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Week Notes 3.2023

23/01/2023 andrea Comments 0 Comment

Well I certainly got my wish for some colder weather this past week. It’s been great, sunshine, clear evening skies, and I get to wear my new winter jacket from Christmas. When it’s especially clear at night, we can see an impressive amount of objects in the sky for being relatively close to the perma-noon of central London. We popped along to a talk by the Norwood Society on the history of Anerley Hill – a short, but jam-packed with…

Very Local History

21/06/2020 andrea Comments 0 Comment

This week I happened upon a photo of Anerley Station, our local station, taken in the 19th or possibly early 20th century and one from a stone’s throw away in Maple Road. Both are places that we’ve walked past so many times but had never seen these photos of before. What’s a couple of nerds to do? Go and recreate the photos of course and check out what has changed and what has stayed the same. First up is the…