Lots of great events coming up in Telegraph Hill Festival this month I am doing two history related talks.
New Cross from fields to factories in the 19th century
Thursday 26th March, 7:30 pm at the Somerville playground, 260 Queens Road, SE14 5JN - tickets here (donation)
'In the space of a few decades in the mid-19th century, New Cross went from being a largely rural area to an increasingly urbanised one. In this talk, Neil Gordon-Orr looks at what was here before - market gardens and fields - and the canals, railways and associated factories that came to replace them.
This is part of the Make/Shift strand of environmental themed events at the Festival.
[if you came to my talk at the Earl of Derby last year there will be some overlap in the material but aiming to bring the story forward a bit to include the early factories of the area and the people who worked in them]
Saturday 28th March 2026, 2 pm - walk starts promptly from outside Goldsmiths main building on Lewisham Way (ticket not required)
For one small part of London, SE14 has played an important role in popular music history. A guided walk through the sites of record shops, recording studios and clubs featuring reggae, punk, dance music, Britpop and much more besides.
I will be featuring research from my new book 'New Cross, New Cross: a cultural history of SE14', out this month and available for the first time at these events.
For details of the book and where you can get it check here
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