Few places have seen such dramatic growth, building and rebuilding over the last 200 years as Lewisham.

From a straggling village, dubbed "long and lazy Lewisham", the area was transformed into a populous suburb and a destination for fashionable shopping. Grand mansions made way for houses and purpose-built shops. The twentieth century saw the arrival of department stores, the street market and cinemas, but also wartime bombing and destruction.

Gradual postwar reconstruction brought self-service shops, council housing and
a large indoor shopping centre. In more recent years, the area has been transformed again with tower blocks and a new police station, and now more redevelopment is promised.

Join us for this excellent zoom from Stuart Hallifax, author of the Long and Lazy Lewisham blog, ( https://longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/blog/ )Stuart will take us through a richly- illustrated story of 200 years of changes in the old Lewisham village. Members of the Society will be sent the link to join the meeting.

The illustration below is roughly the same view in about 1810 and 2025.