Last Tuesday I attended a talk about the tea journey along the Silk Road at the Horniman Museum. The talk was by Helen Saberi, author of Tea: A Global History. As an avid tea lover, it [...]
Local History Articles
Druce family reunion
An article on Dulwich OnView has attracted visitors to Dulwich from across the Atlantic! In 2010 Melanie Lewis of Albuquerque (New Mexico) was researching her family history. She traced her genealogical line on her father’s [...]
Brixton: Old Photos and Current Issues
The above is a video about the regeneration, or gentrification, of Brixton. If you have any opinions about the issue, leave comments below.
The Asylum
Through the random nature of the internet I came across this location The Asylum. It’s a chapel in a converted almshouse complex fairly near to where I live. The name is somewhat misleading as I [...]
The Future of Kingswood House
Kingswood House dates back from the late 19th century, when it was given its castle like appearance by John Lawson Johnston, a dietician who invented Bovril (a popular British beef extract). I don’t have much information [...]
An Evening celebrating Dickens in words and music
Many regard Charles Dickens as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, others do not agree: they see him as the greatest novelist of all times. And it is true that his books have never [...]
Dr Had’s Jazz and the Leopard’s Spot
Like a challenge? So did Walter Robert Hadwen, born in Woolwich on 3rd August 1854. He left school at the age of thirteen; and even at this young age, he managed to pass the pharmaceutical society [...]
Lovers Walk
This pleasant and quiet wooded path runs south of College Gardens and along the boundary of the Dulwich tennis Club. Many resident don’t know it’s there, but those who do can take this short cut [...]
