New FOBLC noticeboard

Those who have visited the Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries in the last couple of weeks will have noticed the fine new noticeboard recently installed by the Ladywell entrance. This was paid for by the Localities Fund.

The FOBLC is delighted to have been succesful in a bid for a similar noticeboard which will be placed by the Brockley Road entrance, as well as a joint bid for a nature/walking trail leaflet for Ladywell (which will include part of the Ladywell Cemetery).

'Up The Line': photo gallery and a message from the organiser

It was a proud night for Brockley and Ladywell with hundreds braving the rain to walk through the cemeteries. The children's lanterns were beautiful and everyone appeared to have had a wonderful and memorable experience.

Hairy at the beginning as the rain all afternoon caused a lot of problems and an amusing phone call to B and Q in Greenwich asking after 4 gazebos in November? The lady at the store thought it was a crank call.

Over 60 people worked hard for free over the day to get the event up and running. There was a 10 minute delay at the start but we got the hitches sorted out and then event went smoothly. The local safer neighbourhood Police team looked fantastic in their full uniforms and the Lewisham cemetery team worked very hard all day, evening and after to ensure the site was safe and clean. Colin Burgess in charge of the cemetery team was instrumental throughout insuring the event could be held.

The Rivoli was it's normal wonderful self and a chance for many people to actually see it for the first time.

Thanks very much to all involved - there is already talk of a bigger event next year. If there is to be one it will need to be funded first.


John McKiernan

Here are some images.

Up The Line Programme

Here is the programme for tonight's event. We look forward to seeing you there!

























Stations in order of appearance (starting from Brockley Gate, please reverse order if you arrived from Ladywell Gate)
1. Police Guard
2. Up The Line Choreography: Keren’Or Pézard (www.maaikor.info) Dancers: Yasuo Asano, Wei-Shan Lai, Karolin Bertilsson, Joana Clare, Aiala Urcelay, Typhaine Delaup, Yuko Shinoda
3. Memorial to those who died in Deptford through Zeppelin raids
4. Intermezzo op 117 no.1 in E flat and Intermezzo op 117 no.2 in B flat minor by Johannes Brahms, piano: Julian Jacobson
5. Line up for war - Film: Kai Clear (www.kaiclear.com) Projection: Declan McGill and Jon Lockwood
6. Diary of Albert Hugh Blackmore read by Harry Vendryes
7. Poems by Siegfried Sassoon read by Graham Buchan
8. Poems by Joseph Seamon Cotter, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, Alec Waugh, Anon. read by John Clarke
9. Extracts from “In Parenthesis” by David Jones read by Paul McGrane
10. Zeppelin
11. First Movement of Sonata no.1 in G Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, violin: Yuka Matsumoto
12. Poems by John McCrae, Robert William Service, Robert Freeman Trotter read by Heather Taylor
13. Poems by Bernard O’Dowd, Vance Palmer, Leon Gellert, Judith Wright read by Katherine Gallagher
14. Poems by Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Rifleman Donald S Cox, Joseph Lee, A P Herbert read by Joe Duggan
15. Poems by Marc de Larreguy de Civrieux, Georg Trakl, Franz Janowitz, Gerrit Engelke read by Isabel White
16. Cemetery Chapel open for lighting of candles and reflection
17. Poems by Géza Gyóni and Dimcho Debelyanov read by Csilla Novoszath and Kata Farkas
18. Poems by Katherine Tynan, Margaret Postgate, Miss G M Mitchell, May Wedderburn Cannan, Anon read by Marie Maurer
19. Poems by Cecil Spring Rice, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Robert Laurence Binyon read by David Bottomley
20. Police Guard
21. Oscar’s
At 7.30: Children’s lantern procession starting from Brockley Gate
Please join us after the walk for a chat and a drink at the Rivoli Ballrooms
350 Brockley Road, SE4 - please ask a steward for directions!
1920/30s music with Haydn Meddick plus
Roses of Picardy,Frederick by E. Weatherley, music by Haydn Wood,
Singer: Igor Outkine, Violin: Sarah Harrison

Organisation:
Idea, concept and overall organisation John McKiernan (Moonbow Jakes Events)
Community Event Organiser Moira Tait (Max Media Arts)
Artistic director Helen Schoene
Lighting Tom White
Music Director Prof Julian Jacobson
Poetry Director Isabel White
Children’s workshop Elisabetta Fumagalli, Rebecca Glover,
Gill Fraser
Advisors Colin Burgess, Laura Jane Moss, Amanda Waygood, Mr Ed, Phil Ashford, Andy Blue, Don Evens, Gwen Randall
Photographers Kirsty Leah Cole, Martin Drogosz
Thanks to Sir Steve Bullock, Mike Keogh, Sue Luxton, Derek Johnson, Kellie Blake, Shirley Bishop, Pat Codd, John Newcombe, Dick Merry, Colin Humphries, Nick Barron

Very special thanks to Albert Blackmore


Programme
Up The Line
FOR THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries
Wednesday 11th November 2009
Armistice Day 7.15- 8.26pm
After event at the Rivoli Ballrooms

A Moonbow Jakes Events production in association
with Max Media Arts and Brockley Max

Financial Support:
London Borough of Lewisham

In-kind support:
London Borough of Lewisham
London Metropolitan Police
Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries
Brockleycentral Blog
Brockley Society
Rivoli Ballrooms
Festival Folly
Crofton Park Library
Oscar’s of Ladywell
Mr Lawrence’s Wine Merchants
St. Andrew’s Church
Eclectic Productions

Special thanks to all our volunteers.

Details of children's lantern procession in Up The Line event announced

Come and make your own lantern for the Remembrance Day procession on Wednesday 11th November.



Children will be making lanterns at St Andrews Church (in the hall), Brockley Rd/Wickham Rd from 4.00-6.00pm. £2.00 per child

The procession will take place in Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery, Brockley, London SE4 2QZ between 7.15 - 8.30pm. Children should bring their parents and grandparents.
It will be an unforgettable evening for everybody with poetry, classical music, film and soundscape

For more information contact: 07790642781 or www.Brockleymax.co.uk