[2][4] The poet Robert Browning at one time lived at the foot of Telegraph Hill, in a cottage which he wrote looked like a 'goose pie'.

The company had already built terraced housing on its land nearer New Cross Road when it commissioned a study of the development potential of Telegraph Hill in 1859.

In 1993, the vicar and curate of St Catherine's Church met with local residents and set up the Telegraph Hill Festival.

[16] In 1993, the vicar and curate of St Catherine's Church met with local residents and set up the Telegraph Hill Festival.

[14] Centre is now a self-funded entity owned by St Catherine's Church, and continues to provide services with and for the community on Telegraph Hill and its surrounding areas.

The lower park contains ponds, children's playgrounds and a concrete space for ball games as well as a statue of Olaudah Equiano.

[21] A Coade stone statue of Robert Aske stands in the forecourt of Haberdasher's Boys' School in Pepys Road.

It dates from 1836 and shows him in the robes of the Haberdashers' Company, leaning on a plinth and holding the plans of the buildings in his hand.

Aske was the son of an affluent draper, and became a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers in 1643, being elected an Alderman of the City of London in 1666.