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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

Forthcoming meetings & events

Open committee meetings are usually held every other month, on the third Tuesday; general meetings are held in January and June (AGM). Meetings are held in the Chapel in the Ladywell Cemetery, starting at 7.30pm. Volunteer workdays, under the supervision of the Council Bereavement Services staff, generally take place on Sundays in alternate months

Sunday 17th February.

Work Session: 10am to 1pm

Saints, Sinners & Savants, taking in graves of historic interest including one linked to Apache leader Gernonimo. Meet at Ladywell Gate: 2pm

The next Open Committee Meeting will be on Tuesday 19th March 2019 at 7.30pm

The next Work Session will be on Sunday 20th January 2019 10am -1pm. (Weather permitting - please contact Geoffrey Thurley to confirm) Meet at Ladywell Chapel

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:

Meeting and Work Day dates 2018

FOBLC 2017-18 Annual Report

List of plants found in the Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries

Friends of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries

Registered Charity

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