Pages
- About Us
- Calendar test
- Constitution
- Gallery
- Get set for the last major restoration of the Quaggy
- Home
- Join QWAG
- Latest News
- Meetings
- News & Events
- News Archive
- News Test Page
- Privacy Policy
- Qwag Items to Buy
- Qwag Items to Buy!
- Remembering Lewisham’s 1968 floods – and lessons 50+ years on
- River walks & events
- sitemap
- splash!
- The River Quaggy
- To the source of the Quaggy
- Videos
- We Are Lewisham
Posts by category
- Category: 2004
- Category: 2005
- Sunk without trace (8th December 2005)
- Urban Renaissance update (7th November 2005)
- QWAG wins the Eltham Society Award (6th October 2005)
- Is it a road or is it a river? (4th September 2005)
- Sutcliffe Park earns a healthy return (25th August 2005)
- QWAG benefits the local community – official! (17th August 2005)
- A walk into the future (22nd May 2005)
- Dead wood makes a desirable home! (15th March 2005)
- Category: 2006
- A QWAG Christmas Tale (25th December 2006)
- Going up the wall (13th December 2006)
- A river runs round it (23rd November 2006)
- Heart and soul of the city (1st November 2006)
- A Petts Wood perambulation (15th October 2006)
- South Bank show and tell (16th September 2006)
- A suitable case for treatment (10th September 2006)
- Small steps bring big improvements (31st August 2006)
- QWAG questions Lewisham Gateway statements (16th August 2006)
- “Pressure growing for redesign of waterway vision” (26th July 2006)
- A great display at People’s Day (8th July 2006)
- Action packed! (5th July 2006)
- Lewisham Gateway: Your Space – Your Say! (12th June 2006)
- The marvel of spring (28th May 2006)
- Lewisham Gateway outline planning application (18th May 2006)
- South of the border (14th May 2006)
- Manor Park makeover gets the go ahead (28th April 2006)
- Manor Park planning application update II (31st March 2006)
- High Street, low expectation (22nd March 2006)
- Manor Park planning application update I (14th March 2006)
- Park and hide (12th February 2006)
- Category: 2007
- Channel hopping (31st December 2007)
- Happy Birthday, Chinbrook Meadows! (29th October 2007)
- The millers’ trail (14th October 2007)
- A lost opportunity (5th October 2007)
- Natural born winners – the walk (22nd September 2007)
- The rovers return – and meet an old friend (9th September 2007)
- Upstream, downstream (29th August 2007)
- Flour power (23rd August 2007)
- Welcome home (3rd August 2007)
- Display debut brings donation delight (14th July 2007)
- Nuturing nature to beat the floods (12th July 2007)
- Stand by for Action! (27th June 2007)
- The end of the affair (5th June 2007)
- Unearthing buried rivers (14th May 2007)
- Good in parks? (13th May 2007)
- Shell shock! (24th April 2007)
- Willett work? (15th April 2007)
- Stream of unconsciousness (8th April 2007)
- Natural born winners (29th March 2007)
- QWAG’s objections to Lewisham Gateway (25th March 2007)
- Park partnership reaps regeneration benefits (22nd February 2007)
- Walking in a wetland wonderland (1st February 2007)
- Planned canyon (31st January 2007)
- QWAG 2007 Annual General Meeting (17th January 2007)
- Category: 2008
- Category: 2009
- Ray Manchester (19th August 2009)
- Wet launch for Quaggy Action (11th July 2009)
- The 3 Rivers Clean-up (12th June 2009)
- Boris embraces the rivers (4th June 2009)
- Local heroes (29th April 2009)
- Strolling by the brook (19th April 2009)
- BURA recognises Kingfisher (5th March 2009)
- Talk of the Tarn (2nd February 2009)
- Annual General Meeting (21st January 2009)
- QWAG hosts second BURA visit (14th January 2009)
- Quaggy projects star at launch (9th January 2009)
- Category: 2010
- Category: 2011
- Sutcliffe Park revisited (2011)
- Farewell to Chris McGaw (1st December 2011)
- Watch the birdie! (8th November 2011)
- Book those bats! (2nd September 2011)
- Knotweed holds up Manor Park bridge (30th June 2011)
- River Quaggy meets Prime Meridian (31st May 2011)
- Fight against Alien Invaders (11th May 2011)
- Tree in Trouble (30th April 2011)
- Talking ‘Talks’ – Exploring the British Newt (29th March2011)
- Whacking Chinbrook’s Willows (18th February 2011)
- Restoration on the Moselle (13th February 2011)
- Bridging the gap (30th January 2011)
- Category: 2012
- Category: 2013
- Category: 2014
- Category: 2015
- River Talk – A Quaggy tale for World Rivers Day 2015
- Qwag Meeting – The Well of Our Lady (18th November)
- Summery watery fun – Lucky 7 for the 3RiversCleanUp – Aug 2015
- Qwag Meeting – Dr Geraldine Wharton talk (16th September)
- 3 Rivers Clean Up – 6th May 5.30pm – 7.30pm
- Cityread London: Rivers of Lewisham (30th April 2015)
- Sunday 29th March: Sydenham & Forest Hill Green Spaces
- Sunday 14th March: Trace the lost rivers of the Kid Brook
- Category: 2016
- What’s happening to Lewisham? – 18th Jan
- Be alert – What’s it like to be a Flood Warden? – 16th Nov
