Surrey Canal: London’s Sporting Village - development exhibition

"Surrey Canal: London’s Sporting Village – one of the largest regeneration schemes within the borough – will be the subject of a month-long public exhibition at The Building Centre in central London. The scheme, which was granted planning permission this year, includes London's largest indoor sports centre for community use as well as an improved setting for Millwall football stadium, up to 2400 new homes, improved walking routes and open spaces, and other public facilities including a purpose-built faith centre.

The Surrey Canal: London’s Sporting Village exhibition lasts from Friday 29 June to Saturday 28 July. Visitors will also be able to find out about other regeneration projects across Lewisham."

Posted from Lewisham Council

English Heritage Plaques Register

The Blue Plaques Team at English Heritage has produced a register of plaque schemes across England with the aim of raising awareness of their rich variety and to promote dialogue between all those engaged in plaque projects, large and small.


Lewisham Council's Maroon Plaque scheme is among those listed

"The register is primarily designed for those seeking to contact the relevant local organisation in order to get their own plaque up or to find out more about a particular scheme. For those wanting to look at individual or one-off plaques, there are many inspiring websites, e.g. Plaques of London, London Remembers and Open Plaques. The English Heritage register lists the individuals and organisations responsible for bringing the schemes to fruition and for looking after the resulting plaques once installed."

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/blue-plaques/register/

Convoys Wharf public exhibition: 14 & 16 July

Public exhibition of the "emerging masterplan of proposals to regenerate Convoys Wharf".
Deptford Lounge

Convoys Wharf public exhibition: 14 & 16 July
Posted from Deptford is

£7.5m secures England’s most important places of worship at risk

"Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) announced more than £7.5million of Lottery funding to enable urgent repairs to 77 of England’s historic Grade II listed churches, chapels and synagogues."

Includes St Swithun’s Church, Lewisham, London - Grant:  £192,000 


£7.5m secures England’s most important places of worship at risk
Posted from Heritage Lottery Fund

Hide and Seek (1972)

"This 1972 Children's Film Foundation production was shot on location in Deptford, at the time of mass demolitions. For example, Giffin Street is the Midland Bank and little else..."

You can watch the film on the Deptford Misc blog
Hide and Seek (1972): 
Posted from Deptford Misc

City of London sale of Foreign Cattle Market, 1926

Interesting piece from Deptford Miscellany on the sale of the Foreign Cattle Market in 1926. This was part of what is now Convoy's Wharf.

"The article below gives a potted history of the City of London's acquisition, ownership, closure and eventual sale of the Foreign Cattle Market at Deptford. It first appeared in The Times on Saturday 13th March 1926. Before becoming the Foreign Cattle Market the site written about was the Royal Dockyard opened by Henry VIII in 1513 and closed in 1869. The discussions of the Court of Common..."

City of London sale of Foreign Cattle Market, 1926
Posted from Deptford Miscellany

Lewisham Train Disaster

 

"In memory of those who lost their lives. Lewisham train disaster, 4th December 1957. This plaque has been made possible by the help and co-operation of News Shopper, Connex, Network Rail and Francis Chappell & Sons."



Lewisham Train Disaster
Posted from London Remembers

Brian Hibbard (1946-2012) tributes by local bloggers

Transpontine and Crosswhatfields? both carry posts remembering Brian Hibbard of the Flying Pickets who had strong Deptford connections


Transpontine Brian Hibbard (1946-2012)
Crosswhatfields? RIP Brian Hibbard

Margaret and Rachel McMillan

 

"Margaret McMillan C.H, C.B.E, 1860 - 1931, & Rachel McMillan, 1859 - 1917, social reformers and educationalists, lived here, 1910 - 1913.
London Borough of Lewisham."

Margaret and Rachel McMillan
Posted from London Remembers "which aims to document all the memorials in London. That's the plaques, monuments, statues, fountains, etc, that commemorate a person, an event, a building, etc... "

History Corner: Syndicalism in Catford 1912-13

Research by Transpontine

"The period before the First World War is sometimes referred to as the 'Great Unrest' as the status quo of Edwardian Britain came under attack from suffragettes, Irish nationalists, and striking workers - in 1912 for instance there were major strikes in London on the docks and amongst tailors in the East End and West End..."

