Trees of Hilly Fields and AGM 7pm 15th March, 2023

Join us for our illustrated talk this Wednesday -Trees of Hilly Fields, followed by a presentation of the annual report and our AGM. Talk from 7pm. Elms on the crest of Hilly Fields in the early 1900s The post Trees of Hilly Fields and AGM 7pm 15th March, 2023 first appeared on www.hilly.org.uk.

Gellatly Road 1990s Traffic Campaign: a Geography Lesson

A perennial campaign in the SE14/SE4 area has been in relation to traffic in Gellatly Road/Drakefell Road, part of a busy B road linking  the Old Kent Road (via Pomeroy Street) with Brockley and beyond. , In the early 1990s a campaign by local residents to slow and reduce the traffic included blocking the road by continually ...

Guided walk tying in with International Women’s Day, starting Saturday 1pm 11th March, led by Julie Robinson

There will be a guided walk, tying in with International Women’s Day, starting at 1pm on Saturday 11th March 2023, and led by Julie Robinson. Julie has carried out extensive research on prominent and forgotten women buried in the two Cemeteries.Meet at the gates to the Ladywell Cemetery. Please be aware that the walk contains some ...

WASSAIL

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Kitto Road Folk

At the Hill Station Cafe on Kitto Road SE14 Hannah Elizabeth Young and George McNaughton Ellis are hosting a monthly 'Folk Sessions on the Hill'. Next one is on Sunday 19th March 2023 from 6 pm onwards. First time I went along a few months ago it was quite quiet, but it has quickly grown ...

Dates for the diary!

WASSAIL – in the orchard at 2pm on Sunday, 12th March, 2023. Join us to wish our trees good health, folk music, singing and spiced apple and cider. (free to attend, donations appreciated) TREES OF HILLY FIELDS an illustrated talk followed by our AGM in the café on Wednesday, 15th March at 7pm. (we’ll get ...

‘You and Me’ – South London ITV Drama

'You and Me', first broadcast on ITV in February 2023, is a romantic drama series shot pretty much entirely in South London. It opens with a shot of Telegraph Hill Park, a location that features in many key scenes (top and bottom parts of park), then the set up scene is in Deptford High Street ...

Fascists seen off at Honor Oak pub

A large crowd gathered outside the Honor Oak pub in Brockley Rise yesterday to defend it from far right threats against a drag queen storytelling session.  An impressive community turn out of more than 500 people occupied the street in front of the pub and the handful of far right goons who turned up never ...

Fascists seen off at Honor Oak pub

A large crowd gathered outside the Honor Oak pub in Brockley Rise yesterday to defend it from far right threats against a drag queen storytelling session.  An impressive community turn out of more than 500 people occupied the street in front of the pub and the handful of far right goons who turned up never ...

Mr Hogg re-launches the Opium Eater

Thomas De Quincey was born in Manchester in 1785 to a prosperous linen merchant. As a young boy he read widely and acquired a reputation as a brilliant classicist. "That boy," said his headmaster at Bath Grammar School, "that boy could harangue an Athenian mob, better than you or I could address an English one."Thomas ...