Brockley is a district and an

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, England, in the

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south-east of

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. It has been named the best area of London to live in. It is an area rich in Victorian and Edwardian domestic architecture, historic trees and original lanes and mews. This is protected by a

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and the Brockley Society. It has a strong community and numerous popular cafes and restaurants. The station is on both the mainline railway and the

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. The

's Draft Local Implementation Plan 2019-41 proposes linking the station to the Victoria to

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line which crosses Brockley station by 2030.

History

The name Brockley is derived from "Broca's woodland clearing", a wood where

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s are seen (''broc'' is the Old English for badger) or Brook (Stream) by a wood (Ley). In the late 12th century, a small

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house was founded there, before being transferred to Bayham (Sussex) in 1208. Formerly part of the county of

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, Brockley fell into both the

Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham The Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham was a metropolitan borough in the County of London between 1900 and 1965, when it became part of the London Borough of Lewisham along with the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford. History The borough was formed b ...

and the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford in the

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from 1900. The division was roughly around Hilly Fields, with the area to the north falling within Deptford. Brockley was subsequently reunified with the creation of

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in 1965 under the

, which incorporated the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford. Brockley has its origins in a small agricultural hamlet of the same name located in the area of the " Brockley Jack" (rebuilt 1895), a large

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that today houses the

Brockley Jack Theatre The Brockley Jack Theatre (also known as the Jack Studio Theatre) is an Off West End theatre in the Crofton Park area of Lewisham, south London. It shares a building with the Brockley Jack pub. The theatre was founded by David Kincaid, Michael ...

Brockley Hall Brockley is a district and an electoral ward of south London, England, in the London Borough of Lewisham south-east of Charing Cross. It has been named the best area of London to live in. It is an area rich in Victorian and Edwardian domesti ...

(demolished 1931) stood nearby and now gives its name to a road on a 1930s housing estate. Crofton Park railway station was built nearby in 1892 by the

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Brockley railway station Brockley is a station on the main railway line between and , down the line from London Bridge. It is in Travelcard Zone 2. It is served by suburban services of London Overground (Windrush line) and National Rail ( Southern). It is located ...

opened on 6 March 1871 and is currently served by

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and Southern in

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. As is often the case in London, the location of the station defines the geography of the district and areas to the north and west of Brockley Station, previously considered as

Hatcham Hatcham was a manor and later a chapelry in what is now London, England. It largely corresponds to the area around New Cross in the London Borough of Lewisham. The ancient parish of Deptford straddled the counties of Surrey and Kent and ther ...

New Cross New Cross is an area in south-east London, England, south-east of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Lewisham and the London_postal_district#List_of_London_postal_districts, SE14 postcode district. New Cross is near St Johns, London, St Jo ...

, Telegraph Hill (SE14) and St Johns (SE8), are now considered Brockley. Ordnance Survey maps of Brockley up to the 1940s tend to centre on the location of the Jack, the Hall, and Crofton Park railway station, but recent maps are now more centred on Brockley Station and nearby areas, such as with the

map demarcating Brockley. While the name Crofton Park was invented by the railway company, it was given official sanction with the naming of Crofton Park Library, a fine arts and crafts building, in 1905, and is now the name of an electoral ward to the south. The oldest surviving house in the area of what is now considered to be the northern extent of Brockley is the " Stone House" on Lewisham Way (opposite LeSoCo) built in 1773 by the architect George Gibson the Younger. which is a

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Listed building and was historically considered to be in

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. Brockley market gardens were famous for their enormous Victoria rhubarb which were fertilised by '

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' from London. There were orchards too and some ancient

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trees survive in local gardens. Until the late 19th century a small river flowed northward from Crofton Park and east of Malpas Rd to join the

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via Deptford Creek. It is now covered over. Industrial development arrived in 1809 in the form of the

Croydon Canal The Croydon Canal ran from Croydon, via Forest Hill, to the Grand Surrey Canal at New Cross in south London, England. It opened in 1809 and closed in 1836, the first canal to be abandoned by an act of Parliament. Authorised in 1801, the can ...

running from

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. This was later filled in and replaced by the

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which runs through the original canal cutting between

Brockley Brockley is a district and an wards of the United Kingdom, electoral ward of south London, England, in the London Borough of Lewisham south-east of Charing Cross. It has been named the best area of London to live in. It is an area rich in Vi ...

