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Ella Kissi-Debrah

Vigil held for Ella, who died from chronic asthma due to air pollution

24 January, 2022 by Pasha O

A nine-year-old girl who died from chronic asthma brought on by polluted air in Lewisham has been remembered at a vigil. In February 2013, Ella Kissi-Debrah, who lived in Lewisham just 25 meters from the South Circular Road, passed away after suffering dozens of acute seizures over three years. As a result of a second …

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The Bakerloo Line extension to Lewisham placed on hold

20 March, 2021 by Pasha O

It’s terrible news for the people of Lewisham as planned expansions of the Bakerloo line to extend from Elephant and Castle to Lewisham and potentially further have been halted “indefinitely”, Transport for London (TfL) announced. East London Line reports that Andy Byford, TfL’s commissioner, confirmed the halt of both the Bakerloo line and Crossrail 2 …

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Ella Kissi-Debrah

Air pollutions was a factor in the death of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah

17 December, 2020 by Pasha O

Ella Addo-Kissi-Debrah is the first person in the UK whose death certificate lists air pollution exposure as a cause of death. The inquest into her death comes after her mother, Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, campaigned tirelessly for air pollution to be recognised as a factor in her daughter’s death. Ella lived in Lewisham, South London, just 25 …

Read moreAir pollutions was a factor in the death of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah
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Transport for London committed to extending the Bakerloo lin to Lewisham

1 December, 2020 by Ella Palmer

Lewisham and Southwark councils have welcomed Transport for London (TfL)’s commitment to extend the Bakerloo line to Lewisham following a consultation last year. Thanks to the joint efforts of Lewisham and Southwark councils Back the Bakerloo campaign, the consultation undertaken last autumn received over 8,000 responses, with 89% supporting the plan to extend the tube …

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Protests against Lewisham road closures

23 October, 2020 by Pasha O

On Saturday (October 3), a crowd gathered outside Lewisham library to voice their concerns about the traffic calming measures introduced by Lewisham Council.  The low traffic neighbourhood scheme (LTN), a set of road barriers to reduce traffic in Lee was brought in under Covid-19 emergency transport measures and has received mixed feedback.  The scheme aims …

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The Battle of Lewisham

13 August, 2020 by Pasha O

The London Borough of Lewisham is a multicultural borough with a large Black and Asian community, as many of the Windrush generation settled in Lewisham from the late 40s onwards.   Just like Brixton and Notting Hill, Lewisham has experienced its share of racism and fascist uprisings. It was in Lewisham that British fascism suffered …

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Manor Lane Lee

Lewisham Council sneaks in Low Traffic Neighbourhood measures

23 July, 2020 by Pasha O

During the lockdown, Lewisham Council took the opportunity to introduce emergency measures claiming to help the public stay safe whilst walking and cycling. These measures, called low traffic neighbourhoods (LTN), meant that certain roads in Lee were closed off to cars by large planters, and there were no entry signs and traffic cameras. Unsuspecting drivers …

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Lewisham hosptial

Lewisham has London’s first coronavirus patient

14 February, 2020 by CarolD

Lewisham is in the unfortunate position of having the first Coronavirus case in London. After falling ill, a woman took an Uber taxi and presented herself at Lewisham Hospital on Sunday, 9 February. Two Lewisham hospital staff are in isolation in their homes after coming into contact with the woman, a Chinese national who recently …

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Dora Saint aka Miss Read

11 August, 2018 by Pasha O

Miss Read (17 April 1913 – 7 April 2012) Miss Read was the pen name of Dora Saint, who wrote over thirty books from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s. Dora Jessie Shafe was born on 17 April 1913 in South Norwood, London, the youngest of three daughters of Arthur Shafe and his wife Grace Read. …

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Dame Sybil Phoenix

Sybil Phoenix OBE – community leader

7 March, 2018 by Pasha O

Sybil Phoenix is a community leader who has devoted her life to helping other people, especially in Lewisham, the town she made home. Early years She was born Sybil Theodora Marshall on 21 June 1927 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana). Sybil’s mother died when she was nine, and, as her father worked in the …

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Norman D’Alquen amateur photographer of Sunderland Road, Forest Hill

12 February, 2018 by Pasha O

When I was writing about the Catford Broadway Theatre I was lucky enough to get into an email conversation with the daughter of Norman D’Alquen, a local Forest Hill businessman and amateur photographer who took the picture of the theatre under construction in 1932. I found his history interesting and hope you do too. Norman …

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Rosa May Billingurst

Rosa May Billinghurst – suffragette and women’s rights activist

7 February, 2018 by Pasha O

Lewisham’s famous women: Rosa May Billinghurst ( 1875 – 1953) Rosa May Billinghurst (commonly known as May Billinghurst) was born on 31 May 1875 at 35 Granville Park, Lewisham. She was the second of nine children. Her father, Henry Billinghurst, was a banker. Her mother, Rosa Brinsmead, was the daughter of a wealthy piano manufacturer. …

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Edith Lanchester was an English socialist, feminist and suffragette. In 1895 Edith's family had her kidnapped and incarcerated in an asylum for planning to live with her lover rather than marry him.

