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Jack Payne and an unusual war grave in Ladywell
This is the second of two posts in the run-up to Armistice Day 2025, looking at local Lewisham men who served in the Great War. In the previous post, we met a war hero who survived the conflict and…
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New post: an unusual war grave in Ladywell
Jack Payne was killed in action in neutral Danish waters. He was one of only a handful of the WW1 war dead repatriated after dying overseas.
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Jack Payne was killed in action in neutral Danish waters. He was one of only a handful of the WW1 war dead repatriated after dying overseas.
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This looks like a great project. I looked in depth at the work of WW1 tribunals in Essex for my DPhil thesis: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
Have been thinking recently of doing a bit of work on Lewisham tribunal for my current blog too.
Have been thinking recently of doing a bit of work on Lewisham tribunal for my current blog too.
January 28, 2026 at 11:55 AM
This looks like a great project. I looked in depth at the work of WW1 tribunals in Essex for my DPhil thesis: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
Have been thinking recently of doing a bit of work on Lewisham tribunal for my current blog too.
Have been thinking recently of doing a bit of work on Lewisham tribunal for my current blog too.
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Update given after flooding saw hundreds of residents forced to leave a major new development
www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/01/23/l...
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Lewisham offer update on potential opening after major flood at new development - Murky Depths
Lewisham Council have offered an update on proposed opening of Lewisham Gateway after a flood hit the site last year
www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Update given after flooding saw hundreds of residents forced to leave a major new development
www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/01/23/l...
www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/01/23/l...
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Jude Law
January 22, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I mean, it's not what I expected from @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, but each to their own!
January 16, 2026 at 11:52 AM
I mean, it's not what I expected from @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, but each to their own!
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David Bowie’s childhood home to open to the public for first time
David Bowie’s childhood home to open to the public for first time
The London house where Bowie, then David Jones, lived from 1955 to 1968 will be opened at the end of 2027
On the evening of 6 July 1972, thousands of kids across the UK had their lives changed when the sight of David Bowie performing Starman on Top of the Pops was beamed into their living rooms. Come the end of 2027, Bowie fans will be able to walk the very floorboards where the young David Jones grew up, when his childhood home in Bromley, south London, is opened to the public for the first time.
Ahead of the 10th anniversary of Bowie’s death this weekend (he would have turned 79 on Thursday), the Heritage of London Trust has announced that it has acquired the two-up, two-down house at 4 Plaistow Grove where Bowie lived from 1955 to 1968. Continue reading...
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January 8, 2026 at 7:18 PM
David Bowie’s childhood home to open to the public for first time
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'All Together Now' - a 1978 anti-racist festival in Deptford organised by the All Lewisham Campaign against Racism and Fascism with the Albany. The latter was set on fire later that year in a suspected far right arson attack. More here transpont.blogspot.com/2026/01/all-...
All Together Now - 1978 Deptford anti-racist festival
All Together Now was an anti-racist festival held in Deptford in April 1978. According to a contemporary report: ''All Together Now' was t...
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January 4, 2026 at 6:08 PM
'All Together Now' - a 1978 anti-racist festival in Deptford organised by the All Lewisham Campaign against Racism and Fascism with the Albany. The latter was set on fire later that year in a suspected far right arson attack. More here transpont.blogspot.com/2026/01/all-...
Only learned recently - from the parish records at St Mary's Lewisham - that until 1751 the new year in England started on 25 March not 1 Jan.
So here the last baptism of 1715 was on Feb 6th, the first of 1716 on 28 March
So here the last baptism of 1715 was on Feb 6th, the first of 1716 on 28 March
January 1, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Only learned recently - from the parish records at St Mary's Lewisham - that until 1751 the new year in England started on 25 March not 1 Jan.
So here the last baptism of 1715 was on Feb 6th, the first of 1716 on 28 March
So here the last baptism of 1715 was on Feb 6th, the first of 1716 on 28 March
Hope Santa's made it to your house before his mishap over Lewisham Obelisk.
Merry Christmas everyone. 🎄
Merry Christmas everyone. 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hope Santa's made it to your house before his mishap over Lewisham Obelisk.
Merry Christmas everyone. 🎄
Merry Christmas everyone. 🎄
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Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
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More than 400 residents who were evacuated from the new Lewisham Gateway development in February might not be able to return home until late next year.
A burst water pipe flooded the basement of The Filigree's energy centre.
A burst water pipe flooded the basement of The Filigree's energy centre.
Lewisham Gateway residents may not return home until late next year - The Greenwich Wire
More than 400 residents who were evacuated from the new Lewisham Gateway development in February might not be able to return home until late next year, the building’s landlord has said. A major leak…
greenwichwire.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
More than 400 residents who were evacuated from the new Lewisham Gateway development in February might not be able to return home until late next year.
A burst water pipe flooded the basement of The Filigree's energy centre.
A burst water pipe flooded the basement of The Filigree's energy centre.