(opened in 1871) and New Cross Gate stations. Some of the oldest houses in Brockley are the cottages and shops which form a small terrace on Coulgate Street, just east of Brockley station. These are believed to date from 1833 and were probably originally associated with the canal. From 1872 until 1917, Brockley Lane railway station provided access to the Greenwich Park branch line and the remains of the old station entrance are still visible at Brockley Cross. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the Tyrwhitt-Drake family developed the north side of Brockley with grand villas, large terraces and semi-detached houses (Tyrwhitt Road and Drake Road are named after the family). Development started south of Lewisham Way in the late 1840s with the modest cottages at 2–22 Upper Brockley Rd and spread south and east towards Hilly Fields. In 1900 Chalsey Rd was the last road to be completed within the current conservation area. However, open farmland remained south of Brockley Grove and west of the railway line into the early 1930s. Many grand houses in Brockley were occupied by the owners and managers of factories in neighbouring industrial areas such as

and

. At 63 Breakspears Road lived Edwin Watts, owner of 'ER Watts and Son', a mathematical instrument making company in Camberwell Road. Charles Booth's Map of London Poverty (1900) describes the residents of Wickham Road and Breakspears Road as "well-to-do" or "wealthy". The actress

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was one notable resident during this period. The terraced streets west of Brockley Rd were more mixed: "comfortable and poor". The artist/poet David Jones, whose father was a printer, grew up in Howson Road. Some of David Jones's paintings and illustrations depict his parents' house and garden. The writer

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, the son of a bank clerk, was born in nearby Braxfield Road. Brockley contains several fine churches: St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, Howson Road (completed in 1901), St Peter's, Wickham Rd (completed 1870), the

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listed St Andrews, Brockley Rd (1882) – originally a

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, which contains the modern stained glass New Cross Fire memorial window (2002) – and the

listed St Hilda's, Crofton Park 1908. The latter was designed by J E Newberry in the

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style and still contains its original interior. A Methodist Church stood on Harefield Road (Now demolished). After

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, Brockley began to lose its exclusivity as the wealthy began to relocate to the outer suburbs and the big houses were increasingly sub-divided into multiple occupation. The typical inter-war houses on Upper Brockley Gardens and on Harefield Rd are clearly more modest than their

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neighbours and in the case of Harefield Road, were built on a large house's garden. Small industrial workshops also became established in the mews behind the large houses. The Grade II listed

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(originally a cinema) dates from 1913 but was remodeled as a dance hall in 1951. It has a unique and outstanding interior, which has featured in many films, videos and fashion shoots. In 2007

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rock band played a secret gig here. Other notable live performances include those by

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(2009, 2012) and

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(2014). The building has recently been listed (2007) and is now protected from demolition. Being under the bomber flight path to the London docks, the area suffered significant

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and other bomb damage in

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. The post-war blocks of council flats at the south end of Wickham Rd and at the west end of Adelaide Avenue are evidence of this. During the

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, an

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emplacement was located on Hilly Fields.

Post World War II

After the Second World War, most of the big houses were sub-divided into multiple occupation and the Council would give grants to convert houses into flats. In the period 1945–60s it was very difficult to get a bank loan to purchase a pre-1914-built property, hence the frequent subdivision of the larger older houses during this period. In the 1950s and 1960s these houses provided accommodation for the recently arrived

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population, many of whom found employment in nearby

. In 1948, five passengers bound for England from

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on the ship Empire Windrush gave Wickham Road as their intended destination on arrival in London. Other migrants came from Turkey, Cyprus, Italy and South Asia (especially Sri Lanka). Some larger houses were demolished and blocks of flats built or houses built on their gardens. From the mid-1960s artists (some associated with nearby Goldsmiths College) started to move into the large and at the time neglected houses on Manor Avenue, beginning the process of 'gentrification' which continues today. Much of north Brockley was designated a

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in 1974 and in the same year the Brockley Society was formed with the aim of preserving and protecting the character of the area. This ensure that Brockley remained one of the best preserved and most coherent Victorian suburbs in Inner London containing examples of almost every style of mid- to late 19th century-domestic architecture from vast

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piles to modest workmen's cottages. There are also mews behind some of the streets such as Ashby Mews and Wickham Mews. This range of 19th-century architectural styles makes Brockley unusual.

