Trees Archives - Brockley SE4

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...

New Cross Giant Redwood

Feb

2026

New Cross has quite a few fine trees - London Planes on the wider roads, cherry trees in residential streets and gardens full of all kinds of specimens. But one of the finest must be the Giant Redwood at New Cross Gate station. Legend has it that it was planted from seed in the 1980s ...

Autumn in Telegraph Hill Park

Nov

2022

Autumn has finally come, a cherry tree down in Telegraph Hill upper park (Kitto Road SE14) believed struck by lightning in a storm last week.Twilight skyline watchers

Street Trees for Living becomes an independent charity

Sep

2019

This weekend Street Trees for Living is submitting its annual planting order to the council. Residents can expect nearly two hundred new street trees to appear on the streets this winter, the result of a fantastic amount of work over the last six months by our Committee members, Area Reps, Street Reps, Sponsors, Lewisham council and other ...

Ahmet Altan – our hidden relationships with trees

Jul

2019

From the flyleaf of his book "I Will Never See the World Again": Born in 1950, Ahmet Altan is one of Turkey's most important writers. In the purge following the failed coup in July 2016, Altan was sent to prison pending trail for giving 'subliminal messages' in support of the coup. In February 2018, he was sentenced to life in ...

Street Trees for Living – a project of Brockley Society 2019-04-24 09:04:00

Apr

2019

Abstract Tree workshops This May Little Art Forms will be running creative workshops for children and adults at Gently in Crofton Park to raise money towards the planting of Lewisham street trees through Street Trees for Living.Little Art Forms is a creative platform that has recently moved to the area. The project was originally set up in Camden ...

Update from Forest Hill ward

Apr

2019

STREET TREES ARE GOOD FOR USAt the Dartmouth Road Street Party a year ago I met Stuart Checkley who was representing Street Trees for Living, a Brockley Society project which has worked with Lewisham Council since 2012 on a public street-tree funding scheme. The scheme had been rolled out on the Tewkesbury Lodge Estate in Forest ...

Community engagement in Ladywell

Apr

2019

We are very pleased to link up with local activist and blogger Tony Major whose site Ladywell Live is now up and running.He's very kindly given us a lovely landing page plug here.The blog contains a wealth of information about initiatives and community building in Ladywell Ward and we'd highly recommend a visit.

STfL in the national press

Apr

2019

Our work at STfL was given prominent coverage in a hugely supportive double page article in the Sunday Times on 10th March. Our very own Xanthe Mosley was quoted widely, as too our friends at Trees for Cities, author and blogger (The Street Tree) Paul Wood ("London is a Forest" is published in May) and the ...

Our 7th planting season – an update

Feb

2019

Street Trees for Living is now towards the end of its seventh planting season. By Easter over 200 more street trees will have been planted in the borough of Lewisham, a grand total of 620 since 2012. Once again local residents and businesses have provided most of the funding, with commitments to water the trees for ...

"Free The Trees!" – St Asaph Road SE4

Jan

2019

Who'd have thought that a few hours spent with a bolt-cutter, secateurs, saws and a gaggle of hardy Street Trees for Living committee members on St Asaph's Road SE4 would be so much fun! Man with a mission!For years, the trees along this busy Brockley thoroughfare have had to contend with pavement parking and (for those left ...