Showing posts with label newsletter0920. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newsletter0920. Show all posts
22 September 2020

Forest Hill Society AGM 2020

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All members and non-members are welcome to attend our Annual General Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, 7th October from 7:30pm. The AGM is an o...
19 September 2020

Surviving Lockdown at Shannon’s

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By Linda Shannon of Shannon’s Garden Centre Since the official lockdown on 23rd March we have had to adapt several times to new ways of trad...
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...

Railway Station Recipes

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By Belinda Evans Our previous newsletter’s recipe of spaghetti with sage and butter went down so well with some readers that we thought you ...
12 September 2020

Birley House Open Air School

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By Sheila Carson In the latter part of the 19th century it was recognised that pollution, overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions in m...

Prioritising Pedestrians at Forest Hill Rail Station

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 After many years of campaigning on the issue, the Forest Hill Society is pleased to see that their proposals for prioritising pedestrians a...
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11 September 2020

Booking Your Library Books

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By John Firmin Forest Hill Community Library has partially re-opened for a ‘click and collect’ book service. Sadly, we are not able to fully...