The first residents have moved into the capital’s biggest community-led self-build project, coordinated by the Rural Urban Synthesis Society (RUSS): 36 flats in two linked buildings, a new public riverside garden and shared community spaces. As a Community Land Trust, RUSS aims to create sustainable and permanently affordable homes in a community woven into the wider communities of Lewisham.

Shepheard Epstein Hunter , 2021

Join the Stall Tales local history team for a walking tour of Lewisham's market and high street. Discover the hidden history of the market, which began in the 1890s with a few unlicensed stalls, and spent decades fighting for legal recognition. We will look at the market as a temporary architecture, local retail landmarks, and reflect on the changing face of shopping in the high street.

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Starting at the Ladywell Cemetery gate, the tour will take in poets, actors, artists, local dignitaries and war veterans among others. The original Non-conformist chapel will be open as well.

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