21st Century

In 2000 the Brockley Cross Action Group was set up with the aim of influencing the regeneration of the Brockley Cross area and has been instrumental in the restoration of Brockley Common and the greening of several other derelict sites. The extension of the

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, now part of the

network, opened in May 2010. It connects Brockley with north London and encouraged new residential development around Brockley station. A number of empty sites were redeveloped into flats and Coulgate Street was pedestrianised - increasingly it became a focal point for Brockley as a place to gather away from the main road.

Green space

Brockley contains several attractive open spaces, amongst them Blythe Hill,

Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries (also known as Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery) were opened within one month of each other in 1858 and are sited on adjacent plots of previously open land. The two component parts are characteristic examples of the ...

(opened in 1858 and now a nature reserve) and Hilly Fields. The latter was saved from development by the Commons Preservation Society and local groups in the 1880s and 1890s (including

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, one of the founders of the

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). In 1896, after being bought with the proceeds of private donations and funding from the

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, the fields were transformed from old brickpits and ditches into a park. The park became a regular meeting place for the

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movement between 1907 and 1914. The old West Kent Grammar School (later renamed Brockley County Grammar School), now Prendergast Hilly Fields College, a Grade II*

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, is situated at the top of the hill. The School hall contains the ' Brockley murals'. Dating from 1932 to 1935 by Charles Mahoney,

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and other students of the

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, they are considered some of the best examples in the country of the

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style and illustrate many local scenes. Close by, a

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was erected in 2000 as a millennium project by a group of local artists, which won a Civic Trust Award in 2002. The Hilly Fields Midsummer Fayre has been running for over 30 years and is a much celebrated annual community event. At 160 ft above sea level, Hilly Fields has wide views from

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and

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and the

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. West of the railway between Brockley and New Cross Gate railway stations lies the Brockley Nature Reserve (formerly known as New Cross Gate Cutting Nature Reserve). This ten acre woodland is home to over 30 species of birds including greater spotted woodpecker and

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. The reserve is managed by

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, access (when open) is from the entrance on Vesta Road. Gorne Wood is a three acre piece of

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, the closest such piece of land to the

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The arts in Brockley

Like its neighbour Telegraph Hill, Brockley has a reputation as a focus for the arts in South London. The mid-1960s saw the beginning of a '

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' influx of artists, musicians and alternative types attracted by the neglected and (at the time very cheap) Victorian houses and vast rambling gardens and the close proximity to

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and

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. Many artists have built studios in their back gardens and the annual 'open studios' weekend is a good opportunity to visit some of these. The Lewisham Art House, housed in a grand Edwardian building (which was formerly Deptford Library) on Lewisham Way, provides art classes, studio and exhibition space. The

listed library building is a Carnegie Library, made possible by the

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of the industrialist

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. It opened in 1914 and was designed by Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas. The

has recently been refurbished and has a high reputation for performances of new plays and is the home of the Brockley Jack Film Club. Each summer local artists host a thriving Brockley Open Studios weekend. Since 2004 Brockley has also hosted the Brockley Max performing arts festival involving many local musicians and singers. In 2015, the neighbourhood hosted the first annual Brockley Street Art Festival, which saw the creation of more than twenty high quality murals in the area.

Politics

Brockley ward is represented by three Labour councillors as of the 2022 election. In the early 2000s all of Brockley Ward's three councillors were from the

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and combined with neighbouring

Ladywell Ladywell is a locale in Lewisham in South East London, England, and a ward in the London Borough of Lewisham between Brockley, Crofton Park and Lewisham proper. It has ample green space including Ladywell Fields and Hilly Fields which borders ...

ward, Lewisham Council had six

councillors; one of the highest number of Green party councillors in the UK. However, in the 2010 Local Elections, held at the same time as the 2010 General Election, the Green party lost all but one of their seats. The remaining seat was held by Darren Johnson in Brockley. In the 2014 Council elections the Green Party retained one of Brockley's council seats, which was held by Councillor John Coughlin.

