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Lewisham North was a highly marginal seat won by Labour in a by-election in 1957, but Chataway's charm helped to win the seat with a majority bigger than it had been in the previous general election.
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Woolwich Arsenal's move to North London in 1913 gave Charlton an opportunity to develop, and they became a senior side by joining the Lewisham League.
Transport links have improved significantly, with the Isle of Dogs gaining a tube connection via the Jubilee Line Extension ( opened 1999 ) and the DLR being extended to Beckton, Lewisham, London City Airport, North Woolwich and Stratford.
* at North Woolwich passengers could cross the Thames via the Woolwich foot tunnel or the free ferry to Woolwich Arsenal station for connections on the North Kent line to Medway Towns, Gravesend, Dartford, Sidcup, Abbey Wood, Blackheath, Lewisham, Greenwich and Central London
It is located in Deptford, London Borough of Lewisham, on the North Kent Line, about three miles from London Bridge station.
Although the LEL actively supported an independent candidate who was a member at the Lewisham North by-election, 1957 it was not a political party.
Hammond was the chairman of the Lewisham East Conservative Association for seven years from 1989 and contested the 1994 Newham North East by-election caused by the death of the sitting Labour Ron Leighton, losing to Labour's Stephen Timms by 11, 818 votes.
He had been narrowly elected as a Conservative to the London County Council in 1958 in Lewisham North, and was then selected to stand for Parliament in the same seat.
Additionally, part of the viaduct at North Greenwich for the line to the original terminus between Mudchute DLR station and Island Gardens survived and was used, though this section became disused again when the extension to Lewisham was constructed and those stations replaced with ones nearby but below ground.
* Lewisham, where the Bexleyheath and North Kent lines divide from the South Eastern Main Line and Hayes Line.
North of Summer Hill is the suburb of Haberfield, to the east is Lewisham, to the south is Dulwich Hill, and to the west is Ashfield.
There is a Scout campsite at Hammerwood owned and operated by the Lewisham North District Scouts.
The Socialist Party contested the 2005 election as Socialist Alternative in Bootle, Brighton Kemptown, Bristol North West, Cardiff South and Penarth, Coventry North East, Coventry South, Leicester West, Lewisham Deptford, Newcastle East and Wallsend, Sheffield Heeley, Stoke-on-Trent Central, Swansea West, Wakefield, Walthamstow, Wythenshawe and Sale East.
The North Kent Line is a railway line which runs from Lewisham Vale junction ( at the country end of station ) where it splits from the Southeastern Main Line to Rochester Bridge junction ( just south of station ) where it links up with the Chatham Main Line
The North Kent Line is regarded as a high-frequency line, with all stations in the London area being served by at least 4 trains per hour, with Lewisham being served by 14tph.
* 2tph between London Cannon Street & Crayford, continuing to London Cannon Street via North Kent Line & Greenwich Line ( calling at Lewisham, New Cross & St Johns )
Once a byword for solidly Tory suburbia, Streatham has swung heavily against the Conservative Party since the 1980s, even more than other similar seats in South London ( such as Croydon North, Dulwich, Lewisham East and West ).
Lewisham and was
The Magician's Nephew refers to these books in the opening of the novel as though their events were true, mentioning the setting of the piece as being when " Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road ".
Love and Mr Lewisham was well received, and C. F. G. Masterman told Wells that he believed that along with Kipps it was the novel most likely to endure.
He was a keen admirer of architect Walter Segal who set up a ‘ build it yourself ’ system in Lewisham meaning that land that was too small or difficult to build on conventionally was given to people who with Segal ’ s help would build their own homes.
* Phase 4 was the possible continuation of the Lewisham branch to take over suburban services on the Addiscombe and Hayes branches.
Bellingham is a neighbourhood and electoral ward in the London Borough of Lewisham, and consists mainly of social / council housing built in the 1920s on what was then farm land.
This was previously organised and financed by the London Boroughs of Greenwich and Lewisham, but Greenwich Council withdrew its share of the funding in 2010.
The old Town Hall, ' the Catford Cathedral ' of 1875, was replaced by the current Civic Suite in 1968, soon after the merger of the metropolitan boroughs of Lewisham and Deptford.
Catford was historically part of Kent until 1889, when it was absorbed into the new London County Council, along with the majority of the present day London Borough of Lewisham.
A maroon commemorative plaque was unveiled there by Lewisham Council in February 1989.
The Metropolitan Borough of Deptford was formed in 1900 ; in 1965, the area became part of the newly-created London Borough of Lewisham.
