A delightful journey, "Not applicable" to London Bridge, not surprised it's so popular!

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]

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...

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...

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...

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...

Former bay line terminated here at Blackheath station. Long gone but can easily imagine how it was

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...

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...

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.

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.

Hadn't realised that @serailway.bsky.social has done a 3D station map for Lewisham. More on the way for other local stations.

"The Chestnuts" used to sit on Porson St, south of Loampit Vale, #Lewisham Its residents played an important part in the development of Lewisham: George Faulkner & his successor Benjamin Parks were brick-makers, helping to fuel the growth of suburban London. (Parks also lived a secret double life)

110 years ago today: Military funeral in #Lewisham Christopher Lowe, the first man to die serving in the Lewisham Battalion, was buried in Ladywell Cemetery on 22 October 1915. After joining up aged 41 in June, he fell ill with heart disease in September and died in Lewisham hospital on 19 October.

Nice illustration of the old Dubois shop at the northern end of Lewis Grove being demolished in 1931 - from an advert in Bromley & West Kent Mercury (26 June 1931)

New Post: The Chestnuts - a Lewisham House through time The story of an old #Lewisham house whose occupants oversaw the building of Lewisham and the educating of its children. They shaped the locality and helped to form national education policy. longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/t...

Apparently Lewisham Shopping Centre is "iconic" and "legendary"! www.timeout.com/london/news/...

Just six per cent social housing at Lewisham shopping centre redevelopment plans to be decided tonight. Then again, that's still higher than Lewisham's Council's biggest future housing site at Besson Street, New Cross which has ZERO social homes planned www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/10/16/l...

Love this image from 100 years ago in #Lewisham. Mum and toddler at a bus stop: What are they talking about? What is it they are doing/saying that's attracted the attention of the bowler-hatter man? They are on Lewisham High Road (now Lewisham Way), I think outside what's now Lewisham College).

Love this image from 100 years ago in #Lewisham. Mum and toddler at a bus stop: What are they talking about? What is it they are doing/saying that's attracted the attention of the bowler-hatter man? They are on Lewisham High Road (now Lewisham Way), I think outside what's now Lewisham College).

A lost corner of Lewisham Park. Built in the late 1870s, this north-east block of houses surrounding the park survived WW2 but were demolished in the 1980s to be replaced by flats. If they'd last a few decades more they would have probably been saved by inclusion in the local Conservation Area.

A lost corner of Lewisham Park. Built in the late 1870s, this north-east block of houses surrounding the park survived WW2 but were demolished in the 1980s to be replaced by flats. If they'd last a few decades more they would have probably been saved by inclusion in the local Conservation Area.

A look at how Lewisham town centre works are shaping up. £24 million project covering the market, High Street and library New paving, street furniture, market pavilion etc on the way www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/10/03/a...

Construction work has begun on Lewisham’s new library, two years after the old facility closed as part of a major refurbishment of the town centre. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/10/03/c...

Nice view of workmen building the road on Lewisham High Street, at the junction with Ladywell Road - sometime before 1910. Buildings on the left still remain, most on the right destroyed in WW2 or demolished since. Dress style for road-layers has changed somewhat.

Slightly unclear picture of Freda Clarke, prominent local dancer and dance teacher, dancing as an oyster in 1925. Born in 1905, she grew up on Lee High Road and taught dancing locally from the early 1920s to at least the 1960s. Freda herself performed in Lewisham and across London until the 1950s.

Then and now, around 100 years apart - the former J Sainsbury's at 58 Rushey Green, with its Co-op neighbour now replaced by Aldi.#Catford #Lewisham

Great article from @oldebor.bsky.social on JT Hearne, the cousin of the Catford Hearne brothers. Jack played in the Test match that Alec, Frank and George G all played in. (we met the Hearnes in my post: longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/w...)

The Battle of Loos in September 1915 was a big moment in the history of the Blackheath & Woolwich battalion, which included many Lewisham men. A few months later they paraded guns captured at Loos through Lewisham, seen here on Loampit Vale just opposite St Stephens church: youtu.be/yS7oNWghCMg

The Battle of Loos in September 1915 was a big moment in the history of the Blackheath & Woolwich battalion, which included many Lewisham men. A few months later they paraded guns captured at Loos through Lewisham, seen here on Loampit Vale just opposite St Stephens church: youtu.be/yS7oNWghCMg

The new fast Bakerloop bus between Lewisham and the Elephant & Castle begins on Saturday and will be free for its first week, TfL has confirmed. The BL1 is intended to be a stop-gap before a Bakerloo Line extension is built. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/09/24/l...

Two historic views of Lewisham station, specifically of platform 2. First from the 19th century, second from the start of the 21st.

Arthur James Fellows was awarded a second Military Medal for 'bravery in the field' after his work fixing communications wires under heavy shellfire in Sept 1916. He grew up on Marsala Road #Lewisham and worked as a telegram boy and a clerical assistant to a local baker before WW1.

Nice then-and-now photo of St Mary's Lewisham from the top of Ladywell Fields in 1874 and 1904

St Mary’s Church in @lewisham.gov.uk hosting a Heritage week ( @nationaltrust.org.uk ) w displays&events. @Lewisham @longlazylewisham.bsky.social @lewishamlocal.bsky.social @ladywell-live.bsky.social @ladywellbowlsclub.bsky.social @lovese4.bsky.social @janecandose4.bsky.social @salamandernews.org

Come to this important public meeting if ur concerned about this jewel of historic @lewisham.gov.uk . Sat’y 4/10 11-3 is a Community day in Grounds of this iconic building. @longlazylewisham.bsky.social @salamandernews.org @janecandose4.bsky.social @lovese4.bsky.social @ladywell-live.bsky.social

Great 1920 advert for hats at Sainsbury's at Lewisham Obelisk

Not sure this would be considered a good idea nowadays #ott #offtopictuesday

May be of interest to @oldebor.bsky.social and @acscricket.bsky.social - both of whose great work is referred to.

New blog post on @kentcricket.co.uk's time 150 years ago based at Catford Bridge, which sadly did not result in a third major cricket ground in London longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/w...

A quick reminder that this is tonight. Hear about @kentcricket.co.uk and their links to Catford.

Next week - Thursday 31 July - come and hear me talk about Catford Bridge as the home of @kentcricket.co.uk 150 years ago: www.lewishamlocalhistorysociety.org.uk/programme

Might be of interest to @runningpast.bsky.social @catfordcat.bsky.social @lewishamheritage.bsky.social and their followers...

Next week - Thursday 31 July - come and hear me talk about Catford Bridge as the home of @kentcricket.co.uk 150 years ago: www.lewishamlocalhistorysociety.org.uk/programme

The Anarchist Festival in Lewisham that never was - police evicted the squatted Odeon cinema the night before in April 1986. [updated post with #spycops report] transpont.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-...

Lovely colourised photo of Rushey Green before WW1. The old fire station just behind the tram had already closed (replaced by the one in Ladywell) - the Broadway theatre was built on the site in the 1930s.

On 10 May 1945, the King and Queen's post-#VEDay tour of London took them to Lewisham and the wreckage of the V1 strike nearly a year earlier. They were greeted by large crowds and spoke to survivors. longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2024/08/23/l...

Today/Sunday the Fox & Firkin in @lewisham.gov.uk are hosting a great fundraiser for Lewisham Donation Hub . @ladywell-live.bsky.social @lewishamfoodbank.bsky.social @longlazylewisham.bsky.social