Notable residents

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(formed 1999), band consisting of lead singer

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, keyboard player Tim Wanstall and bassist Carey Willetts, who live in Brockley; used to rehearse at the Bear Cafe in Deptford High Street *

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OBE, MP for Greenwich (1987–1992), Chief Executive of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust (1996–2010), Patron of Child Health International (2011– ), lived on Tressillian Road 1998–2017 *

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, guitarist with Atomic Rooster, Paul Young and The Who; lived on Geoffrey Road in the 1980s * Alan Brownjohn, poet and novelist, attended Brockley County School *

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, singer, lived on Wickham Road in the early 1980s *

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, musician with the

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; a student at

; lived on Wickham Road in the student halls of residence * Hughroy Currie (Boxer), British Heavyweight Champion in 1985-86. Lived in Catford, Brockley and briefly Bromley *

Emily Davison Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Polit ...

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, born in Blackheath 1872, died at The Derby in 1913 after stepping in front of the King's horse; lived for a time in Brockley * Alfred Drury, sculptor, lived in Tressillian Road and taught at Goldsmiths College * Paul Drury, artist, born in Tressillian Road in 1903; taught at Goldsmiths College of Art *

Kerry Ellis Kerry Jane Ellis (born 6 May 1979) is an English actress and singer who is best known for her work in musical theatre and subsequent crossover into music. Born and raised in Suffolk, Ellis began performing at an early age before training at La ...

, singer and West End stage actress, lives in Brockley * Gabrielle, singer, lived in Brockley60 SECONDS: Gabrielle By ANDREW WILLIAMS – Tuesday, 25 September 2007, ''Metro'', London. *

John Galliano John Charles Galliano (born 28 November 1960) is a British fashion designer. He was the creative director of his eponymous label John Galliano and French fashion houses Givenchy and Dior. From 2014 to 2024, Galliano was the creative director ...

, fashion designer, grew up in Brockley and visits with his design team * Alberto Esteban Ignacio "G" Gispert, founder of the

Hash House Harriers The Hash House Harriers (HHH or H3) is an international group of non-competitive running social clubs. An event organized by a club is known as a Hash or Run, or a Hash Run. A common denominal verb for this activity is Hashing, with participant ...

David Haig David Haig Collum Ward (born 20 September 1955) is an English actor and playwright. He has appeared in West End productions and numerous television and film roles over a career spanning four decades. Haig wrote the play '' My Boy Jack'', whic ...

, actor and writer, resides in Brockley * Matt Hales, singer, songwriter of Aqualung *

Bernard Hill Bernard Hill (17 December 1944 – 5 May 2024) was an English actor. He was known for his versatile roles in both television and film, and his career spanned over fifty years. Hill first gained prominence as the troubled hard man Yosser Hughes ...

, actor, lived in Wickam Gardens in the 1980s * Darren Johnson,

politician * David Jones,

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

poet and artist; born in Brockley in 1895 and often stayed at his parents' house in Howson Road until his mother's death in 1936; attended

in 1909; his parents are buried in Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery where there is also a memorial to him. *

The June Brides The June Brides are an English indie pop group, formed in London in 1983, by Phil Wilson and Simon Beesley of International Rescue. Influenced by Postcard-label bands such as Josef K (band), Josef K and punk-era bands such as Buzzcocks, The D ...

, proto UK

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group including singer Phil Wilson; shared a house in Chudleigh Road; viola player Frank Sweeney still lives not far from there. * Brian Keaney, children's author, lives in Brockley *

Lily Langtry Emilie Charlotte, Lady de Bathe (née Le Breton, formerly Langtry; 13 October 1853 – 12 February 1929), known as Lillie (or Lily) Langtry and nicknamed "The Jersey Lily", was a British socialite, stage actress and producer. Born on the isla ...

, actress and mistress of King

Edward VII of the United Kingdom Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and ...

; lived at 42 Wickham Road Lewisham Government Guide to the Conservation Area 2006. *

Marie Lloyd Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (12 February 1870 – 7 October 1922), professionally known as Marie Lloyd (), was an English music hall singer, comedian and musical theatre actress. She was best known for her performances of songs such as "The Boy ...

music hall Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the World War I, Great War. It faded away after 1918 as the halls rebranded their entertainment as Varie ...

singer; lived at 196 Wickham Terrace in 1891-2 * David Lodge, his family home was at 81 Millmark Grove, Brockley; he writes about the neighbourhood, focusing on the rundown local cinema (now demolished) in his firstnovel '' The Picturegoers'' (1960) and in''

Therapy A therapy or medical treatment is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis. Both words, ''treatment'' and ''therapy'', are often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx. As a rule, each therapy has indications a ...

