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Discover more about Dulwich?s many and varied royal connections through this Dulwich Society online illustrated talk, from Elizabeth I through to our current queen. Tickets are ?5 but if you need a free ticket please email [email protected]. All proceeds go to providing a tree and roses for the Dulwich Picture Gallery garden to commemorate the Jubilee. https://www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2022/5/3/royal-dulwich

Wow @preston_johns, you have really good eyesight! What a great find. The house is South Lodge and we know a little about it but not who was living there in 1946 and why they had a plane parked out front! @Moovart, it wasn't built for the Kleinworts, though they did live in several houses in the area, see here https://www.dulwichsociety.com/the-journal/autumn-2014/the-germans-of-champion-hill-by-sharon-o-connor but it does have a German connection (so many Germans lived in this area) as its first known resident was George Egmont Bieber who lived here while he built The Platanes, a huge house which he later sold to Herman Kleinwort. Kleinwort later gave it to King's College Hospital because he couldn't sell it - it's still there on Champion Hill. South Lodge was later leased by Charles Goddard Clarke, MP for Peckham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Goddard_Clarke). @Jenijenjen, we think The Cottage was a separate house. We don't know who lived in South Lodge in 1946 (or 45 Champion Hill as I think it was by then) but will add it to the to-do list for a trip to Southwark Archives, but in 1939 Ethel & Jeffrey Drake, he was a BBC TV engineer, lived here, as did two nurses, Barbara Smith and Jean Menzies. Of course, a neighbour could have been borrowing that large drive but where was the runway?! Perhaps on the fields across the road that had been used for silent movies before WW1 and was also home to Dulwich Hamlet FC?

Thanks for bringing this to our attention Ilona. Your link doesn't seem to work so we've added it here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southwark-stands-with-refugees-online-event-tickets-296996553687

The Local History group of the Dulwich Society has been invited to take over Twitter's weekly discussion of house and local history on @HouseHistoryHr this Thursday, 17 March at 7pm. Use the hashtag #HouseHistoryHour to follow or join the conversation.

Join Duncan Bowie to learn about some of the political activists and social reformers connected to Dulwich, many of them women, who were working at a national and international level. Book here: https://www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2022/4/5/republicans-suffragettes-and-pacifists-in-dulwich-with-duncan-bowie Tickets are ?5 but if you need a free ticket email [email protected]. All proceeds to Bell House After School Club for children with dyslexia

Sorry, should have added that all talks have bursary tickets for those who can't pay. just email Bell House. We'll add this to our posts in future.

Fergus Garrett: succession planting for a long garden season The Dulwich Society?s Spring garden talk this year will be by Fergus Garrett, head gardener at Great Dixter and one of the UK?s most influential gardeners. In his illustrated talk, Fergus will use the magnificent Long Border at Great Dixter as an example of how to plan a long season border using structural plants, underplanting and interplanting with bulbs, use of self-sowers, pockets of bedding, masking with climbers and good maintenance. Fergus will explain how to choose the right plants that offer contrasting shapes, textures and foliage from different seasons to produce multi-layered long season communities. The talk is at Bell House, 27 College Rd, Dulwich. Tickets ?7, surplus towards garden activities at Bell House. https://www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2022/4/4/succession-planting-for-a-long-season-with-fergus-garrett

Fantastic! As both your father and Penguin68 have noted, a very good example of recycling.

This event is still going ahead tomorrow at 11am so we hope to see you there. Southwark's mayor and local councillors are hoping to be there too. The stretcher railings were deteriorating badly so had to be removed, we are glad a couple are still there to help tell the story and we hope our information board will add context.

This online illustrated talk will make fascinating comparisons of Dulwich then with Dulwich now. Spot the difference and see how much (or how little) has changed. Brian Green has a lifetime?s collection of images of past Dulwich together with first-hand memories and interviews with residents. Tickets ?5, all proceeds to the London Wildlife Trust's Sydenham Hill Woods project. Book here: https://www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2022/3/1/on-the-street-where-you-live-dulwich-then-and-now-with-brian-green

I don't know who is going to be there from Southwark Council but I will find out.

