Photos from the Blackheath Funfair

Flickr user Emma Webb has posted some fantastic pictures of various fairground rides on the heath.
The funfair (near the Greenwich end of the heath) finished on Monday (I think?), so if you fancied eating too much candy floss, and feeling a bit ill on the Waltzer, you’ll have to make do with the photos…
It certainly [...]

All the fun of the Blackheath Fair

I was wondering why so many people were coming to my site Googling “Blackheath Funfair”, until Mrs Bugle pointed out that the fair is currently setting up on the Greenwich end of the heath.

So I wandered up there in the pouring rain to take a look.  There’s a good reason it was called Bleak Heath [...]

Race For Life Blackheath – Photos and Video

I was wrong about the weather – it was a lovely morning!  Apparently it was the largest Race for Life in the UK. They said they’d raised more than £1 million. Video showing the beginning of the race. Interesting that there was a company handing out antiperspirants, given [...]

Blackheath High Street – back into time

I found these amazing photos of Blackheath and Lewisham.  One in particular stood out, so I tried to take the same photo from the same position on the high street today.  It just about works.  The photo from 1900 looks much better than mine (although he probably wasn’t using the camera on the back of [...]