Haunted Lewisham - Lewisham Voices 4

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This is the fourth blog linked to our Lewisham Voices Facebook video posts.
In this weekly series, the stories, memories, poems and writing from people who lived, worked or wrote about the area of Lewisham are read by others with Lewisham connections.
Enjoy Lewisham Voices.
 









Haunted Lewisham by Chris Moore was researched as part of 'City Read London'. The spooky tales he reveals include
1. The Dancing Ghost of Honor Oak Park
2. Ghosts of Horniman Museum
3. The Ghost of Hare and Billet Road
4. Whines and Spirits at the Brockley Jack
5. Railway Ghosts
6. World War Two Ghosts
7. Lord Nelson's Ghost?
8. Doris Stokes
9. Harry Price
and finishes with a "Ghost Tour" of Manor House Library.







Ghost glove puppet from Punch and Judy show. Horniman Museum

Brockley Jack pub early 1900s. 408-410 Brockley Road, Crofton Park, London SE4 2DH
 

Chris Moore has worked for the Borough of Lewisham for nine years. His current role is Operations Officer at Lewisham Library. He is originally from Beckenham but his mother was born in Lewisham Hospital, lived in Blackheath for many years and used to work at the Deptford Flour Mill as a technician during World War Two.
 
 There are plenty of spooky ebooks to read or listen to - below are just a few.

  

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Lewisham & Deptford by Jonathan Oates
The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Lewisham and Deptford the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice committed over the centuries in this area of London.
 
 


The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
Shades of London Series, Book 1
Thrilling ghost-hunting teen mystery as modern-day London is plagued by a sudden outbreak of brutal murders that mimic the horrific crimes of Jack the Ripper.
 
 

A head full of ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Winner Bram Stoker Award 2015
The lives of the Barretts, a suburban New England family, are torn apart when 14-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents despair, the doctors are unable to halt Marjorie's descent into madness.
 
 
 


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Left: Napoleon

 




 

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For more information about the lives of those people in the Haunted Lewisham talk look them up in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - you will find Harry Price, Doris Stokes and Lord Nelson.
Left: Harry Price.

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