by Qwag | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured, News & Events, River walks & other events
Wednesday, 20th March, 7.45pm online Guest speaker: Lawrence Beale Collins How volunteers are testing and tracking water quality and how pollution affects our river habitats and species Book now: qwag@qwag.org.uk Public concern about polluted water is high. The sewage...
by Qwag | Dec 20, 2023 | Featured, News & Events, River walks & other events
FREE EVENTS in Jan, Feb and March 2024 for residents in the Horn Park, Mottingham Lane, Dutch House area. You may know the River Quaggy flows nearby, but how much do you really know about the river, its condition, wildlife, and how it can be improved? A new local...
by Qwag | Nov 13, 2023 | Featured, News & Events
On a rainy September Sunday afternoon, passers-by were struck by a gathering on the bridge over the River Ravensbourne between Ladywell Fields and University Hospital Lewisham (UHL). Why did leading lights of the local community gather to honour a local hero who died...
by Qwag | Nov 13, 2023 | News & Events
Alluded to in Shakespeare’s Henry V1 Part II, the much-needed makeover of central Bromley’s Glassmill Millpond on the River Ravensbourne brings gains for water quality, wildlife, and all things downstream. Pamela Zollicoffer explores how the dramatic restoration...
by Qwag | Nov 1, 2023 | News & Events
Will Ratty return to London’s rivers? Wednesday, 15th November, 7.45pm online Sam Facey, Estuaries and Wetlands Project Officer, Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Can Ratty’s prospects be raised by London’s Water Vole Recovery Programme? Water voles – loved by...
by Qwag | Sep 19, 2023 | News & Events
People passing through central Lewisham will know Europe’s largest Police Station and St Stephen’s Church next door. They may also know the Quaggy and Ravensbourne rivers meet nearby. But they may not know that as they pass the church and police station on foot, or on...
by Qwag | Sep 19, 2023 | News & Events
On what would have been the 100th birthday of QWAG member and local historian, Ken White, join QWAG and Lewisham Biodiversity Partnership in Ladywell Fields for the naming of the ’Ken White Bridge’ and unveiling of a plaque in Ken’s honour. The bridge crosses the...
by Qwag | Mar 2, 2023 | Meetings, News & Events
WAG AGM + The Thames, Wetlands and Aquatic Plants (online) Wednesday 15 March 2023 7.45pm: AGM. 8.30pm: Guest speaker – Dr Mark A. Spencer F.L.S Forensic Botanist and Hon. Curator (Plants), Linnean Society of London Layers of plants at the Thames Road...
by Qwag | Feb 23, 2023 | News & Events, River walks & other events
INVITATION to residents in the Horn Park, Mottingham Lane, Dutch House area. You may know the River Quaggy flows nearby, but how much do you really know about the river, its condition, wildlife, and how it can be improved? A new local project aims to...
by Qwag | Jan 12, 2023 | News & Events
Candy Blackham, writes extensively about parks and gardens in Greenwich and Lewisham, across London, the UK and overseas. Candy’s lockdown visits to green spaces across Lewisham borough led to her book Green Lewisham: Our Treasured Open Spaces (Clink Street...
