Lewisham Town Hall
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Lewisham Town Hall is a municipal building in Catford Road, Lewisham, London. The oldest part of the facility, the curved former municipal offices and adjoining concert hall of 1932, is a Grade II listed building. The complex also includes newer wings from the 1950s to 1970s; those serve as the headquarters of Lewisham London Borough Council.
Lewisham Town Hall
Main front of the Town Hall in modern usage, comprising the 1950s/60s offices (left) and 1970s civic suite (right)
The old vestry hall c. 1900
John Betjeman reads William Norton's petition to save the vestry hall (which can be seen in the background), 23 August 1961
Lewisham
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Lewisham is an area of southeast London, England, six miles south of Charing Cross. It is the principal area of the London Borough of Lewisham, and was within the historic county of Kent until 1889. It is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London, with a large shopping centre and street market. Lewisham had a population of 60,573 in 2011.
Lewisham Central at night
'A View of Lewisham' (1770) by John Cleveley Junior
The medieval Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in Lewisham
The 19th-century Church of St Stephen in Lewisham