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  Thread: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School
Post: RE: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School

The original question was from the school staff. We've now found out quite a bit from the London Metropolitan Archive the school was opened in 1894 as Brockley Road school. It was built on land bought...
AndyLawrence Wider Topics 15 12,193 30-01-2016, 08:11 AM
  Thread: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School
Post: RE: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School

No worries, it's probably easier if we communicate directly, I'll PM you an email address. Do you have a particular reason for being interested in the school? It'll give me some idea of what to foc...
AndyLawrence Wider Topics 15 12,193 02-01-2016, 06:17 PM
  Thread: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School
Post: RE: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School

I'd be happy to pull any documents I can find it n the archive and see if we can find anything which tells us more of the story. The reference that you've found is to some school registers.
AndyLawrence Wider Topics 15 12,193 02-01-2016, 06:02 PM
  Thread: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School
Post: RE: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School

Beat me to it, I was just browsing LMA myself. Do you have a readers ticket?
AndyLawrence Wider Topics 15 12,193 02-01-2016, 05:13 PM
  Thread: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School
Post: RE: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School

I think that map must be later that the one I sent because Beecroft Road is shown.
AndyLawrence Wider Topics 15 12,193 02-01-2016, 05:12 PM
  Thread: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School
Post: RE: Calling historians

The photograph
AndyLawrence Wider Topics 15 12,193 02-01-2016, 03:43 PM
  Thread: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School
Post: RE: Calling historians

I've found a photograph dated c1936 which may help. The school is not on the Ordnance Survey map for 1870 but there are two buildings shown on the map as schools by 1894. I think I may have to post th...
AndyLawrence Wider Topics 15 12,193 02-01-2016, 03:42 PM
  Thread: Calling historians - Brockley Primary School
Post: RE: Calling historians

I'll have a furgle and see what i can find, in the meantime have a look at Crofton Park Local History on Facebook. I'll post this on there.
AndyLawrence Wider Topics 15 12,193 02-01-2016, 03:01 PM
  Thread: Churches and chapels
Post: RE: Churches and chapels

Sorry, new to this. My first reply relates to the Ideal Homes site and my second to the local history blog.
AndyLawrence SE23 Topics 6 6,832 15-08-2015, 07:29 AM
  Thread: Churches and chapels
Post: RE: Churches and chapels

Thanks, that site doesn't seem to have been active since 2011
AndyLawrence SE23 Topics 6 6,832 15-08-2015, 07:27 AM
  Thread: Churches and chapels
Post: RE: Churches and chapels

Thanks for that, I've found a couple of photos of Malham Rd via that site. Unfortunately without enough detail to orient them.
AndyLawrence SE23 Topics 6 6,832 15-08-2015, 07:22 AM
  Thread: Churches and chapels
Post: Churches and chapels

Hi, I'm looking for any early photographs of the eastern end of Malham Rd, the Methodist Chapel in Wastdale Rd and the Zion Chapel in Malham Rd. I'm also interested in another chapel that was in Ewart...
AndyLawrence SE23 Topics 6 6,832 12-08-2015, 05:28 PM