Join Southwark Council and the Dulwich Society on Saturday 19 February at 11am to mark the unveiling of the new information board which commemorates the use of WW2 stretchers as railings on the East Dulwich Estate. Meet on the corner of Quorn Road and Dog Kennel Hill near East Dulwich Station. More on the railings here: https://www.dulwichsociety.com/journal-archive/97-2013-autumn/915-dulwich-world-war-ii-commemorative-plaques and here: https://www.dulwichsociety.com/journal-archive/117-winter-2017/1587-a-villager-s-notebook. Also a short BBC News piece here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-40960344 (Admin I appreciate this is a What's On but it's also local history so hoping it can stay here).

Hi sand12, we have reported this to Southwark and they should be clearing away the rubbish next to the Landells Rd cycle hanger by the end of today.

The next Dulwich Society online talk is an illustrated local history of the development of Turney Road in Dulwich from fields to the housing we see today. Tickets ?5, all proceeds to the Bell House Quilt Academy for materials to make quilts for Afghan refugees: when the time comes for refugee families to move out of temporary accommodation to their new home, the Quilt Academy stitchers want to give each family their own personal quilt. Tickets available here: https://www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2022/2/1/on-the-street-where-you-live-turney-road-with-ian-mcinnes and here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-the-street-where-you-live-turney-road-with-ian-mcinnes-tickets-215656633797

Sydney Carton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > and environs > > The Dulwich Society website has an extensive and > fascinating list of notable past residents... Thanks Sydney. Updating the list is on our to-do pile but here it is: https://www.dulwichsociety.com/local-history/797-who-was-who-in-dulwich Our monthly local history talks also have snippets about famous or interesting residents. Check out @DulwichHistory on Twitter or the Bell House website (they run the talks for us and have some old ones recorded).

James the link to sign up doesn't work.

The first Dulwich Society online talk for 2022 is a detailed illustrated history of the development of Park Hall Road in West Dulwich. It features the long-lost Rosendale Hall, the Manor House and the Croxted Rd shops and complements the 'On the Street Where You Live' series published in the Dulwich Society Journal. Tickets ?5, all proceeds to St Christopher's Hospice. Tickets available here: https://www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2022/1/4/on-the-street-where-you-live-pub-to-pub-park-hall-road-between-the-rosendale-and-the-alleyns-head-with-ian-mcinnes and here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-the-street-where-you-live-pub-to-pub-with-ian-mcinnes-tickets-215647165477

Thanks, a good suggestion, we'll feed it back.

Thanks. We'll feed those back.

Nigello, the bin has been repeatedly vandalised, broken into and the contents strewn across the pavement. The door is now broken and the bin has to be taken for repairs. We are hoping that when it returns it can move to another site still in Dulwich but one that doesn't impact on the heritage location of the historic 17th century burial ground. Local councillors are involved and have given us a list of criteria (attached) so if anyone can think of any suitable locations please let us know. We definitely need the bin, it is used more than any other electrical recycling bin in Southwark.

We are trying to put together a list of defibrillators in Dulwich. Please let us know of any or if we have any incorrect locations:

Can't answer your question sorry cellopan, but the Christmas lights are on in Dulwich Village so I'm sure it won't be too long before Lordship Lane is lit up.

Join our President, Kenneth Wolfe, as he wheels the historic Dulwich post cart from Dulwich Square (where Calton Avenue meets Dulwich Village) to its new home at the Alleyn Park Sorting Office. 11.30 on Saturday 4th December.

Yes the new tree, a Japanese Pagoda, has gone in and the bench will come back as soon as Southwark's tree people are happy the tree has settled.

From the late 1950s through to the early 1970s almost 2000 new houses and flats were built in the Dulwich area with minimal impact on the ambience which had made it so attractive to previous generations. To mark the publication of his new co-authored book 'Dulwich: Mid-Century Oasis', Ian McInnes, Chair of the Twentieth Century Society, will give an illustrated talk on the collaboration between the Dulwich Estate, house builder Wates and the Estate's architects, Austin Vernon & Partners. Tickets: suggested donation ?5, all proceeds to charity https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-the-street-where-you-live-dulwich-homes-a-mid-century-oasis-with-ian-tickets-207826293037