This week 10, 20, 30 years ago
10 Years Ago
Police launched a murder inquiry after a 21-year-old was stabbed to death.
Two other men were taken to hospital with stab wounds after two incidents in Walworth.
Police were called to reports of a stabbing on the Old Kent Road and reports of an assault on the Aylesbury estate.
When officers arrived they discovered two stabbed men – aged 21 and 18 – on the raised walkway of Latimer House, less than half a mile from the earlier incident.
Both men were taken to King’s College Hospital in Denmark Hill, where the 21-year old was pronounced dead.
The discovery of ancient bones held up work on a £20m leisure centre which is part of the £1.5bn Elephant and Castle regeneration.
The sports facilities were built on the site of a church and graveyard. Southwark council knew the site would need to be investigated by archaeologists before demolition could start.
The council expected that part of its archaeological work would unearth remains from the burial site, which dates back to medieval times.
However, after the initial excavations, it was discovered that the extent of the findings was greater than originally anticipated.
Hundreds of fans of former world heavyweight champion David Haye queued round the block to meet their hero.
The ‘Hayemaker’ was “stunned” by the response when he opened up his South London gym behind the Park Plaza Hotel in Vauxhall.
20 Years Ago
A couple’s wedding day was ruined by jobsworth traffic wardens clamping their guests’ cars outside St Mary Magdalene Church in Bermondsey Street.
Clare and Lenard Way only just got to the limo that was going to take them to the reception before it too was clamped.
Father of the bride Alan Blake said a clamper told him: “Hurry up and get the bride in the car or I’ll clamp you as well.”
Was it you?
The search was on for the unwitting millionaire in Lewisham who had scooped £1,446,954 in the National Lottery – but was as yet unaware of their win.
The winning ticket had been bought in a shop in the borough on August 28 and Lottery bosses at Camelot said the winner had until February to claim their prize.
Camelot regional centre manager Sam Duffill said: “Perhaps the mystery winner was away on holiday when the draw took place and that is why they forgot to check their ticket.”
A top judge slammed Southwark council over an 18- year-delay in processing a family’s bid to buy their council home.
Walworth pensioner Arsha Calvert and her daughter Beatrice both died while the authority dealt with the claim, the Appeal Court in central London heard.
This meant Mrs Calvert’s son, Frederick, 58, lost his right to buy the former family home in Beckway Street at a substantial discount.
Lord Justice Ward said: “It’s a pretty horrific state of affairs. If half of what you say is true, the London borough of Southwark has behaved disgracefully.”
30 Years Ago
A young mum was calling for Pop Tarts to be withdrawn from sale after she burnt her hand on the toasted jam breakfast snack.
Angela Brogan, 27, of Stockwell, had to have her hand bandaged by a nurse after being injured while heating the pastry for her five-year-old son, Charlie.
Pop-Tarts had only recently been introduced to the UK but had been on sale in American since 1963, said manufacturer Kellogg’s.
The company gave Miss Brogan a £50 cheque and said it did not accept liability.
A row was flaring up about plans to introduce a smoking ban at Lambeth Town Hall in Brixton.
From the beginning of the new year, smoking was only to be allowed in three designated areas in the building in Acre Lane, Brixton – although it was still to be permitted in other council premises.
Tobacco-sponsored pro-smoking pressure group FOREST (The Freedom for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco) said the ban would effectively stop smokers from working at the town hall.
Spokeswoman Majorie Brady said: “As such, it is an absurd and gross infringement on freedom.”
Prison officers were using some jailhouse rock to relieve prisoners of their hard-earned cash.
The Wandsworth Prison Officers banded together to cut an album in aid of Bosnian and Croatian refugees and prisoners were their biggest customers.
The album, Did You See The Refugees, shot to the top of the jailhouse pops.
The mastermind behind the group was prison officer Tony Mottram who penned the songs for the album.
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