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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]
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]
The district comprised the following civil parishes: [1]. Lewisham (Kent); Penge (Surrey); Under the Metropolis Management Act 1855 any parish that exceeded 2,000 ratepayers was to be divided into wards; as such the parish of Lewisham within the Lewisham District Board of Works was divided into three wards (electing vestrymen): No. 1 or Blackheath (9), No. 2 or Sydenham (12) and No. 3 or ...
History • Created: 1900 • Abolished: 1965 • Succeeded by: London Borough of Lewisham: Status: Metropolitan borough: Government: Lewisham Borough Council • HQ: Town Hall, Catford • Motto: Salus Populi Suprema Lex (The welfare of the people is the highest law) Coat of arms of the borough council: Map of borough boundary
In 2016 he was appointed president of the Society. Rhind was a long-standing member of the Lewisham Local History Council (an advisory group set up by Lewisham Council), and a member of the Greenwich Industrial History Society and Lewisham Local History
Pages in category "History of the London Borough of Lewisham" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Abraham Colfe (7 Aug 1580 [1] – 5 Dec 1657 [2]) was vicar of Lewisham from 1610 to 1657 and a notable English philanthropist, founding Colfe's School, a reading (primary) or Latin school and five almshouses for the inhabitants of Lewisham (today, part of south-east London). The school later came to bear his name.
Stone House 281 Lewisham Way, Lewisham: Villa: c1771-3: 5 July 1950: 1193368: Upload Photo: The Fludyer Tomb, Lee Old Churchyard Lee, Lewisham: Chest Tomb: c. 1769 1 June 2007