Lewisham Voices

“I was surprised when I came here, to see that you could get everything you could get back home [in Guyana] in the market. Everything, come from different countries, everything! When I come, and I see so many people of different nationalities, and I say I am back in Guyana!”
(Catherine Marson, born in Guyana, 1916)

Lewisham Voices is a unique collection of memories and images of people living in the borough of Lewisham. It makes use of photographs from family albums and oral history recordings with local people. Lewisham Voices also has its own website.

Find out more about:

• the Lewisham Voices project
• how local people contributed to the project

Lewisham Voices is a collaboration between the Museum of London and the Libraries and Heritage Department of the London Borough of Lewisham. It is just one part of the London’s Voices project, which aims to extend access to the oral history collection of the Museum of London.

Wooley family celebration, Lewisham, 1946
Courtesy of Barbara Banks, born in Deptford, 1934

Phyllis Sylvester and family, Catford, 1977
Courtesy of Phyllis Sylvester, born in Jamaica, 1940