- The search for the mysterious source of the River Quaggy – 21st Sept
- Record breaking Quaggy Duck Race
- Thames Secrets Revealed by Nathalie Cohen – 20th July
- 3 Rivers Clean Up 2016 (3RCU) – Sat 11 June – Sat 2 July
- Water for Wildlife Talk by David Courtneidge – 18th May
- Oil on troubled waters – 4th February
- Qwag AGM – Pesky Plants and how to avoid them! – 16th March
- Qwag Meeting – Wricklesmarsh (20th January)
- Category: 2017
- QWAG AGM + Celebrating 10 years of the 3 Rivers Clean Up – 21st March 2018
- QWAG meeting – Nature under our noses – 17th January 2018
- Qwag meeting – In search of River Quaggy’s tributaries – 15th November 2017
- QWAG meeting – ‘Dynamic Deptford’ – 20th September 2017
- Can citizen science improve our rivers for wildlife? The Riverfly Monitoring Initiative one year on – 19th July 2017
- QWAG at the 33rd Lewisham People’s Day – 8th July 2017
- Float Your Boats for The Great Get Together – 17 + 18 June 2017
- QWAG at the Manor House Gardens Festival – 24th June 2017
- The 3rd Great Quaggy Duck Race – 28th May 2017
- Qwag Meeting: Saving nature in the age of Brexit – 17th May 2017
- 9th annual 3 Rivers Clean Up (3RCU) – 3 June to 24 June 2017
- Category: 2018
- Under water – Remember Lewisham’s flood of 1968? – 16th Jan 2019
- Oasis of nature: Maintaining a nature reserve hemmed in by industry, roads and housing, Martin Watts & Linda Graham – 21st Nov 2018
- Beneath our Feet: The geological history of Lewisham, the Ravensbourne valley and the Lady’s well & Spring, Phil Laurie – 19th Sept 2018
- On the streets where we live with Street Tree champion, Paul Wood – 18th July 2018
- The 10th 3 Rivers Clean Up – 3 weeks, 3 reasons – 2nd – 23rd June 2018
- The 4th Great Quaggy Duck Race – 27th May 2018
- Spring walk in the valleys of the Kid Brooks – 25th March 2018
- Qwag meeting – On the streets where we live with street tree champion, Paul Wood – 18th July 2018
- QWAG meeting – Prams, shopping trollies & trash screens, Jack Hayes and Stuart Rapson – 16th May 2018
- Category: 2019
- Sounds of the City – 15th January 2020
- QWAG 30th birthday AGM + Wildflower meadows on the Quaggy – 18th March 2020
- In Search of Plant Folklore – 20th May 2020
- The 6th Great Quaggy Duck Race – 24th May 2020
- Recovery of the Tidal Thames and its Fisheries – 17th July 2019
- Lewisham 51st Anniversary Flood Walk – 22nd September 2019
- The 5th Great Quaggy Duck Race, Manor Park, as part of the Hither Green Festival – 26th May 2019
- Step on it: what the drain and footway covers and other street furniture we walk over every day reveal about our past – 15 May 2019
- Lewisham Flood Walk – 23rd March 2019
- QWAG AGM, Guest Speaker on London’s Liquid Assets and our famous buffet – 20th March 2019
- Category: 2020
- Category: 2021
- 17 Nov – Zoom Meeting: Wild Swimming – a Personal View
- 19 Jan – Zoom Meeting: Nature’s Recovery in Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham
- 16 Mar – Zoom Meeting: Amazing Eels! Overcoming the barriers they face
- Get set for the last major restoration of the Quaggy
- Jan 20 Zoom Meeting: Bromley Glassmill Millpond: Past, Present and Future
- Mar 17 Zoom Meeting: QWAG AGM + talk on the Greening of south east London
- The 6th Great Quaggy Duck Race
- Category: 2022
- Category: Featured
- Category: Meetings
- Wednesday 17 May (ONLINE) : Our Amazing Vanishing Front Gardens
- Wednesday 15 March 7.45pm (ONLINE) : AGM + The Thames, Wetlands and Aquatic Plants
- 15 Sept Zoom Meeting: The rise and fall of the rivers of Mars Sanjeev Gupta, Professor of Earth Sciences, Imperial College, London NASA Perseverance Mars mission
- 21 July Zoom Meeting: Flooding and Flood Risk in Lewisham – Marcus Gayle, Flood Risk Manager, Lewisham Council
- 15 July Zoom Meeting: People and planning – Lessons from our Neighbourhood Plan with Sarah McMichael, Lee Forum
- Category: News & Events
- Dramatic transformation, at last – Bromley’s restored Glassmill Millpond
- Wednesday 15th November (Online) : Will Ratty return to London’s rivers?
- Wednesday, 20 September 2023, 7.45pm online: Following the Upper Kid Brook – Take a virtual tour with John Causer
- Sunday 17 September, 2pm: Bridge naming and plaque unveiling, Ladywell Fields
- Get to know your local river
- Wednesday 18 January, 7.45pm (ONLINE) Green Lewisham: Our Treasured Open Spaces With Candy Blackham, author and photographer
- Category: River walks & other events
Projects
- Don't be like Boris! Get closer to your local river without getting wet
- Keeping our rivers free of litter and flytipping
- Helping control non-native invasive species like Himalayan Balsam
- Helping people learn about & experience our rivers
- Lewisham development - looking after our rivers when development takes place
- Lewisham's People Day 2014 - hook a Quaggy duck!
