St Saviour's church at Brockley Rise is celebrating 160 years of service to the community. Postcard showing the original church, which was consecrated in 1866. St Saviour’s, one of the oldest buildings in Crofton Park, is celebrating its 160th anniversary this year. In the second half of the 19th century the rapid growth of the railways brought previously rural areas on the outskirts of London into the expanding capital, and Brockley and Forest Hill were no exception. T

A look at some of the local memorials to those who served in the First World War. One of the many private memorials you can find locally; this one is to George Frederick Luffingham, who died at Gallipoli, and is in St Saviour's Church, Brockley Rise Last year we wrote about the 147 names on the WW1 Memorial Cross at St Hilda’s. St Hilda’s, however, is not the only war memorial in the Crofton Park area, although it is the most visible and contains the most names. I have tracke

Crofton Park's lovely library has been a local landmark for 120 years. As the library celebrates its anniversary, we look at how it all began. Crofton Park's library is one of several local Carnegie libraries, which were built using funds donated by a Scotsman, Andrew Carnegie. In the late 19th century, Carnegie became the richest man in the world by establishing the steel industry and investing in oil and railroads in the USA. An early influence on Carnegie was John Byers

Edward Paul and Co. Ltd. -- a local business that literally moved with the times. Horse-drawn buses pass each other in the Brockley Road....