Nunhead Cemetery Open Day was busy on 21st May 2022 with its usual idiosyncratic mixture of local history, wildlife and cemetery enthusiast stalls, morris dancers and goths.There was a 'hear… Read More

Tickets are available for my walking tour now Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . Peter Gadsdon If you look carefully, can you decipher the w… Read More

Udine Crali 1939When they kicked back against the influx; their inherent racism was brought to bear on the fact that their gang no longer ran the street.Immigrants out! was the mantra of tha… Read More

This year's Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival is already underway - too late if you've missed vampire film Nosferatu being screened in Nunhead Cemetery, but there's plenty more to come… Read More

Snow in Nunhead Cemetery today, here on the scouts memorial. This is the burial place of eight boy scouts aged 11 to 14 from the 2nd Walworth troop who were drowned on 3 August 1912 whe… Read More

“Il giardino, con la sua immagine, è una forma di conoscenza inseguita e indagata fin dall’antichità, in un percorso metaforico, per ogni spazio e tempo fino al nos… Read More

THE TILLING GROUP The company traces its origins to 1846, when Thomas Tilling started in business. Thomas Tilling was born in 1825 at Gutter's Hedge Farm, Hendon, Middlesex, of parents who… Read More

Nunhead Cemetery The surge in the population of London led to overcrowding in the church graveyards. This increase not only caused the burials to become an unbecoming affair but a large numb… Read More

Oh Summer where are’t thou?by Jen (follow Jen on Twitter:@JenBarnes207) If April showers bring May flowers (and ice cream) then April snow brings May….dough? Glow? Status q… Read More

Fulfilling day in amongst financial worries & emotional ups & downs...Me & Emma are back together - after a break of a few months - a touch shaky as all such things are - less th… Read More