Catford's most prominent landmark is the Catford Cat, a giant fibreglass sculpture of a black cat above the entrance to the Catford Centre.

* Cat Stevens lived in a flat above a Catford furniture shop in the early sixties

Just above Catford it is joined by the River Pool.

The station entrance is on Catford Road, a part of the South Circular Road ( A205 ), and has brick buildings on both platforms, though the up side building is no longer in use by the railway.

Some of the Owen Luder Partnership's best known buildings are the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, Derwent Tower in Gateshead and Catford shopping centre in London, which is being considered for demolition.

The Catford Centre, Luder's last surviving town centre of the Tricorn type, was purchased by the local council in 2010 for " regeneration ", which may involve demolition of the housing on the site.

In 1923 it was proposed that Charlton merged with Catford Southend to create a larger team with bigger support.

Charlton stayed at The Valley until 1923, when the club moved to The Mount stadium in Catford as part of a proposed merger with Catford Southend Football Club.

First Capital Connect acquired 23 new four-coach Class 377 sets during 2009, on sublease from Southern, to be used on the Thameslink route for additional capacity and also to allow some of the Class 319 trains to be released for use on the Catford Loop service to Sevenoaks, now jointly operated with Southeastern under Key Output 0 of the Thameslink Programme.

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.

Catford also boast a large 5-a-side center with many teams.

Catford is well connected for public transport, with two adjacent stations where railway lines cross ( but do not interchange ).

Image: Brixton rail station disused platform. JPG | Disused platform linking to the Catford Loop Line, with third statue

The son of Robert Wallace Stewart, author and lecturer, and Eva Stewart née Blaxley, Stewart was born in Bromley and educated at Brownhill Road Elementary School, Catford, Christ's Hospital and St. John's College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first class BA in philosophy in 1929.

It is next to, and on a higher level than, Catford Bridge railway station with the former Catford Stadium separating the two.

Part of a modified tube map is shown with the fictitious tube stations Lewisham, Ladywell, Edge of the World and Catford on the East London Section of the Metropolitan Line south from New Cross tube station.

There is an actual part of the mainline Mid-Kent Railway that interchanges with New Cross tube station, and the stations are, southwards in order: St. John's, Lewisham, Ladywell and Catford Bridge.

* 1 July 1892: Catford Loop Line-Shortlands and Nunhead Railway ( constructed 1889 ) was incorporated with the Crystal Palace and South London Junction Railway to from a loop, effectively quadrupling the LCDR main line.

A proposed merger with Catford South End FC fell through and thus Charlton moved back to the Valley.

There is an actual part of the mainline Mid-Kent Railway that interchanges with New Cross tube station, and the stations are, southwards in order: St. John's, Lewisham, Ladywell and Catford Bridge ( Catford on a different line interchanges with the latter ).

A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of the western end of the Catford Loop Line, showing how it connects with the South London Line to rejoin the Chatham Main Line, thus creating the Loop.

In July 1925 " South Eastern Electrification ( Stage 1 )" saw the line from Victoria to junction with the South Eastern Main line at Bickley, including the Catford Loop Line electrified.

Bexleyheath closed in 1986, with work moved to Plumstead, Catford, and Sidcup garages, although it re-opened in 1988 under the guise of Bexleybus, a unit set up by London Buses under de-regulation, and had a large and varied allocation from Iveco / Robin Hood's & MCW Metroriders to NC Olympians & Fleetlines.

Places in it included Lewisham, Blackheath, Lee, Hither Green, Catford, Brockley, Forest Hill and part of Sydenham.

Hither Green ( Hither Green Lane ), Torridon Road, Catford, Lower Sydenham, Downham and Grove Park operated by Metrobus for London Buses.

* Blackheath, Catford South, Downham, Grove Park, Lee Green, Rushey Green, Whitefoot

Catford South ward, and parts of Rushey Green ward and Whitefoot ward were transferred from the former constituency of Lewisham West.

* 199 Catford Garage-Canada Water / Surrey Quays via Greenwich

* 199 between Catford bus garage and Canada Water Station.

Part of a modified tube map is shown which shows the fictitious tube stations Lewisham, Ladywell, Edge of the World and Catford on the East London Section of the Metropolitan Line south from New Cross tube station.

Part of a modified tube map is shown which shows the fictitious tube stations Lewisham, Ladywell, Edge of the World and Catford on the East London Section of the Metropolitan Line south from New Cross tube station.

* The cartoon My Life As a Teenage Robot features a diner called " Mezmer's " ( named after Otto Messmer ), and the doorway to the restaurant is a giant Felix the Cat head.

He tells his companions that he was beset by a horrible witch who scratched him with her long fingers ( the Cat ), an ogre with a knife ( the Dog ), a giant who had hit him with his club ( the Donkey ), and worst of all, the judge who screamed in his voice from the rooftop ( the Rooster ).

The giant balloons made an early appearance, with Felix the Cat in 1927.

Other mammal species found in the park include Kelaart's Long-clawed Shrews, Toque Macaques, Purple-faced Langurs, Rusty-spotted Cat, Sri Lankan Leopards, Wild boars, Stripe-necked Mongooses, Sri Lankan Spotted Chevrotains, Indian Muntjacs, and Grizzled giant squirrels.

The Cheshire Cat appears and leads Alice into a giant hedge maze ruled by the tyrannical Queen of Hearts and her smaller husband, the King of Hearts.

Panthor is Skeletor's evil feline companion, a giant purple panther who serves as an evil counterpart to Battle Cat.

Many anglers believe that large yellowfin are, pound for pound, the fastest and strongest of all big game tunas: renowned American author S. Kip Farrington, who fished the classic giant bluefin tuna fisheries of Bimini and Cat Cay in the Bahamas as well as Wedgeport in Nova Scotia, Canada, in their heyday, rated the yellowfin tuna of Hawaii as equal to a bluefin ' twice his weight '.

Artist and activist Cat Mazza created a campaign against the inhumane labor practices of Nike through the creation of a giant blanket depicting Nike's trademark swoosh.

The title characters are Cat, a giant anthropomorphic cat given to zany schemes and indulgences ( particularly eating lead-based paint ), and Girl, a cynical girl with a philosophical bent and a penchant for postmodernism.

The Danish government gives Cat an island, on which is built a giant golden castle, right out of a gothic fairy tale.

Cave Cat also meets his end when the vaguely reptilian giant dog ( who resembles Odie and is termed Big Bob by the cavemen ) attempts to play fetch with Cave Cat, throwing a tree at him and unintentionally crushing him.