Lewisham
Lewisham in London’s south east reaches from the Thames at Deptford down as far as Beckenham Place Park, taking in areas such as New Cross, Catford and Sydenham.
Tea merchant and obsessive collector Frederick Horniman left his mark on Forest Hill with the Horniman Museum. It’s famous for its beautiful gardens – and overstuffed taxidermy walrus.
Shakespeare’s contemporary Christopher Marlowe is forever linked to Deptford after his mysterious murder there in 1593. Nearby is Blackheath, the site of the London Marathon starting line, overlooked by grand, Georgian-era residences. This expansive common was where Wat Tyler assembled a peasant army in 1381.
Almost 600 years later, in 1977, thousands of local protesters helped put a stop to the National Front’s political ambitions at the Battle of Lewisham.
The much-loved taxidermy walrus at the Horniman Museum
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Pelican Life Insurance Company entablature (sculpture)
Vaere, John de, Coade, Eleanor, Beauclerk, Diana, Lady
1797-1798
Silk screen printing at Goldsmiths Teacher Training College (negative)
Grant, Henry
1962-02
Spa Road Temporary Terminus, London & Greenwich Railway, 1836 (watercolour)
Schnebbelie, Robert Blemmell
1836
Tea break during vocational training at a centre in New Cross (negative)
Grant, Henry
1962-04
Window design
James Powell and Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd, Fourmaintraux, Pierre
1956-1969
