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Lifestyle Memories 

Demolition of naval hero’s house

19 May 202217 May 2022 News Reporter 0 Comments

In my collection of London postcards, a curiosity is provided by two cards, one in colour and the other black and white, purported to show Lord Nelson’s house in Merton, writes Jan Bondeson.

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Lifestyle Memories 

This Week 10, 20, 30 years ago

19 May 202219 May 2022 News Reporter 0 Comments

20 Years Ago – Firefighters drafted in to tackle a blaze in a garage block were shocked to find them being used as homes.

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Lifestyle Memories 

£500 house was won by just writing a short story

17 May 202215 May 2022 News Reporter 0 Comments

Tit-Bits Villa, a rather humdrum suburban semi-detached house, had been won in a competition by Private William Robert Mellish, of the Eight Hussars.

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Lifestyle Memories 

‘What the Dickens is so special about villa’

11 May 202219 May 2022 News Reporter 0 Comments

After his many tribulations, recorded by one Mr Dickens, Samuel Pickwick, tired of his wanderings, put aside his Papers and took up residence in a pretty little villa in Dulwich.

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Lifestyle Memories 

This Week 10, 20, 30 years ago

10 May 202210 May 2022 News Reporter 0 Comments

10 Years Ago – People living on a dozen estates are to become the first in the country to be given responsibility for financing their own development and repairs.

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Lifestyle Memories 

Did suffragettes try to burn down church?

10 May 202210 May 2022 News Reporter 0 Comments

On May, 16 1913, St Catherine’s Church, Pepys Road, Hatcham suffered serious damage as a result of fire, writes Sheridan James.

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Lifestyle Memories 

This week 10, 20, 30 years ago

6 May 20226 May 2022 News Reporter 0 Comments

This week ten years ago – A massive public party is being organised on the banks of the Thames to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Up to 8,000 people will sit down for The Big Jubilee Lunch event in the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College on Sunday, June 3.

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Lifestyle Memories 

Was a wife poisoner also Jack the Ripper?

2 May 202229 April 2022 News Reporter 1 Comment

Severin Klosowski was born in a small Polish village in 1865, the son of a carpenter. He was apprenticed to a barber-surgeon, learning hairdressing and acquiring enough medical knowledge to get a job as an assistant surgeon at a hospital.

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Lifestyle Memories 

He cut their throats with a large knife…

29 April 202226 April 2022 News Reporter 0 Comments

Edward Callaghan was a Deptford dock labourer of somewhat dissolute habits, fond of drinking, revelling and fighting. A strong, sturdy fellow, standing six feet tall, he had several times been imprisoned for assault.

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Lifestyle Memories 

This week: 10, 20, 30 years ago

26 April 202226 April 2022 News Reporter 0 Comments

10 Years Ago: Nearly 300 homes were left without water after workers demolishing part of their estate damaged pipes leading from a pump.

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Lifestyle Memories 

Storms masked the blasts from revolver

22 April 202222 April 2022 News Reporter 0 Comments

In 1908, the little semi-detached house at 29 Chatfield Road, Croydon, was home to the widow Mrs Mary Jane Manser, her son Francis and her daughter Mary. Her married daughter Eva also lived in the house, with her husband Walter Jennings.

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Latest Sport

Patrick Vieira says Crystal Palace lost control of the game during Everton’s 3-2 comeback
Crystal Palace Sport 

Patrick Vieira says Crystal Palace lost control of the game during Everton’s 3-2 comeback

19 May 2022 Edmund Brack 0

Crystal Palace let a two-goal lead slip as they conceded three second-half goals to lose 3-2 at Everton.

Alonso’s volley all but secures third place after drab 1-1 draw with Leicester City at Stamford Bridge
Chelsea Sport 

Alonso’s volley all but secures third place after drab 1-1 draw with Leicester City at Stamford Bridge

19 May 2022 Paul Lagan 0
‘He deserved more time’ – Alan Curbishley on Johnnie Jackson’s Charlton dismissal and the search for his successor
Charlton Athletic Sport 

‘He deserved more time’ – Alan Curbishley on Johnnie Jackson’s Charlton dismissal and the search for his successor

19 May 202219 May 2022 Richard Cawley 0
‘I didn’t tell them yet…they will find out now’ – Crystal Palace boss Vieira on Premier League points target
Crystal Palace Sport 

‘I didn’t tell them yet…they will find out now’ – Crystal Palace boss Vieira on Premier League points target

19 May 2022 Sports Reporter 0
A Europa League final goal for Joe Aribo…but no winners’ silverware for South Londoner
More Sport 

A Europa League final goal for Joe Aribo…but no winners’ silverware for South Londoner

19 May 2022 Sports Reporter 0
Johnnie Jackson not planning major backroom changes at AFC Wimbledon
AFC Wimbledon Sport 

Johnnie Jackson not planning major backroom changes at AFC Wimbledon

19 May 2022 Richard Cawley 0

Latest News

Parents who lost daughter to blood cancer fund research project
Lambeth News 

Parents who lost daughter to blood cancer fund research project

19 May 202219 May 2022 Charlie Stong 0

Ruby Fuller, from Herne Hill, was 17 years old when in July 2019 she was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoblastic non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which developed into leukaemia.

Your great South London Press – out tomorrow!
News 

Your great South London Press – out tomorrow!

19 May 202219 May 2022 News Reporter 0
Nursery where toddlers speak multiple languages praised by Ofsted
News Westminster 

Nursery where toddlers speak multiple languages praised by Ofsted

19 May 2022 News Reporter 0
Help for black men with prostate cancer
Lambeth Lewisham News Southwark 

Help for black men with prostate cancer

19 May 2022 News Reporter 0
Council pays family £6,000 after children forced to sleep in kitchen of overcrowded home
Bromley News 

Council pays family £6,000 after children forced to sleep in kitchen of overcrowded home

19 May 2022 News Reporter 0
Life better on estate now drug dealers have moved on
News Southwark 

Life better on estate now drug dealers have moved on

19 May 2022 News Reporter 0
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