Author: John Coulter

Local history of Norwood

In the second half of the nineteenth century, after the removal of the Crystal Palace to the hill above, Sydenham and Forest Hill were among the mo...

This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Eng...

A collection of over 200 images of Forest Hill and Sydenham are arranged here into a circular tour of the area - beginning and ending at St George'...

A Century of Lewisham offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of fam...

A collection of images linked with pubs in the region of Norwood.

Lewisham and Deptford have been a single borough since 1965, but they have very different histories. Deptford became an important shipbuilding cent...

The contrasting suburbs of West, Upper, and South Norwood grew up during the nineteenth century, on the range of hills once covered by the Great No...