18 September 2020

Could the Horniman Gardens bee any more friendly?

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By Quetta Kaye The new installation in front of the Horniman Museum has a variety of bee ‘hotels’ sited around raised beds of insect-attract...

The Great Big SE4 and SE23 Raffle

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Back in April, when we were under serious lockdown, and virtually all local shops were shut, a couple of local ladies, Amanda Pearce and Nic...

Gardening Through Lockdown

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Wesley Shaw, the Horniman Gardens’ Head of Horticulture, was interviewed by Quetta Kaye, chair of Forest Hill Society’s Environment Committe...
17 September 2020

Millie Small (1946‒2020)

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 By Gary Thornton The singer Millie Small, who died aged 73 in May, may be one of the more surprising musical connections to Forest Hill.  B...

“I Am a Man”

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In June this year, after the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in the American city of Minneapolis, two new artworks appeared in F...
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16 September 2020

Swifts Take Up Residence

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Two years ago, the Lewisham Swifts group enlisted the help of the Forest Hill Fire Brigade to install swift nest boxes on the side of a bloc...
15 September 2020

Ellie Reeves MP

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Labour Member of Parliament for Lewisham West and Penge The last few months have been the most difficult since being elected to Parliament t...

Positivity Rocks!

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By Belinda Evans There has been a fabulous project running at Brent Knoll School on Perry Rise called “Positivity Rocks”.  Pupils at the sch...

Sans Store

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Opened in August, this new shop at 5-7 Brockley Rise (close to Stanstead Road) offers a wide range of produce including: • Bakery items an...
14 September 2020

From Our Foreign Correspondent on Lockdown … Blythe Hill Fields

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Opportunities for far-flung exploration have been curtailed during the coronavirus lockdown and you probably don’t want to read about a thre...