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Lewisham Collection: Brockley & Hither Green in the 20th Century

All 1,000,000 records of nearly 400,000 burials and cremations from 1858 to 1999 for the burial and cremation records of Lewisham Borough Council are now on the database.  This week we uploaded the final set of records from Lewisham Council . Among the new data on Deceased Online are the burial records of Hither Green Cemetery .  This includes details of 81,000 burials and nearly 250,000 records (data items). The last two cemeteries to be included for Lewisham are Hither Green and Brockley which have served large parts of South London since the mid-19th century. Hither Green Cemetery Hither Green Cemetery (formerly Lee Cemetery) Hither Green was opened in 1873 - 15 years after Brockley and Ladywell. Hither Green Cemetery is laid out next to Lewisham Crematorium - formerly, the Hither Green Crematorium (opened 1956), whose records are also in the database . The cemetery's official address is Verdant Lane in Grove Park. Originally known as "Lee Cemetery"...