* The Football Club Dulwich Hamlet is founded.

The borough is the location of international-standard museums and galleries ; the Imperial War Museum and its outpost HMS Belfast moored at the Pool, Dulwich Picture Gallery the oldest public gallery in Britain, and one of the most modern, the Tate Modern.

The well in the centre of the shield is a ' canting ' reference to Camberwell and the cinquefoils represent the Dulwich area of Camberwell, while the ship on the top left refers to the maritime history of Bermondsey and was part of the Rotherhithe insignia.

It is contiguous with Anerley, Dulwich Wood, Gipsy Hill, Penge, South Norwood, Sydenham and Upper Norwood.

Dulwich () is an area of South London, England.

Dulwich is also known as the location of the Dulwich Picture Gallery and Dulwich College.

The first documented evidence of Dulwich is as a hamlet outside London in 967AD, granted by King Edgar to one of his thanes Earl Aelfheah.

Dulwich Almshouse Charity and Christ's Chapel of God's Gift at Dulwich ( where Alleyn is buried ) still fulfill their original functions.

* East Dulwich which bounds Peckham at Peckham Rye is a separate centre-not just the eastern end of Dulwich-with its own distinct character.

* West Dulwich which is a mainly residential area bordering West Norwood and Tulse Hill.

The village borders on Dulwich Park, where the Dulwich Horse and Motor Show is held every year ( it was here that the new Toyota Corolla made its first UK appearance at a motor show in 1997 ).

Dulwich is also home to Dulwich Hamlet, an amateur football club set up in 1893 and still competing in the Isthmian League today, they ground share with another Non-League football club Fisher F. C.

The Old Alleynian Football Club is a local rugby union team originally for former pupils of Dulwich College, but is now open to all who wish to play.

There is no casualty department at Dulwich at present.

There is a memorial fountain in Dulwich Village which is in remembrance to Dr George Webster, founder of the first British Medical Association ( BMA ), who worked in Dulwich from 1815 until his death in 1875.

Belair House ( which has now been renamed Beauberry House ) on the boundary between West Dulwich and Dulwich itself, is opposite West Dulwich railway station and was designed in 1785 for John Files.

Ian McColl, Baron McColl of Dulwich who served as John Major's Parliamentary Private Secretary in the House of Lords, also lives there.

The area is served by London Buses routes 2, 68, 196, 201, 432, 415, 332, 468 and P13 and route 3 goes along Effra Road and Dulwich Road to the north of Tulse Hill before passing through West Dulwich along the Croxted Road east of the Hill.

George served as a Governor of his former school, Dulwich College, between 1998 and 2008, and served as the Chairman of the Governors between 2003 and 2008.

After attending Dulwich College, Waring served with the Army in Berlin.

He was schooled by a governess until the age of eleven, when he began at Fir Lodge Preparatory School in West Hill, Dulwich, in south east London.

The architectural form of the art gallery was established by Sir John Soane with his design for the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1817.

File: Raffaello Sanzio-St. Anthony of Padua. jpg | An early work by Raphael, 1503, at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK

was cut soon after 1732 by Francis Cox to connect his establishment of the Green Man Tavern and Dulwich Wells with the more popular Sydenham Wells.

In the Second World War, Dulwich was hit by many V-1 flying bombs and V-2 rockets.

Dulwich Hospital in East Dulwich Grove was designed by Henry Jarvis and built on of land purchased in East Dulwich by the Guardians of the Poor of the Parish of St Saviour, Southwark, for the price of £ 50, 000 in 1885.

Old Burial Ground, Dulwich Village, was created by Edward Alleyn as part of the foundation of his College of God's Gift.

* The former St Cuthbert's Presbyterian Church of England on Thurlow Park Road ( technically this is in West Dulwich because it has an SE21 postcode )-The church, recognisable by its Green steeple, was built in 1902 and is located a few minutes walk from Tulse Hill station.

On 20 December 2011, her 1969 sculpture Two Forms ( Divided Circle ) was stolen, from its plinth in Dulwich Park, South London, by suspected scrap metal thieves.

Founder's Day at Dulwich College is celebrated at the end of the Summer Term to commemorate the signing of the letters patent by James I on 21 June 1619 authorizing Edward Alleyn to establish a college in Dulwich to be called ' the College of God's Gift, in Dulwich in Surrey '.

Having already obtained an Act in 1805 allowing them to enclose and develop common land within the manor, the college was granted the power by the 1808 Dulwich College Building Act to extend the period over which leases ran, from twenty-one years as laid down by Alleyn, to eighty-four years, thus attracting richer tenants and bringing in large sums of money.

In 1854, the college was investigated by a new Commission set up by the 1853 Charitable Trusts Act which led to the 1857 Dulwich College Act.

Blyton was born on 11 August 1897 at 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London, England, the eldest child of Thomas Carey Blyton ( 1870 – 1920 ), a salesman of cutlery, and his wife, Theresa Mary Harrison Blyton ( 1874 – 1950 ).

The family moved to Dulwich in 1903, and Newman attended Goodrich Road school, then City of London School from 1908.

Examples include the font at St. Mary's Church, Nottingham and also the font in the basilica of St. Sophia, Constantinople, the font of St. Stephen d ' Egres, Paris ; at St. Menin's Abbey, Orléans ; at Dulwich College ; and at the following churches: Worlingworth ( Suffolk ), Harlow ( Essex ), Knapton ( Norfolk ), St Martin, Ludgate ( London ), and Hadleigh ( Suffolk ).

** Thieves steal millions ' worth of paintings from the Dulwich Art Gallery in London.

In 1904 Holst took his first teaching job as music master at James Allen's Girls ' School in West Dulwich, South London.

Dulwich College, South London ( a modern photograph ).

Alan was born in Dulwich, London, to Alfred Walter Bush ( 1869 – 1935 ), a director of the manufacturing chemists, W. J. Bush & Co., and his wife, Alice Maud Brinsley ( 1870 – 1951 ).

There are examples of Dobson's work at the National Gallery, the National Gallery of Scotland, Tate Britain, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Maritime Museum, Queen's House in Greenwich, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, in several English country houses, and at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand.

The Tate Britain, the National Gallery and the Dulwich Picture Gallery house smaller collections of his work in London.

A table of tolls in pre-decimal currency for the College Road, Dulwich, London SE21 tollgate.

Dulwich was in Surrey until 1889, when the County of London was created.

The Dulwich waters were cried about the streets of London as far back as 1678.

All Saints Church, West Dulwich ( Church of England ) alongside Rosendale Road is a Victorian Gothic building, originally intended to be the cathedral for south London.

The tollgate on College Road, Dulwich, London SE21.

Paying the toll at the College Road, Dulwich, London SE21 tollgate, which dates back to 1789.

A table of tolls in pre-decimal currency for the College Road, Dulwich, London SE21 tollgate.

West Dulwich railway station is about 12 minutes train ride from London Victoria and there are morning trains to London Blackfriars, East Dulwich is 12 minutes from London Bridge and North Dulwich is 14 minutes from London Bridge.