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Encyclopedia > Catford
Catford
OS grid reference TQ385735
London borough Lewisham
Ceremonial county Greater London
Region London
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LONDON
Postcode district SE6
Dialling code 020
Police Metropolitan
Fire London
Ambulance London
UK Parliament Lewisham East
London Assembly Greenwich and Lewisham
European Parliament London
List of places: UKEnglandLondon

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Catford is an area in the London Borough of Lewisham, England. It is located 6.3 miles (10.1 km) south east of Charing Cross and covers most of SE6 postcode. The London Borough of Lewisham is a London borough in south east London, England and forms part of Inner London. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The Victorian Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross The name Charing Cross, now given to a district of central London in the City of Westminster, comes from the original hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I placed a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. ... The SE (South Eastern) postcode area, also known as the London SE postcode area[2], is the part of the London postal district covering much of south east London, England. ...


The name derives from the place where wildcats crossed the River Ravensbourne in Saxon times. Catford's most prominent landmark is the Catford Cat, a giant fibreglass sculpture of a black cat above the entrance to the Catford Centre. This is a small shopping centre, housing Tesco and Iceland supermarkets as well as some independent shops in the punningly-named Catford Mews. There is a street market on Catford Broadway. Catford has several pubs and a variety of non-chain restaurants and cafes. Catford's oldest pub is the Black Horse and Harrow which existed at least as early as 1700, though the present building dates from 1897 (at which Karl Marx was a patron). Between 1932 and 2003, Catford Stadium was a successful greyhound racing track, but it is now closed. Trinomial name Felis silvestris silvestris Schreber, 1775 Eurasian Lynx range The European Wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris) inhabits forests of Western, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in Scotland and Turkey; it is not found in Scandinavia, Iceland, England, Wales, or Ireland. ... The River Ravensbourne is a tributary of the River Thames in South London, England. ... For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see pedestrian street or promenade. ... , For other uses, see Tesco (disambiguation). ... Iceland is a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom, partly owned by the Icelandic retailer conglomerate Baugur. ... Pub redirects here. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a 19th century philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. ... Catford Stadium is a closed historic greyhound track in Catford, a suburb of London. ... Several greyhounds before a race. ...

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Architecture

The 1960s and 70s had a considerable impact on the architecture of Catford. The old Town Hall, 'the Catford Cathedral' of 1875 was replaced by the current Civic Suite in 1968, soon after the merger of the metropolitan boroughs of Lewisham and Deptford. Laurence House where many of the borough's offices are housed is on the site of St Laurence's Church. The brutalist Eros House, which replaced the Lewisham Hippodrome (Catford's music hall designed by the famous theatre architect Frank Matcham) in 1960, is now Grade II listed. Ian Nairn, however, thought Eros House to be worthy of note, he wrote: Lewisham is a district in south-east London, England and the principal settlement of the London Borough of Lewisham. ... This article is about the district in London. ... Brutalism is an architectural style that spawned from the modernist architectural movement and which flourished from the 1950s to the 1970s. ... Music Hall is a form of British theatrical entertainment which reached its peak of popularity between 1850 and 1960. ... Frank Matcham (born 22 November 1854, Newton Abbot, Devon - died 17 May 1920, Southend-on-Sea, Essex) was a famous English theatrical architect // Matcham and two architects he helped to train, Bertie Crewe and W.G.R. Sprague, were together responsible for the majority - certainly more than 200 - of the... Ian Nairn (born 1930, died 15 August 1983) was a British architectural critic and topographer. ...


A monster sat down in Catford, and just what the place needed. No offence meant: this southward extension of Lewisham High Street badly wanted stiffening. Now there is a punchy concrete focus (`you know, that funny new building') both close to and at a distance, from the desolate heights of the Downham Estate, where it stands straight to the afternoon sun. Rough concrete is put through all its paces, front convex eaves on Sainsbury's to a staircase tower which is either afflicted with an astounding set of visual distortions or is actually leaning. Again, no offence meant. Unlike many other avant-garde buildings, particularly in the universities, this one is done from real conviction, not from a desire for self-advertisement. The gaunt honesty of those projecting concrete frames carrying boxed-out bow windows persists. It is not done at you, and it transforms the surroundings instead of despising them. This most craggy and uncompromising of London buildings turns out to be full of firm gentlenes


Nairn's London 1966

The town center, with the 'village green' including water pump just visible to the right
The town center, with the 'village green' including water pump just visible to the right

In Rushey Green outside Eros House, the old village hand-pump from the 1850s survives. In 1974 the Catford shopping centre was built by the brutalist architect Owen Luder. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 831 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Catford Gyratory, 2006 I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 831 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Catford Gyratory, 2006 I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...


