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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...

Jane Clouson Book Reading by Paul Thomas Murphy

Jul

2016

Paul Thomas Murphy's new book about the extraordinary murder of Jane Clouson conclusively identifies the killer’s true identity.The FOBLC is proud to be hosting a reading of a new book about Jane Clouson, 'Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane' on Saturday 16th July from 2.30pm – 4pm at the Chapel in Ladywell Cemetery.Author Paul Thomas ...

Remembering Decadent Poet Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)

Apr

2016

The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London hosted the first International symposium on the poet, translator and novelist Ernest Dowson on a storm -tossed saturnine Friday 14th April 2016. Ernest Dowson who died in 1900 aged 32 is interred in Ladywell cemetery and his signature grave is a regular stopping point on guided walks ...

Director Derek Shiel to introduce screening in chapel of his film – David Jones: Innovation & Consolidation

Aug

2014

FOBLC are pleased to welcome Derek Shiel, director of the film to introduce and discuss the work of David JonesDAVID JONES: INNOVATION & CONSOLIDATIONThe third film of Derek Shiel's wonderful trilogy takes David Jones from the Second World War up to the time of his death in 1974 at Calvary Nursing Home in Harrow. This deals with Jones as an ...

‘Gentle Courage’: Gertrude Eliza Williamson

Feb

2014

The grave of Gertrude Eliza Williamson lies in the Ladywell section of the Brockley & Ladywell cemeteries. It is a simple grave which many people will have walked past without a second glance and the faded inscription on the headstone gives little away. The words 'my dear wife' indicate that Gertrude was married, but her ...

British Lion and Great War hero

Jun

2013

The somewhat run down family grave of Forest Hill Wine Merchant Bruce Beveridge Todd and his wife Phoebe lies next to the Dissenter's Chapel in the Ladywell section of the cemetery. However that of their son Alexander Findlater Todd born 20 th September 1873 , known as 'Fin' to his friends, is sadly missing from ...

George Lacy Hillier: Amateur Cycling Champion at ALL(!) distances, 1881.

Jul

2011

As the Tour De France begins, the FOBLC remembers George Lacy Hillier who was the cycling superstar of his time. He was born in Sydenham in 6/6/1856. The attached a picture of him, was taken about 1878, when he lived in Chichester and raced for the Chichester and District Bicycle Club. Among various honours, he ...

Brockley’s Jack the Ripper connection

Feb

2011

Buried in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries lies Henry (or Harry) Cox (1859-1918). He was the City of London CID officer who was responsible for the surveillance of one of the Jack the Ripper suspects after the murder of Mary Jane Kelly. "The man we suspected was about five feet six inches in height, with ...