'' * Mary Millar, British actress best known for her role as Rose on ''

Keeping up Appearances ''Keeping Up Appearances'' is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke. It originally aired on BBC1 from 1990 to 1995. The central character is an eccentric and snobbish middle-class social climber, Hyacinth Bucket ( Patricia Ro ...

'' *

Spike Milligan Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British Raj, British India, where he spent his ...

(1918–2002), comedian; lived at 50 Riseldine Road (on the cusp of Crofton Park and

Honor Oak Honor Oak is an inner suburban area principally of the London Borough of Lewisham, with part in the London Borough of Southwark. It is named after the oak tree on One Tree Hill that Elizabeth I is reputed to have picnicked under. Overview One ...

) after coming to England from India in the 1930s *

Brian Molko Brian Molko (born 10 December 1972) is a British-American musician who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist of the band Placebo (band), Placebo. He is known for his nasal voice and high registered vocals, feminine/androgynous appearance ...

, musician, lived in Brockley for a number of years while forming the band

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Nick Nicely Nickolas Laurien (born 1959), known professionally as Nick Nicely (stylised nick nicely), is an English singer-songwriter who records psychedelic and electronic music. He is best known for his 1982 single "Hilly Fields (1892)". Nicely released ...

, musician; his 1982 cult

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classic " Hilly Fields" was inspired by the park of the same name *

Pagan Altar Pagan Altar is an English heavy metal and doom metal band. It was formed by Terry Jones and his son Alan in 1978 in the borough of Brockley in London and was part of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM). History Pagan Altar's only ...

, metal band who recorded a song entitled "The Devil Came Down to Brockley" *

Mica Paris Michelle Antoinette Wallen (born 27 April 1969), known professionally as Mica Paris ( ), is an English singer, presenter, and actress. Her debut album, '' So Good'', was released in 1988, spawning the singles " My One Temptation" and " Where I ...

, singer *

Novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...

, English Grime MC, producer, and rapper; was nominated for

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in 2014 *

Charles Stewart Parnell Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom from 1875 to 1891, Leader of the Home Rule Leag ...

(1846–1891), Irish Nationalist politician; lived with

Katharine O'Shea Katharine Parnell (née Wood; 30 January 1846 – 5 February 1921), known before her second marriage as Katharine O'Shea and popularly as Kitty O'Shea, was an English woman of aristocratic background whose adulterous relationship with Irish ...

at 112 Tressillian Road * Ed Petrie, TV presenter and stand-up comedian * Sybil Phoenix, former Mayoress of Lewisham; first black woman to receive the M.B.E., to become a Freeman of the

and Freeman of the Borough of Lewisham; local resident *

Harry Price Harry Price (17 January 1881 – 29 March 1948) was a British Parapsychologist, psychic researcher and author, who gained public prominence for his investigations into psychical phenomena and exposing fraudulent Spiritualism (movement), spiritu ...

, psychic and paranormal researcher, famed for his work on the

Borley Rectory Borley Rectory was a house located in Borley, Essex, famous for being described as "the most haunted house in England" by psychic researcher Harry Price. Built in 1862 to house the rector of the parish of Borley and his family, the house wa ...

hauntings; lodged at 22 Harefield Road; went to school at Waller Road and

Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College Haberdashers' Hatcham College (formerly Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College) is a state secondary school with academy status and a music specialism in New Cross, south-east London. The school was formerly a grammar school, then a comprehensi ...

Philip Quast Philip Mark Quast (born 30 July 1957) is an Australian actor and bass-baritone singer. He has won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical three times, making him the first actor to have three wins in that category. He is perhap ...

, Australian actor, lived in Brockley for over a decade * John Alan Quinton, flight lieutenant in the RAF; awarded a posthumous

George Cross The George Cross (GC) is the highest award bestowed by the British government for non-operational Courage, gallantry or gallantry not in the presence of an enemy. In the British honours system, the George Cross, since its introduction in 1940, ...

; born in Brockley *

David Rocastle David Carlyle Rocastle (2 May 1967 – 31 March 2001) was an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder in the roles of a playmaker and a winger. He spent the majority of his career at Arsenal where he was nicknamed "Rocky". Ro ...

, professional footballer, playing midfield for

Arsenal An arsenal is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned. Arsenal and armoury (British English) or armory (American English) are mostly ...

and

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

John Stainer Sir John Stainer (6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901) was an English composer and organist whose music, though seldom performed today (with the exception of ''The Crucifixion (Stainer), The Crucifixion'', still heard at Passiontide in some Angli ...