Broadway Theatre, Catford which is a fine art deco building adjoins the town hall. This is a curved stone structure decorated with shields and heraldic emblems and topped with an attractive copper-green spire. It was opened in 1932 as the Concert Hall and is now a Grade II listed building. The interior is in art deco style. The last cinema in the borough stood opposite the theatre until its closure in 2002. Catford also boasts a Territorial Army center and a large gothic police station (despite the largest police station in Europe being just down the road in Lewisham). In 2006, a large blue pipe scultpure was opened outside Eros House. This article, image, template or category should belong in one or more categories. ... Asheville City Hall. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... The Territorial Army (TA) is the principal reserve force of the British Army, the land armed forces of the United Kingdom, and composed mostly of part-time soldiers paid at the same rate, while engaged on military activities, as their Regular equivalents. ... A typical suburban police station in the United States (this one is in San Bruno, California). ... Lewisham is a district in south-east London, England and the principal settlement of the London Borough of Lewisham. ...


Culture

Other than the shows at the Broadway Theatre the main cultural events are Lewisham Peoples day held in Mountsfield Park and the yearly beer festival organised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), which is held at the theatre. The Catford Beer Festival is one of the largest in southern England. For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is an independent, voluntary, consumer organisation in the United Kingdom whose main aim is promoting real ale and the traditional British pub. ... The north, the midlands and the south Southern England is an imprecise term used to refer to the southern counties of England. ...

The Broadway Theatre.
The Broadway Theatre.

In recent years it has been satirised in The Chap magazine series called 'A year in Catford' after Peter Mayle's bestseller 'A Year in Provence'. The magazine poked fun at Catford's mundanity. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 517 pixel Image in higher resolution (2334 × 1509 pixel, file size: 667 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Exterior of the Broadway Theatre, Catford, previously part of Lewisham Town Hall. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 517 pixel Image in higher resolution (2334 × 1509 pixel, file size: 667 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Exterior of the Broadway Theatre, Catford, previously part of Lewisham Town Hall. ... The Chap is a British quarterly magazine and related books edited by Gustav Temple, proposing a return to a dandified way of life, involving tweed, pipe smoking, opium, and finely pressed trousers. ... Peter Mayle (born 1939) is a British-born author most famous for his series of books detailing life in Provence, France. ...


The Catford and Downham area is traditionally the South End of London however, the term is rarely used if at all in comparison to the West End or East End of London. Nonetheless, some older maps and A-Z's still list the area as Southend. Downham is a district spanning the boundary between the London Borough of Lewisham and the London Borough of Bromley. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The interior of Covent Garden Market in the West End The West End of London is an area of Central London, England, containing many of the citys major tourist attractions, businesses, and administrative headquarters. ... The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is an area, with no formal authority or boundaries, that spans a number of administative districts of London in England. ... The A-Z, or in full, the Geographers A-Z Street Atlas is an atlas of streets in London. ...


Catford had one of the first British curry houses, when it opened in 1824.


Churches

Essentially a Protestant town, but with Roman Catholic churches and numerous non-conformist causes. These include Plymouth Brethren, Baptists, Methodist, various Pentecostals as well as Seventh-day Adventists and a Unitarian meeting house. The Plymouth Brethren at Wildfell Hall, Wildfell Road have conducted the world-famous Catford Lectures for over 50 years (see http://www.biblecentre.org/studymeetings/catford_lectures.htm). The original gothic C of E St. Laurence church was located where Laurence House is today, but as part of the urban renewal of Catford in the 1960s, the church is now housed in a more modern style building 200 metres down Bromley Road.[citation needed] The Brethren are a Christian Evangelical movement that began in Dublin, London, Plymouth, and the continent of Europe in the late 1820s. ... Baptist churches are part of a Christian movement often regarded as an Evangelical, Protestant denomination. ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... The Pentecostal movement within Protestant Christianity places special emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. ... The Seventh-day Adventist (abbreviated Adventist[1]) Church is a Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week, as the Sabbath. ... Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God as opposed to traditional Christian belief in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). ... The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[1] in England, and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ...


