Exhibition of photographs marking the 40th anniversary of the 'Battle of Lewisham'

Anna_Kissed

On 13th August 1977 the far-right National Front (NF) attempted to march from New Cross to Lewisham town centre, leading to violent clashes with counter demonstrators and the police.
An exhibition - What are you taking pictures for? - takes place throughout August, at Goldsmiths College.
(Kingsway Corridor, Richard Hoggart Building, Lewisham Way, daily, until 31st August. 9.00am - 9.00pm. Free to enter).

(I am posting this for public information and don't wish to debate the issue(s). However, this being a forum that invites input, please feel free to discuss, if wished).

https://gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=10911

stonemuse

Anna_Kissed said:

On 13th August 1977 the far-right National Front (NF) attempted to march from New Cross to Lewisham town centre, leading to violent clashes with counter demonstrators and the police.
An exhibition - What are you taking pictures for? - takes place throughout August, at Goldsmiths College.
(Kingsway Corridor, Richard Hoggart Building, Lewisham Way, daily, until 31st August. 9.00am - 9.00pm. Free to enter).

(I am posting this for public information and don't wish to debate the issue(s). However, this being a forum that invites input, please feel free to discuss, if wished).

https://gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=10911

Thanks for the link. I was there on the day and both the Clash and Sham 69 used pictures of the protests on various promotional material and records.

Friend Or Defoe

Clash filmed some of the bankrobber video im Lewisham High Street.

https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo

stonemuse

Friend Or Defoe said:

Clash filmed some of the bankrobber video im Lewisham High Street.

https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo

I'd forgotten that, cheers.

addickfanatic

Brings back memories of my dad, he was a copper at Lewisham nick. First time he used a riot shield was during the riots. He was approaching retirement and put behind the lines and meant to be safe when somebody ran at him with a brick. My dad was always quite unconventional so he took his riot shield and smacked the bloke across the legs. Thankfully no damage done, well to my dad.

bolloxbolder

Friend Or Defoe said:

Clash filmed some of the bankrobber video im Lewisham High Street.

https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo

Such a great band

addickfanatic

bolloxbolder said:

Friend Or Defoe said:

Clash filmed some of the bankrobber video im Lewisham High Street.

https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo

Such a great band

Great band and a great song. My best mate was a New Romantic and could never understand my love of the Clash, just listen to the music it's still brilliant 40 years later

AddicksAddict

Anna_Kissed said:

On 13th August 1977 the far-right National Front (NF) attempted to march from New Cross to Lewisham town centre, leading to violent clashes with counter demonstrators and the police.
An exhibition - What are you taking pictures for? - takes place throughout August, at Goldsmiths College.
(Kingsway Corridor, Richard Hoggart Building, Lewisham Way, daily, until 31st August. 9.00am - 9.00pm. Free to enter).

(I am posting this for public information and don't wish to debate the issue(s). However, this being a forum that invites input, please feel free to discuss, if wished).

https://gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=10911

I'm intrigued by the counter demonstrators. Do they turn up at the customer service desk at Boots and start their "What do we want?" "To speak to the manager!" "When do we want it?" "Now!" chants?

Anna_Kissed

There was a piece about the 'Battle of Lewisham' on Robert Elms's show on BBC Radio London this morning.
In addition to the photographic exhibition mentioned at the top of this thread, there are events taking place tomorrow and over the weekend. Here are the details.

gold.ac.uk/media/documents-by-section/research-and-enterprise/BoL-40th-events-A4-programme-online.pdf

smudge7946

Hardly a battle.
One bunch of unwashed thugs fighting another bunch of thugs.

The violent behaviour on both sides shames Lewisham.
Typical Millwall to want to celebrate its criminal past.

stonemuse

smudge7946 said:

Hardly a battle.
One bunch of unwashed thugs fighting another bunch of thugs.

The violent behaviour on both sides shames Lewisham.
Typical Millwall to want to celebrate its criminal past.

It had fuck all to do with Millwall and I can assure you that there were plenty of Charlton Covered Enders there as well.

Acab

I was watching us play Coventry in a friendly at The Valley. I had to walk home to the Old Kent Road as there were no trains or buses obviously. I remember walking through Lewisham about 6.30 ish seeing the carnage left behind.

Acab

Acab said:

I was watching us play Coventry in a friendly at The Valley. I had to walk home to the Old Kent Road as there were no trains or buses obviously. I remember walking through Lewisham about 6.30 ish seeing the carnage left behind.

Millwall played at home that day to Ipswich also in a friendly.

Viewfinder

Anna_Kissed said:

There was a piece about the 'Battle of Lewisham' on Robert Elms's show on BBC Radio London this morning.
In addition to the photographic exhibition mentioned at the top of this thread, there are events taking place tomorrow and over the weekend. Here are the details.

gold.ac.uk/media/documents-by-section/research-and-enterprise/BoL-40th-events-A4-programme-online.pdf

Thanks for the tip, Anna Kissed. Published this week - a booklet of photographs of the battle by the great Homer Sykes: https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/the-battle-of-lewisham-1977-homer-sykes

smudge7946

stonemuse said:

smudge7946 said:

Hardly a battle.
One bunch of unwashed thugs fighting another bunch of thugs.

The violent behaviour on both sides shames Lewisham.
Typical Millwall to want to celebrate its criminal past.

It had fuck all to do with Millwall and I can assure you that there were plenty of Charlton Covered Enders there as well.

Its NEVER anything to do with milwall. Blah blah blah.

Alex Wright

I'm in one of the windows in the 1st floor of Bejams

Viewfinder

There's a bit more info here, with links to photos, archive material and eyewitness reports: http://deptforddame.blogspot.co.uk/

On your recommendation, Anna Kissed, I visited the Goldsmiths exhibition and found it fascinating. There was a very talented bunch of young photographers covering the battle in 1977, all of whom have continued to make fine work over many years – Homer Sykes, Chris Schwarz, Syd Shelton, Paul Trevor, Mike Abrahams, Chris Steele-Perkins and Peter Marlow.

AddicksAddict

smudge7946 said:

Hardly a battle.
One bunch of unwashed thugs fighting another bunch of thugs.

The violent behaviour on both sides shames Lewisham.
Typical Millwall to want to celebrate its criminal past.

You got close enough to smell their BO or did you have another way of knowing about their bathing habits?

smudge7946

Its exhibitions like this that make me glad my family emigrated from london.
This event was nothing to be proud of.

Essex may be sneered at for lacking tbe diversity of london, but Essex people are just simply better.

RodneyCharltonTrotta

smudge7946 said:

Its exhibitions like this that make me glad my family emigrated from london.
This event was nothing to be proud of.

Essex may be sneered at for lacking tbe diversity of london, but Essex people are just simply better.

It's not just the diversity it's lacking but also basic intelligence.

RodneyCharltonTrotta

Alex Wright said:

I'm in one of the windows in the 1st floor of Bejams

Who were you cheering on?

Anna_Kissed

Events in Charlottesville, USA...
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

smudge7946

Anna_Kissed said:

Events in Charlottesville, USA...
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

1783 treaty of Paris. Look it up on wikipedia.

Alex Wright

RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

Alex Wright said:

I'm in one of the windows in the 1st floor of Bejams

Who were you cheering on?

Charlton, of course I was waiting for the windows to get put in