Lovely photo of the "Obelisk" junction in the early 20th century, showing the water fountain and toilets, the Quaggy, Chiesmans and the Clock Tower.
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Lovely photo of the "Obelisk" junction in the early 20th century, showing the water fountain and toilets, the Quaggy, Chiesmans and the Clock Tower.
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St Mary's have their Christmas Market this Saturday. Enjoy! @ladywell-live.bsky.social @ladywellbowlsclub.bsky.social @longlazylewisham.bsky.social @janecandose4.bsky.social @lewishamfoodbank.bsky.social @lewisham.gov.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
St Mary's have their Christmas Market this Saturday. Enjoy! @ladywell-live.bsky.social @ladywellbowlsclub.bsky.social @longlazylewisham.bsky.social @janecandose4.bsky.social @lewishamfoodbank.bsky.social @lewisham.gov.uk
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Lewisham Model Market returns.
Plans to demolish this part of Lewisham shopping centre - submitted in 2024 - in advance of redevelopment has been withdrawn.
Overall start date pushed back shortly after wider approval given www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/12/01/l...
Plans to demolish this part of Lewisham shopping centre - submitted in 2024 - in advance of redevelopment has been withdrawn.
Overall start date pushed back shortly after wider approval given www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/12/01/l...
Lewisham Model Market set to return as demolition plan withdrawn - Murky Depths
Lewisham Model Market is to return in spring 2026 in a sign that redeveloping Lewisham shopping centre isn't happening anytime soon
www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Lewisham Model Market returns.
Plans to demolish this part of Lewisham shopping centre - submitted in 2024 - in advance of redevelopment has been withdrawn.
Overall start date pushed back shortly after wider approval given www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/12/01/l...
Plans to demolish this part of Lewisham shopping centre - submitted in 2024 - in advance of redevelopment has been withdrawn.
Overall start date pushed back shortly after wider approval given www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/12/01/l...
A delightful journey, "Not applicable" to London Bridge, not surprised it's so popular!
Transport for London has released 2025 data up to 1 November on the most common point-to-point Tube and rail journeys. Bank–Waterloo leads the list, with central interchanges, airport links and key commuter routes. An extended top 100 list is in the article, URL in the next post.
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A delightful journey, "Not applicable" to London Bridge, not surprised it's so popular!
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On Saturday, apropos of nothing in particular, we walked down into Bowie Country. So, this is the site of the house on Southend Road, Beckenham, in which David lived from October ’69 to May ’73 and passed the time writing The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane. [1/5]
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
On Saturday, apropos of nothing in particular, we walked down into Bowie Country. So, this is the site of the house on Southend Road, Beckenham, in which David lived from October ’69 to May ’73 and passed the time writing The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane. [1/5]
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New ahead of Remembrance Day tomorrow - Chiesman Brothers' "Paris House" roll of honour and the men from this prominent Lewisham firm who died in WW1
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Chiesman Brothers’ WW1 Roll of Honour
Somewhere in Lewisham Heritage’s storage is a wooden frame containing yellowed paper with a long list of names. Across the top are the words “Paris House Roll of Honour”. During the First World War…
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November 9, 2024 at 8:34 AM
New ahead of Remembrance Day tomorrow - Chiesman Brothers' "Paris House" roll of honour and the men from this prominent Lewisham firm who died in WW1
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2024/11/09/c...
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New post: an unusual war grave in Ladywell
Jack Payne was killed in action in neutral Danish waters. He was one of only a handful of the WW1 war dead repatriated after dying overseas.
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/j...
Jack Payne was killed in action in neutral Danish waters. He was one of only a handful of the WW1 war dead repatriated after dying overseas.
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/j...
Jack Payne and an unusual war grave in Ladywell
This is the second of two posts in the run-up to Armistice Day 2025, looking at local Lewisham men who served in the Great War. In the previous post, we met a war hero who survived the conflict and…
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New post: an unusual war grave in Ladywell
Jack Payne was killed in action in neutral Danish waters. He was one of only a handful of the WW1 war dead repatriated after dying overseas.
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/j...
Jack Payne was killed in action in neutral Danish waters. He was one of only a handful of the WW1 war dead repatriated after dying overseas.
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/j...
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New blog post- "Fred Neville: a sporting Lewisham war hero" (1st of 2 in run up to Armistice Day)
Over nearly half a century, Neville played a role in Lewisham civic life - interspersed with army service that saw him awarded 2 medals for bravery in WW1
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/f...
Over nearly half a century, Neville played a role in Lewisham civic life - interspersed with army service that saw him awarded 2 medals for bravery in WW1
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/f...
Fred Neville: a sporting Lewisham war hero
This is the first of two posts in the run-up to Armistice Day 2025, each telling the story of someone from Lewisham who served in the First World War. The second will be about an unusual war grave …
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New blog post- "Fred Neville: a sporting Lewisham war hero" (1st of 2 in run up to Armistice Day)
Over nearly half a century, Neville played a role in Lewisham civic life - interspersed with army service that saw him awarded 2 medals for bravery in WW1
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/f...
