Lewisham

On 4 April 1581 the queen visited the royal dockyard at Deptford to knight the adventurer Francis Drake.

She founded the Church of the Ascension in Blackheath late in the 1600s. Her descendant, the 1st Earl of Dartmouth, arranged for it to be rebuilt in about 1750.

After the queen visited it, the Navy Victualling Yard at Deptford was renamed the Royal Victoria Victualling Yard in 1858.

Born at Peak Hill Lodge in Sydenham in 1850. She wrote books on history and society, and campaigned for women's higher education at Oxford and for women's suffrage.

A writer and poet who published her books as E. Nesbit; she wrote or helped write more than 60. Her family moved back to Lewisham when she was 17, and there is a Lewisham Council plaque to her at 28 Elswick Road.

Born at Surrey Mount, Forest Hill, in 1860; her father founded the Horniman Museum. She set up the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, which opened in December 1904, and in 1908 turned the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester into the first regional repertory theatre in Britain.

A suffragette and women's rights activist, born in Lewisham in 1875. She campaigned using a tricycle.

An actress born in Lewisham in 1902. Her title role in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) brought her recognition, and she later appeared in Mary Poppins (1964).

In 1909 Blackheath had a local branch of the London Society for Women's Suffrage.