Month: December 2025

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Frozen in time – a piece of Lee history on show, but hurry!

This house at 179 Burnt Ash Hill was the home and surgery of Dr Carey, a well known figure in Lee. It has been opened to the public on Saturdays through November, and will remain open for two more Saturdays ( December 6th and 13th) from 11 AM to 4 PM.

Charlotte Mann has mounted an exhibition in the house, which is due to be sold soon. It commemorates her great grand-father and two of this brothers – all doctors – who came to Britain from Ireland. The practice ran from the 1940s to the 1980s. Charlotte is compiling an oral history and is keen to hear from anyone who remembers the practice.

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The Church Wall – MORE progress

This article has been updated

The rebuilding of the Good Shepherd Church wall is making good progress. Mohammed and Stephen (main picture) have begun laying the reclaimed bricks from the Wantage Road end.

They have used the bricks recovered when the old wall was demolished for the bottom courses. The bricks visible above ground are part of a horde of 7000 old bricks of the same vintage as the originals.

Lintels have been put in place to bridge over the tree roots (middle photo).

It doesn’t seem likely the wall will be finished in time for Christmas, but should be complete in the first month or two of 2026.

Many local people contributed to the crowd-funding appeal which is partly paying for the rebuild.