Mike Guilfoyle, a local historian, writer, podcaster, longtime supporter of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries and inveterate taphophile was an enthusiastic and prolific…
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Mike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, on the life of a Bengal Lancer who died aged 29 after playing…
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Local History
Ladywell’s link to the stormy politics of 1840s Germany – Ida Melos, favourite of Goethe and the wife of poet Ferdinand Freiligrath, a long time friend of Karl Marx
by TonyLocated aside the outer pathway in Ladywell cemetery, nestled between two larger headstones lies the cruciform edifice of Ida Melos final resting place, inscribed with…
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Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr, Stalin’s favourite linguist and his link with Ladywell
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, finds a Ladywell connection to a Scottish-Georgian professor who had a class theory…
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Portrait of an artist … the son of a samurai who lived in Lewisham, studied at Goldsmith’s and enjoyed Bohemian London
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, stumbles upon a painting by a prolific Japanese artist who lived in Lewisham…
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Mike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, finds a Ladywell link to the saccharine pleasures of a Fry’s Turkish Delight bar.…
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Lewisham will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of Windrush Day on June 22 2023 with an evening of live music, spoken word, dance and more…
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UPDATE: Still standing … just! Council places Tree Protection Order on ancient Mulberry in Ladywell House garden
by TonyLewisham council has placed a Tree Protection Order on the ancient Mulberry tree in the garden of Ladywell House, the former vicarage for St Mary’s…
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Local History
A Ladywell link to Rudyard Kipling and one of the wealthy families that benefited from British rule in India
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, uncovers a Ladywell link to one of Rudyard Kipling’s good friends and delves deeper…
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Profiles in Courage: 16 women from south London who campaigned for the right to vote
by TonyLadywell resident Julie Robinson, who worked as a local studies librarian at the Lewisham Local History Centre, has written a fascinating booklet on South London’s…