Bird Watching Guide to the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries

Forthcoming meetings & events

General meetings are held in January and June (AGM). Meetings are held in the Chapel in the Ladywell Cemetery, monthly on the third Saturday at 2.30pm. Volunteer workdays, under the guidance of the Council Bereavement Services staff, generally take place on Sundays in alternate months

Future activities:

Future activities: New Years Day guided history Walk (Saturday 1st January ) ' More Lock down Luminaries' Based on recent research of some more of the illustrious deceased buried in the cemeteries. Led by Mike Guilfoyle Vice-Chair : Foblc Meet Ladywell cemetery main gate at 13.00. Walk will last approximately 2 hours. Free -All welcome The next meeting is the general meeting, in which all members can participate, on Saturday 15th January 2022 at 2pm.

The burial records of the Cemeteries in Lewisham, including Brockley and Ladywell, have been scanned and digitised under an arrangement between the London Borough of Lewisham and Deceased Online. Initial basic searches are free of charge. Log on to www.deceasedonline.com for more details.

Click below for:

FOBLC 2019-20 Annual Report

List of plants found in the Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries

Heritage Lottery Fund Projects

FoBLC acknowledges the financial support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Ladywell Ward Localities Fund in making possible the project to record the history of a few of the civilian victims of bombings during the First World War, who are memorialised in the Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries

Here are some projects that have been realised thanks to that support:

1/ A Commemoration of Civilian Deaths in the Deptford area in the First World War, an explanatory booklet is available from the Friends group. Click here to see the display panels

2/ The Bombings of South East London 1915-18, a two part resource for schools, click here for School Studies information and here for Questions of Evidence

3/ A Commemoration of Civilian Deaths in Hither Green and Sydenham in the First World War, click here to see the display panels

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Bird Watching Guide to the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries

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