Over nearly half a century, Neville played a role in Lewisham civic life - interspersed with army service that saw him awarded 2 medals for bravery in WW1
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/f...
New post: an unusual war grave in Ladywell
Jack Payne was killed in action in neutral Danish waters. He was one of only a handful of the WW1 war dead repatriated after dying overseas.
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/j...
Jack Payne was killed in action in neutral Danish waters. He was one of only a handful of the WW1 war dead repatriated after dying overseas.
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/j...
Jack Payne and an unusual war grave in Ladywell
This is the second of two posts in the run-up to Armistice Day 2025, looking at local Lewisham men who served in the Great War. In the previous post, we met a war hero who survived the conflict and…
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New post: an unusual war grave in Ladywell
Jack Payne was killed in action in neutral Danish waters. He was one of only a handful of the WW1 war dead repatriated after dying overseas.
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/j...
Jack Payne was killed in action in neutral Danish waters. He was one of only a handful of the WW1 war dead repatriated after dying overseas.
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/j...
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Former bay line terminated here at Blackheath station.
Long gone but can easily imagine how it was
Long gone but can easily imagine how it was
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Former bay line terminated here at Blackheath station.
Long gone but can easily imagine how it was
Long gone but can easily imagine how it was
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I think many of us who have researched War Memorials can relate to this.
WW1 soldier honoured after local sleuth's research.
#WarMemorial #WW1
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
WW1 soldier honoured after local sleuth's research.
#WarMemorial #WW1
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Selby woman finds unmarked grave of forgotten WW1 soldier
Church will now hold ceremony for the private, who died of complications from gas attack wounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I think many of us who have researched War Memorials can relate to this.
WW1 soldier honoured after local sleuth's research.
#WarMemorial #WW1
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
WW1 soldier honoured after local sleuth's research.
#WarMemorial #WW1
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New blog post- "Fred Neville: a sporting Lewisham war hero" (1st of 2 in run up to Armistice Day)
Over nearly half a century, Neville played a role in Lewisham civic life - interspersed with army service that saw him awarded 2 medals for bravery in WW1
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/f...
Over nearly half a century, Neville played a role in Lewisham civic life - interspersed with army service that saw him awarded 2 medals for bravery in WW1
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/f...
Fred Neville: a sporting Lewisham war hero
This is the first of two posts in the run-up to Armistice Day 2025, each telling the story of someone from Lewisham who served in the First World War. The second will be about an unusual war grave …
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New blog post- "Fred Neville: a sporting Lewisham war hero" (1st of 2 in run up to Armistice Day)
Over nearly half a century, Neville played a role in Lewisham civic life - interspersed with army service that saw him awarded 2 medals for bravery in WW1
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/f...
Over nearly half a century, Neville played a role in Lewisham civic life - interspersed with army service that saw him awarded 2 medals for bravery in WW1
longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/f...
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London's Ringways are a whole network of unbuilt urban motorways threaded through the capital. There's never been a complete map of them,not even one made by their designers, until now. Today we're publishing the Ringways Map from @roads.org.uk to let you see in the city that London nearly became.
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
London's Ringways are a whole network of unbuilt urban motorways threaded through the capital. There's never been a complete map of them,not even one made by their designers, until now. Today we're publishing the Ringways Map from @roads.org.uk to let you see in the city that London nearly became.
Interested but not surprised to see 2 bus stops in #Lewisham among the 100 busiest in London:
Lewisham Centre stop X (towards Ladywell and Crofton Park) at #36 & stop B at the station (towards Catford) at #55
via edjefferson.com/busiestbusst... which you can explore by route as well as top 100.
Lewisham Centre stop X (towards Ladywell and Crofton Park) at #36 & stop B at the station (towards Catford) at #55
via edjefferson.com/busiestbusst... which you can explore by route as well as top 100.
November 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Interested but not surprised to see 2 bus stops in #Lewisham among the 100 busiest in London:
Lewisham Centre stop X (towards Ladywell and Crofton Park) at #36 & stop B at the station (towards Catford) at #55
via edjefferson.com/busiestbusst... which you can explore by route as well as top 100.
Lewisham Centre stop X (towards Ladywell and Crofton Park) at #36 & stop B at the station (towards Catford) at #55
via edjefferson.com/busiestbusst... which you can explore by route as well as top 100.
Might be of interest to @runningpast.bsky.social who's got a blog post on Bank House and Burnt Ash Road, to the right. (runner500.wordpress.com/2020/11/29/1...)
Lovely picture of Lee Green and Eltham Road just before WW1. View dominated today by the soon-to-be-replaced Leegate Centre.
November 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Might be of interest to @runningpast.bsky.social who's got a blog post on Bank House and Burnt Ash Road, to the right. (runner500.wordpress.com/2020/11/29/1...)