by Qwag | Mar 19, 2015 | 2005
Dead wood is a valuable habitat for many invertebrates, including the rare and impressive stag beetle. QWAG’s watchful eye has helped to save this important part of the river corridor ecosystem. Construction works on the next stage of the Quaggy Flood...
by Qwag | Mar 17, 2015 | 2004
General view of Sutcliffe ParkGet your wellies out. Sutcliffe Park is now open to the public again, after being given a dramatic make-over Gone are the large expanses of flat, uninteresting open spaces. Welcome is the River Quaggy, above ground in its new channel,...
by Qwag | Mar 17, 2015 | 2004
Eileen Western was born in 1924 and can remember Chinbrook Meadows before the river was put into concrete Eileen Western’s memories of Lewisham go back a long way. Born in 1924, by the age of two she was already was a sharp observer of the local scene. “As...
by Qwag | Mar 17, 2015 | 2004
Matthew Blumler gives an update on the £250 million urban regeneration program in Central Lewisham Urban Renaissance Lewisham (URL) is in the 5th year of its 7 year program to transform the area between the railway station and the shopping areas of central Lewisham....
by Qwag | Mar 17, 2015 | 2004
Jim Rees reports on frolics in the river with QWAG A recent walk organised by QWAG was, for some people, like a trip down memory lane. How long ago was it that they last splashed about in a stream in their wellies? The guess is that the answer, for most of them, would...
by Qwag | Mar 17, 2015 | 2004
QWAG’s interpretative signs take the information out to places where people go… Thanks to Urban Renaissance Lewisham Community Chest funding, QWAG have managed to do that. In recent months, three signs have appeared in the heart of Lewisham – one on...
by Qwag | Mar 17, 2015 | 2015
Wind through the green spaces of Forest Hill and Sydenham from Albion Millennium Green and Dacres Wood Nature Reserve (opened just for us) to Mayow Park and Home Park. Sunday 29th March: Green Spaces of Sydenham & Forest Hill Organiser: Tom Moulton, Creekside...
by Qwag | Mar 12, 2015 | 2015
Kidbrooke to Blackheath Be an urban explorer stepping outside of the ordinary modern landscape on the course of the lost rivers of the Kid Brook flowing unseen beneath your feet, where the extra-ordinary afterimage of history can still be perceived. Sunday 14th March...
by Qwag | Aug 10, 2004 | 2014
QWAG’s interpretative signs take the information out to places where people go… Thanks to Urban Renaissance Lewisham Community Chest funding, QWAG have managed to do that. In recent months, three signs have appeared in the heart of Lewisham – one on...