(1840–1901), composer and organist at St Pauls Cathedral; possibly lived in Wickham Road, Brockley and is said to have played the organ in St Peters Church; a local primary school is named after him *

Montague Summers Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an English author, clergyman, and teacher. As an independent scholar, he published many works on the English drama of the Stuart Restoration (1660–1688) and helped to organise ...

, eccentric writer, taught at Brockley County School *

Chris Tarrant Christopher John Tarrant (born 10 October 1946) is a retired English broadcaster, television personality, radio DJ and stand up comedian. He is best known for presenting the ITV children's television show '' Tiswas'' from 1974 to 1981, and th ...

, TV presenter; taught at a school in Brockley in the late 1960s/early '70s; for some time lived in his car near the school *

Kae Tempest Kae Tempest (formerly Kate Tempest) is an English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright. At the age of 16, Tempest was accepted into the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. In 2013, he w ...

, poet, performance artist, recording artist, and playwright *

Paul Theroux Paul Edward Theroux ( ; born April 10, 1941) is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue '' The Great Railway Bazaar'' (1975). Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films ...

, his 1976 novel '' The Family Arsenal'' is set in Cliff Terrace off St Johns Vale * Bobby Valentino, singer, songwriter, musician and actor; has lived in Brockley for the past 30 years; best known as the co-writer and violinist of

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hit single "Young at Heart" *

Edgar Wallace Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer of crime and adventure fiction. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was ...

, author and original screenwriter of ''

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''; lived at 6 Tresillian Crescent, Brockley, 1900–1932; his fictional detective character J G Reeder lived in Brockley Road; his book ''The Duke in the Suburbs'' is also based in Brockley * Baron Warner, Norman Warner, Baron Warner of Brockley PC, politician; grew up on Drakefell Road * Sir

Willard White Sir Willard Wentworth White, Order of Merit (Jamaica), OM, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 10 October 1946) is a Jamaican-born British operatic bass baritone. Early life White was born into a Jamaican family in Kingston, Jamaica, Kingst ...

(C.B.E.), opera singer; born in

in 1946; once lived in Wickham Gardens and later Montague Avenue, Brockley *

, writer and author of ''

Tarka the Otter ''Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers'' is a 1927 novel by English writer Henry Williamson, first published by G. P. Putnam's Sons with an introduction by Sir John Fortescue. It won the Hawthornd ...

''; born in 1895 at 66 Braxfield Road and lived at 21 Eastern Road, Brockley, during his childhood in the late 19th and early 20th century; describes turn-of-the-century Brockley in great detail in his semi-autobiographical novels, ''The Dark Lantern'' and ''Donkey Boy'' *

Denny Wright Denys Justin Wright (6 May 1924 – 8 February 1992), known professionally as Denny Wright, was a British jazz guitarist. A session musician for many years, Wright frequently acted as arranger and "fixer" for recording sessions. He was a proli ...

, jazz guitarist; grew up in Brockley before the second world war and served with the Auxiliary Fire Service there *

Ian Wright Ian Edward Wright (born 3 November 1963) is an English media personality and former professional footballer. Wright enjoyed success with London clubs Crystal Palace and Arsenal as a forward, spending six years with the former and seven year ...

, professional footballer, playing striker for

and England; latterly sports pundit and TV presenter *

Bradley Wright-Phillips Bradley Edward Wright-Phillips or “BWP” (born 12 March 1985) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is currently a studio host on MLS Season Pass. Wright-Phillips is the son of Ian Wright and younger brot ...

, professional footballer for

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* Shaun Wright-Phillips, footballer; grew up in Brockley and attended

Nearest places

Crofton Park Crofton Park is a mainly residential suburb and wards of the United Kingdom, electoral ward in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is the original site of the former agricultural hamlet of Brockley. It is located south east of Charing Cross, ...

Catford Catford is a district in south east London, England, and the administrative centre of the London Borough of Lewisham. It is southwest of Lewisham itself, mostly in the Rushey Green (ward), Rushey Green and Catford South Ward (electoral subdivi ...

* Forest Hill *

Greenwich Greenwich ( , , ) is an List of areas of London, area in south-east London, England, within the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Greater London, east-south-east of Charing Cross. Greenwich is notable for its maritime hi ...

