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The Lee Manor Society Annual Review has been published. It covers all the Society’s activities during the past 12 months. You can find it here.

The Review covers several issues which are important to Lee residents including Leegate and the Sustainable Streets programme.

The review will be presented to the Society’s Annual General Meeting on October 1st. Click here for full details. It’s at the Manor House library, starting at 7 30 pm All are welcome. The guest speaker will be Paul Wright, historian for the Blackheath Society.  He will be talking about the post-war redevelopment of Lee. Illustrated by photographs taken by the then vicar of St Margaret’s Church. The area covered is mainly to the north of the Lee High Road which went from poor Victorian and pre-Victorian housing to a mix of council and private developments. This in the context of  the redevelopment of Leegate and the Lee Green crossroads.

The Community Garden has announced new session dates for Sundays this autumn. You can find all the details on the Community Garden page.

The Garden is at the top of Micheldever Road, near the junction with Burnt Ash Road. It is now a part of the Lee Manor Society which is keen to support it and publicise its activities.

Dan Griffin who organises the garden says they have raised vegetable beds where they grow beans, potatoes, tomatoes, courgettes, salads, artichokes, peppers and more.

“We welcome suggestions for other veg too,” he adds.

Are you interested in the history of Lee since World War II? Paul Wright, an historian with the Blackheath Society, will be the guest speaker at the Annual General Meeting of the Lee Manor Society on October 1st.

Mr Wright’s illustrated talk will focus on the area around Boone Street and Church Street, north of Lee High Road, which was a densely populated, poor area before the war. It was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe. In the 1950s a programme of slum clearance and demolition razed the remaining houses to the ground and replaced them with a new housing estate.

Full details of the AGM can be found here. All are welcome and attendance is free!