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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 06/10/2026
Our next online #Dulwich #LocalHistory talk is about Lordship Lane. Tuesday 3 November, 8pm. Tickets £5, proceeds to St Christopher's Hospice. www.tickettailor.com/events/bellh...
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Buy tickets – Dulwich Society Online Talk: Lordship Lane: A Road Through Time – Zoom
Dulwich Society Online Talk: Lordship Lane: A Road Through Time – Zoom, Tue 3 Nov 2026 - Shown on Roque's 1741 map of London, Lordship Lane runs from Goose Green to Dulwich Common on the boundary line...
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 06/10/2026
Tonight👇
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 04/10/2026
Our next online #LocalHistory talk is this Tuesday. 👇 join us to hear historian Duncan Bowie on Dulwich MPs. All proceeds to a local charity.
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Partizan Dulwich @partizandulwich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Partizan Dulwich @partizandulwich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sporting Life 1911 How Dulwich Hamlet FC nearly ended up as a Rugby club @dulwichhamletfc.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com
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Dulwich Society @dulwichsociety.com · 12/09/2026
Private tour of the beautiful Dulwich Picture Gallery Gardens with Head Gardener Jack Townson. 10.30am, 24 September. Jack will share tips for successful planting & maintenance in extreme weather and insights into integrating sculpture & landscape. www.dulwichsociety.com/gardens/priv...
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Private Tour of the Dulwich Picture Gallery Gardens
10.30am, Thursday 24 September, at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD Join us for a special in-person tour of the beautiful Dulwich Pi...
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Partizan Dulwich @partizandulwich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Dulwich h#Hamlet FC new Stadium Champion Hill @history.dulwichsociety.com
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 28/08/2026
Join historian Duncan Bowie for an online talk about Dulwich & East Dulwich MPs in the 19th & 20th C. A few scoundrels, some remembered, most forgotten. Tuesday 6 October, 8pm. Tickets £5 to Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers #Dulwich #LocalHistory www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...
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Online local history talk: The Members of Parliament for Dulwich and East Dulwich in the 19th & 20th Centuries — Bell House
Join historian Duncan Bowie for a talk covering the people Dulwich sent to represent them in Parliament and other local politicians. £5.60 | Online | Book here
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 03/09/2026
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Boris Karloff
Short biography of Boris Karloff, Dulwich resident.
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Partizan Dulwich @partizandulwich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
No pubs or non conformist churches on the right hand side - as per Dulwich Estate
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Partizan Dulwich @partizandulwich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Another great talk Alternative Dulwich HIstory from Below still powerful
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 28/08/2026
Join Ian McInnes for an online #Dulwich #LocalHistory talk looking at the development of Lordship Lane from the 1840s to the 1960s through its shops, pubs, industry, churches, housing & transport. Tuesday 3 November, 8pm. Tickets £5, to St Christopher’s Hospice. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...
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Online local history talk: Lordship Lane: A Road Through Time — Bell House
Examine the road's development from the 1840s to the 1960s through its shops, pubs, industry, churches, housing, and transport. £5.60 | Online | Book here
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 28/08/2026
I kinda like that Bluesky has cut their heads off in that link👆😀
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 28/08/2026
Join historian Duncan Bowie for an online talk about Dulwich & East Dulwich MPs in the 19th & 20th C. A few scoundrels, some remembered, most forgotten. Tuesday 6 October, 8pm. Tickets £5 to Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers #Dulwich #LocalHistory www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...
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Online local history talk: The Members of Parliament for Dulwich and East Dulwich in the 19th & 20th Centuries — Bell House
Join historian Duncan Bowie for a talk covering the people Dulwich sent to represent them in Parliament and other local politicians. £5.60 | Online | Book here
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 28/08/2026
Our local history talks restart on 22 September at 8pm. The first one is in-person at Christ's Chapel of God's Gift in Dulwich. Hear local legend Brian Green talk about the Life & Times of Edward Alleyn. This one's free, no need to book. #Dulwich #LocalHistory www.dulwichsociety.com/news/the-lif...
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The Life and Times of Edward Alleyn
Local History talk: Tuesday 22 September 8pm at Christ's Chapel of God's Gift, Dulwich Village Dd Edward Alleyn introduce dynamic ticket pricing at...
