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unusual facts about South East London


Wayne Routledge

Routledge was born in Sidcup, South East London and attended Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath.


Kyal Marsh

That summer Marsh moved to the United Kingdom, and in September 2007 he was announced as a cast member for the next series of the Sky One reality show Cirque de Celebrite, which is filmed on Woolwich Common in South East London.


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Benjamin Odeje

The family lived in south-east London, where Odeje attended South East London Secondary School in Deptford, and his mother worked as a nurse.

Callender's Cableworks Band

Ltd, later British Insulated Callender's Cables, in Belvedere, south-east London, and performing in London and south-east England.

Edmund Walter Pook

Jane, who was just seventeen years old, was attacked with a hammer in Kidbrooke Lane, Eltham, South-East London - a killing that came to be known as the Eltham Murder.

From the Makers of...

The final page chronicles the band's history year by year, from their beginnings in Peckham, South East London, in 1962 through to the set's release in 1982.

Lovers rock

Dennis Harris then set up a new record label, Lover's Rock, at the south east London premises on Upper Brockley Road along with John Kpiaye and Dennis Bovell, which gave the new genre a name.

Madeira Day

In 2010 on the 2nd May (Postponed until the 3rd due to poor weather) it will be celebrated again in Kennington Park, south east London from 10am to 7pm with food, drink and live music.

Never Miss a Beat

These scenes were filmed around the Tavy Bridge area of Thamesmead, South East London.

The video shows the band performing in The Barge Pole Public House, based in Abbey Wood, South East London, with sporadic glimpses of people wearing masks occurring frequently throughout.

Oswald Hope Robertson

Robertson was born in Woolwich in south-east London, but at the age of one-and-a-half he emigrated with his parents to California, settling in the San Joaquin Valley.

Paul Vaessen

In 1985, Vaessen almost died from stab wounds suffered when a drug deal went wrong and dealers knifed him in a side street off the Old Kent Road in South East London.

R v Gnango

At approximately 6.20 pm on 2 October 2007, 26 year old Polish care worker Magda Pniewska was making her way home from her place of work at Manley Court, a care home run by Bupa in New Cross in South East London.

Richard Jupp

a folly, Severndroog Castle (built as a memorial to Commodore Sir William James – a former chairman of the East India Company), on Shooter's Hill in south-east London (1784).

ROF Bridgend

In 1935, it was therefore agreed to keep armaments research at the Woolwich Arsenal in south-east London, while production would be transferred to two new factories at ROF Chorley in Lancashire (Filling Factory No.1) and ROF Bridgend in Glamorgan (Filling Factory No.2).

Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha

Baltacha is currently a physical education teacher and tutor at Bacon's College in South East London, having formerly been a physical education teacher at Geoffrey Chaucer Technology College (Old Kent Road, London) and a coach at the Charlton Athletic academy.

The Peckham Experiment

George Scott Williamson (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978), a husband and wife team, opened the Pioneer Health Centre in an area - Peckham, south east London, which was chosen because "this populace roughly represents a cross-section of the total populace of the nation with as widely differing a cultural admixture as it is possible to find in any circumscribed metropolitan area" - in a house in Queen's Road SE5 in 1926.

TN postcode area

However TN14 also covers part of south east London, and TN16 covers part of south east London and Tatsfield in Surrey.

Vernon Corea

Vernon Corea was a Christian, he was very involved in the work of the church in the UK - he was a Lay Reader of the Church of England at Emmanuel Church in Wimbledon Village, South-West London and previous to that appointment he was Lay Reader at Christ Church, Gipsy Hill in South-East London.