2008 sees the 50th anniversary of the first collection deposited in Lewisham archives. To celebrate this images and information from 50 collections (1 from each year) will be made available.
Highlighted collection
The Lee Petition was part of A/99/4 a collection purchased from Mr J.L.M Gulley in 1999. A copy of the Lee petition survives with the signatures of 40 residents of Lee. This document is interesting because the people who signed came from vastly different backgrounds.
On the petition are the signatures of everyone from the Rector George Lock, Sir and Lady Palliser, Lydia, daughter of Lord Edgcumbe, to the local baker, inn keeper, builder, gardener, bricklayer and hairdresser. Also J.R. Williams a fellow member of the Friends of the Abolition of the Slave Trade with William Wilberforce.
List of collections to be added over 2008
- A/58/2 Edward Hall Collection: Part One
- A/59/22 Horniman Museum: Records
- A/60/62 Northbrook School
- A/61/12 Lease: 50, Brownhill Road, Catford
- A/62/6 Records of the Baring Estate, Lee
- A/63/10,11 Records of Armoury Mill, Lewisham, Kent
- A/64/3 Green Man Hotel
- A/65/10 Edward Hall Collection: Part Two
- A/66/1 Papers of Emilio Tafani
- A/67/2 Collingwood's Drapery Business, Deptford
- A/69/2 Roll of Honour of the 20th London Regiment
- A/70/15 Papers of S.F. Godley
- A/71/4-6 Hardcastle family of New Cross Collection
- A/72/2 Blackheath Hockey Club: Records
- A/74/10 A T Manfield and Sons: Records
- A/75/3 Bellingham Bowling and Lawn Tennis Club: Records
- A/76/6 Forest Hill and the Sydenham Methodist Circuits: Records Now part of NM/1
- A/77/50 Williamson Collection
- A/78/28 Carters Tested Seeds Ltd
- A/79/22 Leland Duncan Papers
- A/81/39 Lord Morrison Collection
- A/82/14 2nd Lieutenant William Osmond Collection
- A/83/26 Steele Family Collection
- A/84/15 Rent book Miller at 9 Frankham Street, Deptford A/85/35 Elliott Brothers' Lewisham Works: Records
- A/86/8 Gaumont Palace, Lewisham: Programme
- A/87/9 Illustrations of Deptford, Kent
- A/88/3 Farm buildings at the Manor House, Lee
- A/89/94 10th Lewisham South Scout Group: Records
- A/89/95 E.L. Giles Collection
- A/90/37 Old Askean Association, formerly Club: Records
- A/91/10 Edward Brasier: Letter Patent
- A/93/11 MBL: Records Drainage Applications
- A/94/6 Mcmillan Collection
- A/95/3 The Association of Jamaicans (UK) Trust
- A/96/6 Photograph Albums of war damage
- A/97/21 Deptford Library Collection
- A/98/6 Alan Miles Collection
- A/00/9 Lewisham slum clearance photographs
- A/01/11 Stone House and Mason Arms
- A/02/11 Diary of Barbara Smith, Forest Hill
- A/04/8 Alfred John Dunkin’s History of Deptford: Proofs
- A/05/6 Memories of Vine Cottage by Will Clarricoats
- A/07/31 Memories of Southend Village by Harold Hurden.