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Survey of London 48: Woolwich – Talks and Exhibition

hilly — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:18:08 +0000

The launch of the Woolwich volume of English Heritage’s Survey of London will be marked by an exhibition at the Greenwich Heritage Centre and talks by Peter Guillery, Senior Historian at the Survey of London. The free exhibition starts tomorrow and runs until 9th February, and there is a talk at the Heritage Centre tomorrow [...]

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Ghosts of Shooters Hill

hilly — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:13:41 +0000

Elliott O’Donnell, one of the most famous ghost hunters of his day, wrote a very detailed and dramatic true account of a ghost in Shooters Hill in his story “The Vanished Suitor of Shooter’s Hill”. This took place in Veremont House, Shooters Hill on January 3rd 1911. Like all good ghost stories, after examining the [...]

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Grinitch and Owilige

hilly — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:40:37 +0000

Proof-reading and correcting issues of Charles Dickens’ weekly magazines may not be everyone’s idea of fun, but I’m finding it very satisfying, and absolutely fascinating. I’m one of many volunteers contributing to the Dickens Journals Online’s project to create a complete online copy of Charles Dickens’ weekly magazines, Household Words and All the Year Round [...]

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As if London and its history is a dream of Shooters Hill

hilly — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:14:06 +0000

Some time ago this site included a post on Evey Hammond, a fictional Shooters Hill resident from the graphic novel V for Vendetta. As it turns out its author Alan Moore has a special interest in the area, and wrote a piece of ‘psychogeography’ about Shooters Hill and one of its most talented residents, comic [...]

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The Silver Wind

hilly — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:25:39 +0000

Interzone 233 cover A new novella set in an Oxleas Woods of the future has recently been published as part of Interzone, a science fiction & fantasy magazine (issue 233, March-April 2011). Shooter’s Hill had a rough reputation. The reforestation policy had returned the place to its original state, and the tract of woodland between [...]

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Shooters Hill The Comic

hilly — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:51:37 +0000

The fact that various (in)famous people have been residents of Shooters Hill has not really done much for the area, and so I haven’t really gone into it. Actually the Shooters Hill Hall of Fame is already partly documented on the hill’s Wikipedia entry, which is perhaps more useful for it’s discussion on the use [...]

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