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Bang up to date, we now have a solar powered post box in Goodrich Rd! #PostBoxSaturday #Dulwich #localHistory

Join us for our online #Dulwich #LocalHistory talk on 'Dulwich Food & Drink'. Tuesday 7 April, 8pm. Ian McInnes explores the Dulwich residents in the forefront of the food and drink industries over the last 200 years. Tickets £5.60, for St Christopher’s Hospice. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...

1926 Miners lock out Dulwich support for the miners 27th June 1926 @pasttensehistories.bsky.social

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This will be a great talk, and with music too! Join us and Dr Temple at Bell House to learn more about Anne Shelton, the Lili Marlene Girl. #Dulwich #LocalHistory #WW2

Barry Road Dulwich WW1 Shrine contained 200 names November 1936 War Memorial @history.dulwichsociety.com

Thanks! 'No publicity' say these Dulwich postboxes! 😆 #LocalHistory

This is all I could find on the internet. Frederick Booth apparently

We have recently come across this photo of the Pearly King of Dulwich. If anyone knows about this distinguished figure or his connection to Dulwich, we would love to hear from you. #LocalHistory

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#PostboxSaturday Queen Victoria and Edward VII wall post boxes in Dulwich #LocalHistory

🚨 NEW POST: The council estate with its own castle - how the London County Council came controversially to build the Kingswood Estate in the 'green heart of Dulwich' in the early post-war years. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/t...

Superb article. #Dulwich #LocalHistory 👇

South London Women Artists (SLWA) have a free exhibiton at Lambeth Archives. 'Sisterhood' is a celebration of International Women’s Day and 18 years of SLWA. www.dulwichsociety.com/news/sisterh...

I'm sorta delighted and mildly shocked by this. I say that as a fan of Bovril but they surely must have had some plaques spare. That said I bet talk is ace.

Join Ian McInnes for this online #Dulwich #LocalHistory talk, 8pm, Tuesday 7 April, about the many food and drink entrepreneurs in Dulwich over the past 200 years. including Bovril, Vestey and many others. Tickets £5, proceeds to St Christopher's Hospice. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...

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Our next #LocalHistory talk is 3 March, 8pm-9pm. Julia Atkins will take us on a virtual wander around the Victorian housing of East Dulwich. £5, proceeds to Bell House's Sunshine Stitchers. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...

The anonymous pillar boxes generally have very small slots, onlu of use for postcards and standard letters. But at the time with several collection and deliveries a day and before telephones they were the "the communication web" for ordinary people!!

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George V pillar box, Forest Hill Road, East Dulwich. There are also some "Anonymous" post boxes in East Dulwich from circa 1880, when many houses were being built there.

COVID 19 Test Centre Belair Park Dulwich @history.dulwichsociety.com @unison.org.uk

Edward VIII pillar box in Nunhead, it is one of the very few in the country.

Thanks Gavin! Yes here's a box without an emblem from Half Moon Lane. #Dulwich #LocalHistory

#PostBoxSaturday Edwardian wall box in Alleyn Road, Dulwich #LocalHistory

#PostBoxSaturday Victorian wall box in College Rd, Dulwich #LocalHistory

Our next #LocalHistory talk is 3 March, 8pm-9pm. Julia Atkins will take us on a virtual wander around the Victorian housing of East Dulwich. £5, proceeds to Bell House's Sunshine Stitchers. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...

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"PROMOTION ROUNDABOUT" A Brief History Of Traffic Flow, Blake and Hamlet Pride Goose Green hallowed ground to Dulwich Hamlet Fans (and William Blake) @dulwichhamletfc.bsky.social @patientgrissel.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com @pasttensehistories.bsky.social

New month, new blogging, vlogging and social media prompt! For February we have #OnePlaceNetworks – an opportunity to explore networks involving people in our #OnePlaceStudies, who were linked by a variety of familial, financial, business, charitable, religious, recreational and other relationships.

We've started a substack called Dulwich History! Sign up for all that sweet sweet #LocalHistory content. dulwichpast.substack.com

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory I've left feedback for Ancestry on just how awful I think this new format is. If you would care to join in: Submit Feedback: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Pr...

The Herne Hill Forum is fundraising to replace the much-loved (but worn-out) wooden train benches outside Herne Hill station with beautiful new ones. Expect classic livery and hidden surprises like penguins & other cheeky passengers! Support the project here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/herne-hill...

Our next online #LocalHistory talk is Tuesday 3 February, 8pm-9pm. 'Lamps on the Corner: 250 Years of Medicine in Dulwich'. £5, proceeds to St Christopher's Hospice. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...

Wow, thanks @oneplacestudies.bsky.social! You publicised this before us! Proceeds to Ukrainian support group Sunshine Stitchers. We also have an #online talk Tuesday 3 Feb, 8pm: Lamps on the Corner: 250 Years of Medicine in Dulwich. Proceeds from that to St Christopher's Hospice. #LocalHistory

Our next online #LocalHistory talk is 'Lamps on the Corner: 250 Years of Medicine in Dulwich'. Ian McInnes explores the everyday history of medicine in Dulwich. £5, proceeds to St Christopher's Hospice. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...

Annie Besant's radical advocacy for birth control and reproductive rights in Victorian England, leading to her famous 1877 obscenity trial with Charles Bradlaugh

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I have been reading Gyles Brandeth's book Somewhere a Boy and a Bear about A A Milne who wrote Winnie The Pooh. It mentions that his wife, Daphne, mother of Christopher Robin, knew Havelock Ellis.

That's our first online #LocalHistory talk of 2026 by the way. Obviously we have done talks before. In fact we've done quite a lot of them!

Our first online #LocalHistory talk is 'Sexual Reformers in Dulwich 1870-1925' - bet you didn't know there were enough sexual reformers in Dulwich to fill a whole talk! It's on Tuesday 6 January, 8pm-9pm. Proceeds go to Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...

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Wishing all our followers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy 2026. Thank you especially to those who have supported our online #Dulwich #LocalHistory talks. By buying a ticket this year you have helped raise well over £1,000 for local charities, as well as learning a bit about our corner of London.

Season’s Greetings from all of us at Dulwich Society. Thank you for supporting our shared love of Dulwich. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2026.

it's one of those features or Fall songs I feel. 'Sexual Reformers in Dulwich'

Our next online #LocalHistory talk is 'Sexual Reformers in Dulwich 1870-1925'. 6th January, 8pm-9pm. Proceeds go to Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...