ACS Secretary Ben Honeybone led a walk around the Eltham Park Estate on Sunday 7th July 2024. It featured the site of the original Eltham Park mansion; a contender for ‘last ever Corbett house to be built’; the transition from more classical designs with gothic architectural features to the Arts and Crafts styles of Glenesk…
On Sunday 28th April, members of the ACS made the short trip to Eltham where the local orchestra (http://www.psaorchestra.uk/) had themed a concert especially for us, featuring music from Corbett’s era. ACS secretary Ben Honeybone made a speech extending the hand of Corbettian friendship from one Estate to another, and after the concert local historian…
The church of St Andrew of the Apostle is the jewel in the crown of the Catford Corbett Estate, and took its rightful place as a building worthy of inclusion in London’s Open House Festival yesterday. Building commenced in 1904, and in the 1970’s it received Grade II* listing. Here’s what the listing committee said…
The ACS is based in the Catford and Hither Green Corbett estate, but of course there are a number of other Corbett Estates in London. The very first one was started by Archibald’s father Thomas in 1877 in Forest Gate, east London, and it was to there that a five-strong group of ACS Committee members…
Many people on the Estate in Catford knew Kitty, who was a pillar of the local community. We filmed an interview with her earlier this year, and were very sad to hear of her passing, at the age of 96, a few months later. Click here to see her story.
The Society met in the Library on 26th July for its Annual General Meeting. The officers of Chair, Treasurer and Secretary were re-elected, and there was a fascinating talk from Connor McNeil of the Victorian Society, which the ACS has now affiliated to. We also got an update on the HMO issue in Lewisham. The…
On Sunday 26th June, ACS member Jon Wright led a walking tour of some of Catford’s most notable buildings, including the Broadway Theatre, currently undergoing a renovation. We were allowed in to see how the work is going. Click here for the full story
Last Tuesday 12th October, local MP Janet Daby hosted a public meeting in St Andrews Church Hall about the increasingly problematic issue of HMO development on the Estate. Several council officials and local Councillors attended, as well as around 150 members of the public. The venue was facilitated by the ACS and the Church Hall…
The Corbett Estate now has its very own heritage sign, which explains the background to why it was built and who did the building. The sign stands outside the Corbett Community Library on Torridon Road, and was officially unveiled on 12th September 2021 by Janet Daby (MP for Lewisham East) and Damien Egan (Mayor of…
Local resident Kevin Loughnane has researched the backgrounds of all the men listed on the War Memorials at St Andrew’s Church. It’s a poignant reminder of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
ACS member Liz Coulson has been delving into the past to uncover details of the many churches, some now sadly lost, on the Estate
If you want an in-depth account of the life and times of our Society’s namesake, look no further than this essay by ACS Secretary Ben Honeybone
We’re very lucky to have been given a personal memoir written by someone who grew up on the Corbett Estate in the early 1900’s. Harry Sutton was just five when his family moved to Hither Green, and he paints a vivid picture of life on an Edwardian housing estate
Members of the Society have analysed nearly 14,000 returns from the 1911 census in the Corbett Estate, and written up the results in the form of Profiles of each of the Estate’s 27 streets.
The Archibald Corbett documentary tour reached Forest Gate in east London on Thursday 26th April. Forest Gate is where Archibald’s housebuilding career started, when he and his father built an estate called Woodgrange from 1877. It’s the only one of seven London Corbett Estates to have been designated as a conservation area, and it contains hundreds of large Victorian…