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Lawn Terrace
Former BL LITERARY INSTITUTION
BL FARMERS MARKET
HOSPITAL
QUAKER MEETING HOUSE
The Glebe
Lee Terrace
History of Lee
ST.MARGARET’s OLD CHURCH and churchyard
The old churchyard, St Margaret’s Lee: the burial place of Halley, Bliss and Pond – the second, fourth and sixth Astronomers Royal
ST.MARGARET’s church
St.Margaret’s Passage
LEE NEW TOWN
THE DACRE ARMS P.H.
Phone booth, book swap
Boone St > Fludyer St
Former MERCHANT TAYLORS ALMSHOUSES
High Road
BOONE’S CHAPEL
Boone’s Chapel was built in 1682 as a private almshouse chapel with four houses attached. It was the gateway to the founders’ house, Lee Place, and became their mausoleum. It was unused and derelict since the 1940s and is one of the two Grade 1 listed buildings in Lewisham. In 2008 the Blackheath Historic Buildings Trust found a use for it as an architect’s office and the building will be open 30 days a year with exhibitions. Further information of past and forthcoming events can be found here
Old Road
MANOR HOUSE GARDENS
HITHER GREEN
Margaret and Rachel McMillan
THAKERAY’S ALMSHOUSES
LEWISHAM HOSPITAL
LADYWELL FIELDS
Former WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY
In 1897 work began to build a new workhouse for the St Olave's (Bermondsey) Union Board of Guardians. It was not to be a workhouse as such, but an infirmary intended solely to accommodate the elderly poor and infirm - an innovative concept at the time.
The Ladywell workhouse, built on a large site which had once been the Slagrave farm, was officially opened in 1900 by the Prince and Princess of Wales.