London Borough of Lewisham

She rose from her chair and gazed eagerly upon the great puzzling volume until I came to Ellerdale Street.

Ellerdale Street, Lewisham, I read aloud.

From Pawson Street to Ermine Road, do those names bring back to you any recollection of the whereabouts of your friend's house? No, she reflected with a perplexed expression.

I've never heard of them.

The street is apparently near Lone Pit Vale, I said.

That would be the principal thoroughfare.

You no doubt came from Lewisham Road Station by the Chatham and Dover Railway to Victoria, or perhaps to Ludgate Hill.

She shook her head.

Trust,

Islington Council, Lewisham Council, London Borough of Waltham Forest.

So we've got pretty good coverage in terms of where we are in the country.

Greater Manchester, I also mentioned.

There used to be an Indian guy that sat outside the exit from The Glades shopping center near Boots and Superdrug, barefoot with a sign written in English but just mumbling because he couldn't speak English.

Bromley has become another extended part of Lewisham or Catford or Croydon and it used to be a really nice area of London.

It used to be a place where, yeah, I, I hated being dragged around the shops with my, my parents and grandparents, but it used to be almost aspirational to want to live there.

It used to be nice, it used to be clean, it used to be English, and now it's gone.

Yeah.

Eze might be in, I don't even know, he might be in Lewisham Borough.

If we say South-East, let's put it out as South-East.

Wait,

the local authority?

Yeah, London Borough of Lewisham.

And from there, I passed my apprenticeship, a four-year apprenticeship.

So I did my city yields.

I lived in Southeast London most of the time I was working there.

There are parts of Deptford, Lewisham that I was based at that feel more Nigerian than certain parts of Lagos that I'm in now.

So

there

And it was a fairly successful team at the time.

They were sponsored by Lewisham Council, which was the same logo as was on our wheelie bin.

I remember that.

Yeah, I remember that.

no.

What I have had locally is we just had local council elections and we lost control of Lewisham Council.

And that was a shock and really disappointing.

And we probably put forward our best ever set of candidates ever.