There is a Muslim community with a mosque as well as a Sikh, Buddisht and Hara Krishna temples. There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ... Religions Sikhism Scriptures Guru Granth Sahib Languages English, Punjabi] A Sikh (English: or ; Punjabi: , , IPA: ) is an adherent to Sikhism. ...


Famous Catfordians

  • Spike Milligan (1918-2002) the comedian and writer went to school at Catford's Brownhill Boys School and often visited the suburb where his aunt and uncle lived. He claimed to have lived in Catford and wrote about the area in many of his books and sketches. In reality he lived in nearby Honor Oak which is nearer Forest Hill than Catford. Catford was probably thought to have been funnier.
  • Ben Elton the comedian and writer was born in Catford in 1959.
  • Ernest Christopher Dowson Poet and decadent lived and died in Catford. Dowson introduced the phrases 'Days of wine and roses' and 'Gone with the wind'.
  • Anthony Jones the art photographer lives in the area.
  • Andy McNab Former S.A.S serviceman and writer was born in Catford
  • Maxwell Confait, Colin Lattimore, Ronal Leighton and Ahmet Salih. See The Murder of Maxwell Confait.
  • Ethel Le Neve. See Inside story: last refuge for a killer's mistress on www.telegraph.co.uk.
  • Cat Stevens lived in a flat above a Catford furniture shop in the early sixties

Terence Alan Milligan KBE (16 April 1918–27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright. ... Honor Oak is an area of the London Borough of Lewisham. ... Forest Hill is the name of several neighbourhoods: Forest Hill, London in London, England Forest Hill, Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Forest Hill, San Francisco in San Francisco, California, United States Forest Hill, Newark, New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey, United States It is also the name of a number... Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, writer and director. ... Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867-23 February 1900), an English poet who was associated with the Decadent Movement, was born at Lee south-east of London. ... Anthony Sooty Jones (deceased) Played Bass for the British Rock Band Humble Pie. ... Andy McNab DCM MM (born December 28, 1959) is a British former soldier turned novelist. ... The investigation into the murder of Maxwell Confait was a case which raised questions about police procedures, how police adhered to the procedures already stipulated and caused a major review in how suspects are treated, particularly children and the educataionally subnormal. // Details of the case The London Fire Brigade was... Yusuf Islam[2] (born Steven Demetre Georgiou on 21 July 1948 in London), who was known as Cat Stevens from 1966 to 1978, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, educator, philanthropist and prominent convert to Islam. ...

Sport

Catford Stadium was one of the most famous greyhound racing venues in the UK until its closure in 2005. It also hosted boxing and several other sporting events. Catford Stadium is a closed historic greyhound track in Catford, a suburb of London. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Catford Southend F.C. were a once successful non-league side who groundshared with Charlton Athletic at The Mount stadium and nearly merged with. However, the deal was scuppered and Charton went onto Football League success while Catford Southend fell into obscurity. The most promnient Sunday League side now in Catford is Catford Strollers F.C. Catford also boast a large 5-a-side center with many teams. Founded in 1905, Charlton Athletic F.C. play at The Valley, in Charlton, southeast London. ... The Mount was a football stadium in Catford, (not to be confused with Catford Stadium). ... The Football League is an organisation representing 72 professional football clubs in England and Wales, and runs the oldest professional football league competition in the world. ... The Sunday League was the precursor tournament to the National League. ... Five-a-side football is a variation of football (soccer) in which each team fields five players (four outfield players and a goalkeeper), rather than the usual eleven. ...


The Catford Cycling Club was founded in 1886 and rose to European promience. In 1894 they built their own track south of Brownhill Road complete with a magnificient Pagoda grandstand. However, by the 1950s the majority of the track had been built over yet the club still flourishes to this day. [1] “South Circular Road” redirects here. ... A pagoda at Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia This article is about the building style. ... The British television sport programme Grandstand is one of the BBCs longest running sports shows, alongside BBC Sports Personality of the Year. ...


Cricket, bowls and tennis is represented in Catford in the form of Catford Wanderers Sports Club. Catford also has a skating club. Kent County Cricket Club have played at Catford several times in the past. This article is about the sport. ... Swifts Creek Bowls Club Bowls (also known as Lawn Bowls or Lawn Bowling) is a precision sport in which the goal is to roll slightly radially asymmetrical balls (called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than ones opponent is able to do. ... For other uses, see Tennis (disambiguation). ... Catford Wanderers Cricket Club was founded in 1906 and is one of the best known amateur cricket clubs in the United Kingdom. ... Kent County Cricket Club is an English county cricket club based at Canterbury, Kent. ...