Lewisham Lewisham ( ) is an area of southeast London, England, south of Charing Cross. It is the principal area of the London Borough of Lewisham, and was within the Historic counties of England, historic county of Kent until 1889. It is identified in ...

Nunhead Nunhead () is an inner-city suburb in the London Borough of Southwark, England,Southwark Council Nunhead and Peckham Rye Community Council southeast of Charing Cross. It is the location of the Nunhead Cemetery.BBC London Nunhead Cemetery/ref> ...

Peckham Peckham ( ) is a district in south-east London, within the London Borough of Southwark. It is south-east of Charing Cross. At the 2001 Census the Peckham ward had a population of 14,720. History "Peckham" is a Saxon place name meaning the vi ...

Telegraph Hill, Lewisham Telegraph Hill is a largely residential Conservation area (United Kingdom), conservation area bounded by Nunhead and Brockley and is an Wards of the United Kingdom, electoral ward just south of New Cross in the London Borough of Lewisham in sou ...

Nearest railway stations

* Crofton Park railway station * Ladywell railway station * Nunhead railway station *

St Johns railway station St Johns railway station is in the London Borough of Lewisham. It lies down the South Eastern Main Line from , and is situated between and . History Early years (1873–1922) The South Eastern Railway (SER) opened a two-track railway (th ...

Forest Hill railway station Forest Hill is an interchange station between the Windrush line of the London Overground and National Rail services operated by Southern, located in Forest Hill in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is down the line from , between and , in ...

* Brockley Lane railway station (closed in 1917) A proposal to create a new Brockley Interchange, linking the existing station to the to

line with new platforms at the former Brockley Lane station, is included in the

's 2019–2041 transport strategy. The document gives an approximate date of 2030 and states that funding from TfL and

Network Rail Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and railway infrastructure manager, infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain. ...

would be needed for the project. The document states that TFL is to provide an estimated cost.

In popular culture

Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson Order of Distinction, OD (born 24 August 1952), also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based dub poetry, dub poet and activist. In 2002, he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be published in th ...

mentions Brockley in his poem "Inglan Is A Bitch" (1980). He spells it "Brackly" as this is roughly how it sounds in

patois ''Patois'' (, same or ) is speech or language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. As such, ''patois'' can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects or vernaculars, but not commonly to jargon or sl ...

: :"''dem a have a lickle facktri up inna Brackly''" :"''inna disya facktri all dem dhu is pack crackry''" :"''fi di laas fifteen years dem get mi laybah''" :"''now awftah fifteen years mi fall out a fayvah''" The musician

's 1982 cult psychedelic track " Hilly Fields" was inspired by the park of the same name. Two early novels by

(who lived on Eastern Road) describe Brockley in great detail, as it was in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

's fictional 1920s detective J. G. Reeder lived in Brockley Road. Wallace himself lived in Tressillian Crescent, Brockley, for over 30 years. His book ''The Duke in the Suburbs'' is also based in Brockley. '' The Picturegoers'', the first novel by David Lodge, is set in and around a rundown cinema in 1950s Brockley; thinly disguised as 'Brickley'.

Blake Morrison Philip Blake Morrison (born 8 October 1950) is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs ''And When Did You Last See Your Father?' ...

's novel ''South of the River'' (2007) is set in Brockley. Colin Wilson's book '' The Outsider'' (1956) opens with a reference to Brockley. In 2003, the BBC1 documentary '' Worlds Apart'' showed two contrasting Brockley families living within yards of each other; one in a small council flat, the other in a large house. The

has featured in numerous films, TV shows and fashion shoots, and was used for the debut album launch for

Florence and the Machine Florence and the Machine (stylised as Florence + the Machine) are an English indie rock band formed in London in 2007 by lead vocalist Florence Welch, keyboardist Isabella Summers, guitarist Rob Ackroyd, drummer Christopher Lloyd Hayden and harp ...

, the video for

Tina Turner Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, actress, and author. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", her vocal prowess, raspy voice, and electrifyin ...

's Private Dancer and a secret gig by

The Metros The Metros were an English five-piece indie/punk band from Peckham, South London.

' song "Last of the Lookers" from their 2008 album '' More Money Less Grief'' mentions meeting a girl who is later found out not to be from their native Brockley. Laura Wilson, the series' narrator and protagonist of ongoing comic book series The Wicked and the Divine lives in Brockley at the start of the series.

References

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