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J W Heath & Sons, Brockley Green Farm Brickmakers At Work c.1890

J W Heath & Sons, Chudleigh Road c.1890

James Elroy & Family 1892

John Edward Gray & Maria Emma Gray 1864

Joseph Hardcastle (1752 1819) From The Portrait By William Etty

There was little need for state education in Forest Hill during the 19th century, when the numerous private schools catered for the middle classes and the church schools for the working classes. However, the many smaller houses built south of Stanstead Road in the 1890s, of which these in Elsinore Road are typical, overstreched the churches. The London County Council stepped in with the Kilmorie Road School, built in 1903. It was damaged during World War II, but has been restored.

Ladywell Bridge 1856 60

Ladywell Bridge From Recreation Grounds 6 Oct 1898

The houses in Ladywell Road, then called Baines Villas, had probably been built in 1858 as a response to the railway's arrival. On the left is Ladywell Road and the bridge over the Ravensbourne. The line of fence-posts shows the river bank. On the south side, animals graze on what is not yet Ladywell (Fields) Recreation Ground. In the foreground is the garden attached to Ladywell Station and in the distance are Lewisham Congregational Church and the back of Lewisham House. 

Black and White postcard showing the bridge and waterfall in Ladywell Recreation Ground

Black and White photo of the recreation ground from the bridge showing the River Ravensbourne and the old workhouse in the distance, 25/7/1897

Black and White photo of the Ladywell Recreation Ground bridge over the River Ravensbourne, 6/10/1898