In September 2008 Lewisham participated in the handover of the Olympic flag from Beijing to London and we are now in the run up to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games.
Lewisham Heritage has created this wiki to record the achievements of past Lewisham Olympians and Paralympians and to enable the community to create their own record of the London 2012 experience. You can find information on all the known Olympic and Paralympic participants with a borough connection, plus details of the 1908 and 1948 London Games. We now know of some 56 participants with a Lewisham link, who between them they have won 9 gold medals, 11 silver and 7 bronze. If you know of anyone who is not listed, please let us know.
As part of this project we are asking for your memories and recollections of London 1948 - the last time London hosted the Olympics. Do you have any photographs or memorabilia, do you remember the 1948 Games - were you taken to them or did your older relatives tell you about them?
Read John Philips' recollections of the opening ceremony and Celia Capron's memory of taking her mother and brother to watch Emil Zatopek.
Please share your memories with us and contribute to this wiki.
You can do this in several ways -
- by adding information to this wiki - go to Adding a page
- You can also email contributions to us at ku.vog.mahsiwel|seiduts.lacol#ku.vog.mahsiwel|seiduts.lacol
- You can post them to Lewisham Heritage, Lewisham Library, 199-201 Lewisham High Street, London SE13 6LG
- You can drop them off at any local library in Lewisham. Please mark them for the Lewisham Heritage team.
All the information provided will be added to the borough archives. We will be recording memories of the 1948 Games to ensure they survive and will also be creating a new archive of the London 2012 games for the use of future generations.
This is a work in progress. Please bear with us while we build this site.
