young people, including students from 27 South London schools took part in Hope 4 Justice, an urgent call to action on the climate emergency highlighting issues such as air quality, ‘throw-away’ culture and housing inequality through performances of music, dance and spoken word. Created and produced by Trinity Laban as part ...

A young Irish woman in Lewisham, 1959

Dec

8

2023

Leaving aside the dubious framing of this story ('workaday beauties' ffs), some nice local detail of a young Irish women's life in Lewisham 1959 - Mary O'Donoghue from Cork working in the Robertson Jam Factory in Catford and socialising at the Harp Club in New Cross

Jerry Dammers at Deptford Dub Club

Jul

20

2023

Deptford Dub Club's Reggae All Dayer at the Fox & Firkin on Saturday 23rd July features Specials/2 Tone founder Jerry Dammers. The dub club goes from strength to strength and the Fox an Firkin is the perfect location with its huge outdoor area (partially covered for all weathers) and its so Lewisham crowd. Should be ...

‘Jews in Lewisham Fight’: a 1936 punch up with Hitler fans

Jul

8

2023

A street fight in Avenue Road, Lewisham in 1936 seems to have started out with a visit to the local Lyons coffee house where Jewish customers were subject to antisemitic abuse. Edward, Benjamin and Victor Ansell, brothers from Clapton, were out with Rene Low, a young woman from Rembrandt Road in Lee. They got into ...

Lewisham Teachers Strike Rally

Feb

1

2023

On a day which saw the largest number of workers strike on one day for many years, hundreds of striking teachers and their supporters held a rally in Lewisham before heading into central London to join a demonstration there.Speakers at the rally next to the Glassmill leisure centre included teachers as well as a Royal ...

Lewisham Diggers 1968

Sep

13

2022

Browsing through the interesting Reveal Digital 'Independent Voices' archive I came across mention of the 1960s Lewisham Diggers, inspired by the counter cultural San Francisco Diggers who were in turn inspired by the Diggers of the 17th century English revolution.A 1967 notice in the international Equality journal from Mike Malet of Lewisham Anarchist Group talks of ...

Malcolm Hardee sets himself on fire as a teenage DJ

Aug

13

2022

The famed South London comedian Malcolm Hardee made his name in the 1980s, including opening The Tunnel comedy club next to the Greenwich entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel and then Up the Creek in Creek Road, Greenwich. He went on to the run The Wibbley Wobbley floating pub in Greenland Dock, Rotherhithe, near to which ...

Celebrating Sanctuary at the Horniman Museum

Jul

15

2022

The Horniman Museum has won the 2022 Art Fund 'Museum of the Year' award and it is certainly one of the great treasures of South London (and indeed all of London).Last month (25 June 2022) it hosted the 'Celebrating Sanctuary' Lewisham Refugee Week Festival. The festival marked 'Lewisham's status as the UK's first borough of ...

Celebrating Sanctuary at the Horniman Museum

Jul

15

2022

The Horniman Museum has won the 2022 Art Fund 'Museum of the Year' award and it is certainly one of the great treasures of South London (and indeed all of London).Last month (25 June 2022) it hosted the 'Celebrating Sanctuary' Lewisham Refugee Week Festival. The festival marked 'Lewisham's status as the UK's first borough of ...

Brockley SE4

Featured local business - Clubtek

Music Monday: Hope 4 Justice with Eska and John Stainer School Choir

Music Monday: Hope 4 Justice with Eska and John Stainer School Choir

A young Irish woman in Lewisham, 1959

Jerry Dammers at Deptford Dub Club

‘Jews in Lewisham Fight’: a 1936 punch up with Hitler fans

Lewisham Teachers Strike Rally

Lewisham Diggers 1968

Malcolm Hardee sets himself on fire as a teenage DJ

Celebrating Sanctuary at the Horniman Museum

Celebrating Sanctuary at the Horniman Museum