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"Bellingham of south east London, is part of the London Borough of Lewisham. It lies south of Catford and north west of Beckenham.
It was first identified in the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon charters as Beringaham and is said to denote ‘the homestead or water meadow of Beora’s people’. 300 years later, the spelling was altered to Belingeham under the influence of Norman orthography.
Unlike other districts, the opening of the station in 1892 did not stimulate any real development in the immediate surroundings. Instead, it only began to shows signs of life once the Bellingham bowling club was established in 1912.
Bellingham was also the name given to a prominent 17th-century weatherboarded manor which survived on Bellingham Farm until 1932. Since Alfred the Great or King Alfred of the Anglo-Saxons was lord of the manor of Lewisham, many of the roads were named in association of him.
Following the first war, the LCC commissioned an estate in Bellingham for the overspill of overcrowded Deptford and Bermondsey because there was plenty of land available for them. The usual amenities followed shortly afterwards along with the prefabs on the nearby Excalibur estate after WW2.
Bellingham is a multicultural place without shortage of Asian, Caribbean or Turkish people or their businesses and has a strong feeling of community in the air. This is most notable along Randlesdown Road which kind of serves as a mini 'High Street'.
The Fellowship of the 1920s was the first pub built on a housing estate. The LCC were reluctant to make this move, due to pressure from the temperance movement, but Parliament gave its blessing during a debate on prohibition.
Heavyweight boxer Henry Cooper lived in Bellingham. He diligently trained and also lived in this pub for weeks ahead of his 1963 fight with Cassius Clay (aka Muhammed Ali). He took his meals here and trained on his twin brother George here in this new cinema which was previously the ballroom; carefully avoiding the wedding receptions and tea parties.
Although Cooper lost both of their two bouts to excessive bleeding, he was one of arguably only 3 opponents to knock down Cassius in his career in front of 46,000 at the Wembley stadium and 41 million TV viewers worldwide.
It was reported that menfolk at The Fellowship Inn munched pork pies and lifted their nightly pints of lukewarm bitter in salute that Humble Henry would soundly thrash Cassius.
This mock-Tudor building has recently been restored from its run-down state to forge the Milky Way Cafe, the Space and The Bellingham Film Palace. It is now called The Fellowship and Star."
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