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Friends of Brockley and Ladwell Cemeteries, a voluntary group dedicated to helping protect and promote these beautiful and historic cemeteries.

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Joined February 2009
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FOBLC@FOBLC4 Apr 2023
Please join us for a free Wildflower & Nature Guided Walk on Sunday 16th April led by Tom Moulton and Peter Robinson Meet 2pm at the Ladywell Road gate, the walk is expected to last around 90 minutes  foblc.org.uk
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This is going to be fab, and the most fun you can have in a Victorian cemetery! Go for the donkey story, but stay for the excellent history and sweaty men (in the history, not in the cemetery). #history
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A cruciform headstone in Ladywell cemetery leads Mike Guilfoyle @FOBLC to the story of Irish chemist Eugene Sweny and his family’s encounters with the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte and novelist James Joyce. bit.ly/3Ei9fWA
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Great Open Day @FOBLC with the astonishingly knowledgable Mike giving his fab guided cemetery tours-remember a lot of our local cemetery is very shaded so a good place to go in these hot days ahead! 🥵🔥😎#GreatOutdoors
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To all the fans and followers of our local history series, London Epitaphs - some very special bonus episodes are heading your way very soon. Forgotten stories from a South London cemetery. #podcasting soundcloud.com/user-98694805…
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So the day of the BIGGEST Community festival in the area has arrived & it’s guaranteed hot sunshine 🔥😎☀️🥵12-5pm TODAY pop down to @Broc_Soc #HillyfieldsFayre & meet your neighbours-LOTS of stalls/activities/events etc-something for everyone #FamilyFun #SeeYouLater
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There was life before the footie, when we even had hope yesterday afternoon!⚽️🤣Brilliant & informative walk/talk by the delightful Mike Guilfoyle in the equally delightful @FOBLC Always such a good Open day #Community #LoveOurArea
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Last few hours to check out the amazing artwork at the chapel 💒 @FOBLC by Quaggy Printmakers-prints VERY affordable-some absolute bargains! There until 330pm TODAY #SupportLocalArtists
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#WorldPoetryDay With the outbreak of WW1, David Jones enlisted into the London Welsh Battalion of the RWF and served on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918. His experiences in the trenches were to prove important in his painting and poetry, especially the fighting at Mametz Wood.
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Mike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, had a hunch that this World War One painting by an Italian artist had a local link. The story takes him from the battlefields near Arras to Brakespeares Rd, Brockley bit.ly/3pG5GyR
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Norwegian merchant adventurer Peter Hauff, one-time resident of ‘Jaerningham Rad’, Brockley, found fame and fortune in his travels along the Mekong River in Vietnam and Laos. Read the latest from Mike Guilfoyle @FOBLC bit.ly/3oFROEn
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Our series of eye-opening short histories based on Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery in South London keeps gaining followers around the world well after its first episode about the murdered servant girl, Jane Clouson, first aired. #London #History soundcloud.com/user-98694805…
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Mike Guilfoyle, @FOBLC vice-chair, uncovers the life of George Snowden, a printer turned Sotheby’s clerk who became a prominent figure in the Victorian book trade and helped force a record bid for a Gutenberg Bible. bit.ly/3nsq1qB
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Mike Guilfoyle is in a suitably Dickensian mood before Christmas! The @FOBLC vice-chair recalls the short life of Ethel Hannah Newberry who died in the Lewisham Workhouse Infirmary: bit.ly/2Wsmz41
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Local historian Mike Guilfoyle has found another crackin’ tale Dallas actor buried in our local Brockley and Ladywell cemetery - foblc.org.uk/2020/06/dallas-…
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Still rooting around and discovering the amazing lives from the past buried in our local Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries. Local historian Mike Guilfoyle has unearthed his latest offerings in Vol 3 of cemetery lives. Go to foblc.org.uk to order a copy.
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Interesting interview today with Bibi Berki talking to Bob Le-Roi about local Epitaphs found in South East London. Hear the fascinating stories about our predecessors over the next two weeks at 9.30 in Greenwich Breakfast 96.5 smart on speakers/phone maritimeradio.co.uk
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The shocking story of Adeline Tanner from @TempestProduct1 sold into sexual slavery in 1879 told by local #FOBLC historian Mike Guilfoyle - painful echoes of today’s modern day slavery. Adeline is buried in our local Brockley cemetery. m.soundcloud.com/user-986948…
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Over the WEEKEND pop down to @FOBLC chapel & check out the Art exhibition 🎨’Flights of Fancy’ by the very talented Quaggy Printmakers as part of @BrockleyMax Some VERY affordable screen prints & etchings for sale PLUS printing workshops
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Over W/E at local cemetery @FOBLC art exhibition 'Animals in Service' celebrating heroism of animals in the 1st WW 11-4pm plus cemetery tour
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