Christmas cheer comes to Ladywell! St Mary’s Church is holding a Christmas market in the Therapeutic Garden and the church on Saturday December 9 from…
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AssemblyLocal NewsTop Stories
Sustainable streets for Ladywell? C’mon Lewisham is this really a consultation?
by TonyAs a Lewisham resident you’d be hard pushed not to have noticed the ‘sustainable streets’ campaign currently being ‘staged’ by Lewisham Council and Commonplace, writes…
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Local NewsNeighbourhood
Oscar’s couple Joel and Alina to open Wilson’s Wine Bar at No. 77 with chef Henry Freestone
by TonyA Wilson, the long neglected shop unit at No 77 Ladywell Road, is getting a facelift and will soon be home to a new business.…
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Ladywell Women are campaigning to improve safety for women living, working, shopping or regularly out and about across the Ladywell ward. With the help of…
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AssemblyCommunityLocal News
Lewisham’s grand design …. a new public park over the top of the shopping centre
by TonySo it’s a grand design for the Lewisham Shopping centre with a new public park on top of the centre, 1,700 new homes, a cultural…
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CommunityNeighbourhood
Ladywell’s family run Posh Fish Shop puts its heart and sole into catering for the whole community
by TonyLadywell’s Posh Fish Shop had a brilliant opening night – “30 bottles of champagne and 350 oysters”, says Can Ozdemir, who has taken over the…
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AssemblyLocal News
Council to spend £24m on revitalising Lewisham town centre and renovating library
by TonyLewisham council is to use £19m it won from the government’s lewvelling up fund plus £5m it is providing in matching funding to revitalise the…
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Local HistoryTop Stories
The Greenwich astronomer who used plaster models of the lunar surface to illustrate his influential book on the moon
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, recalls the life of Greenwich astronomer James Carpenter who wrote an influential book…
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AssemblyLocal NewsTop Stories
The RUSS Church Grove project: two years on the 36 flats are close to completion
by TonyRUSS, the volunteer-led community land trust that promotes sustainable communities, recently held an Open Day for prospective residents at its latest project on Church Grove.…
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FeaturedLocal History
The short life of John Digby Swinburne, surgeon with the Bengal Lancers
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, on the life of a Bengal Lancer who died aged 29 after playing…