Posts in category Local History

This Disability Awareness Month we remember Rosa May Billinghurst. Known as “the crippled suffragette”, Rosa lived in Blackheath and founded the Greenwich Women’s Social and …

The Hither Green Calendar features hand drawn local landmark buildings by artist Lydia Woods. – The Clock Tower – Station Hotel – Hither Green Station …

This week Lewisham Planning has released a list of fascinating buildings across the Borough being considered for ‘Listing’ status because of architectural merit, historical and …

Featured Photo: Hither Green Lane, the Central Market Parade 1904. Credit Lewisham History Archive. Thursday 17 October, 7-9pm at Zenubian, 136 Hither Green Lane SE13 …

Hither Green Festival: Arachne Press- ‘Writing the Past.’ A free literary event laid on by Arachne Press! Saturday 18 May, 7pm at Manor House Library …

The Broadway Theatre This Saturday at 2pm a beautiful tribute to remember the WW1 Armistice. There will be a brass band, contemporary dance, soloists, guest …

Monday 5 November marks 51 years since the rail crash at Hither Green Station which killed 49 people and injured over 70. Last year, we …

This Remembrance Sunday marks the centenary of the Armistice which ended the First World War. The Borough of Lewisham’s official civic Service will take place …

Wings to Windrush” to mark both RAF100 and Black History Month 2018 Sunday 21st October at 1.30pm At:  Manor House Library, SE13 Now a community …

The earliest written reference to Lewisham — or Saxon ‘liofshema’ is from 862 charter which established the boundaries with neighbouring Bromley. Lewisham’s strong links to Alfred …