A branch of the further education college, Lewisham College, is located on Deptford Church Street ; the college was regarded as outstanding in the 2006 Ofsted inspection.
The boundary between Bromley and Greenwich, and between Bromley and Lewisham, around Mottingham was adjusted in 1994.
The Docklands Light Railway ( DLR ) was extended to Stratford in 1987, and to Stratford International in 2011, with services to Poplar, Canary Wharf, Lewisham, London City Airport, the Excel Centre, Beckton and Woolwich Arsenal.
The borough was formed in 1965, by the London Government Act 1963, as an amalgamation of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham and the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford, which had been created in 1900 as divisions of the County of London.
Lewisham Deptford has been one of Labour's safest London seats for many years-it was the party's 25th safest in the entire country at the 2001 election-though social change in the last decade has seen things become a little more competitive, with an active Liberal Democrat party in the area.
Part of Crofton Park ward was transferred from the former Lewisham West constituency.
A large part of Lewisham Central ward was transferred from Lewisham East constituency, and part of Rushey Green ward was transferred from Lewisham, Deptford to Lewisham East.
Lewisham and marginal
At the 1987 general election he contested the marginal seat of Lewisham West, but was defeated by John Maples by 3, 772 votes.
Lewisham and seat
The seat takes in Lewisham's northern tip-a short stretch alongside the river Thames-along with the Deptford and New Cross areas, and the centre of Lewisham itself.
This resulted in the creation of a new cross-boundary seat of Lewisham West and Penge which takes electoral wards from both Boroughs.
She contested Lewisham East at the 1992 general election, a Conservative seat with a majority of 4, 846 in the 1987 general election, taking it for Labour with a majority of 1, 095, and increased the majority to 12, 127 in the 1997 general election.
From 1966 until 1992, Lewisham West was a classic bellwether seat, being won by whichever party won the General Election ( with the exception of 1979 ).
The seat was abolished in 1950 but recreated in 1974, and is a set of neighbourhoods in the inner London Borough of Lewisham, though collectively they have swung a long way against the Conservatives since the 1980s when the then Sports minister Colin Moynihan represented the seat-the Tories now find themselves in third place having lost it at the 1992 general election.
At the southern end of the seat is Grove Park, one of the quieter and more upmarket parts of Lewisham Borough, which, unlike the rest of Lewisham, generally elects Conservative councillors.
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Love and Mr Lewisham is an 1899 novel set in the 1880s by H. G. Wells.
They marry, but Mr. Lewisham is forced to abandon his plans for a brilliant scientific career followed by a political ascent.
However, the majority are still rented out to families by the London Borough of Lewisham.
The oldest surviving house in the area is the ' Stone House ' on Lewisham Way ( opposite Lewisham College ) built in 1773 by the architect George Gibson the Younger.
The brutalist Eros House, which replaced the Lewisham Hippodrome ( Catford's music hall designed by the famous theatre architect Frank Matcham ) in 1960, is now Grade II listed.
There is a large Muslim community served by the Lewisham Islamic Centre, which also serves the needs of Muslims from all over Lewisham.
Greenwich is bounded by the London Boroughs of Bexley to the east, Bromley to the south and Lewisham to the west, and across the River Thames to the north lie Tower Hamlets and Newham.
Of Deptford's two important houses, Sayes Court no longer exists, but the Stone House in St Johns, built around 1772 by the architect George Gibson the Younger, and described by Pevsner as " the one individual house of interest in this area ", still stands by Lewisham Way.
The district takes its name from the Kyd Brook, a watercourse which runs from Orpington to Lewisham, by which point it is part of the River Quaggy.
Welling is also served by a night bus route, the London Buses route N89, which starts at Erith, running via Slade Green, Barnehurst, Bexleyheath, Welling and Lewisham, towards Trafalgar Square.
Cooper was born at 23 Ennersdale Road, Hither Green, Lewisham, London, the oldest of the three daughters of Charles William Frederick Cooper ( 1844 – 1939 ) by his marriage to Mabel Barnett ( 1861 – 1944 ).
These include Francis Basset, Ist Baron Dunstanville, and George Legge, Viscount Lewisham, both by Batoni.
On stage he appeared as the Sheriff of Nottingham in a musical version of Robin Hood that featured songs by British composer and lyricist Laurence Mark Wythe at the Broadway Theater, Lewisham in London.
This horrific event is commemorated by a plaque outside the Lewisham Shopping Centre ( opened in 1977 ).
Almost all of the SE13 postcode district, which is associated with Lewisham, is within the London Borough of Lewisham, except for the Coldbath Estate and part of the Orchard Estate along Lewisham Road, which are covered by the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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