Edith Lanchester – socialist and feminist

5 February, 2018 by Pasha O

Lewisham’s famous women: Edith Lanchester (1871-1966) Many people know of famous Catford born actress Elsa Lanchester, but what do you know of her socialist and feminist mother, Edith? Edith ‘Biddy’ Lanchester was born in Hove, Sussex on 28 July 1871. She was the fifth child of a family of eight. Her parents were Henry Jones …

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Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton) – Novelist and playwright

2 February, 2018 by Pasha O

Lewisham’s famous women: Clemence Dane (1888-1965) Clemence Dane was born Winifred Ashton on 21 February 1888 in Westcombe Park Road, Blackheath. In 1897 the family moved to 22 Westwood Hill, Sydenham in the borough of Lewisham, where they stayed until 1901. During this period young Winifred attended Sydenham High School. Her family then moved out …

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Eleannor Marx

Eleanor Marx – socialist campaigner

30 January, 2018 by Pasha O

Lewisham’s famous women: Eleanor Marx (1855 – 1898) Although commonly remembered as the daughter of Karl Marx, Eleanor Marx achieved a great deal in her own right as a feminist, a socialist, a translator, a journalist and an editor. Eleanor lived in Jews Walk, Sydenham in the borough of Lewisham, from 1895 to 1898. Eleanor …

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Marie Lloyd – music hall star

28 January, 2018 by Pasha O

Lewisham’s famous women: Marie Lloyd (1870-1922) Marie Lloyd is considered to be the greatest and most popular of the music hall artists, lived for several years in Lewisham, between 1887 and 1893. The house where she lived, 196 Lewisham Way, called Lewisham High Road back then, no longer exists. The site was covered by the …

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History of Lewisham Hospital

31 March, 2016 by Pasha O

Back in 2012, plans were proposed to downgrade Lewisham Hospital by closing its Accident and Emergency services and Maternity unit. The people of Lewisham and elsewhere, came together to protest the decision by signing petitions, marching and challenging the decision in court. In 2013 the High Court quashed Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt’s …

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Broadway theatre and town hall in Catford

Moments in time: Broadway Theatre, Catford

28 March, 2016 by Pasha O

The Broadway Theatre, Catford has had many names over the decades. It started out as a concert hall extension to Lewisham Town Hall called uninspiringly “Town Hall Extension”. In 1926, Lewisham Metropolitan Council decided to develop the site of an old fire station next to Catford’s Town Hall to build an auditorium for a variety …

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Moments in time: Lewisham Town Hall and the formation of the Council

28 March, 2016 by Pasha O

The building we now call the Old Town Hall in Catford isn’t that old and wasn’t the first Town Hall to be built along the strip of Road now known as Catford Road. The first Town Hall was built in 1875 to house the Lewisham Board of Works, a precursor to Lewisham Council which is …

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David Michael – Lewisham’s first black policeman

3 July, 2015 by Pasha O

Former Lewisham Labour Councillor David Michael was also chair of the Safer Stronger Communities Select Committee. Before becoming a councillor, he spent decades working for the police. David Michael was born in Dominica in the West Indies and came to live in the United Kingdom at the age of 11. On his 19th birthday, he …

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Duwayne Brooks sends for Doreen Lawrence on Twitter

14 March, 2014 by SandraD

If there are two headlines I hate seeing more than anything it is “mother of murdered teen Stephen Lawrence” and “friend of murdered teen Stephen Lawrence”. These two headlines relate to activist Doreen Lawrence and Liberal Democrat councillor Duwayne Brooks respectively. I shouldn’t have to explain who Stephen Lawrence is so I’m going to continue …

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Lewisham hosptial

Government appeals Lewisham Hospital decision

28 October, 2013 by Pasha O

On 31 July the High Court today found that the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt MP, had acted outside his powers and therefore unlawfully, in deciding to substantially cut services and close departments at Lewisham Hospital. Quashing Mr Hunt’s decision, the judge declared that he had breached provisions of the National Health Services …

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Lewisham hosptial

Victory for Lewisham Hospital – Jeremy Hunt acted unlawfully

31 July, 2013 by Pasha O

It was good news for Lewisham Hospital campaigners today as the High Court quashed Jeremy Hunt’s decision to downgrade Lewisham Hospital saying that the Secretary of State for Health acted unlawfully. Below is the full report that comes from Leigh Day, the Law firm acting for the Lewisham Campaigners: The High Court today (31 July …

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Lewisham raised author Malorie Blackman named Britain’s Children’s Laureate

5 June, 2013 by Pasha O

Lewisham raised author Malorie Blackman, OBE, was named Britain’s Children’s Laureate this week. A former scriptwriter for TV drama Byker Grove, she is the author of more than 60 books for children and teenagers, including Hacker, Cloud-Busting, Thief! and Pig-Heart Boy. Blackman, whose books tackle issues including racism and ethnic identity will use the role …

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