Transport Links

Catford is well connected for public transport, with two adjacent stations where railway lines cross (but do not interchange). Catford railway station is on the route between Blackfriars station and Sevenoaks via Bromley South, while Catford Bridge railway station is on the Mid-Kent line to Hayes from Charing Cross and Cannon Street stations. As well as the railway stations there is Catford bus garage[2], providing many routes towards Central London and out towards Bromley. Interchange terminal between railway and regional buses An interchange station in British English, also known as a transfer station in American English, is a train station for more than one railway route in a passenger transport system. ... Blackfriars Station has most of its platforms on a bridge over the river. ... For other uses, see Seven Oaks (disambiguation). ... Bromley is the principal town in the London Borough of Bromley, England. ... Catford Bridge railway station is a busy commuter station on the line from Charing Cross to Hayes between Ladywell and Lower Sydenham stations, in Zone 3. ... Hayes is a place in the London Borough of Bromley, south-east London, England. ... The Victorian Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross The name Charing Cross, now given to a district of central London in the City of Westminster, comes from the original hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I placed a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. ... Cannon Street is a road in the south of the City of London. ... Central London is a much-used but unofficial and vaguely defined term for the most inner part of London, the capital of England. ... Bromley is the principal town in the London Borough of Bromley, England. ...


Nearest railway stations

Bus Routes Catford railway station serves the London suburb of Catford. ... Catford Bridge railway station is a busy commuter station on the line from Charing Cross to Hayes between Ladywell and Lower Sydenham stations, in Zone 3. ... Ladywell railway station is in the London Borough of Lewisham in south east London, in Travelcard Zone 3. ... Hither Green railway station is in the London Borough of Lewisham in south east London. ...

  • 47 Catford Garage - Shoreditch via Deptford
  • 54 Elmers End - Woolwich via Beckenham and Blackheath
  • 75 West Croydon - Lewisham via Sydenham
  • 124 Eltham - Catford (St. Dunstans College) via Mottingham, Grove Park and Torridon Road
  • 136 Grove Park - Peckham via Goldsmith's College
  • 138 Coney Hall - Catford via Bromley South and Downham
  • 160 Catford Bridge Station - Sidcup via Brownhill Road and Eltham.
  • 171 Catford Garage - Aldwych via Brockley, Peckham and Waterloo
  • 181 Grove Park - Lewisham via Downham (no longer terminates at Downham)
  • 185 Lewisham - Victoria via Dulwich
  • 199 Catford Garage - Canada Water/Surrey Quays via Greenwich
  • 202 Crystal Palace - Blackheath
  • 208 Lewisham - Orpington via Catford and Bromley (at peak times half the bus fleet run Lewisham-Catford-Bromley whilst the other half of the fleet run Catford-Bromley-Orpington so at peak times Lewisham-Orpington would require a change of buses)
  • 284 Lewisham - Grove Park via Crofton Park and Verdant Lane
  • 336 Catford - Locks Bottom via Bromley
  • N36 Queen's Park - Grove Park via Paddington, Trafalgar Square, Victoria, Vauxhall, Kennington, Peckham, Lewisham, Catford and Downham
  • N47 Trafalgar Square - St Mary Cray via Aldwych, Ludgate Circus, Bank, Cannon Street, Monument, London Bridge, Surrey Quays, Deptford, Lewisham, Catford, Downham, Bromley, Petts Wood and Orpington
  • N171 Tottenham Court Road - Catford Town Hall (some services to Catford Bus Garage) via Aldwych, Peckham, Brockley and Crofton Park (no longer serves Sandhurst Road or Hither Green)

Nearest towns

Bellingham is a place in the London Borough of Lewisham. ... Blackheath is a suburb of London, divided between the London Borough of Lewisham and the London Borough of Greenwich. ... For other uses, see Brockley (disambiguation). ... Crofton Park is the southern part of Brockley, SE4 which is a postal district of London, England. ... View from the top of Forest Hill. ... Hither Green is part of the London Borough of Lewisham. ... , Grove Park is an area in the south-eastern corner of the London Borough of Lewisham. ... Ladywell is a place in the London Borough of Lewisham. ... Lee is a place in the London Borough of Lewisham in south-east London. ... Lewisham is a district in south-east London, England and the principal settlement of the London Borough of Lewisham. ... For other uses, see Sydenham (disambiguation). ...

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