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Population pyramid of the Borough of Lewisham. According to the 2011 census, [6] Lewisham has a population of 275,885, is 53% white and 47% BME, and 43% of households are owner-occupiers. A 2017 report by Trust for London and the New Policy Institute found that Lewisham has a poverty rate of 26%, close to the London-wide figure of 27%. [7]
Lewisham has a bowling alley [24] and the Glassmill Swimming pool and Gym. Lewisham has a number of parks, such as Hilly Fields and Lewisham Park. For 14 years between 2001 and 2015, Lewisham was the only London Borough not to have a cinema. Lewisham once had many cinemas, such as the Lewisham Odeon. In 1930 there were 30 venues showing films. [25]
The borough was formed by the London Government Act 1899 from the civil parishes of Lee from the Lee District and Lewisham from the Lewisham District. The borough also took in a small area formerly administered by Camberwell Vestry on the western slopes of Forest Hill .
She formerly served as mayor and deputy mayor and on Lewisham London Borough Council. [5] She was elected in New Cross ward in 2014 and 2018 and Deptford ward in 2022.She first stood in 2017 for selection as the Labour candidate for Mayor of Lewisham but was beaten by Damien Egan, who was subsequently elected as Mayor in 2018.
Among those who were born in the London Borough of Lewisham, or have dwelt within the borders of the borough are: Danny Baker (broadcaster) lived in Deptford; Rosa May Billinghurst (suffragette) lived in Lewisham; Dominic Cooper (actor) lived in Lewisham; James Callaghan (politician) lived in Blackheath; Sir James Clark Ross (explorer) lived in ...
The borough covered a different area to the old Lewisham District; Penge was transferred to Kent, but the new borough gained the parish of Lee. [6] The larger London Borough of Lewisham and its council were created under the London Government Act 1963, with the first election held in 1964. [7]
Norman and Joan Smith greeting Charles, then Prince of Wales, in Deptford High Street, 18 July 1986. In November 1986, Smith traded places for a day with 77-year-old great-grandmother Daisy Williamson, a former cleaner of Bellingham, South East London, after Williamson wrote a poem about her dream of being mayor.
Sportspeople from the London Borough of Lewisham (8 C, 25 P) Writers from the London Borough of Lewisham (22 P) B. People from Blackheath, London (115 P)