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 26/08/2026
Did you know we have a Substack? Our latest article is about this des res that stood on Sydenham Hill until the 60s. Residents included an anti-slavery campaigner, a German banker and Mr Bovril! #Dulwich #LocalHistory dulwichpast.substack.com/p/moss-grang...
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Moss Grange, 31 Sydenham Hill
By Ian McInnes & Sharon O’Connor
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 23/08/2026
I can't message you but if you want to get in touch, he's going to be repeating it in October.
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 22/08/2026
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A Draft of the Royal Patent for the Mastership of the Game of Bears, Bulls, and Mastiff Dogs (November 24, 1604) | Henslowe-Alleyn
Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 22/08/2026
www.dulwichsociety.com/newsletter/s... Edward Alleyn is often accused of benefitting from prostitution. There is no evidence he did, as this article by Brian Green (the man who will be giving the talk publicised in this thread) shows. Bull & bear baiting: yes (see next skeet). #Dulwich #LocalHistory
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Four Centuries of Slander ended for Edward Alleyn? Asks Brian Green
The February edition of Living South contained the most recent example of slander levelled against the founder of Dulwich College , the Elizabethan...
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 22/08/2026
www.dulwichsociety.com/newsletter/s... this has more on how Alleyn has come to be erroneously accused of pimping.
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Four Centuries of Slander ended for Edward Alleyn? Asks Brian Green
The February edition of Living South contained the most recent example of slander levelled against the founder of Dulwich College , the Elizabethan...
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Dulwich Society @dulwichsociety.com · 22/08/2026
Brian Green of our Local History Group is giving a talk in Dulwich at the historic christ's Chapel👇 You won't want to miss this.
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 22/08/2026
Dog and bear baiting yes. Prostitution no evidence. But come along and find out more! #Dulwich #LocalHistory henslowe-alleyn.org.uk/history/brie...
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Brief Biographies of Philip Henlsowe and Edward Alleyn | Henslowe-Alleyn
Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 22/08/2026
#Dulwich #LocalHistory
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 22/08/2026
The Life & Times of Edward Alleyn 1566-1626. Did this early modern actor & entrepreneur introduce dynamic ticket pricing? How did he make a public speech to James I without a microphone? Find out this & more in our talk. 8pm, 22 September, 2026. Christ’s Chapel, Gallery Rd, SE21 7AD. Admission FREE.
A statue of a man in early modern dress extending a hand of support to a young boy
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 20/08/2026
Yep. £1.20 now for cars.
The Dulwich tollgate on College Road. A white weatherboarded hut in the middle of the road. The slate roof of the tollhouse in the background.
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 20/08/2026
Great postcards, thanks! Here's the old table of tolls for using College Road. It costs a little more now! #Dulwich #LocalHistory 👇
photo of a white noticeboard against a blue sky. The board lists the tolls payable for using a road in Dulwich, South London
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 20/08/2026
#Dulwich #LocalHistory 👇
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 20/08/2026
#Dulwich #LocalHistory 👇
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PeteTheFree @petethefree.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Dulwich Old College and War Memorial #London #walking #photography
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 02/08/2026
No evidence he owned brothels. He was a hugely successful actor (Elizabeth I's favourite) & owned playhouses, inns & the national bearbaiting licence. He had no children & left all his money in a foundation for a school, almshouses & chapel. Helped that he married his wealthy boss's daughter.
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 28/07/2026
IanVisits in Dulwich👀❤️
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 28/07/2026
Most places are posh if they have a Waitrose van, but Dulwich Village is a whole different scale of posh.
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 13/07/2026
We don't know for sure but it's highly likely. They were both taught by Classics masters Philip Hope & Henry Hose. Other Dulwich writers around the same time were CS Forester & AEW Mason. Later Michael Ondaatjie, Graham Swift & Tom McCarthy were educated there. shop.dulwich.org.uk/store/produc...
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CRADLE OF WRITERS
CRADLE OF WRITERS: Cradle of Writers by Patrick Humphries. Celebrating OA authors: AEW Mason's The Four Feathers has been filmed a record seven times;
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 08/07/2026
That's so great to hear! I think I showed you the almanac, I had it in my pocket for just such an eventuality!
