During the years between 1890 & 1930 Lewisham was a byword for solid comfort & respectability. However this was a time of rapid change when the wealthy merchants who had dominated Victorian Lewisham were moving further from their workplaces in london & the streets were being colonised by thousands of lower middle class settlers. The commercial clerk was the characteristic denizen of early twentieth-century Lewisham. These new inhabitants were great lovers of postcards & most of the pictures presented here more than two hundred in total & taken from the huge number of them published during that classic period. Very few have appeared in book form before. There are photographs of Blackheath (both the Lewisham & Greenwich parts) Lee central Lewisham Hither Green Ladywell Crofton Park Catford Bellingham Southend Village & Grove Park. Most of the sections can form the basis for an interesting historical & architectural walk. But hurry! One of the old Lewisham buildinhs illustrated here has probably been demolished while you have been reading this!