History Corner: Syndicalism in Catford 1912-13

Posted from Transpontine

Down on District 45: Deptford

This post is extracted from Out of the Box the blog for news and comments from the LSE Archives. It explores the use of the Charles Booth collection information and maps to examine the development of London town centres by a new BBC series. The first programme covered Deptford High Street.


Down on District 45: Deptford
June 8th, 2012 by Andy Jack, LSE Digital Library


"BBC Two series explores social history of London using the Booth maps as a starting point
On Wednesday I watched the first part of the new BBC Two series The Secret History of Our Streets. The episode is currently available on the BBC iPlayer if you would like to watch it for yourself. The first in the six part series focused on the human story of Deptford High Street. We are told that over the course of the last 125 years the area has lost both its wealth and the tight, familial community that gave life to it. The story is one of demolitions, compulsory purchase orders, modernist concrete monoliths and a community ravaged by post-war social experimentation. It isn’t the most uplifting viewing, but the insight into an area only a handful of miles from the affluence of London’s banking district is quite fascinating.

There will be five more programmes in the series all focusing on a particular street.  Coming up next will be Camberwell Grove.

Map Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9 Sheet 12 of 12

Booth at the LSE

At LSE  we hold a considerable collection of material relating to the Booth study and we also host the Charles Booth Online Archive where it is possible to view a digital version of the map and compare it with a more recent street map. It is also possible to view some of the digitised police notebooks and see for yourself what the researchers recorded on their guided tours of the community.

PhoneBooth on Mobile Devices

We are also currently undertaking an innovative project with Edina, part funded by JISC, to mobilise the Booth maps and digitised notebooks for delivery to mobile devices such as iPads and iPhones. The PhoneBoothproject will enable people to retrieve nearby notebook entries for reading in the actual location to which the historic observations occurred. If your street existed 100 years ago and is on Booth’s maps then you will be able to find out whether the area was a den of iniquity or, perhaps part of a well-heeled suburb. You will also be able to read the police commentary on the inhabitants and understand in what ways, if any, your part of London has changed since the epic Booth study."

Please follow the link for the complete article Down on District 45: Deptford
Find out more at Out of the Box the blog for news and comments from the LSE Archives

Whoopi in Deptford

"In May 1984 Whoopi Goldberg was on the verge of international fame, though she didn't yet know it. In October '84 her one woman stand up show started on Broadway, where she was seen by Stephen Spielberg and asked to star in his film The Color Purple, released the following year. But in May she was trying out her material in London, in no less a venue that the Albany Empire in Deptford...."

Whoopi in Deptford

Posted from Transpontine

The Future of Louise House

"The first stakeholder consultation meeting to find out about plans to invite proposals for the future of Louise House in Forest Hill is taking place on Wednesday 13 June 17.00-19.00 at Forest Hill Methodist Church, Normanton Street, London SE23 2DS...."

Please RSVP to louisehouse@lewisham.gov.uk if you would like to attend.

The Future of Louise House
Posted from Forest Hill Society

Sir Francis Drake

 

"Sir Francis Drake.
In 1581 Queen Elizabeth I commanded that Francis Drake's ship the Golden Hind be drawn into a creek near here at Deptford as a perpetual memorial for having 'circuited round about the whole earth'. On 4th April 1581 she banqueted on board the Golden Hind....."

Sir Francis Drake
Posted from London Remembers

Peter the Great statue

 

"Peter the Great.
Russian Czar, Peter the Great, arrived in England in January 1698 and stayed in Sir John Evelyn's house, Sayes Court in Deptford for four months.  This monument is erected near the royal shipyard where Peter the Great studied the English science of shipbuilding..... "

Peter the Great statue
Posted from London Remembers

Peter the Great plaque

 

Deptford Friends' Meeting House, stood here, demolished 1807.
{Encircled by:} Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, worshipped here 1697-8.

Peter the Great plaque
Posted from London Remembers

University of Greenwich releases online wartime memory archive

A RECORD of the personal experiences of people across the area during the Second World War has been made available online.

Includes contributions from Lewisham.

University of Greenwich releases online wartime memory archive
Posted from the News Shopper

Lenox study day: booking now!

"Deptford Is.. in collaboration with Build the Lenox is now inviting bookings for the Lenox Study Day on Wednesday 11 July.  The study day will be held at the Master Shipwrights House...

Full details of the study day and how to book can be found on the Build the Lenox site. Please note that only 40 tickets are available so early booking is recommended."


Lenox study day: booking now!
Posted from Deptford is