Brookmill Road Conservation Area (BRCA)

In Deptford, SE London, the area comprises a coherent ensemble of streets running between Friendly Street, Brookmill and Albyn Roads, and includes the local park. The conservation area was the second to be designated in Lewisham, an indicator of its heritage significance.

Annual General Meeting

The BRCA Society's first annual general meeting is to be held via Zoom at 7pm on Wednesday 13th January 2021.

Talk: '18th-century artisans' houses in and around Deptford'

We are delighted to announce Peter Guillery as our speaker. Peter is an architectural historian and editor of the Survey of London, based at the Bartlett School of Architecture. An authority on London and its evolving neighbourhoods, his work for the Survey has covered areas ranging from Marylebone to Clerkenwell, Whitechapel, Woolwich and the Isle of Dogs.

Peter says of Deptford: "It was historically an important town in its own right, growing up around and away from its naval dockyard, and strongly artisanal in character."

His talk will focus on Deptford with brief references to the 19th Century development to the south in an area known as Deptford New Town, location of the Brookmill Road Conservation Area. "Begun early in the nineteenth century, it was fully built up in the mid-Victorian decades and perpetuated the local dominance of ordinary working people. The area's attractive streets of two-storey houses survive better than forerunners from earlier Deptford, and so carry great significance as a reminder of Deptford's unique history."

Peter's talk will be followed by the AGM.

For further information about Brookmill Road Conservation Area Society, its purposes and constitution, please link to the Society's website.