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Steve Dempsey @gbsteve.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Had a brilliant day out here today. Did some printing, ate some cake, saw a tiny almanac from the 1760s and had lovely chats with several people. . We also came up with the hypothesis that having a strong internal monologue is related to anxiety (I have neither).
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 01/07/2026
Bell House in Dulwich was built by a printer and paper seller. How fitting then, that it's hosting Dulwich's first Wayzgoose this Saturday. #LocalHistory in action! Free events, historic house, we'll be helping, what's not to like?! 👇 #Letterpress #Bookbinding www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...
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BELL HOUSE WAYZGOOSE — Bell House
Large scale family friendly celebration of traditional crafts show-casing printing, bookbinding, pottery, quilting and calligraphy. Free | In-person | Register here
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 23/06/2026
#Dulwich #LocalHistory 👇
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Women of South London @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
2/2 Margaret joined the Artists’ Franchise League and designed posters for the WSPU. She was arrested in 1912 and fined for advertising a suffrage meeting by chalking on the pavement in Norwood Road, Herne Hill. Should have stayed in the borough of Camberwell! She died aged 45 in 1932.
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Women of South London @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
1/2 B1887 Margaret Bartels illustrator & suffragist lived at 23 Acacia Grove, Dulwich for c25 yrs with her widowed suffragist mother Marion. Margaret & sister Olive joined WSPU in 1909, the same year she enrolled at Camberwell School of Art, having won two design competitions for 'The Gentlewoman’
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Women of South London @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
2/2 After she was widowed in 1895, she lived with various of her 8 children and grand children including a house in Dulwich Road, Herne Hill. She died aged 94 in 1931 and buried with Robert in Lambeth Cemetery.
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Women of South London @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
1/2 My G-G-Grandmother Maria Aylmer (nee Raven) b1837. Married pattern maker Robert 1859, they lived in his workshop a few minutes from current site of London Eye, later living in other addresses in Lambeth.
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Women of South London @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Joan Clarke grew up at 193 Rosendale Road, West Dulwich and attended Dulwich High School for Girls. A blue plaque was installed at her childhood home in 2024.
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 03/06/2026
So good. Btw, Chandler named Philip Marlowe after his house at Dulwich College.
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 03/06/2026
Ooh we like this! Henri Llewellyn Lawrence (1869/70-1920) worked from his home at 19 Melbourne Grove, East Dulwich. He was born in Wombridge, Shropshire, Doesn't seem to have been of French heritage. A widowed father of 3 during WW1, his 15 year old daughter Winifred died in 1920 too - Spanish flu?
A newspaper advert for Henri Lawrence, photographer, from 1919Colour photo of a Victorian house, 19 Melbourne Grove. The road in front is bordered by Japanese cherry trees and parked cars
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 03/06/2026
Other Dulwich College writers: Michael Ondaatje, Graham Swift, Tom McCarthy and Tom Rob Smith
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 03/06/2026
No problem! Karloff lived in East Dulwich and his brothers went to Dulwich College but not him. A lot of writers went to Dulwich College - maybe there was a very good English department!
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 03/06/2026
Niven didn't go to Dulwich College. Nor did Boris Karloff though his brothers did. Chandler and Wodehouse attended, as did AEW Mason, CS Forester and Denis Wheatley! #Dulwich #LocalHistory
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 29/05/2026
Come and join us at the beautiful Bell House Dulwich next month to hear about Dulwich singing sensation Anne Shelton. #LocalHistory 👇
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 19/05/2026
Anne Shelton was the Dulwich teenager who rose to fame as the 'Lili Marlene Girl' & sang with Glenn Miller & Bing Crosby in WW2. Come hear her music & the story of her amazing life. Tickets £8 incl. drinks. 25 June, 7pm, Bell House, 27 College Rd. #LocalHistory www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...
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Lili Marlene Girl: The Anne Shelton Story — Bell House
Hear John Temple, author of Lili Marlene Girl, as he tells the story of Anne Shelton’s rise to fame. £8.60 | In-person | Book here
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Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com · 16/05/2026
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